Looking for Octane AI alternatives? Read this

OctaneAI is a great team, product, and educator. 

There are many things that we admire about how Octane is leading the charge in helping ecommerce brands capture customer data. 

What’s the difference between OctaneAI and Prehook?

It comes down to our approach — we are a small, nimble, and bootstrapped team. And we are solely focused on creating quizzes for your Shopify store.

By contrast, OctaneAI is a product that offers SMS messenger, Facebook messenger, Quiz and Pop Up features. This makes for a product with broader capabilities, but also that the product is less focused and the quiz feature is an entry point to sell merchants on other features that can create revenue.

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Here’s how Prehook is different than OctaneAI:

  • Easier (and Faster) to Learn: Prehook was built with your needs as a merchant in mind. This means no coding or design skills needed, a simple and intuitive user interface, and an elegant way to add logic in your quiz. This means that you can build your quiz faster; which means you can iterate more; and ultimately get better results (read: sales). Prehook is completely self-serve, but we have your back if you run into any issues. 
  • Better ROI: One caveat here: we are NOT competing on price. However, Prehook provides more bang for your buck, or a better ROI. How? Well, you get more product features, for less money. And the small but important note: with Octane AI, you are likely to need a managed service, which can quickly boost it up into the enterprise software range). With Prehook, our price is our price. No hidden fees, managed service fees, or anything other than what you’ll see on our pricing table. 
  • Singular Focus on Your Quiz: We started Prehook with one focus: help merchants build an amazing quiz. We have not veered from the vision, and don’t plan to. Octane has a suite of tools — SMS messenger, Facebook Messenger, and Quiz. This is an advantage in that is a unified platfomr. However, if you don’t use those tools, you are paying a higher price (see above, re: ROI)
  • More Usable Data: the main reason that you are using a quiz is to build a relationship with your customers: ask questions, capture contact info, and serve their needs with the appropriate product recommendations. 

This all relies on gathering customer data, and using it effectively. 


Here’s the thing though: the data that you get from Prehook is more robust and cleaner than what you get with Octane. 

Here’s what we mean by that: Octane sends Custom Properties. Prehook sends data as Custom Properties, AND Event Variables. This means that you it is far easier to build personalized Klaviyo flows, add dynamic blocks in your emails, and create customer segments. 

Here’s the good news though: 

Both Prehook and OctaneAI can help you personalize your shopping experience. 

This means that both products have key features like: 

Personalized Product Recommendations – at the end of the quiz, recommend a product based on the customers quiz responses. And add directly to cart to simplify the shopping experience. 

Conditional logic – Ensure that the whole quiz experience is relevant. Use IF/THEN logic to personalize the quiz. 

Integrate with your Tech Stack – Prehook integrates with Klaviyo, Omnisend, Postscript and Attentive. This means that all of the data that you gather in your quizzes can enrich your email and SMS campaigns to improve personalization and relevance.