Front-office platform

SaveTheJobvs Podium AI Employee.

What they charge, what we charge, and why our call ends with a price out of your own price book and a slot on your calendar. Every figure below is theirs, read on 16 August 2026, or an explicit note that they do not publish one.

Podium AI Employee

$399 or $599 a month, plus $30 per phone seat, plus a $500 setup fee per location, on a 12-month contract. The AI add-on price is not published.

podium.com/pricing · checked 16 August 2026

SaveTheJob

$299/mo

Published, capped, and the same in your busiest month. From $99 to start.

Our pricing in full

Start on One Truck, $99 a month

Where we are better, and it is checkable

What you get from us that Podium AI Employee does not give you.

✓It writes the job into your Google Calendar during the call, into a time it read off that calendar first.
✓It cannot book a time it did not offer you on that call. That is enforced in the code, not asked for in a prompt.
✓What it could not answer comes back to you as a note on the call in the caller's own words, with a callback promise set by your own hours.
✓No annual contract that restarts when you change plans.
✓No per-location setup fee.
✓A published plan price with nothing billed past it, instead of a quote.

Why we win this one

Why SaveTheJob beats Podium AI Employee for a trade business.

The front office is priced like one: $399 or $599 a month, $30 per phone seat, a $500 setup fee per location, twelve months of commitment, and an AI add-on price they do not publish at all. We answer the phone, quote from your price book and book the slot, month to month, at a number you can read before you talk to anybody.

✓It writes the job into your Google Calendar during the call, into a time it read off that calendar first.
✓It cannot book a time it did not offer you on that call. That is enforced in the code, not asked for in a prompt.
✓What it could not answer comes back to you as a note on the call in the caller's own words, with a callback promise set by your own hours.
✓No annual contract that restarts when you change plans.
✓No per-location setup fee.
✓A published plan price with nothing billed past it, instead of a quote.

The only comparison that counts is yours.

We read your website and build the agent from it, and you hear it answer before anything is forwarded. That takes about a minute and it settles this page faster than the page does.

Your website or business name

No email. No card. Nobody calls you.