AI Choice Engine: Growth stack planner ====================================== Audience: Founders, operators, and marketing teams A CRM, email, analytics, SEO, forms, and ecommerce planning checklist. Checklist 1. Map the customer journey from first visit to retained customer before choosing tools. 2. Separate must-have workflows from nice-to-have automation. 3. Check whether CRM, email, analytics, and landing pages share clean identifiers. 4. Estimate the admin time required after launch, not just setup cost. 5. Choose the simplest stack that can support the next two quarters of growth. How to use this Score every option against the same checklist. If one vendor wins the demo but loses on ownership, support, export, or renewal risk, treat that as a real buying signal. Disclosure AI Choice Engine may earn commissions from some outbound partner links at no extra cost to you. The checklist is designed to make comparison work clearer, not to guarantee outcomes.