Grade.us is built for agencies managing service businesses. Reviews.io is built for ecommerce. If you're running a physical shop with a website, neither is a clean fit. Here's why — and what to do instead.
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AI engines tracked
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Review sites · one inbox
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Tools replaced
6 · 60
Countries · cities covered
14-day
Free trial · no card
Review-only, no real CRM, agency-focused.
Strength
Reasonably priced for agencies reselling. Clean review-funnel UX. Multi-location support at mid-tier.
Where the bill bites
No dormant CRM, no booking widget, no rank grid, no unified messaging. Purely review monitoring and requests. Everything else you have to stitch together.
Starting price
$25–$250/mo depending on client count and tier
Contract
Month-to-month available
Vimub wins 6 of 10 criteria vs Grade.us.
UK-born, ecom-first, thin on the local-service features.
Strength
Reasonable price. Strong ecommerce integrations (Shopify, WooCommerce). Google Seller Ratings support.
Where the bill bites
Built for ecommerce, not local trades. No booking, no local rank, no dormant CRM, limited SMS. Dashboard assumes you have a webshop, not a van.
Starting price
$69–$449/mo depending on review volume
Contract
Monthly or annual (10% off yearly)
Vimub wins 6 of 9 criteria vs Reviews.io.
Grade.us and Reviews.io are both designed for an operator Vimub isn’t — enterprise chains, marketing ops teams, 12-month procurement cycles. If that’s you, stop reading and go buy whichever of them wins on your use case.
If you’re a shop owner running 1–30 staff who wants reviews, rankings, bookings, CRM, webchat, and citation push in one login with a one-click cancel, come to us.
Month-to-month
Cancel in 30 seconds.
10-minute setup
OAuth Google Business. Done.
All-in pricing
No per-review, per-SMS, or per-location fees.
Voice-trained AI
Learns from your last 50 replies, not a template.
Median results — not best-case cherry-picks. If you don’t hit the median, we credit next month.
Rating delta
+0.7★
Target lift in the first 90 days of active use
Review volume
6×
From post-job SMS vs organic baseline
Response time
< 1 hr
Median, 24/7, across every time zone
Dormant recovery
12%
Of 6-month lapsed customers, in 90 days
Rank climb
+4
Positions in map pack for money keywords
Bookings
+41%
Via the widget embedded on Google profile
Buy the twelve tools below from separate vendors and you’d write $4,050 / month in cheques. (Don’t take our word for it — check the sticker prices.) You get the lot on our Growth tier for a single subscription.
Your price · United States
$149/mo
Growth tier. Most-chosen. Starter from $49/mo, Enterprise at $349/mo. Yearly billing is 20% off on top.
Sales tax applied per state where required. Invoices include itemised tax line.
AI Visibility Score — 5 engines tracked weekly
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews. LLMrefs charges $299 for this alone.
AEO answer capsules (AI-citeable content)
8-40 per month. 87%-cited structure. Deployed via our schema CDN, no site edit.
Schema auto-deploy (JSON-LD + CDN)
LocalBusiness + Service + FAQ + Review. One-line script on your site. Auto-updates.
AI-ready review capture
Post-job SMS 90 min after invoice. 6× the review volume, AI-parseable profiles.
Competitor radar + AI leaderboard
Who ChatGPT recommends instead of you, updated daily.
5×5 local rank grid (Google)
Your traditional Local SEO — ten keywords × twenty-five geo points weekly.
Citation audit across 40+ AI-cited sources
Weekly scan of Yelp, Trustpilot, Reddit, Quora, vertical-specific.
Booking widget + atomic slots
Embed in Google listing. Zero per-booking fees. Zero double-bookings.
Dormant-customer campaigns
12% reactivation rate. Worth three months of marketing.
Unified inbox (reviews, SMS, email, GMB, chat)
Every conversation. One place. Never missed.
Agency white-label (Agency tier)
Custom domain, logo, billing. Resell the AI Visibility engine under your brand.
24/7 human support + monthly strategy call
Dedicated success manager on Growth+. 4hr SLA on Dominator.
Retail total
$4,050/moGuarantees work when they’re specific, measurable, and paid out without drama. The six below are written into our SLA — not marketing copy.
No credit card. Full Growth-tier access. Cancel in one click. Keep everything you built if you stay.
Every review, customer, invoice, booking — exports to JSON and CSV in one click. Your customer list is yours. Forever.
Generous included allowances at every tier. Go over? You pay only for what you used at the published rate — never a surprise tier upgrade.
Miss the target, we credit your next month automatically. Credits stack if we miss for multiple months.
If your AI Visibility Score hasn't moved 30 points in 90 days on the DOMINATE bundle, we keep working free until it has. Score re-scored weekly across 5 engines.
UK GDPR, EU GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, PIPEDA, and Privacy Act 1988/2020 compliant. DPA available at /legal/dpa. Sub-processor list at /legal/subprocessors.