Honest Comparison
Eliv8 OS vs Knowify
Both are good tools. They do different things. Here's a fair side-by-side so you can pick the right one — even if that's not us.
Dimension
Eliv8 OS
Knowify
What it is
AI advisor + business OS for owner-operators
Construction job-costing software
Best for
Specialty-trade owners, $500k–$15M revenue, 3–50 people
Subcontractors who want detailed job-costing and tight QuickBooks sync — and don't need a strategic advisor.
Pricing
Free while in private pilot; one flat price at launch
From around $186/month for a 5-user team. Add-ons drive the price up quickly.
AI advisor
Yes — Solomon, with long-term memory
No
CFO dashboard + cash flow forecast
Yes
Partial (job-costing only)
Hiring planner / scorecards
Yes
No
Remembers your decisions
Yes
No
Field crew dispatching
No — on purpose. Keep the tool you already use for that.
Limited
What Knowify does well
- Deep job-costing and labour tracking
- Tight, real-time QuickBooks sync
- Built specifically for construction trades
- Scheduling and field-team workflows
Where Knowify falls short
- No AI advisor or strategic guidance — pure operations
- No memory of your decisions or your reasoning
- No hiring scorecards or org planning
- Steeper price for small teams
Where Eliv8 OS wins
- Solomon (AI advisor) — pulls your numbers and tells you what to do, not just what happened
- Hiring, org planning and succession — Knowify is operations-only
- Remembers your decisions and constraints across months, not just this session
- One flat price when we launch — no per-seat math, no add-ons
Where Knowify wins
- Deeper job-costing detail if you live in the field every day
- More mature scheduling and time-tracking workflows
Pick Knowify if…
You're a 10-50 person construction sub, your bottleneck is real-time job-costing accuracy, and you don't need strategic advice from your software.
Visit Knowify →Pick Eliv8 OS if…
You are an owner-operator who needs actual counsel — something that understands your numbers and tells you what to do about them, and that cares how the business is run and not only what it earns.
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