Do it yourself, or have it done for you.
Should I use AI software or hire someone to set it up?
Most businesses are forced to choose: self-serve software leaves them at an empty dashboard, and agencies deliver something they cannot change afterwards. Leadmend offers both on one platform — Leadmend AI is self-serve — free for 14 days, then $99 USD a month — and Leadmend Studio has a person build it for them from $1,997 CAD. Either way the customer keeps the account and can export every lead and their full site content at any time.
This is the choice nobody should have to make. Buy software and you get a login, a blank screen and a help centre. Hire an agency and you get something that works, that you cannot touch, and that costs again every time it needs changing. Both are half an answer, and the half you get depends on a decision made before you knew anything.
Why self-serve software loses most people
Not because it is hard, but because setting anything up is unpaid work done in the evening, on top of a full week.
- The blank dashboard problem — everything works, nothing is configured
- Setup happens after hours, when nobody has any left
- The value is real but arrives weeks after the first payment
- So the account quietly lapses and it gets blamed on the tool
Why agencies lose the other half
The work is usually good. What is missing is the part where you can change it yourself afterwards.
- You own an outcome, not something you can edit
- Every small change is another invoice and another wait
- The knowledge lives with them, not with you
- Leaving means starting again from nothing
What both halves look like here
Same platform, same data, same account. Start on either side and move whenever it suits.
- Leadmend AI — self-serve, free to start, then $99 USD a month, live in minutes
- Leadmend Studio — a person builds it for you, from $1,997 CAD one-off
- Studio hands over the account itself — and you can download every lead and your whole site any time
- Start self-serve and ask for help later, or the other way round
Who each one is honestly for
Self-serve suits anyone comfortable describing their business in a chat and clicking publish — that is genuinely most people, and it is live today. Studio suits anyone who would rather it were simply finished, or who wants it right the first time because the website is the business. Neither is the upsell; they are the same outcome at different speeds.
Where these claims are checked
Nothing on this page asks to be taken on trust. The rules the reply engine follows — never quoting a price, never promising a time, never claiming to be a person — are put under messages written to break them, thirty times each, and the last run is published rule by rule, including anything that did not hold. Every routine writes out what it will do before it runs, and you can switch a setting off and watch our own demo break. The speed on this page is measured the same way — every timed call is published, with the date and the spread rather than a rounded word.
More on how this works
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