What changes if you switch?
Pick what runs your studio today. See what changes in your week, what you'll only find in DesignOps, and how your work stays yours.
You use Ivy. Houzz has stopped new Ivy memberships and feature updates. Here is what changes.
What changes at each step.
Here's where the work changes when you move from Ivy. Most of it happens before a project starts.
Clients and projects are added by hand. Houzz lists its CRM for managing leads among the features that aren't available in Ivy, and we found no fit score or property data.
Each inquiry arrives with a property report and a fit score out of 100, so you call the right client first.
We found no Gmail or Outlook extension, and no way to turn an inquiry email into a lead.
The Lead Extractor works in Gmail and Outlook. Smart AI Fill picks out the details from the email you open, and nothing is saved until you say so.
We found no call recording or brief drafting. Houzz lists AI note-taking among the features that aren't available in Ivy.
Sync calls from Plaud, or paste in the transcript of any call. The brief is written for you, with the client's concerns highlighted.
Proposals are built by hand from your product library and room boards. We found no AI drafting and no scope of work.
Both are drafted from the brief, in your voice and with your branding. You review and edit before anything goes to the client.
Houzz lists assigning tasks to others among the features that aren't available in Ivy.
See the project as a list or a kanban board. Assign each task to your team or a contractor, move it through its statuses, and track the time spent on it.
We found no client update feature. Clients see what you publish to their dashboard.
Drafted from the week's progress and approvals, ready on the day you choose. You add your touch and send it.
Client approvals in their own dashboard, purchase orders managed from order to install, and the Product Clipper for any vendor's site.
What you'll only find in DesignOps.
We found none of these in Ivy, or in any of the 8 other studio tools we checked.
A fit score on every new inquiry
Each inquiry gets a fit score out of 100, with the reasons, so you call the right client first.
The home's public records and nearby sales
Property details and recent sales nearby, from the address, on every lead.
A written promise never to contact your leads
The people you enter stay your relationships.
Also in DesignOps, not in Ivy
- Inquiries captured from the email you open, without reading the rest of your inbox
- Your discovery call turned into a project brief
- Client concerns from the call highlighted for you
- Scope of work drafted from your project brief
- A mood board pulled together from a style brief, using products you have saved
- Your studio's tone and writing rules in every draft
Not in Ivy's published features or documents, checked 9 Oct 2026. Products change, so check their current pages too.
AI drafts. You decide.
DesignOps writes the first version and you approve it. Nothing is sent, ordered or shared until you say so.
We found no AI features in Ivy. Houzz lists AI note-taking, its AI clipper and AI voice-to-text among the features that aren't available in Ivy, and says Ivy no longer gets feature updates.
AI drafts
- Lead reports
- First replies
- Call briefs
- Scopes of work
- Proposals
- Mood boards
- Daily summaries
- Weekly client updates
You decide
- Nothing is sent, ordered or shared until you say so.
- Ordering stays with you, because one wrong spec costs real money.
- Client messages stay in your voice. You review and refine every draft.
- Your data never trains general-purpose AI models.
Your work stays yours.
Ivy runs on its own 2021 terms and on the Houzz terms that now cover it. Here's how they compare with our promises.
- You own your work.Your proposals, selections, boards and client records belong to your studio.
- Your data never trains AI.Never used to train, fine-tune or improve general-purpose AI models.
- Download it whenever you want.Projects, clients and files, straight from your workspace.
- We never contact your leads.The people you enter stay your relationships.
You own your work. We use it only to run DesignOps for you.
Ivy's terms say you own your content, then give Houzz a perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable license to it. The license survives cancellation. Houzz says it won't make your proposals, invoices, schedules or room boards public.
Ivy Terms of Use §4(b) and §12 ↗ · checked 9 Oct 2026Your data never trains general-purpose AI models.
No written promise found.
We found no such promise in Ivy's terms, or in the Houzz terms and privacy policy that now cover Ivy.
Ivy Terms of Use; Houzz Terms of Use and Privacy Policy ↗ · checked 9 Oct 2026We never sell your personal data or share it for targeted ads.
Houzz's privacy policy, which covers Ivy, says it shares or sells information with partners to show targeted advertising, with an opt-out.
Houzz Privacy Policy ↗ · checked 9 Oct 2026We never contact the leads you enter.
No written promise found.
Ivy Terms of Use; Houzz Terms of Use and Privacy Policy ↗ · checked 9 Oct 2026Your projects stay out of our marketing unless you give separate permission.
Ivy's terms let Houzz use your content, logo, name and likeness in promotional campaigns and marketing materials, and to name you as a customer. The permission is perpetual and can't be revoked.
Ivy Terms of Use §4(b) ↗ · checked 9 Oct 2026Download your projects, clients and files from your workspace, whenever you want.
Built into your workspaceIvy's terms make copying your data your job, before your account ends. On that date, you lose access to Ivy.
Ivy Terms of Use §12 ↗ · checked 9 Oct 2026What comes with you.
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Houzz says Ivy no longer offers new memberships or feature updates, and that there is no timeline or requirement to move. This page compares DesignOps with Ivy as it runs today.
Every new inquiry researched, with a property report and a fit score out of 100, inquiry emails turned into leads from Gmail or Outlook, the brief written from your discovery calls, and the scope, proposal and weekly client update drafted in your voice. We found none of these in Ivy.
You do. Our Terms of Service say you retain ownership of your data, and you can download it straight from your workspace whenever you want.
No. AI writes the first draft, and you review and refine every one. Nothing is sent, ordered or shared until you say so.
Yes. Import it from Excel or CSV, and AI matches your columns to ours.
Checked on 9 Oct 2026 against Ivy's help center and terms, and the Houzz pages, terms and privacy policy that now cover Ivy. Most of Ivy's help articles date from 2018 to 2020, so check their current pages too.
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