You are not picking between them.
Connect an Anthropic or OpenAI key and that is the model answering inside Quotarider — at half our normal rate, billed by your provider at your negotiated price, with nothing added by us. The question was never which model. It is what the model is allowed to touch.
- Knows nothing about your pipeline until you paste it
- Cannot write a stage change, log a call, or stop a sequence
- Forgets the deal the moment the thread ends
- Answers about the data you remembered to include
- Every question costs a model call
- Genuinely better at open-ended reasoning and writing
- Reads live from your deals, mailboxes and invoices
- Writes back — drafted for you to confirm first
- Remembers the account across every conversation
- Answers from the whole record, not the part you pasted
- 73 of 106 commands never reach a model at all
- Will not write your board deck or debug your code
Both columns have a red mark, because both are true. We use general assistants every day. They are not a CRM, and pretending otherwise would waste your month.
Most of what you ask does not need a model.
“What is my pipeline worth?” is arithmetic. “What is stalled?” is a date filter. “What is my win rate?” is division. Routing those through a language model is slow, costs money per question, and can be wrong about numbers — which is the one thing it must never be.
Why ours, and not an agent you wire together yourself.
You can build something like this. People do — a workflow tool, a model, a webhook, a weekend. Here is honestly what changes when the agent lives inside the system it is acting on.
It reads the schema, not a scrape
An agent bolted on through an API sees whatever that API exposes. Ours query the same tables the product does — deal, invoice, mailbox, reply — so “paid” means the invoice cleared, not that a field somewhere said so.
Integrations drift. Same-database does not.
It is benchmarked against you
Deal Risk scores against your own closed history, not an industry curve. Your 40-day cycle is normal for you; a generic model calls it stalled and floods you with alerts you learn to ignore.
An alert you ignore is worse than no alert.
It asks before it acts
Every agent drafts and holds. Nothing sends on your behalf unless you set that agent to autonomous, per sequence, deliberately. A wired-together agent usually has exactly one setting: on.
The failure mode of autonomy is an apology to a customer.
It stops when the goal is met
Journeys carry a goal. Book a meeting and the contact exits immediately rather than receiving the next three nurture emails as though nothing happened. That coordination is hard to bolt on because it needs to see every send path at once.
The common way automation embarrasses you is continuing after it worked.
Four of six need no model
Reply Triage, Lead Prioritizer, Deal Risk and Pipeline Coverage run on your server. Build the same thing on a general agent platform and every one of those becomes a metered API call, forever.
Per-use cost is what quietly kills a homemade agent.
Somebody maintains it
Providers deprecate models, change rate limits and rewrite response formats. When that happens here it is our problem. When it happens to your weekend build it is a Tuesday morning.
The build is a day. The upkeep is the job.
Where a general assistant is simply better.
- Open-ended reasoning. Ask a hard strategic question with no clean answer and you want Claude or GPT, not a command surface with 106 verbs.
- Long-form writing. Vera drafts sequences well because the format is narrow. It will not write your investor update.
- Anything outside revenue. There is no engineering, legal or design mode. That is not modesty, it is scope.
- Frontier capability. We do not train models. Whatever your provider ships, you get, the day you point a key at it.
If the honest answer to your question is “use Claude for that”, Vera says so. An assistant that pretends to be able to do everything is the reason people stop trusting assistants.
Try it against your own data
Ask it something your CRM cannot answer.
Fourteen days, no card. Connect a mailbox and ask which sequence actually got paid.