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A Brilliant Assessments and agolix® Comparison
Choosing between assessment software often comes down to balancing features, simplicity, and budget. Brilliant Assessments offers deep customization, while agolix® provides affordable options for coaches and small businesses. But if you find yourself somewhere between these flagpoles, this comparison article might help.
This article won't list every feature Brilliant Assessments has over agolix®. We’ll tell you upfront that Brilliant Assessments offers more extensive features and customization options, which is ideal for those with complex assessment needs. However, for those seeking a straightforward and budget-friendly solution, agolix® might be the better fit. Let’s compare where the two platforms overlap and when each fits best.
Comparing features
Let’s start by looking at where Brilliant Assessments and agolix® go head-to-head.
Building the Assessment
Both agolix® and Brilliant Assessments help users build and deliver assessments effectively. But let’s start with how they differ in the first stage of the assessment building lifecycle: planning, designing, and creating the assessment.
agolix® offers AI-driven prompts and ready-made templates, especially helpful for users new to assessments or those who want to launch quickly. There are also professional services bundles, which means you can work with a member of their team to check your assessment and give you some pointers. These come at an added cost, but the services are reasonably priced.
Brilliant Assessments doesn’t offer AI prompts, but it’s ideal for users with a clear vision for their assessment structure. Where Brilliant Assessments may fall short in teaching beginners how to build an assessment, we make up for it through flexibility, customization and a very helpful, highly praised customer success team that are always there to help.
Distributing your Assessment
So, you’ve built your assessment. Now, how do you get it into the inboxes of your respondents?
This one might be a sticking point in your procurement. If you want to send automated emails or invitations to your assessment via agolix®, you must do so through a third-party API. If you don’t currently have an email marketing tool, this means you’ll have to find one—or you’ll have to plug your email into Zapier, but this might be limiting design and formatting-wise.
Brilliant Assessments has a native, inbuilt email management tool. This sends and proactively updates respondent records. Template emails are also available for the most common use cases – such as assessment invitations, completion emails, mid-assessment/assessment started emails, and reminders.
If you want to charge for your assessments, Brilliant Assessments comes with a native plug-in to Stripe, whereas agolix®, like with email, will need a third-party payment provider set up. This isn’t hard, but it is an extra step.
That said, if you prefer using a third-party provider, Brilliant Assessments, like agolix®, also supports Zapier integration.
Delivering Personalized Feedback
agolix® and Brilliant Assessments both offer PDF feedback reports. We also both use merge codes to personalize reports, but the big difference here is the flexibility allowed within this technology.
agolix® is limited to basic, predefined merge codes, while Brilliant Assessments has a complete Results Wizard that enables you to create merge strings based on any element, score, rating, or calculation in the assessment. So, you can get pretty granular with the personalization. We also bring this experience to live results pages, cohort reports, and iteration reporting (e.g., before-and-after reports).
Where Brilliant is Best
Now that we’ve examined both platforms in terms of building, distributing, and delivering feedback, let’s look at when each is the best fit.
Enterprise-Level Security and Compliance
Brilliant Assessments is SOC II compliant, and we value ensuring our solution is airtight on security. After all, some assessments contain very personal and sensitive information about respondents. To this end, Brilliant Assessments is a more suitable option for businesses in industries with security and privacy requirements. If data protection is non-negotiable, we can offer peace of mind.
Comprehensive Feedback
While agolix® does offer custom reporting at an extra cost, Brilliant Assessments provides more flexible reporting options out of the box, including segmentations, advanced scoring, and multi-language support. If you need to generate aggregate reports or 360-degree feedback reports without the limitations of agolix®, Brilliant Assessments is a clear choice.
Self Serve Customization
While there is a learning curve with Brilliant Assessments, there is a lot of support available from our team if you need it, as well as thorough documentation to walk you through every aspect of the software. The benefit is that you can modify your assessment at any point as your assessment demands and dreams evolve. If you do want a full build of your assessment, we have professional services for this, but generally our customers like to roll up their sleeves and make it truly their own.
Complete Whitelabelling
Brilliant Assessments allows complete branding flexibility, from the logo on your reports to the builder and URL. If you're only focused on logo placement, agolix® offers this with its premium subscription. It depends on how far you want to take the branding.
Where Agolix is a Fit
agolix® isn’t trying to be the most feature-packed assessment tool on the market, and that’s okay. For users who fit within its target audience—coaches and small businesses—agolix® has some perks.
Low Price
agolix® offers affordable pricing tiers starting at $29/month, making it a great solution for a tighter budget. While many coaches and small businesses use Brilliant Assessments for its flexibility and advanced features, we understand why Agolix’s affordability makes it appealing. We also offer a start-up discount to make our platform more accessible to small teams.
Ready-made Templates
If you don’t have the time or expertise to develop custom assessments from scratch, agolix® offers niche-based packages that are ready to go for Life and Wellness, Business, and Executive Coaching.
AI-driven prompts can also simplify the assessment creation process, making it faster for users to generate assessments without much customization. However, custom reports can’t be easily changed after it has been created.
Brilliant Assessments allows for much more detailed customization when it comes to styling, results, and feedback reports. We also offer sample reports to get you started, but it’s not quite as plug-and-play as a readymade template. If your business requires the ability to produce fully white-labeled assessments with detailed scoring, various combinations of results, and multi-level feedback without requiring custom development or added services, Brilliant Assessments is better suited for the job.
Let’s Talk
agolix® and Brilliant Assessments are valuable tools, but their strengths cater to different audiences and assessment demands. If you’d like to chat with us about your assessment ambitions or see the features of Brilliant Assessments in more detail, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We’re happy to help point you in the best direction for your needs. You can also watch a demo here or try an assessment now to see the respondent’s experience in action.