More Than Slack. Every Insight Checked.
Grayn is a Slack-based AI for consumer marketing teams. It is free while in beta and connects ad platforms, GA4, Search Console and Tag Manager. Askalytics adds a dashboard, a weekly email and Microsoft Teams, has a second AI check every insight, and has published plans from $19 a month.
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Where Grayn Is Genuinely Strong
Grayn does one thing very well: it puts a proactive marketing AI right inside Slack. It reads ad platforms such as Meta, Google Ads and Apple Search Ads alongside GA4, Search Console, Tag Manager and lifecycle tools such as Braze and RevenueCat, and posts what changed without being asked. For a consumer brand or app team whose day runs in Slack, it is a strong, well-made product, and it is free while in beta. The comparison below is about scope, surfaces, trust, and price.
The Takeaway in Three Bullets
Whole Funnel, Not Just Ads
Grayn leans toward paid media and app marketing. Askalytics joins GA4, Search Console, Google Ads, and Microsoft Clarity in one warehouse, plus HubSpot and Mailchimp in beta, so you can ask questions that cross paid, organic, CRM, and email.
Delivered Where You Work
Grayn is Slack-only. Askalytics meets you on multiple surfaces: a full in-app dashboard, the weekly AI Insights email, and Slack and Microsoft Teams alerts. You're not locked into one channel.
Built for an SMB Budget
Grayn is free while in beta and says paid, credit-based plans come after it. Askalytics already publishes its prices: $19 to $149 a month, with self-serve tiers you sign up for in minutes, so you know what you will pay before you commit. See pricing.
The Bloom & Measure demo property is loaded by default on every free trial account.
Feature Comparison
Marked honestly from Grayn's public materials. ✓ = has the feature. ✗ = doesn't. ~ = partial or not public.
| Feature | Askalytics | Grayn |
|---|---|---|
| Trust & accuracy | ||
| Natural-language questions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Confidence Check (verifies every insight) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Every figure traces to the query that produced it | ✓ | ✗ |
| Citation validation on every claim | ✓ | ✗ |
| Audit-grade evidence pack per insight | ✓ | ✗ |
| Data sources | ||
| Google Ads & paid marketing | ✓ | ✓ |
| GA4 & Search Console (organic + behavior) | ✓ | ✓ |
| CRM (HubSpot) & email marketing (Mailchimp) | ✓ (beta) | ✗ |
| Commerce (Shopify) | ~ (Coming Soon) | ✗ |
| Cross-source questions (paid vs organic vs CRM) | ✓ | ✗ |
| History available | Daily-aggregated history for as long as your subscription is active | ~ (not published) |
| Delivery | ||
| Slack | ✓ | ✓ |
| In-app dashboard | ✓ | ✗ (Slack only) |
| Weekly insight by email (no login needed) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Microsoft Teams notifications | ✓ | ✗ |
| Insights & detection | ||
| Proactive AI insights | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI Sentinel (nightly monitoring with AI analysis) | ✓ | ~ (ads alerts) |
| AI Sentinel (deep AI analysis of what changed and why) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Learns from your feedback to personalize future insights | ✓ | ✗ |
| Security & account | ||
| Two-factor authentication (2FA) | ✓ | ~ (not public) |
| One-click GDPR data export | ✓ | ~ (not public) |
| Role-based team access (owner / analyst / viewer) | ✓ | ~ (not public) |
| Pricing & fit | ||
| Starting price | $19/mo (Scout) | Free in beta ($200 in credits) |
| Top published price | $149/mo (Scale) | Not yet published |
| Public, self-serve pricing | ✓ | ~ (free beta; paid plans not yet published) |
| Built for solo / small-business buyers | ✓ | ~ (consumer brand and app teams) |
The Bloom & Measure demo property is loaded by default on every free trial account.
How We're Different
Four places the two products diverge.
1. Your whole marketing stack in one place.
Grayn reads ads, GA4, Search Console and lifecycle tools, and it is good at paid media. But the most useful questions usually cross boundaries: did the paid campaign that spiked also move organic search? Which channels actually produced CRM pipeline, not just clicks? Did the email segment convert better than paid traffic? Those questions need GA4, Search Console, Google Ads, HubSpot, and Mailchimp in one place, which is exactly what Askalytics joins (HubSpot and Mailchimp are in beta). If your world is purely paid media, Grayn's focus is fine; if you want the full picture, you need the full stack.
2. Not trapped in one channel.
Grayn lives entirely in Slack. That's elegant if Slack is your whole workplace, and limiting if it isn't, or if you want a dashboard, a shareable view, or insights that reach people who don't live in the channel. Askalytics delivers across surfaces: a full in-app dashboard, the weekly AI Insights email that lands every week with no login required, and Slack and Microsoft Teams alerts. You choose where the insight shows up.
3. Every insight is verified before you trust it.
Grayn answers in Slack; it doesn't tell you whether the answer is right. Askalytics runs a Confidence Check: a second, different AI model that reviews each insight and gives its verdict before the insight is finalized. Underneath, the AI reasons over your nightly-refreshed warehouse and runs the queries it needs, so every number it reports traces back to the exact query that produced it, and a code check flags any figure it cannot trace. When the stakes are budget decisions, "two independent models agree" beats "one model sounds sure."
4. A price you can see today.
Grayn is free while in beta, with $200 in credits to start, and has not yet published prices for its paid plans. Askalytics is built for the small business: the founder, the solo marketer, the lean team, with published plans from $19 to $149 a month. If you're a high-spend DTC brand that wants a Slack-native ads specialist, Grayn earns its price. If you're a small business that wants trustworthy, full-funnel analytics without a four-figure monthly bill, that's the gap we built for. We also compare against Lebesgue and Luca AI.
The Bloom & Measure demo property is loaded by default on every free trial account.
Common Questions
No. Grayn connects ad platforms, GA4, Search Console, Tag Manager and lifecycle tools such as Braze and RevenueCat, with a focus on consumer marketing teams. Askalytics is broader: it joins paid, organic, CRM, and email (GA4, Search Console, Google Ads, and Microsoft Clarity, plus HubSpot and Mailchimp in beta) so you can ask questions that span the whole funnel, not just the ad account. If paid media is genuinely all you care about, Grayn's focus may suit you.
Askalytics works in Slack too. Alerts and key insights push to the channel of your choice. The difference is you're not limited to Slack. You also get a full in-app dashboard and the weekly AI Insights email, so insights reach people and moments that Slack alone doesn't cover. You get the Slack experience without giving up everything else.
Grayn is free while in beta, with $200 in credits to start, and says paid credit-based plans will follow. Askalytics publishes its prices today: $19 to $149 a month, with a 14-day free trial and no card needed.
After the primary AI produces an insight, a second, different AI model independently reviews it and gives its verdict before you see it. Grayn's own site says its AI answers can occasionally be inaccurate or incomplete and asks you to check critical numbers at the source. When you're making budget decisions off an answer, that second, independent check matters.
It can, but we're honest about fit. If you're a high-spend DTC team whose entire workflow is Slack-native ads optimization, Grayn is purpose-built for exactly that and does it well. Askalytics shines when you want trustworthy analytics across the whole funnel, delivered on multiple surfaces, at a small-business price.
Full-Funnel, Verified, Affordable.
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