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BrandBastion vs RespondologySmarter AI for a more complete social engagement solution

Keep your socials safe and responsive with customizable AI configured for your brand. Go beyond response and moderation workflows and act at scale.

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Where BrandBastion
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BrandBastion’s Agent+ drafts replies directly in your inbox using your website content, including product pages and help center articles. It also analyzes the full post context before drafting the responses and follows your brand guidelines. Your team simply reviews and batch approves.

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Brand-specific moderation

BrandBastion moderation adapts to post context and can be customized with brand-specific models, sensitivity levels, and comment categories. You control what gets hidden by platform, campaign, or post type, while real-time alerts and AI summaries help your team spot emerging risks fast.

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Advanced sentiment and AI insights

BrandBastion sentiment analysis uses your brand context and business goals to classify sentiment based on real impact. It captures industry nuance, sarcasm, and subtext, so a negative-sounding comment can still be recognized as positive when it signals real customer value.

Powered by Astra, our AI Analyst, teams can extract actionable insights from their social media interactions, from improving product feedback loops and managing crises to planning the next ad campaigns.

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“Before BrandBastion, we had to toggle between Gorgias and Sprout Social to make sure all comments, DMs and reviews were being answered”
Alison Mooradian VP of Marketing

Feature and service comparison

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AI replies and automation
Pre-drafted AI replies
Post-aware, accurate, and on-brand replies prepared before your team logs in
On-demand reply suggestions generated via an agent workflow
Custom AI prompting and brand rules
Fully customizable prompts and brand voice
Configurable set rules
Knowledge-grounded replies
Replies reference your website or help center with sources
Not documented
Response safeguards
Pre-send compliance and safety gates
Assist Mode to review and approve replies
Batch reply
Generate and approve many replies at once
Not documented
Moderation and protection
Automated comment moderation
Real-time and advanced post-aware AI moderation
Automated moderation based on internal workflows
Crisis detection and alerts
AI-driven escalation in real time
Reactive, keyword-based alerts
Multi-language moderation
109 languages
100 languages
Engagement and insights
Sentiment analysis
Custom models trained on your brand
One-size-fits-all sentiment tagging with lower accuracy and limited insights
Always on engagement
AI and optional managed service
Response workflows with templates and prioritization, typically self-service
Other use cases
Social listening
Add-on feature
Topic and trend discovery via semantic search
Scheduling
Supported
Not supported
Review management
Pre-drafted responses based on your site content, impact reporting on ratings, and alerts when reviews mention bugs or issues
Not supported
Coverage and scale
Social profiles limit
Unlimited social profiles
Pricing is based on the number and size of social media handles you set up
Platforms coverage
Unified coverage across paid, organic comments, and DMs on all platforms
No X, DMs and Reviews coverage
Customer success support
Dedicated CSM since day 1
Dedicated CSM during one-month onboarding. Ongoing support available as an add-on

See Agent+ in action

+48% increase in Return on Ad Spend

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+31% increase in Engagement Rate

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450 hours saved every month

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+116% increase in Positive Sentiment

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No extra work for your team

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Analyzing…
12+ years of expertise

Our AI is trained on more than a decade of real social conversations, capturing tone, intent, and platform context with high accuracy.

Post-aware understanding

We analyze the full post including caption, creative, and audio before taking action, so replies, alerts, hiding, and tagging are always grounded in context.

Built-in AI customization

Our models adapt to your brand’s voice, needs, and nuances. You can rely on proven models or create bespoke ones tailored to your business.

Instant AI insights

On top of moderation and engagement, you can quickly surface insights. Ask a question and receive clear, actionable answers within seconds.

FAQs

 

Does BrandBastion replace Respondology?

For teams focused only on toxic comment moderation, Respondology can be sufficient. BrandBastion is built for brands managing high volumes of conversations that need to take action, from AI drafted replies grounded in your website content to custom brand sentiment analysis, actionable AI insights, and context aware brand protection in one platform. Many teams choose BrandBastion to both protect their communities and engage audiences at scale.

How does BrandBastion compare to Respondology on engagement and response?

BrandBastion prepares post-aware, on-brand replies in advance and queues them in your inbox for fast review and batch approval. Respondology Respond helps teams reply using templates and prioritization tools, but replies are composed or selected in the moment and are not prepared in advance in a dedicated review queue.

Can BrandBastion handle the same moderation use cases as Respondology?

Yes. However, BrandBastion uses AI-powered and context-aware moderation to detect and remove harmful, spammy, and offensive content in real time across many languages. It also includes crisis detection and alerts, extending beyond moderation into proactive brand protection and response workflows.

What insights does BrandBastion provide beyond Respondology?

BrandBastion offers custom sentiment models and instant AI insights that help teams understand trends, risks, and drivers behind conversations. It also includes default categories out of the box, such as purchase intent, complaints or spam, and lets you create custom categories tailored to your brand and campaigns. Combined with full transparency and control over rules and workflows, this helps teams continuously optimize outcomes rather than relying only on high-level reporting.

Discover how BrandBastion can help your brand grow.

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