Compare · Yext vs Digital IngenuityYext syncs your listings. We run everything around them.
Yext is an enterprise platform your teams run, with service options and Yext experts beside it: a Knowledge Graph of verified facts, sent straight to more than 200 publishers, with reviews, pages, social and an AI visibility agent on top. 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 Yext'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 keep your listings, reviews and Google Business Profile right, and add what Yext's pages do not list: website chat, a CRM of our own, a map grid and ad campaigns. Its texting and voice product is for financial advisors; ours answers calls and texts for any business. SiteLab builds and cares for the whole website too.
- For an agency that wants the work done. The whole platform under your name and domain, every client on one console, with a strategist carrying the work.
- Counted, not claimed. Of the 73 checks below, both sides do 28, 35 are ours in full where Yext lists none or part, and 7 are Yext's alone, marked in gold.
Better in five 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.
- 01A strategist runs it.
Yext is a platform your teams run, with service options for its Pages and Yext experts in the workspace. With us a strategist runs the whole account on every plan, month to month with no contract, and your accounts, data and every page stay yours if you leave.
Rows 1 to 7How it runs → - 02Your leads get answered in seconds.
Yext's pages list no website chat or CRM of its own, and its texting and voice product is for financial advisors. Ours answers chat and texts in about four seconds, picks up your calls, books the slot and files the lead with its source and a summary.
Rows 8 to 15Who answers your leads → - 03The map tracked and the reviews worked, not only synced.
Yext sends your facts straight to more than 200 publishers and watches 80+ review platforms, and both are marked for it. On top we set a 7 by 7 grid around each location, audit the site every night, earn links, flag unfair reviews, track who earns them and ask for the referral.
- 04One team for the campaigns, the ads, the video and the site.
Text and email campaigns with every reply answered, Google and Meta campaigns built and read every night with click fraud blocked by TrafficShield, short video in ContentLab, and a site built and cared for in SiteLab. Yext's pages list review requests, localized posts, email content from its agents, its own local pages and Relate's triggered campaigns for financial advisors.
- 05One brief every morning.
Yext gives you dashboards, Report Builder and Scout's recommended actions. With SearchLight we check listings, leads and spend every thirty minutes, and we write one brief at 6:58 that says what moved and why.
Rows 62 to 67Reporting and the morning →
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 Yext's alone, the row is marked in gold.
- 73Checks
- 28Both do
- 35We add
- 7Yext adds
- 3Neither in full
| Check | Yext | Digital Ingenuity |
|---|---|---|
| How it runsWho does the work, and on what terms? | ||
Us 6 of 7Yext 4 of 7 Both: approval before changes go live, a nightly read of the account and exports. Ours in full: a strategist who runs the work, month to month terms and ownership of your data. Yext's alone, in gold: a global publisher network. | ||
| 1A strategist runs the work for you | PartlyA platform your teams run; its Pages come with service options, and Yext experts can join the workspace | On every plan; the crew works overnight and you approve |
| 2Month to month, no contract | Not listed | 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 | Role based approvals and audit trails; AI drafts, you approve | Pages, replies, posts and budget moves wait for your yes; auto rules run only where you switch them on |
| 4Your account read every night | Scout evaluates continuously; the Listings Verifier checks live publisher data | The crew reads every account overnight; what moved is in the brief by morning |
| 5Your data and listings stay yours if you leave | Not listed | Accounts, data, domain and every page stay yours |
| 6Reports and data export | Reports shared through Report Builder and BI tools; review exports on a schedule | Your list and leads export any time; the deck is yours |
| 7Countries served | A global publisher network, with a list of supported countries | PartlyUnited States |
| Who answers your leadsWhat happens when a customer chats, texts or calls? | ||
Us 6 of 8Yext 1 of 8 Ours in full: website chat, a texting line, call answering, booking into your calendar, abandoned form recovery and the CRM. Yext's alone, in gold: connectors to other business systems. Neither in full: a lead widget for agency sites. | ||
| 8Website chat answered in your voice, day and night | Not listed | About four seconds, from answers you approved |
| 9A texting line | PartlyRelate: compliant texting, WhatsApp and voice for financial advisors | A real number for SMS, with an iMessage line available; photos, links and booking confirmations |
| 10Calls answered, recorded and summarized | PartlyRelate: voice conversations for financial advisors; answering and call summaries are not described | Answered, recorded with consent and summarized; missed calls get a text back within a minute |
| 11Booking straight into your calendar | PartlyBook now buttons and booking tools built into its Pages | 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 | Not listedIts listings questions cover connecting Yext to your CRM or POS, and Relate syncs with Salesforce; a CRM of its own is not listed | CRM, automations and drips; every conversation becomes a lead with its source |
| 14A lead widget for agency websites | Not listed | Not today |
| 15Connectors to the other systems you run | 50+ pre built connectors, APIs and crawlers into the Knowledge Graph | 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 18Yext 12 of 18 Ours in full: the map rank grid, the technical site audit, earned links, keyword discovery and structured data. Yext's alone, in gold: direct publisher connections and a knowledge graph with site search. Neither in full: Bing rank tracking. Both do the other ten. | ||
| 16Google rankings tracked | Local keyword position against competitors, in Analytics | Tracked for you, for every keyword that matters |
| 17Bing rankings tracked | Not listed | Not todayOur rank tracking covers Google |
| 18Map rank grid around each location | Not listed | 7 by 7, 49 points around each location, for every keyword that matters |
| 19Competitors benchmarked | Win rates against your 20 closest competitors | Competitor watch: new pages, new locations, rating moves, then a counter |
| 20Google Business Profile audit | Action Center catches wrong hours, missing fields and broken syncs | Optimized inside every Local SEO plan and kept active |
| 21Google Business Profile posts and photos | Localized posts published to every location's profiles | Weekly posts and fresh photos, drafted for your yes |
| 22Listings kept correct across directories | 200+ direct publisher integrations, live in seconds | Across the directory network; drift caught and reverted |
| 23Citations found, errors and duplicates flagged | Listings Verifier detects and resolves errors, duplicates and overwrites | Tracked, with corrections sent out |
| 24Citations built and cleaned up | Listings created and managed across 200+ directories | Built and cleaned up inside the Local SEO plan, not sold one at a time |
| 25Technical site audit | PartlyScout tests whether AI engines read your schema and local pages; a crawl of your own site is not listed | Nightly, every issue ticketed with a fix |
| 26Local service and area pages written and published | Yext Pages: location and local intent pages from its templates, with service options to build them for you | Drafted from search demand, published after your yes, with a live check and rollback |
| 27Links earned for your site | Not listed | Earned links on the SearchLab plans |
| 28Keyword discovery | PartlyKeyword insights in Analytics; a research tool is not listed | From your own data and the map, by zip code |
| 29Next step recommendations | Scout prioritizes recommended actions and deploys agents | The crew proposes the fix; the brief explains it |
| 30Visibility in AI answers | Scout tracks AI visibility, sentiment and cited sources by location | Weekly share of voice across the AI assistants, with the pages they cite |
| 31Structured data and an llms.txt for the assistants | PartlyIts Knowledge Graph structures your facts for AI engines and its Pages add schema by default; an llms.txt is not named | Agent ready: structured data and an llms.txt, kept current |
| 32Listings sent straight to publishers, no aggregator | 200+ direct publisher integrations, no aggregator in between | PartlyThrough a directory network, not our own publisher integrations |
| 33A knowledge graph and on site search | The Knowledge Graph, and Yext Search for your site, locator and help center | Not today |
| ReputationWho asks for reviews, and who answers them? | ||
Us 8 of 9Yext 6 of 9 Both: review requests, review monitoring, review replies, rating drop alerts and review posts for social. Ours in full: unfair review flagging, tracking by technician and referral asks. Yext's alone, in gold: an embeddable review widget. | ||
| 34Review requests by text and email | Email, text or QR code, triggered when customers are likely to respond | Forty minutes after the job, by text and email |
| 35Review monitoring across sites | 80+ platforms in one dashboard | Google first, then Facebook, Yelp and the sites your industry reads |
| 36Replies drafted and posted | AI drafts and you approve, or auto responses by rule | Drafted in your voice within the hour, posted on your yes |
| 37Rating drop alerts | Automated alerts so no feedback is missed | A drop wakes the crew; the reply is drafted before you read the brief |
| 38Reviews shown on your website | Reviews embedded on your site | PartlySite badges from new five star reviews; no embeddable feed |
| 39Reviews turned into social posts | Shared to social in one click; 5 star reviews become posts | 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 | Not listed | A referral link, with the lead attributed |
| Email and textingDoes anyone write to my customer list? | ||
Us 4 of 4Yext 0 of 4 Ours in full: email campaigns, text campaigns, answered replies and journeys by segment. | ||
| 43Email campaigns to your customers | PartlyReview request emails; its home page lists email campaigns among the content its agents create | Drafted for your yes, sent at the hour your list opens |
| 44Text campaigns | PartlyRelate: bulk messaging for financial advisors | Text and email on one list; consent and quiet hours honored |
| 45Replies answered and booked | PartlyRelate: AI powered replies for financial advisors; booking is not described | The same receptionist answers every reply |
| 46Segments and journeys | PartlyRelate: triggered campaigns and workflows for financial advisors | New lead, job done, review landed, six months since the last visit |
| AdsWho reads my ad spend? | ||
Us 5 of 5Yext 0 of 5 Yext's pages list none of these. All five are ours. | ||
| 47Google and Meta campaigns built and run | Not listed | AdLab: a strategist builds and runs them; the accounts stay yours |
| 48Nightly audit of Google and Meta spend | Not listed | 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 | Not listed | Every call and form tied to the campaign behind it |
| 51Budget moves proposed for your approval | Not listed | Drafted with the numbers behind it, for your yes |
| Social and contentWho makes the posts and the pages? | ||
Us 4 of 6Yext 3 of 6 Both: Facebook publishing and posts drafted from your jobs. Ours in full: short video and long form content. Yext's alone, in gold: automated compliance checks on every post. Neither in full: Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok publishing. | ||
| 52Facebook publishing | Cross posting to Google, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Apple | Per location, at the hours your followers are on |
| 53Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok publishing | PartlyInstagram and LinkedIn are named; TikTok is not | Not todayGoogle and Facebook publish today; the rest are coming |
| 54Posts drafted from your real jobs and proofread | AI drafts localized posts for every location, approved by role | Thirty a month in ContentLab, proofread, approved a week at a time |
| 55Short video and product photos | Not listed | In ContentLab: cut from your footage or generated, and captioned |
| 56Long form content | PartlyAI drafts FAQs, bios and descriptions | Two to four new pages a month in SearchLab; articles and cutdowns in ContentLab |
| 57Compliance rules that block a post before it publishes | Hearsay Social: automated supervision, lexicon review and keyword flagging for regulated industries | PartlyPosts are proofread and wait for your yes; there is no automated rule engine |
| WebsiteWho changes my site, and how safely? | ||
Us 4 of 4Yext 0 of 4 Ours in full: checked site changes, a website built for you, speed watching and site analytics. | ||
| 58Changes to your site proposed, approved, published and checked | PartlyOn Yext Pages: one Knowledge Graph update changes every page | WordPress and most builders, with a live check and rollback |
| 59A website built and cared for | PartlyLocal pages and locators, not a full website | SiteLab, scoped and quoted: live in about four weeks, then hosting, backups, patches and monthly edits |
| 60Speed and Core Web Vitals watched | PartlyPage speed is built into its Pages by default; ongoing checks on your own site are not listed | Monitored in site care; every ad landing page checked nightly |
| 61Site analytics | PartlyImpressions, clicks and conversions on its Pages | 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 6Yext 4 of 6 Both: alerts that name the cause, the monthly report, a dashboard with your own login and an API or MCP. Ours in full: the morning brief and the thirty minute checks. | ||
| 62A brief every morning | Not listed | 6:58, what moved, why, and the one thing that needs you |
| 63Listings, leads and spend checked every 30 minutes | PartlyListing updates go live in real time; leads and spend are not covered | In SearchLight: every location, with listings drift reverted; every plan includes a SearchLight tier |
| 64Alerts that name the cause and the owner | Scout names the biggest gaps at each location and recommends the fix | In SearchLight: a sentence with a cause, an owner and what was already done |
| 65A monthly deck or report | Custom dashboards and reports through Report Builder | A monthly deck written for a phone: what moved, what we did, what is next |
| 66A dashboard with your own login | Dashboards for corporate and local managers; a mobile app | Per location accounts and scorecards |
| 67An API or MCP into your own tools | Robust APIs for partners and connectors | 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 6Yext 5 of 6 Both: white label, one console for every client, resale at your price and franchise scorecards. Ours in full: managed work under your name. Yext's alone, in gold: single sign on with security attestations. | ||
| 68White label | White label options for reseller partners | The whole platform: your name, domain, sender addresses and voice rules, from the agency Growth plan |
| 69Every client on one console | Multiple clients or locations from one login | Every client ranked, forecast and explained |
| 70Add ons resold at your price | Listings, Reviews and Social resold as your own subscriptions | A marketplace with your prices; one statement on the first |
| 71Franchise HQ view with per location scorecards | Corporate and local views, role based approvals, 10,000+ locations | Corporate, regional and location scorecards, refreshed daily |
| 72Managed work for your clients, under your name | Not listed | Keep the spread or share revenue; a strategist carries the work |
| 73Single sign on and published security attestations | SAML single sign on; SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA and PCI DSS on its Trust Center | Not todayNone published |
The Yext column comes from Yext's own public pages, read on October 1, 2026. Not listed means we did not find it there, not that Yext 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 Yext, in three steps.
- Tell us what you have
Your Yext locations, the publishers that matter to you, the review sites you watch and any pages hosted on Yext. The form takes about two minutes.
You, about two minutes - We set it up beside it
We load your locations and business facts, load each one 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. Yext keeps running while we work.
Us, while your tools keep running - You review and switch
You compare our first brief with your last Yext reports and check every listing before it publishes. Ask Yext what happens to its listings and hosted pages when your term ends, and plan the switch around that date.
You, when you are ready
What comes across
- CopiedLocations and business factsLoaded on day one: names, addresses, hours, categories, photos.
- RebuiltListingsEach location loaded into the directory network; you check them before they publish.
- MonitoredReviewsThey stay on Google, Facebook and the review sites; we watch those sites.
- RebuiltReview requestsYour wording re created, sent by text and email forty minutes after the job.
- RebuiltSocial postsA calendar drafted from your real jobs, published to Google and Facebook.
- Planned with youPages hosted on YextWe rebuild the pages that earn traffic on your own site, with redirects agreed first.
- Planned with youKnowledge Graph, site search, compliance review and single sign onWe do not offer these today. Tell us if they matter and we plan around them.
A person reads every request and replies within one business day. Nothing your customers see changes until you say yes.
Yext questions, answered.
Yext is a platform my team runs. Why pay for a service?
Because a platform still needs people to run it, at one location or at thousands. Yext's pages describe a platform your teams operate, with agents inside your approvals, service options for its Pages and Yext experts in the workspace. With us a strategist runs the whole account: map rank, listings, reviews, the receptionist that answers chat, texts and calls, campaigns, ads and the site, with one brief every morning and changes that wait for your approval.
What does Yext have that Digital Ingenuity does not?
Seven checks in the table are marked for Yext alone, in gold: a global publisher network, connectors to other business systems, direct publisher connections, a knowledge graph with site search, an embeddable review widget, automated compliance checks on every post and single sign on with security attestations. Our listings go out through a directory network, not our own publisher integrations, and we publish no count of sites.
Can I take my data out of Yext?
Yext's analytics page says reports can be shared through Report Builder and BI tools, and its April 2026 release notes describe saved review exports delivered on a schedule. Its help center did not open for us, so ask Yext for your listings export before your renewal date. Your reviews stay on Google, Facebook and the review sites where customers wrote them, and your business facts come across to us on day one.
Should I cancel Yext before you start?
No. Keep it running until our listings are live and our first brief sits beside your last Yext reports. Nothing your customers see changes until you say yes.
Is Digital Ingenuity a fit for an agency leaving Yext?
Yes, if you want the work done under your name. Yext's reseller program gives you white label software and APIs. We give you the whole platform on your domain from the agency Growth plan, a console over every client, add ons at your prices, and a strategist who carries the work.
Weighing something else?
Your listings, side by side.
Fifteen minutes with a strategist, your accounts on the screen, and a straight answer on whether to leave Yext.