Sierra Interactive vs Ace

Sierra Interactive pricing — and why it's the wrong question if you already run FUB.

Sierra Interactive bundles an IDX real estate website, CRM, lead generation, drip campaigns, and Google PPC management into one platform. If you're already on Follow Up Boss, you're not comparing apples to apples — you're comparing a full website platform to an AI layer. Here's the honest breakdown.

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Sierra Interactive vs Follow Up Ace: Sierra Interactive bundles an IDX website, CRM, lead generation, drip campaigns, and Google PPC management into one platform you migrate to. Follow Up Ace is an AI layer that runs inside the Follow Up Boss you already use — adding Zillow speed-to-lead, account-wide AI scoring, voice chat, and Fair Housing compliance scanning, starting free. Sierra is a full website-plus-CRM platform; Ace upgrades the CRM you already trust.

Two completely different bets

Sierra Interactive and Ace solve different problems. Understanding which you actually have will save you a costly website migration — or a missed opportunity to get more from FUB.

Sierra Interactive: buy your website, your leads, and your CRM together

Sierra Interactive is a complete real estate platform — it provides SEO-optimized IDX websites, its own CRM, lead capture, drip campaign automation, and optional Google PPC management as one bundled product. Pricing is quote-based (Sierra does not publish a public price list). If you're on Sierra, Sierra is your CRM and your website. You don't also use Follow Up Boss — you would have to migrate off one to the other.

Ace: add agentic AI to the FUB you already run

Ace is an AI intelligence layer that runs inside Follow Up Boss — FUB Marketplace certified. It doesn't build websites, generate IDX leads, or replace your CRM. It makes the CRM you already trust dramatically more capable: real-time Zillow speed-to-lead, account-wide AI scoring, voice chat, Fair Housing compliance scanning, and agentic AI via Claude and ChatGPT Connectors.

Feature comparison

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  Sierra Interactive Ace + your existing FUB
Pricing modelQuote-based (not publicly listed)Free tier · paid plans · see our pricing page
Requires CRM migrationYes — replaces Follow Up BossNo — runs inside FUB
IDX real estate website includedYes (bundled)No — works with your existing website
Lead generation includedYes (IDX + optional PPC)No — works with your existing lead sources
Drip campaign automationYes (CRM feature)Uses FUB's native drip + AI-drafted content
FUB Marketplace certifiedn/a (separate platform)Yes
Claude / ChatGPT ConnectorNot publicly specifiedYes — FUB-aware tools on both Connectors
Zillow speed-to-lead responseNot publicly specifiedzillow_speed_to_lead_check fires in seconds
Ace Trove (contact scoring, pipeline)Not publicly specifiedai_engine_get_contact_score · revenue_at_risk · pipeline_movement
Fair Housing compliance scanNot publicly specifiedscan_message_for_compliance — code-enforced, not just AI training
Voice chatNot publicly specifiedWebRTC speech-to-speech, iOS Safari tested
Free to startDemo / sales requiredFree tier, no credit card
Pricing model
Sierra Interactive
Quote-based
Ace
Free tier · paid plans
Requires CRM migration
Sierra Interactive
Yes — replaces FUB
Ace
No — runs inside FUB
IDX website included
Sierra Interactive
Yes (bundled)
Ace
No — works with your site
Lead generation
Sierra Interactive
Yes (IDX + optional PPC)
Ace
No — works with your sources
FUB Marketplace certified
Sierra Interactive
n/a
Ace
Yes
Claude / ChatGPT Connector
Sierra Interactive
Not specified
Ace
Yes
Zillow speed-to-lead
Sierra Interactive
Not specified
Ace
zillow_speed_to_lead_check
Fair Housing compliance scan
Sierra Interactive
Not specified
Ace
scan_message_for_compliance
Free to start
Sierra Interactive
Demo required
Ace
Free tier, no card

When Sierra Interactive makes more sense than Ace

If you don't have a real estate website yet — or you want website, CRM, and leads from one vendor — Sierra Interactive is a legitimate choice.

Sierra Interactive's integrated approach — SEO-optimized IDX website, CRM, lead capture forms, drip campaigns, and optional Google PPC under one vendor — genuinely simplifies vendor management for teams building from scratch or teams that want their website and their CRM to share the same database. If Follow Up Boss is not already your system of record, and if owning a professionally built IDX site matters to your business, Sierra Interactive is worth evaluating seriously.

Ace specifically does not build websites, does not generate leads, and does not replace your CRM. If any of those things are what you actually need, Ace is the wrong tool for that need.

Why FUB teams choose Ace over rebuilding on Sierra

If you're on Follow Up Boss and evaluating Sierra Interactive, the real cost is rebuilding your entire web presence — your IDX setup, your lead routing, your action plans, your agent workflows, and your contact history. Here's what you get by staying and adding AI on top instead.

  • No migration, no website rebuild, no retraining Ace runs as an embed inside FUB. Your contacts, stages, action plans, custom fields, and routing stay exactly where they are. Your agents keep the CRM they already know — and your website stays where it is.
  • Zillow lead response in seconds, not hours The zillow_speed_to_lead_check tool fires automatically when a Zillow lead lands — email draft ready before you find the contact. Research (Zillow Consumer Housing Trends Report) shows buyers overwhelmingly choose the first agent to respond.
  • Account-wide AI scoring, transparently priced Pipeline movement, revenue-at-risk signals, contact scoring — available separately, priced by your FUB database size. You control what you pay for. No bundled line item you can't unwind.
  • Fair Housing compliance scan on every AI-drafted message The scan_message_for_compliance tool is code-enforced — not just "the model is trained to be careful." Any message that fails the scan is blocked, logged in FUB, and triggers an admin alert.
  • Agentic AI from any device via Claude and ChatGPT Connectors Use Claude.ai or ChatGPT on your phone, ask about a lead, and Ace's FUB-aware tools can look up contact history, draft follow-ups, and update records — no context switching to the CRM app.
  • Free to start, no sales call required Try Ace in your own FUB account today. No credit card for the free tier. No demo scheduled 3 days from now. If it doesn't work for you in your first session, there's nothing to cancel.

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