Compare · Thryv vs Digital IngenuityThryv bundles the tools and adds help on top. We run the marketing for you.
Thryv is marketing and sales software for small service businesses, a CRM, booking, invoices, listings, reviews and social, that you run after guided onboarding, with done for you Boosts sold as add ons. Digital Ingenuity is one managed service for every size, from one location to thousands: a strategist runs your map rank, listings, reviews and Google Business Profile on our own platform, and the same team answers your chat, texts and calls, writes to your list and watches your ads. Month to month, no contract; we ask for one quarter on a handshake, because results take time to show. Changes wait for your approval.
Checked October 1, 2026, against Thryv's own pages
The short answer.
Why we are the better choice, and what the checks show.
- For a business of any size, from one location to thousands. We run Thryv's marketing side, listings, reviews, Google and Facebook posts, ads and the website, with one strategist, and add what its pages do not list: a map rank grid, unfair review flagging and click fraud protection.
- For an agency that wants the work done. The whole platform under your name and domain, every client on one console. Thryv's partner program pays commission and lists no white label.
- Counted, not claimed. Of the 71 checks below, both sides do 27, 36 are ours in full where Thryv lists none or part, and 5 are Thryv's alone, marked in gold.
Better in six ways, each one checkable.
Every reason below points at the rows that prove it. If a row does not hold up, the reason does not either.
- 01One strategist on the whole account.
Thryv is software you run after onboarding, and each Boost is a separate done for you service. With us one strategist runs everything on every plan, the crew reads the account overnight, and changes wait for your approval. Thryv's own FAQ describes a six month initial term; ours is month to month with no contract, and we ask for one quarter on a handshake because results take time to show. Your data exports any time and stays yours.
Rows 1 to 7How it runs → - 02The map on a grid, and reviews asked for by text.
Thryv lists listings, review monitoring and AI written replies, with SEO as a Boost. We set a 7 by 7 grid around each location, build and clean citations, audit the site every night, ask for the review by text and email forty minutes after the job, flag unfair ones and ask happy reviewers for referrals.
- 03Campaign replies answered, click fraud blocked.
Thryv sends email and text campaigns, and its team runs and optimizes ads daily, which is a real managed service. Our receptionist answers every campaign reply and books the job, journeys run by segment, TrafficShield blocks click fraud nightly, and budget moves wait for your yes.
- 04Thirty posts a month, and a site that is watched.
Thryv's Social Posts Boost writes three posts a week and its designers build a site. We draft thirty posts a month from your real jobs in ContentLab, cut short video, write long form content, publish site changes after your yes with a live check and rollback, and watch the site's speed.
- 05One brief every morning.
Thryv gives you a dashboard, a Reporting Center and automated SEO reports. With SearchLight we check listings, leads and spend every thirty minutes, and we write one brief at 6:58 that says what moved, why, and the one thing that needs you.
Rows 61 to 66Reporting and the morning → - 06Your name on it, if you are an agency.
Thryv's partner program pays commission; its pages list no white label. We white label the whole platform from the agency Growth plan, put every client on one console and carry the work under your name.
Rows 67 to 71Agencies and franchises →
Every check, both sides marked.
Ten areas, in the order you would ask about them. Each area opens with the question it answers and a one line verdict. Where a check is Thryv's alone, the row is marked in gold.
- 71Checks
- 27Both do
- 36We add
- 5Thryv adds
- 3Neither in full
| Check | Thryv | Digital Ingenuity |
|---|---|---|
| How it runsWho does the work, and on what terms? | ||
Us 6 of 7Thryv 2 of 7 Both: a strategist who runs the work. Ours in full: month to month terms, approval before changes go live, a nightly read of the account, ownership of your data and exports. Thryv's alone, in gold: four countries. | ||
| 1A strategist runs the work for you | In its Boosts: done for you services from its team; the core software is yours to run after guided onboarding | On every plan; the crew works overnight and you approve |
| 2Month to month, no contract | PartlyA six month initial term that renews, paid monthly or semi annually | Month to month, no contract; we ask for one quarter on a handshake, because results take time to show |
| 3Changes wait for your approval before they go live | PartlyYou review and approve ads and your website in its Boosts; its Leads team adjusts budget for you | Pages, replies, posts and budget moves wait for your yes; auto rules run only where you switch them on |
| 4Your account read every night | PartlyIts Thryv Leads team makes daily optimizations to ad campaigns | The crew reads every account overnight; what moved is in the brief by morning |
| 5Your data and listings stay yours if you leave | Not listedIts questions page says trackable numbers do not go with you, and the site comes down when you cancel | Accounts, data, domain and every page stay yours |
| 6Reports and data export | Not listed | Your list and leads export any time; the deck is yours |
| 7Countries served | United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand | PartlyUnited States |
| Who answers your leadsWhat happens when a customer chats, texts or calls? | ||
Us 6 of 10Thryv 6 of 10 Both: a texting line, booking into your calendar and the CRM. Ours in full: website chat, call answering and abandoned form recovery. Thryv's alone, in gold: payments, chat or calls answered by its own staff and connectors to other business systems. Neither in full: a lead widget for agency sites. | ||
| 8Website chat answered in your voice, day and night | PartlyWebchat is a channel in its Command Center inbox for your team to answer; a live chat agent inside Thryv Leads | About four seconds, from answers you approved |
| 9A texting line | Command Center gives you a business number for calls and SMS, in one inbox | A real number for SMS, with an iMessage line available; photos, links and booking confirmations |
| 10Calls answered, recorded and summarized | PartlyA business line with transcribed voicemail in Command Center; call recording and a live answering service inside Thryv Leads | Answered, recorded with consent and summarized; missed calls get a text back within a minute |
| 11Booking straight into your calendar | Online booking with reminders, also from your Google listing | Real openings, confirmed by text, reminded the day before |
| 12Abandoned forms recovered | Not listed | A text within two minutes |
| 13Contact records, pipeline and follow up | CRM, sales pipeline and marketing automation | CRM, automations and drips; every conversation becomes a lead with its source |
| 14A lead widget for agency websites | Not listed | Not today |
| 15Payments and invoices | Estimates, invoices and payments through ThryvPay | Not todayWe take no payments; your processor stays |
| 16Chat or calls answered by their own staff | Inside Thryv Leads: a live chat agent and a live telephone answering service | Not todayThe receptionist is software; your own team can take over any thread |
| 17Connectors to the other systems you run | QuickBooks, Mailchimp, Constant Contact, Stripe and more | PartlyGoogle, Facebook, WordPress and Webflow, ad accounts, Search Console, Google Analytics, call tracking numbers, CRM Sync, a CRM webhook and job completion from your CRM |
| Local searchWhere do I rank, and who keeps it right? | ||
Us 15 of 16Thryv 8 of 16 Ours in full: the map rank grid, citation checks, citation building, the technical site audit, local pages written for you, keyword discovery and structured data. Neither in full: Bing rank tracking. Both do the other eight. | ||
| 18Google rankings tracked | Keyword positions in its Search Boost reports; competitor ranking on the Signature plan | Tracked for you, for every keyword that matters |
| 19Bing rankings tracked | Not listed | Not todayOur rank tracking covers Google |
| 20Map rank grid around each location | Not listed | 7 by 7, 49 points around each location, for every keyword that matters |
| 21Competitors benchmarked | Competitive insights and competitor ranking on the Signature plan | Competitor watch: new pages, new locations, rating moves, then a counter |
| 22Google Business Profile audit | Hands on help improving your Google Business Profile on the Signature plan, with profile analytics | Optimized inside every Local SEO plan and kept active |
| 23Google Business Profile posts and photos | Social Posts Boost: three posts a week, Google included | Weekly posts and fresh photos, drafted for your yes |
| 24Listings kept correct across directories | Listings management; its pages say 30+ directories in one place and 60+ in another | Across the directory network; drift caught and reverted |
| 25Citations found, errors and duplicates flagged | PartlyListings kept consistent; duplicates are not mentioned | Tracked, with corrections sent out |
| 26Citations built and cleaned up | PartlyListed on 30+ directories, 60+ on its pricing page; duplicate cleanup is not mentioned | Built and cleaned up inside the Local SEO plan, not sold one at a time |
| 27Technical site audit | PartlyTechnical SEO inside its Search Boost; a scheduled audit is not described | Nightly, every issue ticketed with a fix |
| 28Local service and area pages written and published | PartlyProfessionally written content inside its Search Boost | Drafted from search demand, published after your yes, with a live check and rollback |
| 29Links earned for your site | Backlinks built inside its AEO and SEO service | Earned links on the SearchLab plans |
| 30Keyword discovery | Not listed | From your own data and the map, by zip code |
| 31Next step recommendations | A Digital Marketing Score that says what to do next | The crew proposes the fix; the brief explains it |
| 32Visibility in AI answers | A score across AI and traditional search; AEO inside its Search Boost | Weekly share of voice across the AI assistants, with the pages they cite |
| 33Structured data and an llms.txt for the assistants | Not listed | Agent ready: structured data and an llms.txt, kept current |
| ReputationWho asks for reviews, and who answers them? | ||
Us 8 of 9Thryv 3 of 9 Both: review monitoring, review replies and rating drop alerts. Ours in full: review requests, review posts for social, unfair review flagging, tracking by technician and referral asks. Neither in full: reviews on your website. | ||
| 34Review requests by text and email | PartlyAutomated review request emails | Forty minutes after the job, by text and email |
| 35Review monitoring across sites | Thryv, Google, Facebook and Yelp reviews on one screen | Google first, then Facebook, Yelp and the sites your industry reads |
| 36Replies drafted and posted | AI writes three responses to choose from, for Yelp, YP.com, Trustpilot and 20 other sites | Drafted in your voice within the hour, posted on your yes |
| 37Rating drop alerts | Notified instantly on new reviews | A drop wakes the crew; the reply is drafted before you read the brief |
| 38Reviews shown on your website | Not listed | PartlySite badges from new five star reviews; no embeddable feed |
| 39Reviews turned into social posts | Not listed | New five star reviews become posts, drafted for your yes |
| 40Unfair reviews flagged | Not listed | Flagged where the platform allows, answered where it does not |
| 41Per technician review tracking | Not listed | Who earns the reviews, who needs coaching |
| 42Referral asks after a good review | PartlyIts review pages say automated review requests earn more reviews and referrals; a referral ask after a good review is not described | A referral link, with the lead attributed |
| Email and textingDoes anyone write to my customer list? | ||
Us 4 of 4Thryv 2 of 4 Both: email campaigns and text campaigns. Ours in full: answered replies and journeys by segment. | ||
| 43Email campaigns to your customers | Email marketing and automated campaigns | Drafted for your yes, sent at the hour your list opens |
| 44Text campaigns | Automated text and email campaigns | Text and email on one list; consent and quiet hours honored |
| 45Replies answered and booked | PartlyReplies land in the Command Center inbox for your team to answer | The same receptionist answers every reply |
| 46Segments and journeys | PartlyAutomated follow up campaigns; its own summary says advanced segmentation is beyond its scope | New lead, job done, review landed, six months since the last visit |
| AdsWho reads my ad spend? | ||
Us 5 of 5Thryv 3 of 5 Both: campaign management, the nightly spend audit and attribution to spend. Ours in full: click fraud protection and budget moves for your approval. | ||
| 47Google and Meta campaigns built and run | Thryv Leads and Ads Boosts: its team builds and runs campaigns across Google, Bing, Yelp, Facebook and Instagram | AdLab: a strategist builds and runs them; the accounts stay yours |
| 48Nightly audit of Google and Meta spend | Its Thryv Leads team monitors campaigns and optimizes them daily | Every spend line read against every lead |
| 49Click fraud and bot protection | Not listed | TrafficShield, included in AdLab from the Drive plan up: blocked nightly, refunds filed where the platform allows |
| 50Calls and forms tied to spend | Impressions, clicks, calls and form fills in one dashboard, with call recordings | Every call and form tied to the campaign behind it |
| 51Budget moves proposed for your approval | PartlyBudget adjusted for you toward what is working; you review and approve social ads | Drafted with the numbers behind it, for your yes |
| Social and contentWho makes the posts and the pages? | ||
Us 4 of 5Thryv 3 of 5 Both: Facebook publishing and posts drafted from your jobs. Ours in full: short video and long form content. Thryv's alone, in gold: Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok publishing. | ||
| 52Facebook publishing | Social media management on the Signature plan; a Social Posts Boost | Per location, at the hours your followers are on |
| 53Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok publishing | Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok, with Threads, YouTube and Pinterest | Not todayGoogle and Facebook publish today; the rest are coming |
| 54Posts drafted from your real jobs and proofread | Social Posts Boost: three professionally written posts a week | Thirty a month in ContentLab, proofread, approved a week at a time |
| 55Short video and product photos | PartlyImageAI turns job photos into post ready images | In ContentLab: cut from your footage or generated, and captioned |
| 56Long form content | PartlyProfessionally written content inside its Search Boost | Two to four new pages a month in SearchLab; articles and cutdowns in ContentLab |
| WebsiteWho changes my site, and how safely? | ||
Us 4 of 4Thryv 2 of 4 Both: a website built for you and site analytics. Ours in full: checked site changes and speed watching. | ||
| 57Changes to your site proposed, approved, published and checked | PartlyIts designers edit the site they built, and launch it with your approval | WordPress and most builders, with a live check and rollback |
| 58A website built and cared for | A custom website designed by its team, or an AI website builder | SiteLab, scoped and quoted: live in about four weeks, then hosting, backups, patches and monthly edits |
| 59Speed and Core Web Vitals watched | PartlyIts professional websites are built for fast load speeds; ongoing checks are not listed | Monitored in site care; every ad landing page checked nightly |
| 60Site analytics | Website analytics and website heat mapping | First party analytics: who visited and what they did, with Google Analytics connected too |
| Reporting and the morningHow do I know what happened? | ||
Us 6 of 6Thryv 2 of 6 Both: the monthly report and a dashboard with your own login. Ours in full: the morning brief, the thirty minute checks, alerts that name the cause and an API or MCP. | ||
| 61A brief every morning | Not listed | 6:58, what moved, why, and the one thing that needs you |
| 62Listings, leads and spend checked every 30 minutes | PartlyReal time analytics dashboards; a set check interval is not stated | In SearchLight: every location, with listings drift reverted; every plan includes a SearchLight tier |
| 63Alerts that name the cause and the owner | PartlyInstant notifications on new reviews, bookings and payments | In SearchLight: a sentence with a cause, an owner and what was already done |
| 64A monthly deck or report | Automated reports on traffic, rankings and visibility; a Reporting Center | A monthly deck written for a phone: what moved, what we did, what is next |
| 65A dashboard with your own login | A marketing dashboard and the Reporting Center | Per location accounts and scorecards |
| 66An API or MCP into your own tools | PartlyIts partner page invites partners to build an app integration, plug in or API connection | API and MCP for agencies; MCP access as an add on |
| Agencies and franchisesCan I run it for my clients under my name? | ||
Us 5 of 5Thryv 1 of 5 Both: franchise scorecards. Ours in full: white label, one console for every client, resale at your price and managed work under your name. | ||
| 67White label | Not listed | The whole platform: your name, domain, sender addresses and voice rules, from the agency Growth plan |
| 68Every client on one console | Not listed | Every client ranked, forecast and explained |
| 69Add ons resold at your price | PartlyA partner program that pays commission; no white label is listed | A marketplace with your prices; one statement on the first |
| 70Franchise HQ view with per location scorecards | Real time tracking and analytics for every franchise location | Corporate, regional and location scorecards, refreshed daily |
| 71Managed work for your clients, under your name | Not listed | Keep the spread or share revenue; a strategist carries the work |
The Thryv column comes from Thryv's own public pages, read on October 1, 2026. Not listed means we did not find it there, not that Thryv lacks it. If something has changed, tell us and we will correct it. Logos belong to their owners and are shown for comparison only.
Moving from Thryv, in three steps.
- Tell us what you have
Which Thryv centers and Boosts you use, your listings, your review sites and whether you bill through ThryvPay. The form takes about two minutes.
You, about two minutes - We set it up beside it
We load your client list, load each location into the directory network, start review monitoring and set a 7 by 7 grid around each location. Chat, texting and phone answering switch on when you want them. Thryv keeps running while we work.
Us, while your tools keep running - You review and switch
You compare our first brief with your Thryv dashboard. Thryv's own FAQ describes a six month initial term that renews, so check your renewal date, and settle where estimates, invoices and payments will live before you switch.
You, when you are ready
What comes across
- CopiedClients and contactsLoaded on day one from the list you export, with its tags.
- MonitoredReviewsThey stay on Google, Yelp and the review sites; we watch those sites.
- RebuiltListingsEach location loaded into the directory network; you check them before they publish.
- RebuiltBooking, campaigns and review requestsYour calendar, follow ups and request wording re created on our platform.
- Planned with youA website built on ThryvThryv's questions page says the site comes down when you cancel. We rebuild it on a site you own, with redirects agreed first.
- Planned with youTrackable phone numbersThryv's questions page says they do not go with you. We agree new numbers before anything changes.
- Planned with youEstimates, invoices and paymentsWe take no payments. We agree where they will live before anything changes.
A person reads every request and replies within one business day. Nothing your customers see changes until you say yes.
Thryv questions, answered.
Thryv also sells done for you Boosts. How is yours different?
Thryv's Boosts are separate services for ads, search, social and branding, added to software that you run yourself after onboarding. Ours is one managed service: a strategist runs local search, reviews, the receptionist, campaigns, ads and the site together, month to month with no contract. Changes wait for your approval, and one brief arrives each morning.
What does Thryv have that Digital Ingenuity does not?
Five checks in the table are marked for Thryv alone, in gold: four countries; payments; chat or calls answered by its own staff; connectors to other business systems; and Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok publishing. If you send estimates and invoices or take payments through Thryv, you will still need a tool for that.
Can I take my data out of Thryv?
Thryv's questions page says clients import by CSV, that trackable phone numbers do not go with you if you cancel, and that the account and its website are taken down when you cancel and can be reactivated within 60 business days. We found no export steps on the pages we opened, so ask Thryv support for your client list, form responses and calendar before your term ends. Your reviews stay on Google, Yelp and the review sites where customers wrote them.
Should I cancel Thryv before you start?
No. Keep it running until our first brief sits beside your Thryv dashboard. Thryv's own FAQ describes a six month initial term that renews, so check your renewal date and let us set up beside it first.
Is there a contract?
No. Every plan is month to month, with no contract, and you can cancel any month. We ask for one quarter on a handshake, because results take time to show; that is a request, not a term. Your accounts, data, domain and every page stay yours. It starts with a free audit and a fifteen minute call with a strategist.
Weighing something else?
Your account, side by side.
Fifteen minutes with a strategist, your accounts on the screen, and a straight answer on whether to leave Thryv.