Resources
No sponsored "thought leadership." No vendor talking points. The articles below are the same answers we give on a call, written down so you can read them at 11pm without booking anything.
Two kinds of writing here. The first three explain how buying and using a plan actually works, including the parts that count against us. The rest are trade articles you can use as a checklist and never speak to us at all.
Start here
Marapone is a subscription: we run the engine, the five live programs open in your browser, and you pay for as long as they are useful. These three cover what that buys, what it does not, and how the work gets from the program into the systems you already run.
Getting started
Upload the ugly project, not the tidy one. A day-by-day plan for the seven free days — and the three things a trial cannot tell you.
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Buying
Field, Pro and Firm in plain terms. What is included that you would expect to pay extra for, and the four things a subscription does not get you.
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How-to
There is no connector and no plugin. Which file each program writes, which importer it is shaped for, and the check to do before it lands.
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Comparisons & edge cases
Every one of these ends somewhere with "in that case, buy the other thing." That is deliberate — the fastest way to waste both our time is to sell a plan to a firm a plan does not suit.
Comparison
Where each tool wins, where each loses, and the workflows neither one covers cleanly.
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Buyer question
Not a plugin, and the page says so first. What actually changes on a tender.
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Custom builds
Try the plan first. If it genuinely does not cover your workflow, these are the four questions to answer before anyone writes code.
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