Lotics vs Base.vn
Base.vn is a management platform of ready-made HR, CRM, and workflow modules your team configures and runs. Lotics builds and operates a finished AI app for each operations desk, where AI reads incoming documents, drafts outgoing ones, and checks the numbers. Here's how the two differ for document-heavy operations.
| Feature | Lotics | Base.vn |
|---|---|---|
| Core purpose | Finished AI apps we build and operate, one per operations desk | Management platform: HR, CRM, and workflow modules |
| Document processing | AI reads incoming PDFs and invoices, cross-checks records, fills your templates | Document storage and sharing via Base Drive |
| AI's role | Does the desk's manual work: reads incoming documents, drafts outgoing ones, checks the numbers | FPT AI integration for specific features |
| HRM / Payroll | No payroll or attendance — we pair with your HR tool; apps own the operations paperwork | Full HRM: recruitment, attendance, payroll, leave management |
| CRM | No packaged CRM — a sales desk can be one of the apps we build | Full CRM with sales pipeline and after-sales service |
| Workflow automation | Multi-step: conditions, loops, and email, schedule, and webhook triggers | Base Workflow for process standardization and approvals |
| Shaped to your work | Built to your documents, fields, and rules — not a module you adapt to | Standard module structures; your process fits within them |
| Minimum team size | None — free tier with unlimited users | Minimum 30 accounts required |
| Pricing | Free tier; paid from $20/month per process, setup included, priced by scope not seats | From 35,000 VND/account/month, min 30 accounts (~$43/month minimum) |
Two different approaches to operations
Base.vn is a management platform: ready-made modules for HR, CRM, finance, assets, and internal communication, each following a standard business process. Backed by FPT Corporation, it integrates with FPT's AI and cloud. An admin configures the modules to your company and your team maintains them. Lotics takes the opposite approach: rather than modules you configure, we build a finished app for each operations desk — shaped to your documents, fields, and workflow stages — and operate it for you. You never touch a builder.
Base.vn works well for companies that need standard HR, CRM, and approval workflows in one platform. Lotics works well for companies whose daily work is processing documents and coordinating operations — the multi-step paperwork that no HR or CRM module covers.
Document processing
Base.vn stores and shares documents through Base Drive but does not process their content. Lotics uses AI to read incoming documents (invoices, bills of lading, purchase orders, customs declarations), cross-check values across related records, and draft outgoing documents from your templates — PDF forms, HTML-to-PDF, and Excel reports. A person reviews before anything goes out.
For operations teams that receive, verify, and produce documents every day (logistics, manufacturing, import/export), this is the core daily work — and it sits outside what Base.vn's modules do directly.
An app we build vs modules you configure
Base.vn's strength is ready-made modules: HR, CRM, finance, and communication that work together, configured by an admin and maintained by your team. Its FPT AI integration adds features on top — useful suggestions — but a person still configures each module and runs it, and your processes fit within the module structures. Lotics is the inverse: we build a finished app for each desk, shaped to how that desk actually works, and AI does its manual work inside — reads the documents that arrive, drafts the ones that go out, checks the numbers — with the team reviewing before anything is sent.
Companies with standard HR and CRM needs get value fast from Base.vn's pre-built modules. Companies whose daily work is document processing and operations coordination get the finished, operated app from Lotics — no module to fit into, no builder to learn.
Team size and pricing
Base.vn requires a minimum of 30 accounts across its packages, which suits mid-market and larger companies. Lotics has no per-seat minimum: a free tier with unlimited users, and paid plans from $20/month for one process. Setup is included on every paid plan — there is no separate implementation fee — and pricing scales by how much of your operation we build and run, not by how many people log in.
For smaller operations teams (under 30 people), Base.vn's minimum is a barrier; Lotics has none. For larger companies that already run full HRM and CRM on Base.vn, the two pair rather than compete — Base.vn for HR and communication, Lotics for the operations layer around it.
Which should you choose?
Use Base.vn if you need a unified platform for HR, CRM, approvals, and internal communication across 30 or more employees, with standard processes that fit its modules. Use Lotics if your daily work is processing documents and coordinating operations desks, and you would rather be handed a finished app — built around your documents, fields, and rules, operated for you, with AI doing the manual work and your team reviewing before anything goes out — at any team size. The two often pair: Base.vn for statutory HR and payroll, Lotics for the operations paperwork and coordination around it.
