Look around at social media, politics, or the news and you’re likely to agree with the bodybuilding champ-turned-movie star-turned-governor of California.
Whether he was lifting weights for five hours a day or trying to hack a path through the thicket of California politics, Schwarzenegger claims he was consistently happy. What allowed him to maintain a positive outlook despite personal setbacks and tough jobs? In his book Be Useful, Schwarzenegger boils down his philosophy to just four words.
You might think a simple mantra is too flimsy a thing to be actually meaningful in the face of real-life struggle. But according to top psychologists, the Governator actually manages to capture profound truths about human flourishing in one quick motto.
G2 and Capterra rank platforms by popularity and user reviews — they tell you what other people experienced, not whether a platform fits your specific business. StaqPilot scores against the structural shape of your business: how your revenue works, what your team looks like, what tools you use, and what you actually need the platform to do. Reviews tell you what a platform felt like to use. We tell you whether its data model can represent your commercial reality.
Because this is where the most expensive CRM mistakes happen. A platform that can't represent your commercial model — staged payments, partner commissions, multi-stream revenue — will fail you structurally, not just functionally. No amount of good email automation compensates for a data model that can't express how your business actually makes money. We ask because most evaluations don't.
We currently score platforms that represent the realistic field for SMEs. We deliberately exclude entire categories that create more risk than value for small and mid-sized businesses — enterprise-first platforms, zombie and sunset-risk platforms, closed systems, and DIY tools. More platforms are being added. See the Evaluated Platforms page for the full picture, including who didn't make it and why.
Yes. The diagnostic, the scored results, and the full report are free. StaqPilot is built by Fly, a martech consultancy. If your results suggest a conversation would be useful, we offer a free 15-minute validation call. There's no obligation and no upsell during the diagnostic.
Under 5 minutes. 12 core questions, with a small number of follow-up questions that only appear if they're relevant to your situation — a first-time selector with a simple setup sees fewer inputs than a business migrating from an existing platform. Most users complete it in 3–4 minutes.
StaqPilot is built by Fly, a martech strategy consultancy. The scoring model encodes the same methodology Fly uses in bespoke client engagements — evaluating platforms against how the business actually works, not against feature checklists or market rankings.
