Sequence is a billing & finance-automation platform built for businesses whose revenue is a clean recurring meter — subscriptions and usage. Allometry is built for asset-heavy operators whose revenue is deposits, retainage, install milestones, renewals, and payers that change mid-project. They solve different problems for different ICPs.
If your revenue is a clean recurring meter — SaaS seats, usage, subscriptions — use Sequence. Pricing logic, metering, invoicing, dunning and rev-rec into your ERP: that's the job Sequence does well.
If your revenue is physical and milestone-shaped — a 50% deposit before delivery, a 10% retainage released months after install, annual service-fee renewals, multi-province tax, and conglomerate payers that change mid-build — your problem isn't billing automation. It's tracking and chasing what's owed. Allometry is built for that.
This page is for operators who looked at Sequence (or a tool like it) and felt the model didn't fit. It doesn't fit because they're different categories.
Direct apples-to-apples on the dimensions that matter for an asset-heavy operator deciding between billing automation and an AR control layer.
| Dimension | Sequence | Allometry |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | ||
| Primary ICP | SaaS / usage-based businesses | Asset-heavy operators (smart lockers, EV, solar, telecom, construction, IIoT) |
| Revenue shape | Recurring meter — subscriptions, usage | Deposits, milestones, retainage, renewals |
| Core job | Billing automation & invoicing | Tracking & collecting what's owed |
| Asset-heavy AR | ||
| Deposit-before-delivery gate | — not modeled | ✓ deposit gate on pending deliveries |
| Retainage / holdback (e.g. 10%) | — not modeled | ✓ held open until released · aging flagged |
| Multi-province tax (TPS / TVQ) | ~ tax via integration | ✓ province mis-code flags by rule |
| Quote/EST-to-invoice variance | — | ✓ variance flagged before dispute |
| Multi-entity / changing payer | ~ account hierarchy | ✓ linked-entity exposure · re-routing |
| Collections & renewals | ||
| Prioritized collections queue | ~ dunning sequences | ✓ risk-scored queue + slow-payer history |
| Renewal pre-billing cadence | ~ for subscriptions | ✓ −60-day service-fee pipeline |
| Human / fractional ops layer | — software only | ✓ optional fractional finance ops |
| Stack & fit | ||
| Sits above your accounting | Yes — feeds the ledger | Yes — reads Zoho/ERP, doesn't replace it |
| Entry price | ~$2,000 USD / mo | ~$2,500 CAD / mo + diagnostic · fractional ops optional |
A retainage released months after install — or never invoiced after the final — is pure margin aging into write-off. Billing tools meter what's billed; Allometry holds every deposit and retenue open until it's released or collected.
Conglomerates with linked entities, constructeur → promoteur handoffs, ownership changes mid-build. The line item is correct but liability moved. Allometry maps linked-entity exposure and re-routes the follow-up.
Someone still has to judge, escalate, and hold the relationship. Sequence is software only. Allometry pairs the control tower with an optional fractional finance-ops layer — so the role scales without a full-time seat.
If you already run Sequence (or your accounting handles billing), Allometry composes on top — it reads the receivables and adds the deposit, retainage, renewal, and collections layer billing tools don't model. You're not ripping anything out.
Pull AR aging, invoices, deposits, retenue, renewal dates, and bank transactions. No replacement of your books.
Deposit gates, retainage releases, −60-day renewal triggers, and TPS/TVQ tax flags — mapped to how you actually deploy.
A "what this would have caught" report on your live receivables — unreleased retenue, unpaid deposits, variance, linked-entity exposure.
The collections queue, retainage tracker, and renewal pipeline go live — your coordinator works exceptions, not the whole ledger.
Send us a recent AR aging export. We'll run it through Allometry's exception engine and show you the unreleased retenue, unpaid deposits, and quote variances that billing automation never surfaces.