Agent frameworks vs managed AI agents: which one fits your business
CrewAI, LangGraph and n8n sell you the ability to build. Managed services sell you the system running. A buyer's guide to picking the right layer.
A purpose-built team of AI agents for your industry — a manager, real departments, and one report a week. We build it, connect it to your accounts and supervise it.
So you sign up, poke at it for an hour and never come back. We took the same engine and did the hard part for you — the org chart, the accounts, the budgets, the supervision.
Pick models. Write prompts. Wire integrations. Watch costs. Work out why the agent stopped. Do it again next week when something breaks. Your evenings disappear and nothing ships.
We build the org chart, connect your accounts, set the budgets and supervise the output. You approve what matters and read one report a week. The work is the product — not the software.
Twenty minutes on a call. What you sell, who buys it, and the work eating your week.
The Managing Agent holds the goals, plans the work and decides who does what.
Each one owns a single outcome and comes with a schedule, a budget and a boss.
Specialists with trained skills fill each department. Two to three per pod.
It runs on its own, files what it produced, and flags what needs your signature.
Nothing to configure. No workflows to draw. Just what your company did, what it produced and what needs you. Clear the queue below — it is live.
Nothing needs you. Your company carries on without you.
Handing work to AI is only sane if you can stop it, see it and cap it. All three are built in — not promised in a roadmap.
Anything that leaves your business — a post, an email, a price — waits in your queue first. You decide what needs a signature and what runs free.
Every agent has a monthly ceiling. Reach it and they stop, automatically. Runaway costs are structurally impossible, not merely unlikely.
Every task, decision and tool call is logged and traceable — so you can always answer "why did it do that", and roll it back.
Access is granted through each platform's own permission screen and revocable in one click. We never ask for a password.
Your company's data lives apart from every other client's. Nothing is pooled, shared, or used to train anything.
We build it, we watch it, and we are accountable for it. Supervising your company is the service you're paying for, not a feature we bolted on.
Every plan includes the AI running costs, the build and our supervision. No token bills, no per-seat arithmetic, no annual lock-in.
Add a specialist to any department — a second writer, a data researcher, another pair of hands on support. Same price whatever the role, billed monthly, dropped whenever the work slows down.
A whole new pod: three agents, their skills and their schedule — cheaper than hiring the three separately.
A completely separate AI company for another brand or location, with its own data and budget.
Frontier models and a higher ceiling. Faster turnarounds and noticeably better writing.
We check the work before it reaches you or your customers. For regulated or reputation-sensitive businesses.
We build and train one bespoke skill around a workflow that only exists in your business.
Connect something we don't support yet — a niche CRM, an internal tool, a custom API.
No. A chatbot waits for you to ask. This is a team with jobs, a schedule and a manager — it wakes up on its own, does the work, files it, and tells you what needs approving. You don't prompt it. You review it.
A pod of two to three agents that owns one outcome — answering enquiries, producing content, handling support. They share a schedule and report to your Managing Agent. Your plan sets how many departments run; you pick which ones during onboarding.
No. We do the setup with you on a call. You'll connect your existing accounts the same way you'd give a new employee access — and that's the whole technical part.
Never. The AI running costs are inside your plan, and every agent carries a hard spending cap. When a budget is reached the agents pause and we get alerted — you don't.
Anything leaving your business sits in your approval queue first. Every action is logged, every decision traceable, and you can pause the entire company from your phone.
You do. Your accounts stay yours and access is revocable at any moment. Your company's data is isolated from every other client's, and the work it produces is yours to keep if you ever leave.
Any month, with no notice period. The setup fee is one-time and non-refundable because the build work is real, but the subscription itself is month to month.
Pick "Something else" during signup and we design the departments with you on the call. The five core departments fit almost any business, and the industry-specific ones are what we tailor.
We write about agentic AI for people deciding whether to buy it, not for people building it. No launch coverage, no hype — the questions that actually come up on our calls.
CrewAI, LangGraph and n8n sell you the ability to build. Managed services sell you the system running. A buyer's guide to picking the right layer.
Licence fees are the small number. Token spend, retries and human time are the real bill — and the reason uncapped agent systems produce surprise invoices.
Most multi-agent demos work and most multi-agent deployments do not. The reason is error compounding — and the fixes are structural, not model upgrades.
Content, enquiries, support or admin. How to pick the first department to hand to AI agents, ranked by speed to visible value.
Twenty minutes to set up. One month to judge it. Cancel if it doesn't earn its place.
Each one has a company we've already built for it.
Pick an industry to continue.
Plans are priced by how many departments you automate.
Pick a plan to continue.
Pick what your company should take over first.
Choose at least one department to continue.
Optional, and changeable any month. Most people start without these and add them at the thirty-day review.
We use this to prepare your company before the onboarding call.
Tell us what the business is called.
Optional — it helps us pre-load your context.
Enter a valid email so we can reach you.
Optional — for the onboarding call.
One or two sentences is plenty. This shapes your first week.
Charged today, then monthly. Cancel any month from your dashboard.
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