Switch from MakerPad to Task Machine

MakerPad's pitch is "Build AI companies that run themselves": you set strategy and taste, agents execute, and five tools are wired in from day one — AI coding agents, Stripe checkout, Google and Meta ads, cold-email outreach, and SEO page generation — with your company live at a .makerpad.app subdomain. Task Machine is the opposite shape: composable primitives — agents, teams, workflows, tasks, knowledge — pointed at accounts you own.

Why do people switch from MakerPad?

• Wired in from day one means wired in MakerPad's way. Five prechosen tools is a fast start and a hardcoded operation. Task Machine's primitives compose into almost any operation, because they act through the Stripe, email, and ad accounts you already own.
• A live feed is watching, but an inbox is steering. MakerPad shows launches, deployments, and activity in real time — after they happen. Task Machine's three-surface workflow (chat, inbox, tasks) puts you before the action: approvals, questions, and results land in one inbox and get acted on in a click.
• Your business at your own address. A company living at a .makerpad.app subdomain, with checkout and ads inside the platform, is a business you don't fully hold. Task Machine connects to the domain, Stripe, and ad accounts you own — you keep 100% of your revenue, Task Machine takes no cut and never custodies your accounts.
• Self-running vs controlled autonomy. "Companies that run themselves" is MakerPad's headline. Task Machine runs deterministic, verifiable workflows with autonomy levels per agent, project, or goal — you choose exactly what runs without you, and raise it as agents earn it.

What maps to what?

What do you give up?

Honesty first: MakerPad's day-one story is stronger. Five tools genuinely working the moment you sign up, a free beta with welcome credits, and nothing to connect is faster than wiring up your own Stripe, email, and worker. If what you want is a self-running company you watch through a feed, MakerPad is built for exactly that.

How does the switch work?

1. Join the Task Machine waitlist and connect a workspace to accounts you own — since MakerPad's tools lived inside its platform, this usually means standing up your own domain, Stripe, email, and ad accounts.
2. Pick the playbooks that match the wired-in tools you were using — outreach, content, SEO, marketing — each installs the agents, workflows, and documents for that job.
3. Connect a worker on a machine you control, running the coding agent tools you prefer.
4. Set autonomy levels low to start, put approval steps before ad spend and outbound sends, and set money budgets with 80% and 100% alerts.

Common questions

Can Task Machine run ads and outreach like MakerPad's wired-in tools?

That work runs as workflows over your own ad and email accounts, installed from playbooks. The difference is control: approval steps sit before spend and sends by default, and you loosen them deliberately with autonomy levels.

Do I lose the live feed?

You trade it for two things: an inbox that brings you the moments that need a decision, and step-level run history that shows what every workflow step actually did. Watching becomes steering.

What happens to my .makerpad.app site?

It stays MakerPad's. Task Machine has no importer — you'd stand up your own domain and product on accounts you own, then point agents at them. It's manual, and it's the last time your business lives on someone else's subdomain.