Switch from Delos to Task Machine

Delos organizes work around specialized AI workers with professional identities, goals, memory, and access to business tools. Task Machine organizes recurring work around shared tasks and explicit workflows, with people and agents working in the same process.

Why do people switch from Delos?

• The process needs to be explicit. Delos starts with a goal assigned to a worker. Task Machine records branches, questions, approvals, verifier checks, and results as steps in a workflow.
• People need to choose the review points. Delos describes workers that act on their own and escalate when needed. Task Machine lets you place approval and question steps and verifier checks where the process requires them, then use autonomy levels to decide what may proceed without review.
• Agents should use accounts the business owns. Delos gives workers their own names, email addresses, and phone numbers. Task Machine agents act through connected accounts the business owns.
• Several roles need one shared record. Task Machine keeps direction in Chat, decisions in one Inbox, and detailed execution in Tasks, so a process that crosses people and agents never depends on one worker's activity view.

What maps to what?

Prices and features were checked against each vendor's own pages on 6 October 2026.

What do you give up?

Delos has broader built-in channel presence. Its workers can have their own email and phone, work through Slack and Microsoft Teams, and connect to more than 3,000 tools, and Delos says the first worker can be deployed in under five minutes. Task Machine does not give agents separate phone identities, and modeling a recurring process takes more setup. If the job cleanly belongs to one role and quick channel presence is the priority, Delos can be the better fit.

How does the switch work?

1. List the goals assigned to your Delos workers, and identify the recurring steps, decisions, and outputs behind each one.
2. Create the matching tasks or workflows in Task Machine, then place approval and question steps and verifier checks wherever the process needs human judgment or a check.
3. Connect the accounts and tools the agents should use. Start with lower autonomy, and raise it only where completed work gives enough evidence.
4. Move durable reference material into Library documents, schedule recurring workflows, and set spending budgets for agent work.

Common questions

Does Task Machine replace Delos phone channels?

No. Task Machine agents use accounts you connect, and Task Machine does not give each agent its own phone identity. Keep Delos when that channel is central to the job.

Can Task Machine run work without approval every time?

Yes. Autonomy levels let routine actions proceed, while workflow steps keep explicit gates for work that still needs a question, an approval, or a verifier result.

How is this different from hiring another AI worker?

A Delos worker is a role with its own identity, skills, memory, and tools. In Task Machine the primary object is the recurring process and its recorded decisions, shared by people and agents.