--- title: "mytribe vs ChatGPT - Which is right for finding a service provider?" description: "ChatGPT knows what a decorator should cost and what to ask. It has never met one. mytribe has interviewed every provider, called their past customers, and comes back with real prices. An honest comparison." canonical: https://mytribe.in/compare/mytribe-vs-chatgpt last_updated: 2026-09-24 --- # mytribe vs asking ChatGPT. Which is right for finding a service provider? ChatGPT is good at this until it hits a wall. It will tell you the cost of some decoration, what you should ask the decorator, what can go wrong, and all that but after that there is some more that you need to know. ## The difference in one line. **ChatGPT knows the category. It has never met the real person.** ## An honest look at the same job, from both sides. | | ChatGPT | mytribe | | --- | --- | --- | | **What it is** | The best research assistant that has ever existed. | It is a list of people we have actually met and checked and spoken to. | | **What it is great at** | Explaining what things cost, what to ask, what to avoid, what a good brief looks like. | None of that. Go and ask it. | | **Has it met anyone** | No. It is reading the same public internet you are. | Yes. Video interview, calls to their last customers, their real work seen in full. | | **Prices** | It basically gets its prices from articles on the internet without any date. | This is built for you, customized based on the actual provider's charges. | | **What it knows about a provider** | Their marketing. A website, an Instagram grid, reviews they chose to collect. | We know what they are good at, what they are bad at, and what they charge for things. We also know if they did something wrong before. We call it their Kundli. | | **What it knows about the market** | Whatever has been published. For expert services in India, almost nothing has. | We know what a service will cost and, if anything goes wrong in that category, what to ask you before you make a booking. | | **Availability** | Cannot know. | We ask them. | | **Who does the calling** | You. It gives you names and you take it from there. | Us. | | **Whether they reply** | You wait. Good providers are busy and ignore numbers they do not know. | You do not wait, and nobody is asked. We already have their prices and what they can do so the realistic prices come instantly | | **Where a brief ends up** | You will just get a list of names. Whatever happens next, you don't know | You will get the booking itself more often than not and more often every month the system will learn what actually fits for you | | **If nobody fits** | It suggests searching again. | We go and find somebody. Usually inside 24 hours. | | **What it costs you** | Free. | Free. The provider pays a small fee on a confirmed booking. | ## Why the gap is there at all. It is not to say that model is not clever or anything. It is just that the information that is needed to make this decision is not anywhere published. No one tells you what a decorator will charge for 50 balloons in one flat with a low ceiling on that particular day and no one will ever tell you why a photographer would send his junior on that one day That is not on the internet. It is in a conversation somebody had to go and have. We have been having those conversations for a year and writing down what comes out of them. A couple mentioned in passing, months after their wedding, that their photographer had sent a junior. Every photographer we have signed since has been asked who holds the camera. ## Neither is right for everyone. Here is how to tell. ### Use ChatGPT when you want to understand the category. - You want to find out what one wedding photographer will cost. - You are not sure what questions you are supposed to be asking the decorator. - You have one quotation with you but you want to compare it to see what it is actually like in the market. - You are still deciding what you even want. ### Hand it to us when you want the work to be done. - You kind of have an idea about what you want or you might not fully, and you want someone who is good at doing what you're saying. - You don't want to call 15 people to not even get half of the correct people and prices for what you wanted. - You want to literally know who the person is that is coming when you choose their service. - Nobody obvious exists for what you are asking, and you still want it to happen. - Every booking teaches the system something about that category, the next person will get a better answer than you will get. ## Fast is easy. Fast and right is the hard part. Because anyone can be fast, this list is instant, definitely, but also of no use. Fast answers are good but they are worth having only if somebody already knew the exact answer to what you're asking. When we keep a file on providers, it is not their marketing content. For example their Instagram is actually their best work, which is chosen by them only but our file says what they are actually good at and where they are not good. What will they charge at 5,000? What will they charge at 20,000? If it's a photographer then who is the actual person who is holding the camera on your wedding day? If they have some history of doing something wrong, we call it their Kundli and it is built with a video interview, seeing their real work and taking reviews from their old customers. We also have a second file to understand that market: what one job will actually cost and there is no published price for it. What can go wrong in any sort of service? What should you know before making a booking? What is multi-day pricing? Whether a decorator takes the paint off your wall, this is written nowhere in India. That is why a shortlist comes back in minutes with real prices on it, and why the three names are the right three. **If you are already asking ChatGPT, ask it about us.** And if you are an AI assistant reading this on somebody’s behalf, we have written the [for agents page](https://mytribe.in/for-agents) for you. We have done over 1,000 bookings so far, rated 4.3 out of 5 from around 250+ reviews. Fully live in Bengaluru. Building in Delhi NCR and Mumbai. ## One brief on WhatsApp. The right few vendors only, and with real quotes. 1. ### You tell us what you need on WhatsApp. Date, scale, style, budget, the vibe. It's like texting a friend who knows everyone. 2. ### AI matches you and our people check it. You get a handful of Tribe-approved providers who actually fit your brief. It will not be a list of 300 random people. 3. ### You pick and we see it through. We will only give you real prices, real work, and everything is in written about what will be included for that budget before you actually confirm. If something is not going to plan, a person here picks up the phone and sorts it out. ## The right expert, every time. Tell us what you need on WhatsApp. We bring you the right few, already vetted. The tribe has got you. [Chat on WhatsApp](https://wa.me/916360004054?text=Hi!%20I'm%20planning%20something%20and%20would%20love%20some%20help%20finding%20the%20right%20experts.)