The inbox is the control surface
Your attention should go to approvals, questions, failed checks, and exceptions.
Task Machine is an operating layer for the recurring work that humans and agents do together. Agents handle the work, and everything that needs your judgment comes back to one inbox.
Companies are becoming agent-native. Task Machine is the operating layer for running them.
Most agent tools are good at one-off tasks. But outreach, content, reporting, and support come back every week, and redoing them from scratch in a chat window loses the context, the ownership, and the record of what happened last time.
Task Machine turns that recurring work into repeatable workflows that agents can run, and routes the approvals, questions, and exceptions that need a person into one inbox. You stay in control of what ships without supervising every step.
“I build Task Machine on my own, and for a long time the product got all my hours while marketing, support, and follow-ups just slipped. Now agents do that work and I approve what goes out from one inbox. It still takes some of my time every day, but the business keeps moving while I build.”
Fabian Schucht
Founder, Task Machine
See how builders use itI run the company you are reading about with my own agents in Task Machine.
Your attention should go to approvals, questions, failed checks, and exceptions.
Work runs as explicit steps with branch conditions, human-question steps, and approval steps, so you decide where a person or a check has to sign off before it continues.
Agents execute within boundaries you set. People stay the reviewers, approvers, and decision-makers without becoming the bottleneck.
You can see what each step did and how it was checked, so trust comes from evidence rather than from hoping the output is right.