Aerys vs Estimate Rocket
Estimate Rocket's own positioning is the sales motion: estimate, proposal, follow-up, and a pipeline view of where every customer sits. That is a real problem and most painting companies lose more work in the follow-up than in the pricing. Aerys does that part too. Where the two part company is the assumption underneath: Aerys treats the estimate as the thing the rest of the job is generated from, so the services you scoped become the work items on site, the planned hours come off the bid, and every cost lands back against the service it belongs to.
Choose Estimate Rocket if…
- Follow-up and the sales pipeline are where your work is leaking, and that is the problem you want solved first
- You want an established product with a long track record among painting contractors
- You already have costing and crew management somewhere you are happy with
Choose Aerys if…
- You want the bid's own numbers to be what the job is measured against, service by service, rather than a total compared at the end
- You want the painters on a link with no accounts to manage, reading the scope in the language they speak
- You want AI drafting the estimate, reading the plan sheet and rendering the mockup as part of the product rather than as separate subscriptions
- You want one flat plan for the company rather than a decision about who is worth a seat
Their pricing and ours are both published, and the third-party directories disagree with both — read them at the source before you compare. If follow-up is genuinely your only gap, a tool aimed squarely at that may serve you better than a whole operating system.
We compare on who each product is built for, not on a feature table — prices and features change, and a table that is out of date is worse than no table. For Estimate Rocket's current details, check their site.
What Aerys does
Estimate from your own production rates, send a quote the customer accepts themselves — which hands them straight to the payment page — schedule the crew, and track cost against the bid while the job is running.
Questions
Is Estimate Rocket a bad product?
No. Estimate Rocket is a serious product and for some companies it is the right answer — the list above says which ones. The difference is who it was built for.
Can I move my data across?
Yes. Importing customers, properties and your service catalog is part of onboarding.
How current is this comparison?
It compares positioning rather than feature lists or prices, because those change and a stale table would mislead you. For Estimate Rocket's current pricing and features, check their site directly.