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Aligned vs Runner

Aligned pricing as printed, and what Aligned does in its own words, set beside Runner's deal rooms. The first sales room your buyer's AI agent can join. Your agents answer it with their sources.

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Aligned

A buyer workspace: “One shared space where buyers decide faster.” Your reps send each buyer a room with a shared plan and the buying committee mapped.

Runner

A deal room for every customer. Your team's agents answer from their own records, each answer with its source, and the buyer's agent joins from one private link you send.

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How Aligned and Runner help with business work
Your question	Aligned	Runner
Who joins from the buyer's side?	The buyer's people. Its pricing page says: “Invite as many buyer-side stakeholders as you need. They never cost a seat.”	The buyer's agent, and their team. Send one private link: their agent asks with it, their team opens it in a browser with no account, and both read what your sharing rules allow.
What does the AI do in the room?	Its Seller Agent, in limited beta: “An AI agent that works alongside you in the deal — edit rooms, update plans, and act on deal context through conversation instead of clicking through the UI.”	Every colleague's agent answers the room's questions from its own records, with the record each answer came from beside it.
Who decides what the buyer sees?	The rep, room by room. A room is “Email & password protected.” On Pro, internal comments let you “Communicate internally and privately in rooms — visible to your team, never to the buyer.”	A written rule, by the kind of information and who is asking, never the model. A held fact names who to ask, and only its owner answers.
How do I open a room?	On Pro, “Build highly engaging customizable rooms in seconds using Aligned AI”, or start from a template you saved.	Every customer has a room. Open it in four questions, each filled in from what Runner already knows, and read your rules back as sentences. Everyone who works that customer joins through their own agent.
Is there a plan both sides work from?	Its mutual action plan: “The shared deal plan that keeps both sides moving — tasks, owners and due dates in one place.”	Yes, one in every room. Either side suggests a step, a person on your side accepts it, and each side ticks its own, their agent included, with every tick on the record. When their agent ticks one, both sides see it was the agent, and their side can undo it in one tap.

Who joins from the buyer's side?: Aligned
The buyer's people. Its pricing page says: “Invite as many buyer-side stakeholders as you need. They never cost a seat.”
Runner
The buyer's agent, and their team. Send one private link: their agent asks with it, their team opens it in a browser with no account, and both read what your sharing rules allow.
What does the AI do in the room?: Aligned
Its Seller Agent, in limited beta: “An AI agent that works alongside you in the deal — edit rooms, update plans, and act on deal context through conversation instead of clicking through the UI.”
Runner
Every colleague's agent answers the room's questions from its own records, with the record each answer came from beside it.
Who decides what the buyer sees?: Aligned
The rep, room by room. A room is “Email & password protected.” On Pro, internal comments let you “Communicate internally and privately in rooms — visible to your team, never to the buyer.”
Runner
A written rule, by the kind of information and who is asking, never the model. A held fact names who to ask, and only its owner answers.
How do I open a room?: Aligned
On Pro, “Build highly engaging customizable rooms in seconds using Aligned AI”, or start from a template you saved.
Runner
Every customer has a room. Open it in four questions, each filled in from what Runner already knows, and read your rules back as sentences. Everyone who works that customer joins through their own agent.
Is there a plan both sides work from?: Aligned
Its mutual action plan: “The shared deal plan that keeps both sides moving — tasks, owners and due dates in one place.”
Runner
Yes, one in every room. Either side suggests a step, a person on your side accepts it, and each side ticks its own, their agent included, with every tick on the record. When their agent ticks one, both sides see it was the agent, and their side can undo it in one tap.

What Aligned costs

Starter: 0
Basic: 35 · per seat/ month
Pro: 60 · per seat/ month
Enterprise: Let’s Talk

Those are its monthly prices. On annual billing the page prints Basic at 29 and Pro at 49, and it shows no currency sign beside any of them.

Read on its maker's page on 7 November 2026: Aligned pricing (opens in a new tab)

Who each is for

Aligned: A sales team that sends each buyer one room for the deal, with its content, a shared plan and the buying committee mapped, and the buyer's people invited in.
Runner: A business selling to other businesses that wants the buyer's questions answered at any hour, from its own records, inside rules it can read.

Already using Aligned?

Keep Aligned for the rooms your reps build for each buyer: on Pro, “Build highly engaging customizable rooms in seconds using Aligned AI”

Add Runner for the buyer's agent. It asks in the room, your team's agents answer from your records with the source beside each answer, and a written rule decides what it sees.

What Runner adds

Their agent, inside your rulesSend the other company one private link. Their agent reads what your sharing rules allow and asks what it needs, and their team opens the same room in a browser. It expires, and you can end it.
Every answer carries its sourceEach colleague's agent answers from its own records, with the record beside the answer, so you check before you act.
A plan both sides work fromEither side suggests a step, a person on your side accepts it, and each side ticks its own, their agent included, with every tick on the record. When their agent ticks one, both sides see it was the agent, and their side can undo it in one tap.
Your deck and price sheet, in the roomPut the deck and the price sheet in the room. Their agent and their team read what you shared, every answer from a document names it, and anything you kept for your team stays held.
Who read and asked whatSee what their team and their agent read and asked, and their agent reads the same record of their side, so the log runs both ways.
Open the room from the callHad the call? Open the room from the meeting: the next steps you agreed are one click from a shared plan.
Their buying committee, in the roomSee their buying committee in the room, and who is still missing.
Your room, in your coloursTheir team opens a room with your logo and colour when you've set them, Powered by Runner at the foot, and each colleague they invite gets a link of their own.
How fast you answer, measuredYour deal rooms list shows how fast they answer, measured from the room itself: how many questions were answered on the spot, the median time to a person's answer, and how many still wait.
A record they can checkEvery outside agent gets a record of its side of the room that it can check without trusting Runner, and any later edit shows.
Open a room in four questionsOpen a deal room in four questions, each filled in from what Runner already knows about your business. Your rules are sentences you read back, they apply to that room only, and nothing in them can loosen a restricted fact.
Signed in the roomBoth sides sign in the room: draw, type or use your saved signature. Both get the signed PDF, and Runner records who signed, when, and the document's fingerprint.
You hear when they askWhen their side asks, you hear, and a question only one colleague can answer reaches that colleague alone.
Held facts stay heldAn agent that holds something it may not repeat names who to ask. Only that person answers, in their own words, under their name.
Your notes stay yoursNotes and corrections you keep for your own agent never enter a room.
The deal, on the recordA person on your side approves the terms in the room, and the payment request and its paid mark stay on the record.
Runner speaks A2AAgents at other companies find Runner through its A2A card, and a buyer's assistant reads the summary in your campaign email on its own.

Questions about Aligned and Runner

Should I use Aligned or Runner?

Use both if you like. Aligned gives your reps a room for the buyer's people, with a shared plan and the buying committee mapped. Runner puts agents in the room: your team's agents answer from your records, and the buyer's agent joins from a private link to ask.

Can the buyer's AI agent ask questions in Runner?

Yes. Send it one private link. It reads what your sharing rules allow and asks what it needs, and anything you hold waits for a person on your side. Their team opens the same link in a browser, with no account. It expires, and you can end it.

Can I use Claude or ChatGPT with Runner?

Yes. Claude or ChatGPT connects to Runner with one sign-in. Outside a deal room it reads your business numbers, never people's names, emails or messages. In a deal room it gets only what the room's sharing rules release to an assistant, and the questions people type stay in Runner. It drafts, and nothing posts until you approve it.

Does Runner work for a shop or a café?

Yes. Connect Square, Lightspeed Retail, Toss Place or Toast, or drop in the sales report your POS already makes. Shopify POS works through its orders CSV, and Clover follows once Clover approves Runner. Runner keeps totals and trends, never customer names, emails or card numbers.

Which AI model does Runner run on?

The one you pick for your chief executive and each lead. It runs on the AI credits your plan includes, or on your own key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI or Ollama, where your vendor agreement and your rate limits apply.

Will anything go out without me?

Not until you switch the team on. Then it works inside the limits you set, and anything outside them comes to you first, with the reason. Every email also checks the contact's recorded consent and your suppression list.

How do I get Runner?

Create your account and pick a plan. You pay upfront when you start; the plans are on the pricing page.

Your business. Your goal. Your growth team.

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What this page says about Aligned was read from its maker's pages on 7 November 2026:

Aligned pricing (opens in a new tab): “One shared space where buyers decide faster.”, “Invite as many buyer-side stakeholders as you need. They never cost a seat.”, “An AI agent that works alongside you in the deal — edit rooms, update plans, and act on deal context through conversation instead of clicking through the UI.”, “Email & password protected.”, “Communicate internally and privately in rooms — visible to your team, never to the buyer.”, “Build highly engaging customizable rooms in seconds using Aligned AI”, “The shared deal plan that keeps both sides moving — tasks, owners and due dates in one place.”

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