Delos Alternatives for Recurring Agent Work
Delos alternatives for teams choosing among role-based AI workers, autonomous loops, and explicit recurring workflows.
Founder, Task Machine
Delos sells AI workers the way an agency places staff: pick a role, and a worker arrives with a name, an email address, a phone number, and the skills for the job. Companies compare alternatives when they want to manage several workers as a workforce, prefer one general assistant, or need the work between roles to be visible as a process.
Delos is a French company offering specialized AI workers for sales, marketing, finance, content, design, engineering, legal, and operations. Each worker has a name and its own email, phone, and digital computer, plus skills and memory, works through Slack, Microsoft Teams, and more than 3,000 connected tools, and can be deployed in under five minutes. The Team plan costs €50 a month for 40,000 credits.
What does Delos get right?
Delos makes a role concrete and fast to fill. You define the outcome, the worker decides how to use its tools, and it escalates when it needs you, so a sales development or bookkeeping role can be staffed in an afternoon. Its own email and phone let it work with customers and suppliers directly.
The worker and its goal are the primary object. When a job crosses roles, such as a signed deal that needs an invoice and an onboarding email, the handoffs and approvals between workers are harder to inspect as one process.
How do the alternatives compare?
| Product | Primary object | Control model | Best fit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delos | Goal assigned to a role-based AI worker | Goal setting, tool access, activity, and escalation | Companies wanting workers with their own email, phone, memory, and broad tool access |
| Tenor | Infrastructure for AI-native service businesses | Rubrics, permissions, approvals, and exceptions | Domain experts building a service business on AI |
| Duet | An agent you teach once and share with each client | Your checklists, templates, and rules, plus review of what it delivers | Consultants packaging their method for clients |
| MissionControlHQ (now Squad) | Agent-led mission owned by a chief of staff and specialists | Ticket queue, one-tap approvals, daily caps, and receipts | Founders wanting a hosted specialist squad and visible mission state |
| win.sh | 24/7 monitoring and action loop | Authority matrix, approval gates, hard budget cap, and morning brief | Founders wanting accounts they own watched continuously |
| Task Machine | Shared tasks and deterministic workflows | Chat to decide, Inbox to approve, Tasks to steer, with human and verifier gates | Operators and agencies that need the process and handoffs to stay visible |
Prices and features were checked against each vendor's own pages on 6 October 2026.
Tenor is aimed at domain experts building AI-native service businesses, with governance and a rubric that learns from every recorded outcome. Duet lets a consultant teach one agent their method and share it with every client, each in its own workspace. MissionControlHQ, now Squad, coordinates a squad of named specialists through an AI chief of staff and a ticket queue. win.sh runs one loop over your business accounts, and Task Machine makes the process between roles explicit.
When is Task Machine a better alternative?
Task Machine is the better alternative when the work moves between roles and people. Each recurring job runs as an explicit workflow, so the step where a sales agent hands off to an invoicing agent, and the approval in between, is visible and recorded. Agents act through accounts the business owns, every decision lands in one Inbox, and Tasks show where each job stands.
Delos fills a single role faster and gives it broader channel presence, including its own email and phone. Task Machine asks for more process setup and pays it back when ownership, handoffs, and review points must stay readable across several people and agents.
How should you decide?
Stay with Delos if one specialized worker with its own identity is the clearest owner for the job. Choose Tenor to build an AI-native service business, Duet to share one agent with your clients, MissionControlHQ for a coordinated specialist squad, win.sh for an always-on loop over your accounts, and Task Machine when the process between roles needs to be explicit.
Pick one customer journey that touches two roles and trace it end to end in each product you are considering. Choose the one where you can see the handoff and the approval without asking either worker what happened.