Forms and surveys decision
involve.me
A focused replacement that provides embeddable quizzes, formula-based pricing, contact capture, email sequences and basic analytics is realistic for a small team in ~1 week, but reproducing the full product (AI Agent, extensive integrations, templates, payments, polished editor, and vendor SOC2 compliance) is not practical without significant ongoing effort.
Visit website↗Open-source builds that already do this
Every project below is open source and already does this job today. Fork one, self-host it, or take the parts you need — the build prompt further down assumes an empty file, and this is the shortcut past that. Licences differ; check the one on each card before you ship.
What a replacement has to do
- Collect answers via embeddable quiz/calculator → compute score/price via formulas & conditional logic → store contact and submission → send personalized email sequence → view simple analytics
What it still won’t have
- drag-and-drop editor and prebuilt templates
- AI Agent that builds/edits funnels by chat
- 55+ native integrations and one-click connectors
- A/B testing, built-in payments integrations, and polished analytics
- SOC 2® Type II compliance (vendor attestation)
What remains hard
- Compliance and regulation
Big security milestone: involve.me is now SOC 2® Type II compliant
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 1 seat.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a self-hosted embeddable quiz-and-calculator service using Next.js (Node) + Postgres + Tailwind for minimal UI. Core features in scope: (1) a JSON-based quiz schema (steps, questions, answer values, conditional routing), (2) an embeddable JS widget that loads a quiz by ID and posts submissions to the backend, (3) a server-side formula evaluator to compute scores/prices, (4) contact/submission storage in Postgres and a simple contacts API, (5) an email sequencer that triggers templated emails via SendGrid with branching based on answers/score, and (6) a basic analytics endpoint and a small dashboard that shows submissions and funnel drop-off. Out of scope: full drag-and-drop visual editor, AI generation, 3rd-party integrations beyond webhooks, SOC2 compliance, and payment processing. Include robust error handling, input validation, server-side tests (unit for formula evaluator and integration for submission flow), and documentation for embedding and webhook usage.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- An open-source build was found+5
- 6 cited sources+3
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- Hard moats found in the evidence-3
- Evidence score60
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time — so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 6
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productinvolve.me homepage
- official pricingPrice Quote Calculator
- official productProduct Recommendation Quiz
- open sourceheyform/heyform
- open sourcedidi/xiaoju-survey
- official pricinginvolve.me pricing
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
