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Zeely vs Runner

A Zeely review from Zeely's own pages: what it does, Zeely pricing as printed, and how it compares with Runner. Runner gives growth a whole team: it finds the leads, sends each one your introduction, and drafts the posts and ads.

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Zeely

An AI ad maker: its home page reads “Create, launch and scale winning ads with AI”. It works from a product, store or landing-page link, launches on Meta, and also sells an AI CMO and an AI Employee.

Runner

An AI team built around your business. Channel leads draft the work; leadership keeps it tied to the goal you set.

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How Zeely and Runner help with business work
Your question	Zeely	Runner
How do I start?	“Paste any link — product page, e-commerce store, or landing page”, or import from Shopify.	Give it your website or product catalogue link, and Runner builds your Growth DNA: what you sell and who it's for. Your code or your point-of-sale sales report adds more. Connect a model, and Runner proposes the team.
What does it make?	Avatar videos, Reels, Stories, static ads and scripts. Batch Mode makes “up to 20 video or static ads per product”.	Posts, emails, pictures, video clips, presenter videos and ads. A presenter speaks your script to camera, marked as AI. The team picks the model for each picture or video clip, and on channels that take both, which one to make. It tries each option first, then goes by what earlier pieces earned on that channel.
Where do ads run?	Meta, from your own ad account or a “Zeely-managed Meta advertising account”. Its terms let it “charge a commission fee from the users' advertising budget”, and its pricing FAQ puts the charge at “up to 12%”.	Your own ad accounts on Google, Meta, LinkedIn, Reddit, TikTok and AppLovin, once each network has approved Runner. Each change shows its before and after and what it does to spend, and applies only once it's approved or when it fits inside a budget you approved.
Who sets the ad budget?	Its AI CMO page says “Let AI set budgets and optimize spend”.	You set the total. The team proposes each channel's share from results, and you approve it. Then it paces spend inside that budget and asks before the total goes up.
How do posts go out?	Its help article on social posting covers Instagram and TikTok and ends with “Publish your post”. Its warm-up guide advises against uploading “a large batch at once”.	Inside daily limits that start at zero, or a weekly allowance you save for one kind of post or email. Once a lead's last 10 drafts all go out as written, you can let it run on its own inside the limits you set, and an edit or a rejection puts it back to asking. Switching the team on or raising a limit asks you to confirm it's you.
What does an approval cover?	Its AI Employee page calls it “completely hands-free”, with you “in full control of approvals and edits”.	Each Instagram draft is saved as a version, and its checks run on every save and again before it's scheduled. An approval covers that one version: change a word and it needs approving again, by you or by an agent you've allowed to schedule. Scheduled posts go out on your own Instagram account once Meta approves Runner.
Does it find leads?	Its Lead Generation page sells video ads with a call to action.	Yes. Runner finds companies that fit and the people there, and sends each one your introduction with a line on why their company fits. An owner or admin approves the batch in one press, and every send checks your suppression list again. Named people are found only at US companies.

How do I start?: Zeely
“Paste any link — product page, e-commerce store, or landing page”, or import from Shopify.
Runner
Give it your website or product catalogue link, and Runner builds your Growth DNA: what you sell and who it's for. Your code or your point-of-sale sales report adds more. Connect a model, and Runner proposes the team.
What does it make?: Zeely
Avatar videos, Reels, Stories, static ads and scripts. Batch Mode makes “up to 20 video or static ads per product”.
Runner
Posts, emails, pictures, video clips, presenter videos and ads. A presenter speaks your script to camera, marked as AI. The team picks the model for each picture or video clip, and on channels that take both, which one to make. It tries each option first, then goes by what earlier pieces earned on that channel.
Where do ads run?: Zeely
Meta, from your own ad account or a “Zeely-managed Meta advertising account”. Its terms let it “charge a commission fee from the users' advertising budget”, and its pricing FAQ puts the charge at “up to 12%”.
Runner
Your own ad accounts on Google, Meta, LinkedIn, Reddit, TikTok and AppLovin, once each network has approved Runner. Each change shows its before and after and what it does to spend, and applies only once it's approved or when it fits inside a budget you approved.
Who sets the ad budget?: Zeely
Its AI CMO page says “Let AI set budgets and optimize spend”.
Runner
You set the total. The team proposes each channel's share from results, and you approve it. Then it paces spend inside that budget and asks before the total goes up.
How do posts go out?: Zeely
Its help article on social posting covers Instagram and TikTok and ends with “Publish your post”. Its warm-up guide advises against uploading “a large batch at once”.
Runner
Inside daily limits that start at zero, or a weekly allowance you save for one kind of post or email. Once a lead's last 10 drafts all go out as written, you can let it run on its own inside the limits you set, and an edit or a rejection puts it back to asking. Switching the team on or raising a limit asks you to confirm it's you.
What does an approval cover?: Zeely
Its AI Employee page calls it “completely hands-free”, with you “in full control of approvals and edits”.
Runner
Each Instagram draft is saved as a version, and its checks run on every save and again before it's scheduled. An approval covers that one version: change a word and it needs approving again, by you or by an agent you've allowed to schedule. Scheduled posts go out on your own Instagram account once Meta approves Runner.
Does it find leads?: Zeely
Its Lead Generation page sells video ads with a call to action.
Runner
Yes. Runner finds companies that fit and the people there, and sends each one your introduction with a line on why their company fits. An owner or admin approves the batch in one press, and every send checks your suppression list again. Named people are found only at US companies.

What Zeely costs

Starter: $29.95 per month
Growth: $79.95 per month
Plus: $49.95 per month

Its FAQ also gives plans “starting at $19.99 per month”.

Read on its maker's page on 19 October 2026: Zeely pricing (opens in a new tab)

Who each is for

Zeely: A shop that wants video and static ads made from its product pages, launched on Meta.
Runner: A business that wants a whole team on growth: a scout finds leads, channel leads draft the outreach, and leadership scores the work against the goal you set, on the model you pick.

Already using Zeely?

Keep Zeely on quick Meta ads from a product link. Add Runner for growth.

Zeely turns a link into ads fast and makes them in batches. Runner adds a team that finds the leads, sends each one your introduction and keeps score against the number you set.

What Runner adds

Their own phone numberGive the team members that need one a phone number you already hold on your Twilio account.
Marked as AI-madeYou see which model makes each picture or clip. Every picture a model draws carries a machine-readable mark naming that model. Once Meta approves Runner, an Instagram post made with one asks for Instagram's AI info label.
Your rules, keptWrite a Never show rule, and the team keeps it out of every brief and checks each picture it draws before keeping it. A post can say what sold from your own sales record: item names and counts, never money and never a customer.
A record of the workEvery picture and clip the team chooses records why, and the team's scheduled jobs leave a line on its board saying what they did, quiet runs included.
Your model, paid your wayPick the model your chief executive and each lead run on. It runs on the AI credits your plan includes, or on your own key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI or Ollama.

Questions about Zeely and Runner

Should I use Zeely or Runner?

Use both if you like. Zeely makes ads from a link and launches them on Meta. Runner gives growth a whole team: leads, introductions, posts and ads, working toward a goal you set.

What changes if I switch from Zeely?

You keep your own ad accounts, and a change applies only once it's approved or when it fits inside a budget you approved. The team also finds leads, sends each one your introduction and drafts your posts, inside the limits you set.

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.

Build my teamYou pay upfront when you start.

What this page says about Zeely was read from its maker's pages on 19 October 2026:

Zeely's home page (opens in a new tab): “Create, launch and scale winning ads with AI”
URL to video ad maker (opens in a new tab): “Paste any link — product page, e-commerce store, or landing page”, “up to 20 video or static ads per product”
Help: launching an ad campaign (opens in a new tab): “Zeely-managed Meta advertising account”
Terms of service (opens in a new tab): “charge a commission fee from the users' advertising budget”
Pricing (opens in a new tab): “up to 12%”
AI CMO (opens in a new tab): “Let AI set budgets and optimize spend”
Help: what is social posting (opens in a new tab): “Publish your post”
Help: warming up an Instagram or TikTok account (opens in a new tab): “a large batch at once”
AI Employee (opens in a new tab): “completely hands-free”, “in full control of approvals and edits”
Lead Generation (opens in a new tab)

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