Capture is a different problem from reactivation.
A search site’s job is to turn a visitor into a lead. That is upstream of everything Lewis does: by the time Lewis is involved, the capture happened two years ago and nobody has spoken to them since.
Two ends of the same funnel
A website platform earns its keep at the top: fast IDX search, listing alerts, a form somebody fills in. Whether that lead is worth anything depends entirely on what happens next, and “what happens next” for most portal and site leads is a sequence and then silence.
Lewis is the silence end. It works the contacts a site captured and nobody followed through on.
Side by side
One row per thing an agent actually asks about.
| Lewis | A website-and-CRM platform | |
|---|---|---|
| IDX search site and lead capture | No | Yes, the core of it |
| Listing alerts | No | Yes |
| Works a two-year-old captured lead over text | Yes | Via sequences |
| First message quotes your own note about them | Yes | Merge fields and behaviour |
| Every message held for your approval | Yes, by default | Read the vendor’s own documentation |
| Refuses to assert a property fact | Yes, mechanically: there is no MLS behind Lewis | It has real MLS data, so this is not its problem |
| Setup | Import a CSV | A site build |
Everything below about Lewis is checkable in this product. Everything about the other side is a description of the CATEGORY it belongs to, not a claim about its internals. For anything specific, and for current pricing, read their own documentation. If something here is out of date or unfair, tell us and it gets fixed.
The one place this comparison is genuinely interesting
A site platform has real MLS data. Lewis does not, and it is built to refuse rather than approximate: no square footage, no price, no availability, no travel time it cannot source from a routed provider.
That looks like a straightforward disadvantage and mostly it is. It is also why a message from Lewis cannot contain a confident wrong number about a home, and a system that has the data still has to decide what to do when the data is stale, which is a harder problem than it sounds and is not one this product has to have an answer to.
The honest summary: if a lead needs listing data, they should be on your site or on the phone with you. Lewis’s job is to find out whether they want to be.
Where the handover goes
Lewis stops the moment somebody asks to see a place. That is a deterministic rule, not a threshold: no amount of “we should qualify them further” can swallow the single clearest signal in the business.
Using both
Naturally. The site captures and alerts; Lewis works the captures that went cold. It reads an export, writes nothing back, and needs nothing from the site.
Other comparisons
- Lewis vs a CRM dripThe same sentence to four hundred people, versus the thing that person told you.
- Lewis vs an ISA deskWhat you are buying when you buy hours instead of software.
- Lewis vs doing it yourselfThe honest version: you are better at this than Lewis. You are not going to do it.
- Lewis vs StructurelyTwo conversational-AI products, and where the approval model differs.
- Lewis vs YlopoA full marketing stack, next to one job done carefully.
- Lewis vs Follow Up BossA CRM is where the leads live. Lewis is what works them.