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Who is actually writing this
Most GoHighLevel content is written by people who have never run the platform for a paying client, and paid for by a 40% recurring commission they would rather you did not think about. This page exists so you can judge how much of that applies to us.
By Michael Smith · Last verified
Michael Smith
Agency owner — Titanium Labs
The short version, and the conflict of interest
I run Titanium Labs, a marketing agency that builds and operates GoHighLevel sub-accounts for local businesses — chiropractors, med spas, and similar. That is where the opinions on this site come from: a paid account, used on client work, with clients who notice when something breaks.
It is also where the conflict of interest comes from. Running an agency on GoHighLevel is why we are in its affiliate programme, and we earn a commission if you sign up through this site — at no extra cost to you. You should read us with that in mind. Everything below is how we try to earn the trust anyway.
Editorial stance
The rules we hold ourselves to
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We name what it is bad at
The website builder is dated. The learning curve is punishing. Support is a coin flip. Usage bills surprise people in month two. All of that is on the review page, above the good bits — because a verdict that cannot tell you the downsides is an advertisement.
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We tell the wrong-fit reader to leave
Design-led agencies, enterprise sales teams and ecommerce-first businesses should not buy GoHighLevel, and we say so on the pages where it costs us money to say it. If you are pre-revenue and have no clients yet, a $97/month platform is the wrong first purchase — we will point you at something cheaper or free instead.
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Prices are dated, not evergreen
Every price on this site is taken from the vendor's own public pricing page and stamped with the date we checked it — currently July 12, 2026. Software pricing moves. A dated claim tells you how much to trust it; an undated one is hiding something.
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The commission does not buy the verdict
We earn a commission when someone signs up through our links, at no extra cost to them. That is a real conflict of interest and the correct response to it is disclosure plus evidence, not a promise to be nice. Read us skeptically and check the claims.
In full
The longer answer
What we actually do with GoHighLevel
Titanium Labs is a marketing agency. We build and run GoHighLevel sub-accounts for local-business clients — the chiropractor who is losing leads because nobody answers the phone at 4pm, the med spa whose follow-up is a shoebox of missed calls. Practically, that means we configure the things this site writes about: pipelines, calendars, missed-call text-back, speed-to-lead automations, review requests, and the A2P registration paperwork that has to be done before a single text message can legally go out.
That is the entire basis of our authority here, and we would rather state it plainly than dress it up. We are not HighLevel employees. We are not analysts with a spreadsheet of vendor briefings. We are a customer who has to make the thing work on a Monday morning, which is a narrow kind of expertise — but it is the kind that tells you where a platform actually hurts.
It also means our blind spots are real. We see GoHighLevel through the lens of local-business lead generation. We are not the right source on enterprise CRM migrations, ecommerce catalogs, or complex B2B attribution — and on those pages, we say so and point you elsewhere.
How this site makes money
Affiliate commissions, and nothing else. If you start a trial or subscribe to GoHighLevel through a link on this site, HighLevel pays us a percentage — recurring, for as long as you stay. You pay exactly the same price you would pay going direct. There is no markup, no upsell, no $997 course, and no "book a call" funnel behind any button here.
We are telling you this in the same size font as everything else, because the alternative — burying it in a footer nobody reads — is how the rest of this category behaves and it is precisely why nobody believes GoHighLevel reviews any more. The commission is disclosed at the top of every review and comparison page. It is in the footer of every page. The full disclosure is here.
Why you should still be skeptical
A disclosure is not a defence. Plenty of sites disclose an affiliate relationship and then write an advertisement anyway. So do not grade us on the disclosure — grade us on whether we ever tell you not to buy.
Here is where we do:
- Our review scores GoHighLevel 4.1, not 5, and the deductions are specific: the builder, the learning curve, inconsistent support, and usage-cost bill shock.
- It names five groups who should not buy it — including design-led agencies and enterprise sales teams — and tells them what to buy instead.
- Our comparison pages include the rows where the competitor wins, and link to that competitor's pricing page. We earn nothing when you pick them.
- If you are pre-revenue with no clients yet, we think a $97/month platform is the wrong first purchase, and our alternatives page points you at cheaper and free options — including Systeme.io's free tier — instead of pushing you into a subscription you will churn out of in six weeks.
That last one costs us money on purpose. A reader who buys the wrong tool churns, resents us, and never comes back. A reader we send somewhere cheaper sometimes returns two years later with an agency and ten clients. The second reader is worth more, and being straight with the first one is the only way to get them.
Corrections
Software pricing changes, features ship and break, and pages here go stale. Every page carries the date its facts were last checked, so you can see exactly how much to trust it. If you find something wrong, out of date, or unfair — including a place where you think the commission has crept into the writing — email [email protected]. Corrections are the most useful mail we get.
Not affiliated with HighLevel
Try GoHighLevel Now is an independent site. We are a customer of HighLevel Inc. and a participant in its affiliate programme. We are not employed by it, not endorsed by it, and not speaking for it, and nothing here is official documentation.
Frequently asked questions
- Who writes Try GoHighLevel Now?
- Michael Smith, who runs Titanium Labs, a marketing agency that builds and operates GoHighLevel sub-accounts for local businesses such as chiropractors and med spas. The opinions on this site come from using the platform as a paying customer on client work, not from a demo account.
- How does this site make money?
- Affiliate commissions. If you start a GoHighLevel trial or subscribe through a link on this site, HighLevel pays us a commission. You pay exactly the same price either way. We disclose this at the top of every review and comparison page, and in the footer of every page on the site.
- Does the affiliate commission change what you write?
- No, and the site is structured so you can check that rather than take our word for it. The review leads with the drawbacks, names five groups of people who should not buy GoHighLevel, and scores it 4.1 rather than 5. The comparison pages include the rows where the competitor wins. We also recommend cheaper alternatives to readers we think GoHighLevel would be wrong for, which costs us the commission.
- Are you affiliated with HighLevel Inc.?
- No. This is an independent site. We are a customer of HighLevel and a participant in its affiliate programme. We are not employed by, endorsed by, or speaking for HighLevel Inc., and nothing here is official documentation.
- How do I contact you?
- Email [email protected]. If you think something on this site is wrong, out of date, or unfair, that is the most useful email we can get — corrections make the site more valuable, and we would rather hear it from you than have you quietly stop trusting us.
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