Building autonomous AI agents. Notes from the team building Gravity. AI workflows, the future of recurring work, and what we learn along the way.
Zapier costs anywhere from nothing to several thousand dollars a month, and the honest answer to "how much will I pay" is decided less by the plan you pick than by the task math underneath it. As of mid-2026, the…
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An AI research assistant is software that uses AI to speed up research: finding sources, summarizing them, extracting data, connecting findings across documents, and formatting citations. One label, though, covers…
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A personal AI assistant is software that uses AI to handle your individual tasks: answering questions, drafting messages, managing your schedule, researching options, and increasingly, finishing multi-step work on…
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The difference between an AI agent and a chatbot comes down to one word: action. A chatbot answers; you ask a question, it replies, and control returns to you after every message. An AI agent acts; it takes a goal,…
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Zapier and n8n solve the same problem, connecting your apps into automated workflows, for two different kinds of people. Zapier is the polished, no-code option with the largest app catalog, priced per task. n8n is…
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An AI agent SaaS integration is the connection that lets an agent read from and act inside the software your team already pays for: the CRM, the helpdesk, the project tracker, the inbox. Without integrations, an…
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An AI agent platform is software that lets you create, run, and manage AI agents in one place. Instead of assembling model access, integrations, memory, guardrails, and hosting yourself, the platform provides them,…
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Generative AI and agentic AI differ in one fundamental way: generative AI creates content when you ask, while agentic AI completes goals on its own. A generative tool waits for a prompt, produces text, images, or…
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The 30% rule in AI is an informal guideline for splitting work between machines and people: let AI handle roughly 70 percent of a task, the repetitive, rules-based execution, while humans keep the remaining 30…
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Every filing season has the same shape. Forty open returns, each waiting on one document. An inbox where new client inquiries sit unanswered next to the fourth "is my return done yet" of the day. Evenings spent…
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An agent that logs meetings and nudges stale deals gives a RevOps team hours back every week. An agent holding a full-scope token to your CRM is one bad prompt away from overwriting a quarter of lifecycle stages. The…
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Gumloop earned its spot fast. It is a hosted, no-code canvas built around AI steps from the start, rather than a classic workflow tool with AI bolted on, and it shows up in the top results for almost every "AI agent…
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The phrase gets used loosely, so it helps to be precise. An assistant that drafts an email for you to send is helpful, but it is not autonomous. An agent that reads your goal, drafts the email, sends it, waits for a…
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Selling on eBay is two jobs wearing one login. The first job is the one you chose: finding inventory worth selling and knowing what it is worth. The second is the one that came with it: writing listings, answering…
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The word "agent" gets stretched to cover almost anything with a chat box, so the fastest way to understand agents is to look at what they do. Below are thirty AI agent examples, grouped by the job they replace, with…
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Support is where a growing SaaS company feels volume first. Signups double and so do the password resets, the how-do-I questions, and the tickets that say "it's not working" with no other detail. The team answers the…
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Onboarding is where SaaS revenue is won or lost, and almost none of the work that decides it is strategic. It is watching. Did the new account connect its data source? Did the trial that signed up on Tuesday ever…
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Under $50 a month is where most owner-operators and small teams actually shop for AI agents. Enterprise lists are full of platforms that quote "contact sales", and free tiers eventually run out of room, but this…
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Last updated: August 21, 2026. New rounds added monthly through September. The Q2 2026 edition has been folded into this page; see the Q2 recap below for the April to June picture.
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n8n is a genuinely good tool. It is an open-source, self-hostable automation platform with a node-based canvas and, increasingly, AI agent nodes. People do not usually go looking for an alternative because it is bad;…
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Free is the right way to start with AI agents. You should never pay to find out whether an agent saves you time, and in 2026 you do not have to. The catch is that free means three different things, and picking the…
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Procurement is two jobs wearing one title. The first is strategic: negotiating with suppliers, designing category strategy, managing risk, and finding savings that move the company's margin. The second is tactical:…
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The attachment graveyard is a universal condition. Invoices, signed contracts, receipts, resumes, design files, spreadsheets, all of them arrive as attachments, get glanced at, and then live forever inside the email…
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Most teams connect their first agent to Notion in ten minutes, then discover a week later that it either sees the entire workspace or silently reads only the first hundred rows of a database. This guide is the safe…
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A small business is not a startup and not a solo hustle. It is an established operation, often two to twenty people, run by an owner who does three jobs before lunch and has no IT department to lean on. That shapes…
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Ask any sales rep what they hate most about the job and "updating the CRM" will be near the top of the list. Not the selling, not the calls, not even the rejection. The data entry. The half hour at the end of the day…
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Six months in, Gravity is still pre-launch, and that is the honest headline. There are no customers, no revenue, and no growth chart to show. What there is instead is a set of decisions made deliberately and a…
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An AI agent helps an IT service desk move from triage to resolution by handling the repetitive parts of every ticket and stopping at the line where judgment and privilege begin. It reads each incoming ticket,…
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An AI agent runtime is the software layer that actually executes an agent. The language model decides what to do next; the runtime is what makes it happen. It runs the loop of observing the situation, reasoning about…
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There is no single AI agent ROI number you can copy into your business case, and any roundup that hands you one is selling something. The honest version of the evidence is this: where companies concentrate AI on…
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