Starting at only $100 per month, with no upfront cost or long-term commitment, guides.co provides you with all the tools you need to create and manage your content, leads, and resource library at an affordable cost for any size organization.
| Upfront Investment | Guides.co | Other Tools |
| Software | $100 - $2,500 / mo | $100k - $1M* |
| Licenses | Included | $500 - $1,500 each** |
| Content Costs | Guides.co | Traditional |
| Creation | Workflow within guides.co means no custom tools required | Copy and pasting or specialized content creation tools often required |
| Editing | Integrated workflow | Document versioning can cause issues |
| Formatting | Reuse guide templates, + consistent branding + format does not require as much custom design |
New design each time and rarely go back to update previous documents making brand inconsistent |
| Publishing | No cost, one-button publishing | Require web team or IT to upload to server |
| Promotion | Automatically featured on your guides.co site | Require changes to navigation and website to feature new content |
| Printing | Not applicable | Either corporate cost to print and mail, or end user costs incurred |
| Refresh | Edit in context and notify all existing users. Content is instantly updated for existing and new users. | restart the whole process and incur
all formatting & publishing costs. Resend to users hoping they use the latest version. |
* cost
of purchasing content publishing, CMS, or LMS software
** ranging from site licenses per user and costs for content tools
like Adobe Photoshop, Page Maker, etc..
Unlike a custom-built solution, we continue to evolve the Guides.co platform to ensure you always have the best practices and most up to date platform for publishing and consuming content.