Building autonomous AI agents. Notes from the team building Gravity. AI workflows, the future of recurring work, and what we learn along the way.
A spreadsheet is honest about almost everything except its own quality. The rows look fine until a date is stored as text, an email is missing the @ sign, a price has a stray currency symbol, or the same customer…
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Bank reconciliation is the chore that eats a bookkeeper's week and rewards none of the effort. Most lines match an invoice cleanly: same amount, the invoice number sitting right there in the bank narration. The work…
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A Webflow form is the easy part. The hard part is what happens in the thirty seconds after someone hits submit: is this a sales lead or a support question, has this person contacted you before, which channel should…
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The daily live standup is a tax on a distributed team. It interrupts deep work, forces people across timezones into one awkward slot, and most of what gets said is status that could have been read in thirty seconds.…
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A Notion projects database is only as useful as the moment someone last looked at it. Status fields drift out of date, due dates pass quietly, and the one project that is actually on fire looks identical to the forty…
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Cold email is unforgiving. A campaign that looks fine on Monday can be burning sender reputation by Friday, and you only notice when reply rates fall off a cliff. The work of catching that early is pure monitoring:…
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Deals do not usually die from a hard no. They die quietly, sitting in a stage while the rep gets pulled onto something louder, until the close date passes and everyone pretends it was never real. The fix is…
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The issue tracker is where a project's first impression lives, and an untriaged tracker reads as neglect. New issues arrive with no labels, half of them missing the version or the steps to reproduce, some of them…
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A no-show is a small wound that bleeds quietly. The prospect who missed your call was interested enough to book, and if nobody follows up in the next day, that intent cools to nothing. The follow-up is simple and…
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A curated newsletter is mostly grunt work wrapped around a few minutes of taste. Somebody has to read a week of feeds, save the good links, write a tidy sentence about each one, put them in a sensible order, and…
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Taskade is a polished product, and that is worth saying plainly before drawing any line between it and Gravity. It folds projects, tasks, docs, and AI into one collaborative workspace, and in 2026 it leans hard into…
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Superagent and Gravity both have the word "agent" in their pitch, and that is roughly where the overlap ends. Superagent in 2026 is an open-source framework for AI agent safety: it blocks prompt injections, redacts…
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Of all the products Gravity is compared against, Spell.so is one of the closest in spirit. Both are built on the same instinct: stop doing repetitive work yourself and delegate it to AI. Spell.so leans into that with…
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HyperWrite, from OthersideAI, started as an AI writing assistant and grew into something broader: it still suggests and drafts text as you type, but it now also ships a Personal Assistant that can use your browser to…
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If you searched "Gravity vs Fixie.ai" expecting two head-to-head agent platforms, the honest first thing to say is that Fixie.ai is not quite the product it was pitched as a couple of years ago. The team that built…
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AutoGen is Microsoft's open-source framework for building multi-agent systems in code, and it has been one of the most influential projects in the space, the place a lot of engineers first learned to make several…
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This is an unusual comparison, because by 2026 Adept is not really a product you can choose. Adept was one of the most admired startups in the agent space: its ACT-1 demos, where an AI operated real software the way…
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The honest answer to "what is the best AI agent platform for startups" is that it depends on your team and your stage, and anyone who hands you a single ranking is selling something. I run a startup myself and I have…
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A solopreneur is not a small startup. A startup is a team trying to scale; a solopreneur is one person trying not to drown. The whole game is leverage: how do you run sales, delivery, finance, and marketing alone…
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AI agent pricing in 2026 is genuinely confusing, because the platforms are not priced the same way. Comparing them on the headline number is like comparing a phone plan, a tank of gas, and a kit car by their sticker…
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Halfway through 2026, AI agents are everywhere in conversation and still mostly absent from production. That tension is the whole story. The hype says agents are running companies; the data says most are running in…
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OpenAI's Codex is a coding agent, so it is tempting for anyone who is not building developer tools to skip it. That would be a mistake. Codex is one of the clearest production examples of how to build an agent that…
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Gravity and Dust both live under the AI agent banner, but they are built for different jobs. Dust is an enterprise platform for building AI assistants grounded in your company's data, the documents, conversations,…
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Most agent demos work. That is the problem. A demo is one run, on a clean input, with the builder watching. The moment an agent goes live it meets empty fields, rate limits, contradictory instructions, and the one…
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Every few months Google runs a broad core update, the search world panics for two weeks, and then everyone goes back to writing. A Q2 2026 core update is no different in kind, only in timing. This analysis cuts past…
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Every transformational technology gets oversold before it gets useful, and Gartner built an entire model around that pattern. In 2026, AI agents are the clearest current example. The hype that carried agentic AI to…
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Enterprise adoption of AI agents in 2026 is not a single story, it is a pattern: agents enter through a few high-volume functions, run as pilots before they run as production, and live or die on governance and proven…
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When people ask which model to build an agent on, they usually want a ranking. The more useful question is which capabilities an agent actually depends on, and how a given model delivers them. Claude 4 is a strong…
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The EU AI Act is the first comprehensive AI law from a major jurisdiction, and in 2026 its obligations are no longer theoretical, they are phasing in on a fixed schedule. For anyone building or deploying AI agents…
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I have paid for a lot of software I did not use. Everyone has. The forgotten subscription is so normal that whole businesses are built on the gap between what people pay for and what they actually touch. When I…
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