Plenty of studios build a client portal in Notion. It works until requests pile up: no email intake, no approvals, and sharing to manage page by page. Dora is a client portal out of the box, with an AI account manager.
Nothing to build
Add your website and every client gets a working portal. No templates to maintain.
Requests by email
Clients email a request and Dora turns it into a brief. No form to keep up to date.
Sign-off built in
Approve or ask for changes in one click, with auto-approval for quiet clients.
| What | Dora | Notion |
|---|---|---|
| Client access | A portal made for clients: what needs them, their requests, and their files. They sign in with an email link. | Clients are guests with their own Notion account, invited page by page. Hiding rows per client needs the Business plan. |
| Pricing | First client free, forever. Then $10 per client a month, with unlimited team seats and every feature included. | Plus $10 and Business $20 per member a month, billed yearly. Guests are free. |
| Requests | Each client has an address. Dora reads every email, writes the brief, and asks for anything missing. | Forms on every plan. No built-in email intake. |
| Approvals | Clients approve or ask for changes in one click. Quiet clients' work approves itself after the days you set. | Nothing built in; teams use a status property and buttons. |
| Your brand | Your logo and name on the portal and every email. Your own domain is part of a white-label setup. | Custom domains for Notion Sites as a paid add-on. |
| AI | An AI account manager that briefs every request, asks clients for what's missing, answers in threads, nudges quiet clients, and writes summaries. | Notion AI on Business and up, and an official MCP server. |
Client access
Dora
A portal made for clients: what needs them, their requests, and their files. They sign in with an email link.
Notion
Clients are guests with their own Notion account, invited page by page. Hiding rows per client needs the Business plan.
Pricing
Dora
First client free, forever. Then $10 per client a month, with unlimited team seats and every feature included.
Notion
Plus $10 and Business $20 per member a month, billed yearly. Guests are free.
Requests
Dora
Each client has an address. Dora reads every email, writes the brief, and asks for anything missing.
Notion
Forms on every plan. No built-in email intake.
Approvals
Dora
Clients approve or ask for changes in one click. Quiet clients' work approves itself after the days you set.
Notion
Nothing built in; teams use a status property and buttons.
Your brand
Dora
Your logo and name on the portal and every email. Your own domain is part of a white-label setup.
Notion
Custom domains for Notion Sites as a paid add-on.
AI
Dora
An AI account manager that briefs every request, asks clients for what's missing, answers in threads, nudges quiet clients, and writes summaries.
Notion
Notion AI on Business and up, and an official MCP server.
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Docs and wikis
Notion is excellent for documentation, knowledge bases, and shared notes.
Your own structure
Flexible databases and views let you model almost anything.
Simple public pages
Sharing a page or publishing a site takes seconds.
Yes. Plenty of teams keep internal docs in Notion and run client requests, feedback, and approvals in Dora.
With Notion, guests need their own account. With Dora, clients sign in with a link sent to their email, or just reply to emails.
Add your website and your portal is set up in about a minute.
- Free for your first client
- No card needed
- Set up in a minute
- Works with Claude and ChatGPT