Switch from Tasklet to Task Machine
A practical guide to moving from Tasklet's build-your-own agent command center to Task Machine's three-surface workflow over verified, inspectable workflow runs.
Prefer the side-by-side comparison?Tasklet is a cloud AI command center for team agents, connections, knowledge, and apps: you build, share, and manage reusable agents, with cloud sandboxes, schedules, and event triggers. Of the tools on this list, it is one of the closest to Task Machine — this is a comparison between neighbors, not opposites. The difference is what leads. Tasklet leads with agents you build and manage. Task Machine leads with the three-surface workflow (chat, inbox, tasks) over deterministic, verifiable workflows, where humans and agents share durable work objects. People switch when they realize they wanted to run work, not build a roster of agents.
Why do people switch from Tasklet?
- Building agents was still the job. Designing and managing reusable agents is work in itself. Task Machine's playbook catalog — 123 playbooks across 17 categories — starts from the outcome, and chat lets you describe the job instead of constructing the worker.
- An explicit graph over agent behavior. Task Machine runs work as deterministic, verifiable workflows: named steps with branches, approval points, and verifier steps, so what happens is defined by the graph rather than by how a given agent behaves today.
- One inbox for everything consequential. Approval and question steps from every workflow land in a single shared inbox, so review has one home instead of being spread across agents.
- Durable work objects humans and agents share. Tasks hold the output, the step-level run history, and the back-and-forth, and both people and agents work in them — the system of record, not a side effect.
What maps to what?
| In Tasklet | In Task Machine |
|---|---|
| A reusable agent you build and manage | A playbook you pick, or a workflow described in chat |
| Cloud sandboxes | Machines you connect — local workers today, cloud workers later |
| Schedules and event triggers | Schedules, task intake from outside systems, or a chat instruction |
| Connections and knowledge you attach | Connectors to accounts you own |
| Checking what an agent did | Step-level run history plus approval, question, and verifier steps |
| Managing the agent roster | The three-surface workflow: chat to direct, inbox to approve, tasks to dig in |
What do you give up?
Tasklet is the closer rival here, and its flexibility is real: for teams who want to design, share, and manage custom agents as the product of their work, its command-center shape fits well. Task Machine deliberately leads with workflows and review surfaces instead of agent construction, which is a constraint if building the agents themselves is the point. If it is, Tasklet is a reasonable place to stay.
How does the switch work?
- List the agents doing recurring business work — reporting, outreach, research, support — as the candidates. The bespoke ones you actively enjoy tuning can wait.
- Join the Task Machine waitlist, connect the accounts that work touches, and pick matching playbooks from the catalog.
- Rebuild each candidate as a workflow: agent steps for the judgment, an approval step before anything consequential, a verifier step where output must meet a bar.
- Run a cycle, review from the inbox, read the step-level run history, and raise autonomy levels where the work has proven itself.
Common questions
How is Task Machine actually different from Tasklet?
Both run scheduled agent work with connections to your tools. Task Machine's wedge is the interaction model: the three-surface workflow (chat, inbox, tasks) over explicit workflow graphs with approval, question, and verifier steps, and durable tasks that humans and agents share.
Where do agents run?
On machines you connect — local workers today, cloud workers later — rather than in a hosted sandbox. Connectors act on accounts you own.
Do agents act without my approval?
Only where you allow it. Each agent has an autonomy level, the default routes consequential actions to your inbox, and token and money budgets alert you at 80% and 100%.
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