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Homla vs doing it yourself: a shared prompt doc and personal accounts, or one team setup

The short answerOverlaps with Homla

Pick Homla if your best prompts should work for the whole team, without copy and paste.

Pick Doing it yourself if you are two or three people, still testing what AI can do.

  • No more copy and paste

    Playbooks live inside everyone’s AI, not in a doc.

  • One team memory

    Personal AI memory stays with each person.6

  • No shared passwords

    Each person’s AI gets only their access.

  • Training settings

    Personal plans can train on chats unless each person opts out.4,5

The key difference

A doc holds prompts. Homla puts them inside everyone's AI.

With a doc, each person copies the prompt into their own chat. Then they paste in the context too.

Personal plans keep memory and projects per person. Sharing Claude projects needs the Team plan.6,7

With Homla, the playbook and the facts are already in each person's AI. Fix one, and it is fixed for everyone.

Side by side

What matters to an owner.

Homla compared with Doing it yourself
TopicHomlaStart freeDoing it yourself
Cost and setup
Price

Free for one person. Team plan from $79 a month for 10 people. No cap on AI use. Pricing

Your AI plans only. Plus and Pro are $20 a month each.1,2

Setup
Yes.

No developer. Guided setup in the browser. Paid plans: we set it up with you.

Yes.

None. Start a doc and share it.

Your team's know-how
Shared playbooks
Yes.

Save from the chat. Everyone gets the latest version. Skills

Partly.

A doc to copy from. New custom GPTs need a business plan.3

Team memory
Yes.

One memory every AI on the team reads. Memory

No.

Per person. Claude project sharing needs Team.6,7

Control
Access per person
Yes.

Per role, per tool: none, look only or change. Access

No.

Everyone wires their own tools. No admin controls.8

Agents and approvals
Yes.

Schedule, email or by hand. Changes wait for a yes. Agents

No.

Whatever each person builds alone.

Admin and security
Partly.

Two-step sign-in. No SSO, SCIM or SOC 2 yet.

No.

No admin view on personal plans.8

Where it works
Works in
Yes.

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and 9 more apps.

Yes.

Any app, by copy and paste.

Yes. YesPartly. PartlyNo. NoSmall numbers link to the source.

Which one to pick

Pick by the job you need done.

Choose Homla if…

  • Your best person's prompts should work for the whole team, in every AI.
  • You are tired of pasting the same context into every new chat.
  • You want each person's AI to reach your tools without sharing passwords.
  • You want the work to stay when someone leaves.
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Keep doing it yourself if…

  • You are two or three people and still testing what AI can do.
  • Nobody connects AI to your business tools yet.
  • You have no budget beyond each person's AI plan.1,2
Use them together

Start from your doc. Move it in one playbook at a time.

You keep your AI plans. Homla works in the apps your team already uses.

  1. 1

    Start on the free plan. Paste your best prompt and say “save this as a skill”.

  2. 2

    Save the context people paste the most: “remember this”.

  3. 3

    Invite the team. Their AI now finds the same playbooks by name.

FAQ

Questions

What owners ask when they weigh Homla against Doing it yourself.

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Is a shared Google Doc of prompts good enough?

For two or three people, often yes. Past that, copies drift and nobody knows which one is current.

Homla keeps one version, with history, inside everyone's AI.

Are personal AI accounts safe for work?

Check the settings. On ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro, chats can train models unless each person opts out.

Business and team plans exclude training by default.

Sources 4,5,9

Do we have to pay for a new AI to use Homla?

No. Homla works with the Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor plans you already have.

Free for one person. Team plan from $79 a month for 10 people.

What happens when someone leaves?

With personal accounts, their chats and projects leave with them.

In Homla, playbooks and memory belong to the business. Remove the person and their AI loses access.

Keep your AI. Give it your team's know-how.

Start free. Save one playbook. See it in everyone's AI.