Comparison

AcquiredWebflow acquired Intellimize in April 2024 and now sells the product as Webflow Optimize.2

Farcasts vs Webflow Optimize

Webflow Optimize asks your team to build each variation, choose the images, check it and read the results. Farcasts' agents build the variations, choose the images and read the results. You approve the draft.

Webflow Optimize and Farcasts both write page variations and send more visitors to the stronger one. Webflow Optimize's team builds, checks and reads each test. Farcasts' agents build, check and read the test on their own, and you approve the draft.
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Farcasts' agents build the variation your team builds now

Webflow Optimize asks your team to build each variation, pick or upload the images, check it and read the results. Farcasts' agents build, illustrate and check every variation, and you approve the draft.

Farcasts learns on far less traffic

Webflow's own guidance recommends starting with high traffic pages. Farcasts sends more visitors to the stronger variation as results arrive, so it learns on pages with far fewer visitors.

Farcasts also writes the ads

Webflow Optimize uses Google Ads data to target a page variation. Farcasts writes the ad on Meta and Google, then writes the page to match that ad.

Most tools in this market work on the ad or on the page. Farcasts does both, and never touches your code.

Agents that write the ads

Creative Studio drafts image and video ad concepts in your brand voice, and the agents criticise each other's drafts until one is worth showing you.

What the ad did after the click

Farcasts reads your Meta and Google ad accounts without changing anything, and reports what each audience did after the click.

Nobody opens your codebase

Farcasts' agents design new layouts, user journeys and whole pages, and put every one live on your domain. Your engineers never see a ticket for any of it.

Every answer about Webflow Optimize below comes from their own published material.

Farcasts compared with Webflow Optimize, dimension by dimension
DimensionWebflow OptimizeFarcasts
Who does the work per experimentWebflow OptimizeYour team keeps the roadmap, sets the goals and audiences, builds and checks each variation, and reads the results.3FarcastsFarcasts' agents take the test from proposal to finished draft and review each other's work. The only human time is your approval.
Variant generationWebflow OptimizeAI suggests headlines from the page content and brand voice. A person picks or uploads every image.6FarcastsFarcasts' agents write copy, imagery, layouts, whole page designs and new pages, every edit on brand, with nobody uploading images.
Traffic needed to learnWebflow OptimizeWebflow recommends starting with high traffic pages.3FarcastsFarcasts is built for websites that never get enough visitors for a classic A/B test.
After a winnerWebflow OptimizeYour team publishes the winner of a traditional test. AI Optimize keeps changing the allocation and declares no winner.13FarcastsFarcasts' agents keep the winner, retire the weak variants, and draft the next test from visitor behaviour. You approve that draft.
First paintWebflow OptimizeWebflow Optimize's client script hides the selected elements, then reveals them once the variation is ready.10FarcastsFarcasts serves the chosen variant at first paint, so a visitor never sees elements hidden and revealed.
Ad to page message matchWebflow OptimizeGoogle Ads data can target a page variation by campaign, ad group, keyword and other ad attributes.11FarcastsFarcasts proposes the ad strategy, writes the ad, then writes the page for the ad a visitor actually clicked.

Who does the work

Farcasts' agents build the variation, you approve it

Webflow's Optimize checklist asks your team to keep the roadmap, choose the goals and audiences, build each variation, check it, read the results, stop the finished tests and clone the winners. Farcasts' agents pick the test, build every variation, and criticise each other's drafts, so the draft that reaches you is the strongest version, not the first attempt. You approve, and that is your whole job.3

Who makes the creative

Farcasts' agents write the whole variation

Webflow Optimize can suggest headlines from your page content and brand voice, and Webflow's paid traffic tutorial asks a person to choose or upload each image. Farcasts' agents write the copy, the imagery, the styling and the layout of each variation together, every piece on brand. Your team reads one finished draft instead of collecting the pieces a variation needs.6

First paint

Nothing on your page is hidden and revealed

Webflow Optimize hides the selected elements until its client script has prepared the variation, then reveals the changed content. Webflow's help centre describes that hiding as its way of avoiding flicker. Farcasts serves the chosen variation at first paint, so a visitor sees the finished page with nothing hidden and nothing revealed late.10

Farcasts and Webflow Optimize both do the things below.

Webflow Optimize sends more visitors to stronger variations while an AI optimisation runs. Farcasts moves traffic toward the better variant too.4

Webflow Optimize keeps a holdout in its AI optimisations. Farcasts measures against a fixed holdout too.4

Webflow Optimize runs on sites outside Webflow through a JavaScript snippet. Farcasts runs on any website through one tag.1

What changes when you run Farcasts.

Questions people ask.

Webflow Optimize asks your team to keep the roadmap, set the goals and audiences, build and check each variation, and read the results. Farcasts' agents build the whole test, review each other's drafts, and show you one finished draft. You approve it. Farcasts also proposes the ad strategy and writes the ad creative, then writes the page to match the ad.

Yes. Webflow Optimize suggests headlines from your page content, sends more visitors to stronger variations, and personalises among the variations your team prepared. Farcasts' agents write the copy, imagery, styling and layout themselves, build the test, and show your team one finished draft to approve.

Webflow recommends starting with high traffic pages. Farcasts is built for pages well below that, and sends more visitors to the stronger variation as results arrive instead of holding an even split until a fixed sample is reached.

Webflow Optimize hides the selected elements until its client side changes are ready, then reveals the variation, and Webflow's help centre describes that as its anti flicker method. Farcasts serves the chosen variation at first paint, so nothing on your page is hidden.

Webflow publishes no price for Optimize. The optional Team add on and the custom Enterprise item are quoted by their sales team. Farcasts prices each site case by case, and your first step is a four week pilot on a fixed scope.

Try it on your own site.

The pilot runs four weeks on a fixed scope. Farcasts sets everything up, the agents propose the work, and you approve it. A holdout runs from the first day, so you can see what the four weeks were worth.
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