Comparison
Eleven Cloud vs Bardeen
Bardeen started as a browser extension that automated the clicking and has grown well past that. It runs scheduled work in their cloud now, and it is pointed squarely at sales, revenue operations, and recruiting.
What it improves is a person's day. What we go after is a line on the P&L.
The short answer
Bardeen is what you want when individual people need to be faster at browser and prospecting work. We are what you want when an operation should stop needing people at all.
Side by side
| Eleven Cloud | Bardeen | |
|---|---|---|
| Unit of improvement | An operation across the company | One person's workflow |
| Where it runs | In your systems, unattended | In the browser, or on a schedule in their cloud |
| Typical user | The owner, then the person we train | Sales, revenue operations, recruiting |
| Setup | Ours, over weeks | Theirs, over minutes |
| Price | A project fee, quoted after the assessment | From about $10 a month on credits |
| When the person leaves | Documented, and someone else was trained on it | What they shared stays, the rest goes with them |
| Work that needs a decision | Trained on how you actually decide | As far as the prompt and the data go |
| Best fit | Owner-led companies with one expensive operation | Sales and recruiting teams doing heavy browser work |
Making people faster does not remove the work
This is the one owners miss most. If eight people each get twenty percent faster, you have not saved a head. You have eight people with more time and the same operation.
Sometimes that is exactly the right buy. If your team is under water this month, a tool they set up themselves is the fastest relief available and it costs almost nothing.
The twenty percent does not show up on anyone's P&L, though. A year later the operation costs what it cost.
What Bardeen is very good at
List building, scraping, CRM hygiene, and the endless copy from a browser tab into a record. It takes that friction out cheaply.
No project, no engineer, no procurement. A rep sets it up in an afternoon without asking anyone.
For a sales team of ten doing manual prospecting it pays for itself fast, and you should not be talking to us about it.
What replacement means instead
We look for the operation with the largest number attached and take it off the org chart.
Client onboarding at one professional-services firm was three days of contracts, folders, tool access, and kickoff. It runs in 40 minutes now and delivery starts the same week.
Nobody there got faster. The job stopped existing.
They do not conflict
Nothing stops you giving the reps Bardeen while an operation gets replaced underneath them.
The mistake is expecting a per-person tool to move a number that an operation is driving.
First-pass hiring screens
An eighty-person operations team where first-pass hiring screens had quietly become a second job for the managers.
On Bardeen: a recruiter automates pulling applicant details into a sheet. Real time saved, and every application still gets read by a manager.
The way we ran it: applicants get scored against the actual role, using the job as it is really done and the people already doing it well. Recruiter and manager hours on first pass dropped by more than half.
The recruiter kept the sheet. The managers got their Thursdays back.
So which one?
Choose Eleven Cloud if
- You want an operation removed rather than accelerated
- The cost is spread across a team rather than one person
- You want it to survive the person who runs it leaving
- You want the target chosen by what it costs you
Choose Bardeen if
- The work is browser-based and repetitive
- You want relief this week with no project
- Your team is in prospecting or recruiting
- You want a monthly bill you can cancel
Bardeen, answered
Is Bardeen still just a browser extension?
No. It runs scheduled work in their cloud and it is built around sales and revenue teams now. It is still bought per person and priced on usage rather than sold as an operations replacement.
Would you recommend Bardeen to a client?
For a prospecting team drowning in manual list work, yes. Not for a quoting or dispatch bottleneck.
Can we do both?
Yes, and it is common. They barely overlap.
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