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Marketing automation / YOUR COMPARISON

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Mailchimp ↗

37–100/100

37% evidence coverage

With AI excluded: 44–100/100

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UK businesses wanting familiar email production with progressively deeper automation and audience tools.

Mailchimp documents UK SMS availability and offers its English email platform to UK businesses; request applicable UK pricing.

The first number is earned from documented features. Unverified capabilities create the range. Product scores do not establish the quality, reliability or price of a particular plan.

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Marketing automation: feature evidence and contribution to the score
Capability & demo questionMailchimp37–100/100 documented fit
Core workflowEvent-triggered entry7.0 points available
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Enter a journey when a form, purchase or named event occurs.

✓ Supported

Signup, group and purchase events can start a filtered flow.

7.0 / 7.0 pointsEvidence ↗
Core workflowConditional journey branches7.0 points available
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Route contacts differently according to behaviour and profile data.

✓ Supported

Conditional splits select paths using up to five conditions.

7.0 / 7.0 pointsEvidence ↗
Core workflowTimed waits7.0 points available
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Pause a journey for a defined period before the next action.

✓ Supported

Time-delay and wait-for-trigger rules delay subsequent actions.

7.0 / 7.0 pointsEvidence ↗
Core workflowMultiple messaging channels7.0 points available
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Send email and another channel within one coordinated journey.

✓ Supported

Email and approved SMS messages can run in the same flow.

7.0 / 7.0 pointsEvidence ↗
Core workflowJourney performance reporting7.0 points available
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See how many contacts reached each step and where they stopped.

? Not verified

Exact workflow not verified in the reviewed material; request a demonstration.

0.0–7.0 / 7.0 points
Workflow depthConversion exit rules4.0 points available
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Remove a contact from a sales reminder after purchase.

✓ Supported

Configured exit events remove contacts from a flow.

4.0 / 4.0 pointsEvidence ↗
Workflow depthRe-entry control4.0 points available
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Set whether and when a contact can repeat the same journey.

? Not verified

Exact workflow not verified in the reviewed material; request a demonstration.

0.0–4.0 / 4.0 points
Workflow depthContinuously updated audiences4.0 points available
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Change a contact's eligibility when their behaviour changes.

? Not verified

Exact workflow not verified in the reviewed material; request a demonstration.

0.0–4.0 / 4.0 points
Workflow depthLead or engagement scoring4.0 points available
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Increase and decrease a score based on different actions.

? Not verified

Exact workflow not verified in the reviewed material; request a demonstration.

0.0–4.0 / 4.0 points
Workflow depthCRM handover4.0 points available
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Assign a qualified lead and preserve the triggering context.

? Not verified

Exact workflow not verified in the reviewed material; request a demonstration.

0.0–4.0 / 4.0 points
Workflow depthExternal actions and webhooks4.0 points available
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Trigger an external system and show the event payload.

? Not verified

Exact workflow not verified in the reviewed material; request a demonstration.

0.0–4.0 / 4.0 points
Workflow depthRandomised journey split4.0 points available
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Test two paths and compare the chosen outcome.

? Not verified

Exact workflow not verified in the reviewed material; request a demonstration.

0.0–4.0 / 4.0 points
Workflow depthControlled send windows4.0 points available
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Hold messages outside selected days or time windows.

? Not verified

Exact workflow not verified in the reviewed material; request a demonstration.

0.0–4.0 / 4.0 points
Workflow depthChannel consent enforcement4.0 points available
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Block one channel after permission changes while preserving allowed actions.

? Not verified

Exact workflow not verified in the reviewed material; request a demonstration.

0.0–4.0 / 4.0 points
Workflow depthContact-frequency controls4.0 points available
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Show how overlapping journeys avoid excessive messages.

? Not verified

Exact workflow not verified in the reviewed material; request a demonstration.

0.0–4.0 / 4.0 points
Workflow depthTest and execution history5.0 points available
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Run a test contact and inspect the sequence of steps taken.

? Not verified

Exact workflow not verified in the reviewed material; request a demonstration.

0.0–5.0 / 5.0 points
Workflow depthJourney editing permissions5.0 points available
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Restrict who can alter or activate a live journey.

✓ Supported

Authors can edit flows but cannot turn them on or resume them.

5.0 / 5.0 pointsEvidence ↗
AIAI-assisted journey drafting5.0 points available
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Describe a journey and inspect the generated steps before activation.

? Not verified

Exact workflow not verified in the reviewed material; request a demonstration.

0.0–5.0 / 5.0 points
AIPredictive timing or audience decisions5.0 points available
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Demonstrate a predictive recommendation based on engagement or purchase data.

? Not verified

Exact workflow not verified in the reviewed material; request a demonstration.

0.0–5.0 / 5.0 points
AIAI-assisted performance analysis5.0 points available
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Ask which journey step needs attention and inspect the supporting data.

? Not verified

Exact workflow not verified in the reviewed material; request a demonstration.

0.0–5.0 / 5.0 points

“Not verified” means the recorded evidence does not settle this specific check. It does not mean the feature is absent. Read the scoring method.

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