Building autonomous AI agents. Notes from the team building Gravity. AI workflows, the future of recurring work, and what we learn along the way.
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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I have used both. I have written LangGraph code at the previous startup and I have built Gravity from scratch over the past four months. This is the comparison I wish existed when I was making the same decision in 2025.
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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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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 first time I used it in 2017, the magic was that I could connect Stripe to Slack without writing code. Trigger fires, action runs, done. The…
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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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