What is Alivo?
Alivo is built for roofing contractors. Roofing CRMs (JobNimbus, AccuLynx), storm surge messaging, roofing-specific workflows. If roofing is 100% of your business, this is a clean choice.
Driive is built across home service trades, with drive-time-aware booking at the core. HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, windows, garage, pest, drains. If you run more than one trade, or your sales motion involves anything more complex than a single-visit estimate, Driive is the better fit.
The Vertical Question
Alivo made a clear and defensible bet: pick one vertical, go deep. Roofing has unusual demand patterns. Storms create surges. The buying decision is high-ticket and emotional. The CRMs the industry runs on are roofing-specific. There is enough surface area in roofing alone to build a real company against, and Alivo has done that well.
The constraint is the same as the strategy. Alivo's product, integrations, and messaging assume roofing. The named agents are tuned to roofing workflows. The integrations they lead with (JobNimbus, AccuLynx) are roofing-native.
If you run a multi-trade business, that depth becomes a wall. Your plumbing leads, your HVAC follow-ups, your windows install scheduling — none of those fit a roofing-shaped tool. You end up either forcing your other trades through a roofing workflow, or running multiple booking systems.
When Alivo Is the Right Choice
You are a pure-play roofing contractor with no plans to diversify. You run JobNimbus or AccuLynx and want a deeply native integration. Storm surge handling is a meaningful part of your demand pattern. Your booking workflow is single-visit estimates with no follow-up complexity.
If roofing is 100% of what you do, Alivo is a clean choice. If roofing is 60% and HVAC is 30% and you do gutters on the side, you need a tool that does not assume the answer.
When Driive Is the Better Fit
- Multi-trade operations: You run more than one trade, or plan to expand beyond roofing.
- Drive-time matters: Your daily P&L depends on tight routing — techs run 5-8 stops a day, not single-visit estimates.
- Unified agent needed: You want one agent across calls, texts, and web chats instead of multiple named agents.
- Capacity-aware booking: You need bookings that respect technician capacity and skills, not just an open calendar slot.
Why Drive-Time Matters More Than Vertical Specialization
Roofing is unusual in that drive time matters less than in most trades. A roofing estimate is typically a single appointment at a single address. The tech goes, measures, quotes. Routing matters at the daily level, not the appointment level.
HVAC, plumbing, and electrical are different. A tech runs five to eight stops a day. Some are emergency calls that just came in. Some are install jobs that require specific gear. Every booking either tightens the route or breaks it. The cost of a 45-minute drive between two stops gets paid in lost jobs and unhappy techs by Friday.
This is why Driive is built around drive-time-first. For the trades where routing actually matters, the booking has to know the route. Without that, you have an agent that says yes to jobs your team cannot actually run.
AI Lead Qualification
Dot qualifies leads automatically across all trades — filtering out bad fits, capturing job details, and routing to the right tech based on specialty and service area. One agent handles every trade you run.
Drive-Time Smart Booking
Driive factors real drive time into every booking. For multi-stop trade operations, this means the difference between a full day of efficient routes and techs zigzagging the city.
Feature Comparison: Alivo vs Driive
| Feature | Alivo | Driive |
|---|---|---|
| Trades supported | Roofing | HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, windows, garage, pest, drains, more |
| Drive-time-aware booking | Not a primary feature | Yes — core to the product |
| Answers calls, texts, and web chats in one agent | Split across multiple named agents | Yes — unified |
| Multi-trade workflows from one platform | No — not in scope | Yes |
| Storm surge handling | Yes — built around it | Not the focus |
| CRM integrations | Deep on JobNimbus and AccuLynx | Broad, trade-agnostic |
| Pricing starts at | Not publicly listed | $99 Starter, $450 Growth |
| Pilot terms | Standard onboarding process | 45-day free pilot, card on file |
The Bottom Line
Pick Alivo if you are a pure-play roofing contractor with no plans to diversify, you run JobNimbus or AccuLynx, and storm surge handling is a meaningful part of your demand pattern.
Pick Driive if you run more than one trade (or plan to), drive time and routing matter to your daily P&L, and you want a 45-day free pilot before committing.
See how it works at getdriive.com.
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