Notes on getting work done by agents
Comparisons, prices as of this month, and what actually works when you hand a task to an AI agent. Written by the people who build and test them.
AI Agents for Restaurants: 10 Daily Ops Jobs to Automate (2026 Guide for Independents and Small Chains)
Restaurants typically run on a pre-tax margin of roughly 5 percent (National Restaurant Association, 2026) and food-away-from-home prices rose 4.1 percent year over year per USDA Food Price Outlook, 2026. A GM at an…
AI Agents for Every Profession: 2026 Index of 55+ Jobs
The short answer. Almost every profession can use an AI agent today, and the best results come from agents tuned to one job rather than tools that try to be everything. Gravity indexes expert-built agents across 55+…
AI Agents for Dental Practices: 8 Workflows That Pay for Themselves in 90 Days (2026)
Dental practices lose revenue in predictable places: 10 to 15 percent of scheduled visits to no-shows, recall lapse over 30 percent, treatment plans diagnosed but never scheduled, insurance verifications that consume…
AI Agent Unit Economics for Builders (2026)
Builders keep asking the same question: is this agent actually worth shipping? Most answers floating around treat AI agents like SaaS products with seat counts and CACs. They are not. An agent is a piece of software…
AI Agent Marketplace Splits Compared (2026)
Most builders look at a marketplace headline split, 70/30, 80/20, 95/5, and stop reading. That's the expensive mistake. The percentage is the smallest variable in the equation. What matters is everything sitting…
AI Agent Marketplace: The Complete 2026 Guide
Most teams don't need another tool to build an AI agent. They need an agent that already works. According to McKinsey's State of AI 2025 survey, 88% of organizations now report regularly using AI in at least one…
Best Open-Source AI Agent Frameworks in 2026
Open-source agent frameworks are not a competitor category to managed platforms. They are a different layer of the stack: libraries you build with, not products you buy. The choice between them comes down to…
Enterprise AI Agent Platforms in 2026 (Buyer Guide)
Enterprise AI agent buying is a different category from founder buying. The shortlist is shorter, the requirements are heavier, and the procurement timeline is measured in quarters. The platforms that win enterprise…
Cheapest AI Agent Platforms in 2026: Free to $20/Month
"Cheapest AI agent platform" is the wrong question if you stop at the marketing page. The real cost includes LLM tokens, infrastructure, integrations, and time spent on glue code. A platform that looks free can be…
Bootstrapped-Friendly AI Agent Tools in 2026
Bootstrapped founders read pricing pages differently. The question is not "what is the best agent platform" but "what is the cheapest agent platform that does not break when I scale to ten agents." The platforms that…
Best Personal AI Agents in 2026: 9 Compared for Personal Use
The phrase "personal AI agent" is a moving target. In 2024 it meant a chatbot. In 2026 it means an agent that runs for one person, on their behalf, against their actual apps and data, often without supervision. The…
Best No-Code AI Agent Builders in 2026: 6 Platforms Compared
The phrase "no-code AI agent" gets stretched. It can mean a chatbot wizard, a prompt chain in a spreadsheet, or a real autonomous runtime with a visual interface. This shortlist is the third meaning. Each platform…
8 Best AI Agents for SaaS Companies in 2026 (Compared)
Disclosure: Gravity is our own product. It is on this list for recurring SaaS ops, the job it was built for, and the reviews say plainly where a competitor is the better pick. Reviews are ordered alphabetically, not…
AI Agent Pricing in 2026: What Agents Cost Per Month
AI agent pricing pages are designed to look comparable when the models behind them are not. A flat-fee platform at one hundred dollars per month can be cheaper or more expensive than a usage-based platform at five…
AI Agent Platforms with No Vendor Lock-in (2026)
"No vendor lock-in" is one of the most overused phrases on enterprise pricing pages. Every platform has some lock-in. The honest question is which lock-ins you can live with and which would be catastrophic if you had…
AI Agent Platforms with the Best Integrations (2026)
The "most integrations" claim is the cheapest one a SaaS marketing page can make. Counting connectors does not tell you whether the platform can do real agent work inside each one. A platform with five hundred…
AI Agent for Square Receipt Categorisation
A coffee shop processes between four hundred and two thousand Square transactions a day. A barber shop processes between thirty and eighty. A food truck does about one hundred and fifty. None of those operators want…
AI Agent for Shopify Inventory Restock
A Shopify store with five hundred SKUs is impossible to manage inventory for by hand. Every Monday morning the operations person scrolls through the inventory tab, identifies SKUs running low, looks up the supplier,…
AI Agent for PayPal Dispute Monitoring
PayPal disputes have a response window. For Item Not Received and Significantly Not As Described disputes the merchant has ten calendar days to respond. For chargebacks routed through PayPal the window is shorter.…
AI Agent for Mixpanel Funnel Anomaly Alerts
A growth team watches three funnels. Onboarding, activation, payment. Each funnel has five to twelve steps. Mixpanel exposes those steps in the dashboard. The team checks the dashboard once a week, sometimes once a…
AI Agent for Microsoft Teams Message Summary
Every morning at a time you set, the agent calls the Microsoft Graph API and pulls the last twenty-four hours of messages from each whitelisted channel. For each message it asks one question: does the user need to…
AI Agent for Help Scout Conversation Tagging
Help Scout supports tags but does not enforce them. Over time a support inbox accumulates hundreds of tags, most of them near-synonyms applied by different agents in different weeks. Searching the tag cloud becomes…
AI Agent for Google Forms Response Routing
You have a Google Form. It collects contact requests, support tickets, partnership inquiries, refund requests, or interview applications. You currently route those responses by hand: open the response sheet, read…
AI Agent for Freshdesk Ticket Routing
A typical Freshdesk team has between four and twelve groups: Tier 1 Support, Billing, Technical, Sales, Account Management, Trust and Safety, and so on. New tickets land in a single inbox or in a per-channel inbox. A…
AI Agent for Confluence Stale Page Cleanup
Every Confluence instance over two years old has pages nobody reads. A workspace with two thousand pages typically has five hundred that haven't been edited in a year and three hundred that haven't been viewed in six…
AI Agent for Coda Doc Rollup
Coda is the only working surface for some teams. Specs, OKRs, sprint plans, retros, customer notes, all of it lives in Coda docs. Over a week the team writes a lot, decides some things, and updates a few status…
AI Agents for YouTubers: What Actually Saves Time in 2026
The honest pitch for AI agents to a YouTuber is not "scale your channel." It is "stop spending three days on the parts of upload that do not show up on camera." Most mid-sized YouTubers I talk to, the 10k to 1M…
AI Agents for Real Estate Brokers: What Saves Time in 2026
Broker-owners looking at AI, whether they run a single-office shop or a multi-office regional firm, tend to want the same thing. They are not trying to replace agents. They are trying to take hours of brokerage-level…
AI Agents for Property Managers: What Saves Time in 2026
Residential property management is a job composed almost entirely of five-to-fifteen-minute interruptions. A tenant's garbage disposal jams at 7pm. An owner emails asking why last month's repair cost $340. A lease…
AI Agents for Podcasters: What Actually Saves Time in 2026
The honest pitch for AI agents to a podcaster is not "grow your show." It is "stop spending five hours editing the parts of an episode no one cares about." Almost every solo or small-team podcaster I have worked with…