For agencies leaving Zywave

Done with the surprise
renewal increase?

A clean exit for the independent commercial agency. Public pricing, month-to-month, no contracts, Founder Rate Guarantee. Sign up tonight, call prospects tomorrow.

We’ve heard the same story from dozens of independent agencies: a Zywave contract that started fine, a 30–45% renewal increase that arrived without warning, a 90-day cancellation window you didn’t know about. If that’s where you are, this page is for you. Read it, then take 5 minutes and try Prospekteer free — no card, no call, no contract.

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What we hear

Five Zywave pain points we hear consistently.

Pulled directly from agency owner reviews, forum threads, and the cancellation conversations they post in independent agent communities. Recognize any of these?

Pain · 01
Surprise renewal increases of 30–45%.
The price that started reasonable becomes the price that consumes a producer’s monthly draw. Multiple reviews flag jumps with no advance notice and no negotiation.
Pain · 02
90-day cancellation notice traps.
You realize you want out, send an email, and learn you missed the window — locked into another year. Auto-renewal language buried in the original contract.
Pain · 03
Pricing that requires a sales call to know.
There’s no public price page. Every quote is bespoke, discovery-call-gated, and never the same as what your peer pays. You can’t shop fairly when the price is opaque.
Pain · 04
4-year contracts on a 12-month plan.
Your business changes monthly. The contract assumed otherwise. Multi-year commitments lock in pricing and product on a market that moves faster than the lock-in window.
Pain · 05
Bundled modules you don’t use.
The mid-tier bundle is $25K because it includes Brokerage Builder, HRConnection, and Briefcase — but you only wanted the prospecting layer. There’s no “just prospecting” SKU.
The Prospekteer answer

We built our terms to be the opposite.

Every one of these is on our public website, on the pricing page, in your billing settings, and in your terms of service.

Promise · 01
Founder Rate Guarantee — 5 years locked.
Sign up in 2026, your tier price is locked for five full years. In writing. We will never raise the price you pay during that window.
Promise · 02
No notice required to cancel.
Two clicks from your billing page. Subscription stops at the end of the current billing cycle. Your data stays exportable.
Promise · 03
Public pricing on the website.
$9.99, $29.99, $69.99/mo. Same price for everybody. No quote-only tier. No bundle that locks you into modules you don’t use.
Promise · 04
Month-to-month, always.
No contracts. No multi-year minimums. No procurement cycle. Pay for a month, decide each month whether next month makes sense.
Promise · 05
Per-month overage cap.
Solo $20, Starter $50, Pro $200. Once you hit the cap, the meter pauses. You will never wake up to a bill bigger than (subscription + cap).
Pricing, side by side

For a 2–5 producer agency, the math isn’t close.

Zywave pricing is opaque, so these are reported figures from agency owners in public reviews and forum threads. Your quote may differ. Prospekteer pricing is on the home page.

Zywave · single module
~$495–$1,000
per year, per module, multi-year contract
Smallest single-module subscription. Most agencies need multiple modules.
Zywave · small agency bundle
~$25,000
per year, multi-year contract
Brokerage Builder + HRConnection + Briefcase, 6–8 users, $2M revenue agency.
Zywave · full broker briefcase
$40,000+
per year, multi-year contract
Complete enterprise suite. Plus Zywave AI add-on (likely +$10K–$30K, not publicly priced).
Prospekteer · Pro
$828
per year, month-to-month, locked 5 years
Full intelligence layer per producer. The Wire, AI Risk Copilot, unlimited Coverage Gap Detection, vertical modes.
Migration in 5 steps

How an agency owner actually leaves Zywave.

The honest, ordered playbook from agencies who’ve done it. None of this requires a sales call.

01
Find your Zywave renewal date today.
Check the original contract or email your account manager and ask point-blank. Note the cancellation notice window — typically 90 days before renewal.
02
Sign up for Prospekteer free.
10 prospects on us. No card. Use your real prospects — the agency you’d call this week. The whole evaluation should take 30 minutes.
03
Run Prospekteer in parallel for one billing cycle.
Upgrade to Solo ($9.99/mo) or Starter ($29.99/mo). Run actual prospecting alongside whatever Zywave workflow you use today. Note where each one wins.
04
Send Zywave cancellation notice in writing.
Email your account manager and the billing contact on file. Keep the confirmation. Do this on day 91 before renewal at the absolute latest — earlier is always safer.
05
Export your prospect list and re-run on Prospekteer.
CSV export from Zywave (or your AMS), upload to Prospekteer, we re-enrich every record. Need help with the export step? Email adam@prospekteer.com and we’ll handle it.
Frequently asked

Five questions Zywave refugees ask first.

Q01
I am stuck in a Zywave multi-year contract — can I still switch?
Yes — many agencies start running Prospekteer in parallel before their Zywave contract is up. Prospekteer is $9.99–$69.99/mo with a free tier; you can keep your Zywave contract running and prove the prospecting workflow on Prospekteer for the cost of a coffee subscription. When Zywave renewal comes up, you have a fully running alternative and the leverage to walk.
Q02
How do I cancel Zywave? They require 90-day notice.
Zywave's contracts commonly require advance written notice (often 90 days) before renewal, sent through your account manager. Most customers report needing to send notice via email and receive confirmation in writing — verbal cancellation does not stop auto-renewal. Check the renewal date in your contract today; if it's within 90 days, send notice now to preserve your option. Prospekteer requires no notice — you can cancel any time from the billing page.
Q03
Can I import my Zywave prospect data into Prospekteer?
Yes. Export your prospect list from Zywave as CSV (or use whatever export tool your AMS supports), then upload it directly to Prospekteer. We re-enrich every record with public risk signals, score it, and surface the gap and opener. If you need help with the export step, send the file to adam@prospekteer.com and we'll handle it.
Q04
What is the Founder Rate Guarantee?
If you sign up in 2026, the price you pay today is locked for the next five full years — in writing, on every paid tier. We will never raise the price you pay during that window. Most prospecting platforms in this category run 30–45% renewal increases on multi-year contracts; we do the opposite and put it in your terms.
Q05
Will Prospekteer replace everything Zywave does?
No, and we are honest about that. Prospekteer is the prospecting and call-prep layer — find prospects, score them, name the gap, write the opener, run the sequence. Zywave additionally runs your AMS, HR Connection, rating intelligence, and Mod Master. If you currently use those Zywave modules and value them, Prospekteer replaces only the prospecting piece. For most independent agencies of 1–10 producers, the prospecting piece is what they were paying Zywave for in the first place.
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