Task Machine vs Cofounder

You want agents to run real departments, such as engineering, sales, marketing, finance, and operations, and to keep you in the loop while they do it. Cofounder and Task Machine both promise that. They differ on what staying in control means: steering the work as it happens, or signing off on the few actions a platform flags as dangerous.

What Cofounder does well

Cofounder lets you run engineering, sales, marketing, design, finance, and ops with AI, through agentic departments with managers, shared context, and an AI roadmap. It manages your GitHub, Supabase, and Vercel projects, plus domain and email hosting, while you build, and on paid plans you can "graduate" to claim ownership of those projects at any point. It supports MCP, custom APIs, custom skills, and an existing codebase, and an LLC incorporation add-on handles the paperwork.

After a 7-day free trial, Cofounder Pro costs $120 a month, and a Team plan at $100 per seat is listed as coming soon. If you want department structure from one subscription, that is a working model.

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

How you stay in control

Cofounder asks for approval when agents take potentially dangerous actions, with incorporating an LLC and opening a bank account as the published examples. Agents act on their own for the rest of the work.

Task Machine puts you on the work itself. Each recurring job runs as a workflow with branch conditions, Human approval and Ask human steps, and verifier checks, and everything that needs your judgment arrives in one Inbox. You decide in Chat, approve in the Inbox, and steer in Tasks, so the outbound email to a real prospect or the page about to publish waits for you wherever you placed a gate.

What you get with Task Machine

Approvals you place. Any step can wait for your sign-off, ask you a question, or pass a verifier check first. You draw the line for what counts as dangerous.

Your accounts and subscriptions. Agents act through accounts you already own, and Task Machine never custodies your Stripe, domain, or infrastructure. Agents run in the Cloud by default, or on a computer you connect, where tamacode uses the ChatGPT, Claude, or GitHub Copilot subscription you already pay for. Cofounder does not accept your own model key or an existing Claude Code or Codex subscription.

No cut, from $99 a month. Pricing starts at $99 a month with the usage you choose. You keep 100% of your revenue, Task Machine takes no cut, and it never custodies your accounts.

Built for client work. Agencies run recurring client work with playbooks and approvals, on each client's own accounts.

When each fits

Choose Cofounder if you want agentic departments that mostly run themselves on a hosted stack, and approving a short list of dangerous actions is the involvement you want.

Choose Task Machine if you want to steer recurring work through workflows reviewed from one Inbox, on accounts and subscriptions you own, with approvals wherever the stakes are.

Common questions

Does Task Machine ask for approval only on dangerous actions, like Cofounder? No. You decide where approval, question, and verifier checks sit in each workflow, so you can gate any step that needs your judgment.

Can I bring my own model subscription? Yes, on a computer you connect. tamacode signs in to ChatGPT (Codex), Claude, or GitHub Copilot, and agents on that computer use those subscriptions. In the Cloud, agents use Task Machine's models from your included usage.

Does Task Machine take a cut or hold my accounts? No. You keep 100% of your revenue, Task Machine takes no cut, and it never custodies your Stripe, domain, or infrastructure.