Side by side
| DIY ChatGPT widget | Vellops | |
|---|---|---|
| Sticker price | $0–$49/mo for the widget | $397–$597/mo flat |
| Setup fee | None | None |
| Who builds it | You — write the prompts, paste your content, wire up the forms | Done for you — trained on your services, prices, FAQs and hours |
| When it doesn't know | A general AI guesses — confidently, in your business's name | Works only from your approved facts; anything else becomes a lead emailed to you |
| Testing before go-live | Whatever you remember to try yourself | Tested across pricing, booking, tricky and nonsense scenarios before a visitor sees it; you approve every word |
| Booking | Only if you build the calendar plumbing yourself | Built in on Standard and up — appointments on your calendar, confirmations emailed |
| Lead alerts | A dashboard to remember to check, if that | Every lead and conversation summary emailed to you; Monday report with three numbers |
| Keeping it sharp | Your job, forever — every price change, every new service, re-prompt and re-test | Monthly tuning included on Standard and up |
| Guarantee | None — if it books nothing, you paid for a widget | 30-day book-nothing refund + 60-day conversations guarantee, in written terms |
| Time to live | Live in an afternoon — and untested for months after | About 7 days, because it's tested and approved first |
The real cost of DIY is your hours
A DIY widget's sticker is small because the labor is yours: teaching it your prices, catching the confident wrong answers before a customer does, wiring the calendar, checking a dashboard, re-teaching it every time anything changes. Owners who love tinkering and have a quiet website are genuinely fine DIY — we'll say so plainly. Owners whose time is worth more than a few hundred dollars a month are paying for the "free" widget in the most expensive currency they have.
And the risk is different
An untested general-purpose bot speaking for your business will eventually invent a price, a policy, or a promise. Our whole process exists to prevent that: approved facts only, scenario testing before go-live, your sign-off on the wording, and every conversation shown to you in a Monday report. If it still books nothing in its first 30 days, we refund them — a DIY widget refunds nothing, ever.