Task Machine vs Lindy

Lindy handles work through connected tools, Slack conversations and routines. Task Machine organizes people and agents around Tasks, Goals and reviewed plans.

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Task Machine and Lindy compared, with the source and check date of each answer
What you compare Task Machine Lindy
Goals Task Machine Yes

Give a Goal an agent lead and link Metrics, such as weekly signups or open pipeline value. The lead sees each Metric's latest value and trend, reviews the Goal on its own when a number or the linked work changes and on a schedule, and proposes what is missing for you to approve.

taskmachine.io/docs/goals
Lindy Yes

You can give Lindy an ad-management job with client-specific cost-per-acquisition targets and spending caps. It checks performance daily, pauses ads that miss targets and reallocates budget within your limits.

lindy.ai/hire/media-buyer
Leads Task Machine Yes

Goals, Projects and Teams each have a lead, a person or an agent. A Goal lead checks that the work can still reach the outcome. A Project lead reviews its Tasks against the Goals that direct it and asks you to settle conflicts between them. A Team lead triages the queue. Every gap becomes a proposal you approve.

Lindy Yes

Lindy publishes a project-manager role that assigns tasks, runs standups, checks project progress and chases overdue approvals. It coordinates work through connected project tools and Slack.

lindy.ai/hire/project-manager
Tasks Task Machine Yes

Every job is a Task that a person or an agent owns. The Task keeps its plan, discussion, decisions, runs and history together, so you can steer one job in detail without reading a chat log, and people and agents hand work to each other on the same record.

taskmachine.io/docs/tasks
Lindy Partly

People delegate jobs in private messages or shared Slack channels, and Lindy can build a task tracker with owners, dates and status. Its docs do not establish a common work record with discussion or history that both people and agents can own.

Recurring work Task Machine Yes

Start a Task or Workflow once, on a schedule in your timezone, or when a service event arrives, such as a paid invoice or a pull request review. A recurring job keeps one stable root Task and gives each occurrence its own status and history, so repeated work does not flood your board.

Lindy Yes

Routines run on daily, weekly or monthly schedules, or events such as received email, Slack messages and meeting endings. Smart Filters narrow which events start work.

docs.lindy.ai/teammate/routines.md
Workflows Task Machine Yes

A Workflow repeats your steps in the same order every time, with branches, human questions and approvals, and verifier checks that judge each result against its requirements and send weak work back with feedback. Every run keeps a step-by-step history you can read afterwards.

taskmachine.io/docs/workflow-builder
Lindy Yes

Personal routines can turn instructions into Python that runs first on every trigger, with paths to finish, hand work back to Lindy or repair a failed script. Skills save reusable procedures for requests that need them.

Autonomy Task Machine Yes

Consequential decisions land in your Inbox with their context. You set what each agent may do on its own: every action is either Ask first or Automatic, per agent, and you can change that whenever the work or the stakes change.

Lindy Yes

Each integration can allow writes, require approval or block writes, with Approve and Deny buttons in Slack threads. The integration guide limits these guardrails to shared Slack threads, excluding private chat, direct messages and texts.

Learned autonomy Task Machine Yes

Task Machine studies the approvals and corrections you already make. When an agent does well it proposes giving it more freedom, and when it needs closer supervision it proposes tighter review, each with the evidence. A short lucky streak is not enough, and nothing changes until you accept.

Lindy Not published

Its docs do not describe Lindy proposing permission changes from approval history. The documented Always allow button changes future permissions when a person chooses it.

Memory Task Machine Yes

Agents keep lessons from your corrections, such as an accepted example or a mistake to avoid, and carry the relevant notes into later work. Memory is kept per agent, project, goal, team and workspace, and you can read, correct and restore any note.

taskmachine.io/docs/memories
Lindy Yes

Lindy stores durable knowledge across tasks in personal and team files. You can inspect and edit the files, read their save history and restore earlier versions, with team editing restricted to owners and admins.

docs.lindy.ai/teammate/memory.md
Planning Task Machine Yes

Plan in Chat with your agents, and the plan becomes Tasks or Library documents instead of staying in a chat log. Before an agent starts, you review its plan and the acceptance criteria its work will be judged against.

taskmachine.io/docs/planning-in-chat
Lindy Yes

Watch and Learn turns a recording or written process into steps discussed in chat. You correct the tools, inputs, decisions and expected result, confirm the skill, then review the proposed routine before approving activation.

Intake Task Machine Yes

Send work in over HTTP with a project token. It lands in the project as a Task, or in your Inbox as a proposal first. A team lead agent triages it to the right owner and asks you only when the decision is yours.

Lindy Yes

Email and Slack events can start routines, and Lindy documents support-ticket triage, routing by topic and severity, drafted replies and escalation.

Connectors Task Machine Yes

Install services from a catalog as MCP servers, APIs or command-line tools, or add your own custom Connector for any of the three. Events Connectors receive webhooks from a service, such as a paid invoice, and start Workflows or wake a waiting Task.

taskmachine.io/docs/connectors
Lindy Yes

Lindy offers an integration catalog, MCP servers and custom integrations against a tool's API. Email and Slack events can trigger routines.

Models Task Machine Yes

Auto is the default. For each stage of the work it chooses a model from the task, current model capabilities, pricing and your applicable budgets, and you can fix a specific model on an agent when you want to.

taskmachine.io/docs/agents
Lindy Yes

Lindy says it picks a model for each task automatically. You can also choose the model yourself.

docs.lindy.ai/pricing.md
Cloud or your own computer Task Machine Yes

Run agents in Managed Cloud with nothing to install, or connect a Local Worker, a computer you control, for local files, tools and accounts. You choose where each agent runs.

Lindy Partly

Lindy builds and hosts live pages and provides browser-accessible apps. Its public docs do not describe running the assistant on your own computer, server or infrastructure.

Your own subscription Task Machine Yes

Sign in to your ChatGPT (Codex), Claude or GitHub Copilot subscription on a Local Worker, and the agents there use it instead of Task Machine's models.

Lindy Not published

Its docs do not describe funding Lindy's model usage with your own AI subscription or provider API key. Saved credentials are documented for calls to external tools rather than the assistant's model billing.

Pricing Task Machine Yes

Usage based. From $29 a month before tax, the whole payment becomes usage that your workspace shares across people and agents, with no base fee and no trial. Larger monthly amounts lower the AI and Cloud rates.

taskmachine.io/pricing
Lindy Yes

Team starts at $49.99 per active user per month with 5,000 credits per seat, pooled across the workspace. Top-ups cost $10 per 1,000 credits. The homepage and pricing page agree on these amounts.

lindy.ai/pricing lindy.ai
Correctness Task Machine Yes

Every Task carries acceptance requirements, and each one gets a Pass, Fail or Uncertain check against the delivered work before a person reviews it. Workflow steps can add a verifier check that sends failed work back with feedback. You review the plan first, so the criteria exist before work starts.

Lindy Partly

Dry runs expose routine classifications and drafts without writes, and Lindy publishes offline and online model evaluations. Its docs do not establish delivered-task checks against defined acceptance requirements.

For software work

Task Machine and Lindy compared, with the source and check date of each answer
What you compare Task Machine Lindy
Code review rules Task Machine Yes

Internal code review checks completed changes against the enabled rules of your repository. Rule discovery reads the repository and proposes rules, each screened against violating and valid examples first, and Task Machine suggests turning off a rule that agents keep dismissing.

taskmachine.io/docs/repositories
Lindy Partly

Lindy lists code review among its engineering use cases. Its public docs do not describe reviewing code against configured repository rules.

Adversarial review Task Machine Yes

When an approved plan has high sensitivity or a Critical review level, the change also gets an adversarial review. Two independent reviewers examine the changed files together for defects such as a broken caller or a duplicate charge on retry. Findings keep their reproduction steps, and a skipped or failed review never counts as a pass.

taskmachine.io/docs/task-reviews
Lindy Not published

Its public docs do not describe an independent second review of risky code changes. Published engineering use cases include code review and bug investigation without this review arrangement.

Risk rating Task Machine Yes

Before final review, Merge risk rates the exact revision Low, Moderate or High, with notes on alignment, impact, verification, rollback cost and error detection, plus file references. It informs your decision and never merges for you.

taskmachine.io/docs/pull-requests
Lindy Not published

Its public docs do not describe a code-change risk rating before merge. The project-manager page discusses launch risks, which are a different kind of assessment.

Pull requests Task Machine Yes

Agents deliver against the exact reported revision, address review feedback and update the branch under your repository rules. Task Machine records its own approval of the exact commit before an agent may merge.

taskmachine.io/docs/pull-requests
Lindy Partly

The engineering example describes investigating a payment error and opening a pull request with a fix and test. Its public docs do not establish responding to pull-request review feedback.

docs.lindy.ai/use-cases.md

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Who each one suits

Lindy suits you if you want an assistant working through Slack and connected tools, with routines for incoming requests and recurring jobs. It also publishes project-manager and media-buyer roles that coordinate projects or act on advertising targets.

Task Machine suits you if you want people and agents to own the same kind of Task, with its plan, discussion, decisions and execution history together. You review plans and acceptance criteria before agents start.

You may stay with Lindy if its Slack conversations, editable memory and scheduled routines already fit your work. Watch and Learn lets you demonstrate a process and review its steps before saving it for reuse.

Coordinate work through your tools

Lindy's project-manager role assigns tasks in connected tools, checks progress in standups and chases approvals. Its media-buyer role checks advertising performance against client targets and changes budgets within your caps. Those are concrete examples of coordination and metric-driven work, rather than just answering questions in chat.

Task Machine gives work a shared Task record. A person or agent can lead a Goal, Project or Team. A Goal lead reviews linked Metrics, while a Team lead routes incoming work and brings proposals to you for approval.

Lindy skills save reusable procedures. Routines add a schedule or event trigger and a destination for the result. Personal routines can also run generated Python scripts, with a handoff to Lindy for work that still needs an agent. Task Machine Workflows define steps and branches, with human questions, approvals and verifier checks that can return weak results for revision.

Review permissions and reusable instructions

Lindy's integration guide lets you allow writes, block writes or require approval in shared Slack threads. That guide explicitly excludes private web chat, Slack direct messages and texts from these guardrails. Its pricing page makes a broader approval promise, so the detailed scope matters when you choose a channel.

Watch and Learn starts with a recording or written process. Lindy summarizes the steps, you correct them in chat, then approve the skill and routine. Its Memory page exposes durable knowledge as editable, versioned files.

Task Machine lets you choose Ask first or Automatic per action and agent. Decisions arrive with their context in the Inbox, and agents' saved memories can be read and corrected.

What the prices cover

Lindy's Team plan starts at $49.99 per active user per month, with 5,000 credits per seat pooled across the workspace. Top-ups cost $10 per 1,000 credits. Monthly credits do not roll over, while purchased top-ups remain until used. Both its homepage and dedicated pricing page now show the same starting price, although its documentation still names Plus, Pro and Max plans.

Task Machine is usage based, from $29 a month before tax, and the whole payment becomes usage shared by your workspace with no base fee. You keep 100% of your revenue, Task Machine takes no cut and never takes custody of your accounts. See pricing for what consumes usage.

Common questions

Can Lindy manage a goal with numbers?
Yes. Its media-buyer role checks advertising against client targets and changes budgets within spending caps. Task Machine links Metrics to a Goal with a person or agent lead.

Can both ask before changing a connected tool?
Yes. Lindy documents configurable integration approvals in shared Slack threads. Task Machine lets you configure actions per agent and review decisions in the Inbox.

Can Lindy work on code?
Yes. Its engineering use cases include code review and an example of opening a pull request with a fix and test. The docs do not establish the repository-rule checks, independent second review or pre-merge risk rating compared above.

Can I run Lindy on my own computer?
Its public docs do not describe a local assistant runtime. Lindy hosts its apps and live pages. Task Machine offers Managed Cloud or a Local Worker on a computer you control.