RuleDox vs Wethos: Which Do You Need?

• Wethos is a scope-to-invoice platform for freelancers and small agencies, built around crowdsourced pricing data and pre-built templates. It handles scoping, proposals, e-signatures, and invoicing in one tool.
• RuleDox is a rules-based scope assembly tool that works inside Google Docs. It calculates hours, pricing, and conditional sections from defined rules — so scopes assemble consistently from inputs.
• Choose Wethos if you're a freelancer or small agency that needs a single tool for scoping, proposals, and getting paid — and you want market-rate pricing benchmarks from other freelancers.
• Choose RuleDox if your bottleneck is consistency and delegation — assembling scopes that don't drift between team members, encoding hours and pricing logic so anyone can scope accurately.
• They solve overlapping but different problems. Wethos is broader; RuleDox is deeper on scope assembly.

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Wethos is a scope-of-work and invoicing platform primarily designed for freelancers and small agencies. Its core differentiator is crowdsourced pricing data — recommended project rates based on what other freelancers and agencies charge for similar work.

Wethos core features:

• Pre-built scope of work templates by project type (Shopify, web design, SEO, social media, etc.)
• Crowdsourced pricing recommendations from 100,000+ freelancers
• Scope-to-proposal conversion with e-signatures
• Invoicing and payment collection
• Team/collaborator features for small agencies

Best for: Freelancers and solo operators who want to move from "what should I charge?" to a sent proposal quickly — with a baseline template and community-sourced pricing to start from.

Where Wethos has limits:

• Templates are starting points, not rules-based. You manually adjust every project.
• Pricing is crowdsourced averages — useful as a benchmark but not your specific rates and logic.
• No conditional logic (if B2B is in scope, include this section; otherwise exclude it).
• Scopes live in Wethos, not in Google Docs where most agencies already work.

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RuleDox is a rules-based scope assembly tool focused on what happens when agencies have repeatable services — and need scopes to be consistent, delegable, and accurate without manual rework.

RuleDox core features:

• Rules-based conditional sections (include/exclude based on project inputs)
• Automatic hours and pricing calculation from defined rules
• Google Docs-first (assembled scope lives in your Google Drive)
• Variable-driven assembly (answer questions, get a scope)
• Safe delegation (your logic is in the system, not in one person's head)

What RuleDox does not do:

• Crowdsourced pricing benchmarks
• E-signatures or proposal sending
• Invoicing and payment collection
• Template marketplace browsing

Best for: Agencies and productised service teams with repeatable offers — store builds, retainers, migrations, audits — where scopes should vary based on inputs, not on who wrote them that day.

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Feature	Wethos	RuleDox
Primary focus	Scope + invoice platform for freelancers	Rules-based scope assembly for agencies
Pricing logic	Crowdsourced averages	Your own rules (input-driven)
Conditional sections	No — manual editing every time	Yes — sections include/exclude from variables
Automatic hours calculation	No	Yes (from rules you define)
Document format	Wethos platform	Google Docs (native)
E-signatures	Yes	No
Invoicing and payment	Yes	No
Template library	Broad (many project types)	Shopify, SEO, and scope assembly guides
Delegation	Manual	Rules-based (safe to delegate)
Best audience	Freelancers and small agencies	Agencies with repeatable, scalable services

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• You are a freelancer or solo operator who needs to scope, propose, and invoice in one tool
• You want market benchmarks before setting your pricing
• You need e-signatures and payment collection
• You are starting out and need template examples to understand what to include

• Your agency has repeatable service packages and scopes drift between team members
• You need hours and pricing to calculate consistently from project inputs
• Your team scopes in Google Docs and you want to keep it that way
• You want to delegate scoping safely without quality drift

Use Wethos to benchmark initial pricing and as an invoicing layer. Use RuleDox to assemble the actual scope of work — with conditional logic, consistent hours calculations, and the detail that prevents misunderstandings mid-project.

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Wethos includes scope-of-work templates, but they are static starting points you edit manually. For freelancers on one-off projects, that is often fine. For agencies with repeatable services, manual editing creates drift — two people writing the same scope produce different hours, different exclusions, and different pricing. RuleDox addresses this by encoding the logic as rules.

No. RuleDox is built on the assumption that your pricing is specific to your agency — your margins, your team's speed, your offer structure. Crowdsourced averages are useful for orientation but should not be the source of truth for your rates. RuleDox lets you encode your own pricing logic as rules so it applies consistently.

Yes. They address different parts of the workflow. Wethos handles proposals, signatures, and payments. RuleDox handles scope assembly. You can assemble a detailed scope in RuleDox (a Google Doc), then reference or attach it when sending a Wethos proposal.

Wethos has a Shopify website template — it is a solid starting point with community pricing. For agencies delivering repeatable Shopify services (builds, migrations, retainers), the limitation is that the template does not encode your specific variables: catalog size, integrations, markets, B2B, POS. Those inputs change the scope significantly. RuleDox lets you build those rules once so they apply automatically every time. See the Shopify scope of work templates section for the specific templates.

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