A tool your team works in, or a system that does the work?
Motion is a real product with real traction. It helps your team organize the work. Here is the five second version, then the receipts.
Motion
An AI productivity suite your team works in: projects, tasks, calendar, meetings and docs, per seat plus credits.
Caddy ACE
A fractional AI Chief Executive who builds digital labor around one business, yours, in accounts you own, and hands you the keys in 90 days.
Rent features to organize the work. Own the system that does the work. Those are different purchases with different ceilings.
How do Caddy ACE and Motion compare?
Eight rows, no fine print. The green column is the one you keep.
| Motion | Caddy ACEYou keep this | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | An AI suite every customer gets: projects, tasks, calendar, meetings, docs | Digital labor built around one business: yours |
| Who builds it | Your team sets it up and works in it | We do: find the highest-value work, build it, stress-test itThen we train your team to run it |
| Where it works | Inside Motion | Across your documents, spreadsheets, records, reporting and operations |
| The AI underneath | Metered by seat and by credit, with published overage rates | Your own enterprise AI plan, at the admin level |
| Your data | Through Motion's platform | Deployed in accounts you own |
| Cost shape | Per-seat plans plus credits; overage billed per 100 credits | One scoped project, the number known up front |
| Stop paying | The AI features and their output stop | The system stays. Your accounts, your keys |
| Accountability | A software subscription | A weekly written report, and a value scorecard in dollars at day 90 |
Motion product and pricing facts from usemotion.com and usemotion.com/pricing, rechecked September 2026, and public coverage of its 2026 pricing changes.
What do seats plus credits cost over time?
Per seat pricing grows with your team, credits grow with your usage, and both meters run at once. Ownership does not care about either.
Renting: seats plus credits
Public coverage of their 2026 pricing changes reads exactly how you would expectOwning: a 90-day build
One scoped project up front, then your own AI plan. We add no meterIllustrative shapes, not pricing. Each panel is drawn on its own scale.
Which one should your team pick?
We will be straight with you. Sometimes the bundled feature is the sensible buy.
Choose Motion if…
- Your team already lives in MotionAdoption is the hardest part, and its AI arrives inside a tool your people already open.
- Projects and scheduling are the whole needBuying AI as part of the tool you already pay for is sensible.
- You want to try AI for the price of a seatLow commitment. Just read the credit and overage terms before you scale it.
Choose Caddy ACE if…
- The work spans more than projectsQuoting, collections, follow up, reporting, operations. The whole building.
- Nobody has time to drive AIYou don't have to figure it out. We find the work, build it and train your people.
- Seats and credits should not stackOne scoped project, the number known up front. No meter from us.
- The system should outlive the subscriptionCancel a subscription and its AI stops. What ACE builds stays in accounts you own.
An AI suite helps your team work faster. ACE takes work off your team's plate.
Caddy vs Motion, asked and answered.
We already use Motion. Isn't its AI enough?
If projects, tasks and scheduling are the whole ambition, maybe so, and it is the easy path. If the ambition is taking work off your team's plate, a productivity tool is the wrong foundation: it helps people do the work, and digital labor does the work.
Does ACE replace our project management tool?
No. Keep the tools that work, Motion included. ACE builds digital labor that runs across them: documents, reporting, customer follow up, operations. It is not another place to move tasks.
What does ACE cost compared to Motion?
Motion bills per seat plus usage credits with published overage rates. ACE is one scoped project, priced to what discovery finds and put in a written proposal before you commit, and afterward the system runs on your own AI plan with no seats or credits from us.