Pilla vs GoAudits (2026): AI that acts inside the work, or a mobile audit and inspection app

I ask the same twelve questions on every comparison. For Pilla I describe what the product does today. For GoAudits I went back to their help and product pages on 15 September 2026. Where they stay quiet, I stay quiet.

I am Liam Jones. I founded Pilla after more than ten years running hospitality operations, food safety and frontline teams. On 15 September 2026 I sat with GoAudits' current help: basic fields, Form Builder, question help, action plans, Broadcast, the REST API and the pricing page. I have not lived in a paid GoAudits account for this write-up. I am telling you what their docs say.

I built Pilla for AI work management on the floor. GoAudits sells a mobile audit and inspection app.

You open Pilla on the phone you already carry. You see the next step, read how to do it, take the photo or sign, and move on. The record lands while you work. Pilla checks it against the rules you set and follows up when something needs you.

I hear the same thing from managers: they draw the process once and stop asking all day whether it happened. The team likes it because they can see what good looks like before they start.

Prices are per user. Starter caps you at one company, 25 locations and 10 templates. Enterprise lifts those caps and adds scheduling, advanced reporting, the API and a higher photo limit. SSO, file upload and extra images are quoted add-ons. External action assignees do not need a paid login. The UK path on their site uses pounds. I have left third-party dollar figures off this page.

You can open Pilla the same day. Every new account gets a 14-day trial of Pro, with no card. I usually see a first opening or closing workflow take an afternoon. GoAudits also starts with a 14-day trial and no card. They will turn your paper checklists into forms. Inspections can go live quickly.

If you move, you rebuild the checklists on the canvas. Photos and history stay in GoAudits unless you export them by hand. Run both for a while. Keep the audit and inspection programme on GoAudits or another vendor. I did not build Pilla to do shift scheduling, payroll or HR.

If you only need digital lists and you want to try something today, start with Pilla. If you run an inspection programme and you need scored checklists and branded PDFs from one vendor, stay with GoAudits. If money is tight, we both publish prices. If you want AI in the run and an MCP server, I would pick Pilla even in a small team.

GoAudits holds the inspection programme in one place. You prove the check with photos, signatures and timestamps. You score the visit, fail a critical miss, and send a branded PDF. You assign a fix with a due date. I would stay on GoAudits for that audit SOP.

I built Pilla so you can turn the processes you already know into workflows on a canvas. Your team follows them on a phone, tablet or the web app. Pilla checks completed work and handles the follow-up you configured. You keep judgement, coaching and the awkward calls. I left shift scheduling, payroll and HR out on purpose.

If I ran an inspection programme that needed scored checklists, photo proof and branded PDFs from one vendor, I would keep GoAudits. That audit SOP is a fair reason to stay. If I wanted the work drawn on a canvas and AI acting inside the run, with DMs and MCP, I would use Pilla, and I would keep the audit product somewhere else.