All of Alpine IQ's power.None of the ticket queue.
AIQ gives you a great platform and a full-time admin job. Sticky matches the feature set, runs on a UI you can actually use, and undercuts the contract by up to 60%.
Sticky3 stepsWhere AIQ wins. Where it doesn't.
AIQ has built a serious platform. Below is what we've heard from 19 marketing teams we've moved over in 2025, what they kept, what they wouldn't go back to.
- Customer data platform depth
Persona CRM unifies offline + online identities better than most. Profile enrichment is a real differentiator if you stay long enough to wire it up.
- Channel breadth
SMS, email, push, voice, direct mail, in-app, Loops in-retailer ads. Probably the widest channel surface in the regulated-industries space.
- Enterprise-grade controls
Granular roles, audit trails, SOC2 posture, multi-brand parent/child accounts. If you're a 50+ store MSO, this matters.
- UI is a maze
Audiences, Experiences, Flows, Personas, Loyalty, Marketplace, each is its own module with its own logic. Power users love it. Marketing managers hate it.
- À la carte module pricing balloons
Audiences priced separately. Loyalty separately. Reviews separately. Persona CRM separately. By the time you've turned everything on, you're at $2,500+/mo.
- Onboarding takes 45–90 days
Implementation specialists, data-mapping calls, persona setup, audience scaffolding. You won't send a real campaign for 6 weeks.
- Support is ticket-and-wait
Even at enterprise tier, first-response SLAs hover around 24 hours. CSMs rotate, knowledge gets lost.
- AI features feel bolted on
AI Sales Agent, predictive scores, AI copy, each is a separate flow grafted onto the existing modules. The seams show. Sticky was rebuilt with AI woven into the editor itself.
Every Alpine IQ feature, reimagined cleaner.
The three reasons operators leave Alpine IQ.
The UI is deep but the learning curve is brutal. Marketing managers need months of AIQ-specific training. On Sticky, your team ships day 3.
AIQ's modules are priced à la carte, audiences, loyalty, experiences. Add it up and most operators hit $2,500+ per month.
Ticket queues and 24-hour SLAs. Sticky CSMs answer fast: 8-minute average first response, not a promise, a median.
Every AIQ module, mapped to Sticky.
AIQ ships nine separate modules. Sticky compresses them into one product. Here's where each piece lives after you switch.
Unified profiles across offline + online + loyalty + POS. We import every AIQ identity merge and rebuild the resolution rules.
18 prebuilt segments that auto-refresh. AI suggests new ones from your POS patterns. No rule-builder PhD required.
Visual canvas. Triggers, waits, branches, exits, all on one screen. Includes 28 prebuilt journey templates.
Tiers, points, gamified rewards, plus native Apple/Google Wallet passes. We unify AIQ's primary + extended loyalty ledgers on import.
SMS, MMS, email, push, in-app, all under one composer. Direct mail and voice via partner integration; we won't pretend we built them.
Post-purchase review requests with response routing to Google, Weedmaps, Yelp. Built as a Play, not a separate module.
Promo graphics and clip videos targeted by audience. Push to your in-store screens or your menu boards via tablet integration.
Not a bolted-on chat widget, AI lives inside the editor, generating copy, suggesting segments, scoring sends, and recommending next plays.
SKU-level revenue per send. Predictive CLV. Send-time learning. All in one dashboard, not three separate report builders.
AIQ is nine products with a shared login.
Persona CRM lives in one place. Audiences in another. Experiences route to Flows. Loyalty has its own dashboard. Reviews has a third. Loops a fourth. Reporting reports per module, not per customer. You spend more time piecing context together than running campaigns.
Sticky is one product. One customer record. One canvas. One report that already ties it all together.
AIQ pricing, item by item.
These are the line items we've seen across 19 contracts we audited in 2025. Pricing varies by negotiation; the structure does not.
Persona CRMRequired for everything else$700/mo base
LoyaltySeparate module fee$400/mo
Experiences + FlowsAutomation engine$300/mo
Reviews + surveysReputation management module$200/mo
Loops (in-retailer ads)In-store display network$250/mo + media
AI Sales AgentNewest add-on, premium tier$500/mo
We know where the bodies are buried.
AIQ migrations have their own gotchas. Our migration team has moved 19 operators off, we know what breaks, what to preserve, and what to throw out.
We pull every member record from AIQ's Persona CRM, including the hidden “unified profile” merges, and reconcile them against our customer graph.
AIQ's loyalty runs off two ledgers (primary + extended). We unify them, preserve tier status, and map redemption rules to Sticky's loyalty engine.
Every AIQ Experience becomes a Sticky Play. We keep triggers, timing, and suppression lists intact. No in-flight customers dropped mid-journey.
If you've built journeys on top of AIQ's newer Flows engine, we map the conditional logic into Sticky's Play canvas, preserving every branch.
We verify every member's consent trail and preserve the original opt-in source. Your compliance posture at or above AIQ on day one.
If you ran Loops in-store, we port the targeting rules and creative library into Sticky In-Store Plays. Your menu boards keep playing through cutover.
Every POS you connected to AIQ, we connect to too.
“We were paying AIQ $3,200 a month and still had a marketing manager spending half her week in their UI. On Sticky, she ships a campaign in the time it used to take to build the audience. The contract is down 58%.”
We built Sticky because AIQ is an enterprise toolkit pretending to be a marketing app.
AIQ's depth comes from breadth, every module added to the suite. Sticky's depth comes from compression, every concept rebuilt under one mental model. You pay for results, not for the privilege of joining nine UIs together.
Customers, plays, wallet, analytics, all share one record, one event stream, one billing line. Configuration in one place.
Loyalty, plays, attribution, in-store, reviews, all in the same plan. You'll never get a "want to enable that?" email mid-quarter.
Annual plans get a discount, but they're never required. No auto-renewal traps. Leave when you want; we'd rather earn the renewal.
Common questions about switching.
Will I lose the depth AIQ gave me?
No. We map every AIQ capability to a Sticky equivalent before signing. Persona CRM → Customer Graph. Audiences → Smart Segments. Experiences → Plays. Loyalty → Wallet. We share the parity doc, you decide.
How do you handle the AIQ loyalty ledger?
AIQ runs primary and extended loyalty ledgers separately. We pull both, reconcile them, and import a unified balance per member. You'll see a before/after report and approve it before we cut over. Zero point loss across all 19 migrations to date.
What about Flows? I just built those.
Every Flow becomes a Play in Sticky's Play Designer. We preserve triggers, waits, branches, and exit conditions. Members in-flight at cutover keep moving without restart. You won't notice the seam.
Can I keep my AIQ-built mobile app?
If you want, yes. We can keep the app shell live and push notifications through Sticky. Most operators retire the app, the native Apple/Google Wallet pass has 4-5x the adoption and zero app-store overhead. We'll guide your member-base announcement either way.
My AIQ contract auto-renews soon. What do I do?
Tell us your renewal date. We send you the cancellation-notice template, walk you through delivering it, and time the Sticky go-live for the day after AIQ ends. We've coordinated 19 of these handoffs without overlap-billing the operator.
Is AIQ's AI Sales Agent something I should keep?
If it's been live for 60+ days and is producing real revenue, we hand-port the agent training corpus into Sticky's AI plays. If it's been live less than 30 days, we usually recommend starting fresh on Sticky, the AI tooling is deeper there because it was built native, not grafted on.
What if it goes badly? Can I go back?
Your first 60 days on Sticky are money-back guaranteed. We keep a full parallel snapshot of your AIQ state for 90 days post-migration. Reverting is one support ticket. Nobody has done it; the option is there.
Send us your AIQ contract.We'll match it. Cleaner.
Your CSM will take a look, map every module to Sticky, and come back with a contract that's at least 40% lighter. If we can't, we'll tell you.