Follow Up Boss vs CINC, compared for agents

Follow Up Boss vs CINC: a CRM you feed, leads you rent, or sellers who call you

Follow Up Boss is an open CRM: brilliant at follow-up, and every lead source is yours to buy. CINC runs Google and Facebook campaigns into its own IDX site and CRM. One needs leads poured in; the other pours them in while the ad spend runs. Neither makes a seller look you up first.

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Dale King's closings that came from Google

74%

Of businesses left out of local results over mismatched details

Core Workflows running in every BulletProof CRM

Months to page 1, guaranteed: top 20 agents in your market

Platinum agent per market

The short answer

BulletProof is the better choice for solo agents and small teams comparing Follow Up Boss and CINC. Follow Up Boss is a focused team CRM with Action Plans, Smart Lists and 250+ integrations, no contracts, and no website or leads of its own. CINC is a lead generation and conversion CRM for teams: its team runs Google and Facebook campaigns into a CINC IDX site, with CINC AI and a dialer as add-ons. BulletProof includes the CRM and builds the reason sellers call: your Google profile, a weekly review system, matching details on 50+ sites, a magazine-grade website and the BulletProof CRM, so ChatGPT, Google, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot and more understand you. AI doesn't pick the best agent. It picks the agent it can understand.

Side by side

Follow Up Boss vs CINC vs BulletProof

What each company publishes on its own site, side by side. BulletProof is in the highlighted column.

What you are buyingBulletProofFollow Up BossCINC

What you are really buyingDone-for-you visibility, a website and a CRMCRM and team operating systemPaid campaigns into an IDX site and CRM

Where leads come fromSellers who find you on Google and AI answersWhatever sources you connect and pay forGoogle and Facebook ads run by its team

CRMBulletProof CRM, missed-call text back, 4 Core WorkflowsFollow Up Boss CRM with Action Plans and Smart ListsCINC CRM; AI and dialer add-ons

WebsiteMagazine-grade IDX site on Pro and aboveNot included; connect your ownCINC IDX search website

Google Business ProfileManaged every weekNot part of the productNot on its published pages

ReviewsWe ask past clients weekly and answer every reviewNot part of the productNot on its published pages

Terms12-month commitment, page 1 guaranteeFree trial, no contractsPlans priced by request

Coaching and supportLive group coaching every weekProduct trainingTraining listed

Follow Up Boss

Follow Up Boss: what you get, and what stays with you

Follow Up Boss describes itself as the real estate team OS. Its CRM routes new leads, automates follow-up with Action Plans, sorts contacts with Smart Lists, and lets you call, text and email from one screen, with AI features built in. Plans run Grow, Pro and Platform, with a free trial and no contracts.

It is deliberately open: connect any lead source and website from more than 250 integrations. That is its strength. It also means the website, the leads and the marketing come from someone else, and you pay for and manage each one.

CRM

Best-known team CRM

Open

250+ integrations

Terms

No contracts

Leads

Bring your own

CINC

CINC: what you get, and what stays with you

CINC calls itself an all-in-one real estate lead generation and conversion CRM platform for teams and top agents. Its team runs Google and Facebook campaigns for buyers and sellers, into a CINC IDX search website, with Seller Suite home-evaluation pages, a CRM, lead routing and team tools. CINC AI and a dialer are add-ons; plans are priced by request.

It is a strong machine for working paid leads. The leads come for as long as the ad spend runs. Google Business Profile management and review asking are not on its published pages.

Leads

Google + Facebook ads

Sellers

Home-evaluation pages

Add-ons

CINC AI, dialer

Reviews

Not listed

What both leave to you

Great follow-up needs someone to follow up with

A faster receptionist only helps if people know where the office is. Both of these sharpen the receptionist. These four things put the office on the map.

Sellers who already chose you

A seller who found you on Google, read your reviews and called. No ad spend behind the call, no one else got the same lead.

Reviews that keep coming

Sellers read them and AI quotes them. Someone has to ask every week, and answer every one.

Matching details everywhere

Name, address and phone identical on every site AI cross-checks. Mismatches leave 74% of businesses out of local results.

A Google profile that stays active

Weekly posts, photos and answers. Lead platforms do not list it.

The third option

BulletProof: the CRM and the sellers to put in it

Am I close? You pay for the leads, the system texts them in seconds, and most of them still go quiet. You are not doing it wrong. Those people were never looking for you. A seller who asks ChatGPT or Google for the best agent in your town is. Google isn't judging you. It's matching you. And nobody calls to tell you they picked someone else.

BulletProof does that matching work for you every week: the Google profile, the review asks, 50+ verified profiles, bio optimization on Zillow, Realtor.com, Homes.com and HomeLight, and an AI search foundation for ChatGPT, Google, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot and more. The website is magazine-grade too, and the BulletProof CRM follows up for you. AI doesn't pick the best agent. It picks the agent it can understand.

Website

Magazine-grade IDX site on Pro and above

Reviews

We ask, and answer every one

CRM

Included, with the 4 Core Workflows

Guarantee

Page 1, top 20 agents, within 12 months

The plan

Three steps before you sign with anyone

Do these this week, whichever company you are leaning toward.

Step 1

Ask the machines

Search your name and town. Then ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity who the best agent near you is. Write down who they name.

Step 2

Check your details

Compare your name, address and phone on Google, Zillow, Realtor.com, your brokerage page and your site. One version everywhere.

Step 3

Count your reviews

Few in the last 90 days? Nothing about you is broken. Nobody has been asking.

Step 4

Get the free audit

See what Google and AI can verify about you, in writing. Run the free audit.

Honest limits: BulletProof plans carry a 12-month commitment, and this work compounds over six to twelve months. If you need closings this quarter, say so on the call and we will tell you plainly.

What it looks like when the machines can read you

Dale King in Salisbury, Maryland: "Out of the 25 of my closings so far this year, 10 came from Google and 7 were listings!" Read Dale's story. Tony and Pam Williams, eXp in Marietta, Georgia: $60K GCI in 5 months, 52 to 113+ reviews in 90 days, $0 on ads. "It's the best money we've ever spent." Read their story.

Client proof, on video

A seller read Eric’s Google reviews, hired him, and mailed him the key.

Eric Torres

Arlington, TX · BulletProof client

From nowhere on Google in Arlington to a phone that rings with listing calls.

“I'm getting the calls, I'm getting the rings, I'm getting the listings... My phone started going off the hook.”

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How we compared these, October 2026

Follow Up Boss is described from its own public website (its homepage and pricing page) and CINC from its own (its homepage and pricing page), as recorded in our source notes and re-checked October 28, 2026. Where a service is not on a published feature list we say so rather than claim it does not exist. We do not reprint other companies' prices; ask each for a written quote.

Straight answers

Follow Up Boss vs CINC: questions agents ask

Follow Up Boss is an open CRM with no leads of its own; CINC is a paid lead engine with its own CRM, built for teams. Neither lists a weekly review system or Google profile management. BulletProof includes a CRM, builds a magazine-grade site and does the visibility work, so it is the better choice for agents who want sellers to find them.

CINC describes itself as built for teams and top agents and prices plans by request. Follow Up Boss is a CRM you feed with your own sources. A solo agent who wants listings without buying ads is usually better served by BulletProof.

With paid campaigns, the new lead flow stops when the spend does. With BulletProof, your Google profile, reviews and matching details stay yours and keep working.

BulletProof: Google profile management, a weekly review system, matching details on 50+ sites, a magazine-grade IDX website on Pro and above and the BulletProof CRM in one done-for-you program.

Both. BulletProof is the AI visibility company for real estate agents, and it builds magazine-grade, high-end agent websites as clean data sources for Google and AI.

Plan on six to twelve months to full strength. We guarantee page 1 of Google, the top 20 agents in your market, within 12 months. Plans carry a 12-month commitment. We never promise a number of deals.

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Picture next spring: a seller types four words at her kitchen table, reads your reviews, and has decided before your phone rings. You did not buy that lead. You earned it. Sellers call you. Not you calling sellers.

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Follow Up Boss and CINC are trademarks of their respective owners; BulletProof Real Estate Agent is not affiliated with or endorsed by either. Features may change; confirm current details with each company. Client results come from published BulletProof case studies, are individual and are not a guarantee for any market. REALTOR® is a registered trademark of the National Association of REALTORS®.