What is the main difference between Kernalite and DealMachine?

DealMachine is built around driving for dollars and lead capture, and hands the lead off to a CRM you run somewhere else. Kernalite keeps the whole sequence in one app: drive the route, skip-trace the owner, let AI make the first call, then work the deal through the pipeline to a signed contract.

Does Kernalite have a driving for dollars feature?

Yes. Kernalite traces your route by GPS, lets you drop a property with one tap, reverse-geocodes the address, and attaches photos taken at the kerb. The property becomes a lead in your pipeline immediately, with no export step.

Do I still need a separate CRM with Kernalite?

No. The CRM is the product. Pipeline, unified inbox for texts and emails, tasks, calendar, offers, cash buyers and a rehab tracker are all included, so a lead you find while driving never needs exporting.

How much does Kernalite cost?

$99 per month, or $990 per year which works out at ten months. Three seats are included and additional seats are $19 each per month. There is a 7-day free trial and no card is required to start it.

Kernalite vs. DealMachine

You found the house.
Now what?

Driving apps are good at finding properties. Then they hand you a lead and wave goodbye — and you paste it into a CRM you pay for separately. Kernalite is the one app that goes from the kerb to the signed contract.

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Where DealMachine is genuinely good

It is a mature driving app with a large user base, a long track record, and a polished route-tracking experience. Its list-building and mail features are well developed, and plenty of wholesalers run their whole top-of-funnel on it without complaint.

If driving is the only thing you need software for, it is a reasonable choice and you should not switch on our say-so. This page is for the wholesaler who is already paying for a driving app and a CRM, and has noticed that the gap between them is where deals go quiet.

The handoff is the leak

Every export is a place a lead stops moving. Here is the same four hours of driving in each setup.

Driving app + separate CRM

Drive the route, tap the vacant houses
Skip-trace, or export to a service that does
Export a CSV
Import it into the CRM, fix the column mapping
Set up the follow-up sequence again
Start dialling — two days after you saw the house

Kernalite

Drive the route, tap the vacant houses
Skip-trace in the same screen
AI places the first call while you keep driving
Replies land in the unified inbox
Work the pipeline to a signed contract

No export. No second subscription. No re-keying.

Side by side

	Kernalite	DealMachine
Driving for dollars	Built in	Built in
Skip trace in-app	Yes	Yes
Full CRM & pipeline	Included	Integrates with one
Unified inbox (SMS + email)	Yes	No
AI voice calling	Native	No
AI motivation scoring	Yes	No
Cash-offer pages	Yes	No
Rehab tracker	Built in	No
Cash-buyer list & dispo	Built in	No
Price	$99/mo · 3 seats	See dealmachine.com

Competitor features change. Everything above was checked against publicly available information — if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.

When you should not switch

You only drive. If you have no pipeline to manage and no follow-up to run, a dedicated driving app is simpler and you do not need what we built.
Your team lives in a CRM already. If five people are trained on something and it works, the switching cost is real. Kernalite has to be clearly better, not marginally.
You need a big driver team on day one. Kernalite includes three seats and charges $19 for each one beyond that. If you run fifteen drivers, price that out before you move.

Try it on one street

Seven days, no card. Drive one route, trace one owner, and see whether the lead reaches your pipeline without you touching a spreadsheet.

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You found the house. Now what?