Building autonomous AI agents. Notes from the team building Gravity. AI workflows, the future of recurring work, and what we learn along the way.
Dify and Gravity get compared a lot, but they are not the same kind of product. Dify is a Swiss army knife for LLM-powered apps, with chat, RAG, and agents under one roof. Gravity is a focused runtime for operational…
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Botpress and Gravity are often compared because both call themselves agent platforms. Look closer and the design centres are different. Botpress is a chat platform with agent capabilities. Gravity is a headless…
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Beam AI and Gravity get compared a lot in 2026 because both pitch "AI agents that automate business processes." Look closer, the audience and the surface differ.
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Zapier shaped how a generation of small teams thought about automation. The early magic was that a team could connect Stripe to Slack without writing code. Trigger fires, action runs, done. The product has earned its…
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n8n occupies an interesting position in the 2026 automation market. It is the open-source, self-hostable, developer-friendly answer to Zapier and Make. Founded in 2019 in Berlin by Jan Oberhauser, the project has…
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In March 2025, Manus put out a demo that did the thing every agent vendor had been promising for a year. It opened a browser, hunted down a property listing, compared it to ten others, drafted an analysis, and…
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Make (formerly Integromat) is the power-user's workflow tool. The visual scenario editor handles routes, iterators, aggregators, error handlers, and array operations natively. Where Zapier requires workarounds, Make…
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Lindy is one of the cleaner products in the 2026 AI agent market. The UI is calm and the demos are polished. The team has earned its standing. Even so, Lindy and Gravity are solving the same problem with opposite…
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LangChain is one of the foundational projects of the LLM-app era. Harrison Chase released the first version in October 2022 and the project hit 90,000 GitHub stars within two years, with a commercial company funded…
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Genspark is one of the more interesting agent products of the 2024-2026 cycle. Founded by Eric Jing and Kay Zhu (both ex-Baidu), it sits between search engine and chat assistant, with a signature output called a…
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CrewAI captured something real about how engineers want to think about agents. The mental model of a crew (researcher, writer, manager, reviewer) collaborating on a task is intuitive, communicable, and easy to demo.…
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"Gravity vs Claude" is one of the most common search queries I see, and one of the most miscategorised. It is closer to "Toyota vs Bosch engines" than to "Toyota vs Honda". Claude is a foundation model family from…
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On 22 April 2026, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Workspace Agents, bundling agentic capabilities into ChatGPT Team and Enterprise plans (OpenAI blog, 2026). The reaction in the agent ecosystem was predictable: half the…
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Half of every meeting I have ever sat in dissolves into the question "wait, who owns that?" The decision was made. Three people will roughly remember it by Friday. Nobody has it written down. By the next standup, two…
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Bank reconciliation in QuickBooks is one of those tasks that feels small until you actually do it. A bookkeeper sits down on a Monday morning, opens last week's statement, and starts clicking. Match this charge.…
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The first thing that goes when a calendar fills up is the work the calendar was supposed to make room for. The Tuesday afternoon you reserved for the strategy doc gets eaten by a 30-minute sync that becomes 50, a…
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monday.com boards die in the same way every time. The first three months everyone updates statuses, attaches files, drops comments. By month six, only the diligent quarter of the team is still updating, and by month…
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Asynchronous video is supposed to save time. In practice it produces a recording that nobody watches, a transcript nobody reads, and a frustrated recorder who shrugs and falls back to writing a paragraph in Slack.…
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An Instagram creator with 80,000 followers gets between 200 and 1,200 comments on a strong post. Of those, maybe 40 are real questions, 8 are partnership inquiries hidden in casual language, 30 are spam, 10 are…
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The shared Drive of any company over two years old looks like a teenager's hard drive after final exams. "Untitled document (3)" at the root. Forty-seven copies of the same pitch deck named with the initials of…
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Most Google Ads accounts I have audited have at least 15 percent of spend on keywords that should not be running. Some are old A/B winners that are no longer winning. Some bid on broad-match queries that fire on…
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The worst day of a Discord moderator's week is the day someone reports something that turned out to be fine, and someone else reports something the moderator missed, and a third person quietly leaves the server…
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Selling on Amazon is mostly the act of reading reviews and responding to them. The reviews tell you whether the product is right, whether the listing is right, whether the packaging survived FBA, and whether your…
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The most common failure mode of a team running ClickUp is not that nobody uses it. It is that the gap between "we decided this in the standup" and "this exists as a task with an owner and a due date" stays open for…
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The pattern is familiar. An operations team builds an Airtable base. It starts as a single table with twenty rows. Eighteen months later it is thirty tables, four hundred fields, six views per table, and the only…
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Misrouted tickets are the silent SLA killer. A queue of 800 tickets where half land on the wrong team is a queue of 1200, because every wrong route costs a reassignment, a re-read, and a re-clock on the SLA timer.…
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Sixty Zaps is the point where the operator running them stops being able to remember what each one does. By Zap forty, the average operations lead is googling their own folder structure. By Zap sixty, half the Zaps…
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The Typeform notification email is one of the quietest cash-flow leaks a small company has. You set up a contact form months ago, pointed it at "team@" or "hello@", and now 200 submissions a week land in a shared…
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Forty Trello boards across a team is the number where things break. Half are alive but slow. A quarter are dead. Another quarter are alive but unowned, with cards that have not been touched since someone's last role…
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Most founders I know refresh the Stripe dashboard five or six times a day. They scroll the timeline, mentally subtract this morning's failed-payment notification, and decide whether the week is good or bad based on a…
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