Task Machine vs NanoCorp

You want agents to build, launch, and operate a real business, the product, the domain, the payments, the ads, the outbound, not just help with the occasional task. NanoCorp and Task Machine both offer that. Where they differ is who keeps your money and who keeps control: what it costs to take your earnings out, who holds your accounts, and how much you stay in the loop while agents work.

What NanoCorp does well

NanoCorp turns one prompt into one company with zero code. Describe a company in a sentence and AI agents build, launch, and operate it end to end: they ship a live software product with a landing page, app, and database, deploy a custom domain, take Stripe payments, run Meta ad campaigns on daily budgets, do outbound sales prospecting and customer email, and send a daily CEO briefing, running around the clock. The control model is an AI CEO that reports to you: set the mission, approve major decisions in plain language, and the CEO handles execution. If you want a company live in about two minutes from a single prompt, that is a real, working model.

Who keeps your money, and who keeps control

Look closely at how NanoCorp gets paid and what it holds. NanoCorp provisions and holds the stack, the Stripe account, the domain, the infrastructure, and it charges a 20% withdrawal fee on money you take out. Task Machine takes no cut of your money and never holds your accounts.

With Task Machine, agents connect to accounts and tools you already own, the platform never takes custody of your Stripe, your domain, or your infrastructure, and you pay a flat, predictable price, so taking your earnings out never costs you a percentage. You also stay in control of the work itself through the three-surface workflow, chat to direct, inbox to approve, tasks to dig in, over deterministic workflows with verifiers, rather than approving major decisions while an AI CEO loop runs the rest. The honest tradeoff is onboarding: NanoCorp provisioning everything from one prompt is genuinely less to set up, while Task Machine asks you to bring the accounts you already have.

A fixed company, or one you shape

Because NanoCorp provisions the product, domain, payments, and ads itself, the business runs NanoCorp's own conventions, technically impressive, but effectively the one shape it knows how to build. Task Machine is assembled from composable primitives, agents, teams, workflows, tasks, knowledge, and skills, wired to the accounts you already own, so you can build almost any operation rather than the shape a platform decided in advance. The range of our playbook catalog is the proof.

What you get with Task Machine

No cut of your money. NanoCorp charges a 20% withdrawal fee on money you take out. Task Machine charges a flat, predictable price and takes no cut, so you keep 100% of what your business makes and pay the same whether you earn nothing or a fortune.

No custody of your accounts. Task Machine connects to accounts you already own and never takes custody of your Stripe, your domain, or your infrastructure, whereas NanoCorp provisions and holds them. If you leave, everything was already yours.

The three-surface workflow, with verifiers. Chat to set strategy and fan work out, an inbox to approve and review anything that needs your judgment, and tasks for the detailed back-and-forth, over deterministic workflows with branch conditions, approval nodes, and verifier nodes, not an AI-CEO loop running on your behalf. You decide where a person or a check has to sign off before work continues.

Built for client work. Task Machine is built for the agency case: running outcome work for clients with playbooks and approvals, which one-prompt company builders do not set out to serve.

When each fits

Choose NanoCorp if you want a company live in two minutes from a single prompt, you are comfortable with the platform provisioning and holding your stack, and you accept a 20% fee on money you withdraw in exchange for that convenience.

Choose Task Machine if you want to keep 100% of your money with no withdrawal fee, connect agents to accounts you own and control, and steer recurring work through deterministic, verifiable workflows reviewed from one inbox.

Common questions

Does Task Machine take a cut of my revenue like NanoCorp's withdrawal fee? No. Task Machine charges a flat, predictable price and takes no cut, so you keep 100% of what your business makes, unlike NanoCorp's 20% fee on money you withdraw.

Who holds my Stripe, domain, and infrastructure? With Task Machine you do. Agents connect to accounts you already own and the platform never takes custody of them, whereas NanoCorp provisions and holds the stack itself.

How do I stay in control of the work? You steer it through the three-surface workflow, chat to direct, inbox to approve, tasks to dig in, over deterministic workflows with approval and verifier nodes, rather than approving major decisions while an AI-CEO loop handles the rest.