Building autonomous AI agents. Notes from the team building Gravity. AI workflows, the future of recurring work, and what we learn along the way.
The first time I shipped an agent without proper observability I did not notice quality degradation for nine days. Token costs were stable, latency was fine, error rates were nominal. The agent was answering…
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For most of 2024 and the first half of 2025, AI governance for agents was a tomorrow problem. By mid-2025 it had become a this-quarter problem. The EU AI Act began entering force in stages, the NIST Generative AI…
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This is not a primer on AI agent pricing models. The taxonomy of per-token, per-task, per-agent, and capability-based pricing already lives at AI agent cost models explained. This piece is the operational sibling.…
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Workato and Gravity get put on the same shortlist when a buyer types "AI workflow automation" into Google and the search engine hands back both. The shortlist is misleading. Workato is an enterprise iPaaS. Gravity is…
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Tray.ai and Gravity both ride the AI automation wave, but the buyer and the building experience are different. This comparison helps decide which category fits the work you have.
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Relay and Gravity both target the "AI drafts, human approves" pattern. The category framing is different. Relay puts the workflow first and the AI inside a step. Gravity puts the outcome first and approval inside the…
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Pipedream and Gravity get lined up a lot because both can "take a Slack message and do something useful with it." The interface is different, the buyer is different, and the unit of work is different. This is a…
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IFTTT and Gravity get compared mostly because IFTTT was, for a generation of automators, the entry-level idea of "let one app talk to another." If the same buyer evaluates Gravity today, the question is whether AI…
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"Zapier alternatives" lists were a productivity blog staple for a decade. Then AI happened, and the question changed. The real question is no longer "is there a cheaper Zapier?" but "is there a Zapier-shaped thing…
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Manus took off because it could pick up a vague task description and run a multi-hour autonomous session. That demo is impressive. The follow-up question buyers ask is "does it run every Monday at 9am for me,…
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Lindy markets itself as "AI employees" and ships a clean visual flow builder with strong defaults. Most "Lindy alternative" searches start because a buyer hit one of three things: pricing, the canvas being too much…
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If you have ever read the LangChain docs and thought "I just want the thing to work, not learn another framework," this list is for you. LangChain is a powerful Python library. It is for engineers. Non-developers who…
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ChatGPT Workspace Agents shipped in April 2026 and immediately changed the shortlist for any buyer evaluating "AI agents for my team." If you are already on ChatGPT Plus or Team, agents are bundled and convenient.…
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This comparison covers two products that buyers often line up against each other when they shouldn't. TinyFish is an enterprise web agent platform. Gravity is an outcome runtime. The labels look similar at a glance,…
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This comparison covers two products that buyers often line up against each other when they shouldn't. OpenClaw is a browser-driven autonomous agent. Gravity is an outcome runtime. The labels look similar at a glance,…
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This comparison covers two products that buyers often line up against each other when they shouldn't. MindStudio is a no-code AI app builder. Gravity is an outcome runtime. The labels look similar at a glance, the…
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This comparison covers two products that buyers often line up against each other when they shouldn't. Hermes Agent is a web browser autonomous agent. Gravity is an outcome runtime. The labels look similar at a…
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This comparison covers two products that buyers often line up against each other when they shouldn't. Gumloop is a visual AI workflow builder. Gravity is an outcome runtime. The labels look similar at a glance, the…
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This comparison covers two products that buyers often line up against each other when they shouldn't. Glean is an enterprise AI search and agents. Gravity is an outcome runtime. The labels look similar at a glance,…
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This comparison covers two products that buyers often line up against each other when they shouldn't. Gemini is a Google AI assistant. Gravity is an outcome runtime. The labels look similar at a glance, the buyer…
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This comparison covers two products that buyers often line up against each other when they shouldn't. ChatGPT is a conversational AI assistant. Gravity is an outcome runtime. The labels look similar at a glance, the…
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This comparison covers two products that buyers often line up against each other when they shouldn't. Agent.ai is an AI agent marketplace. Gravity is an outcome runtime. The labels look similar at a glance, the buyer…
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This comparison covers two products that buyers often line up against each other when they shouldn't. Activepieces is an open-source workflow automation with AI. Gravity is an outcome runtime. The labels look similar…
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Vellum and Gravity attract different buyers. Vellum's natural buyer is an ML platform engineer at a company shipping AI features. Gravity's natural buyer is a founder or ops lead shipping internal agents.
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Stack AI feels like an app builder. Gravity feels like a hiring interface for a process. Both are tools for non-developers to put AI to work, but the design centres are different.
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Relevance AI built a category around the AI workforce metaphor, branded sales agents that act like teammates. Gravity is the opposite, anonymous agents defined entirely by what they do. The marketing is different.…
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Lyzr targets enterprise teams that want safe, packaged agents. Gravity targets anyone who wants to describe a result and have it run. The audiences overlap but the design centres differ.
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This comparison comes from hands-on use of both: writing LangGraph code in production, and building Gravity from the ground up. It is the framing a team needs when making the same decision today.
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LangFlow is a visual builder. Gravity is not. That is the headline. The interesting question is whether a visual builder is what you actually want once the agent is in production.
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Flowise and Gravity sit in adjacent neighbourhoods. Flowise says: here is a free canvas, host it yourself, build agents visually. Gravity says: skip the canvas, describe the outcome, the runtime is ours.
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