Task Machine vs NanoCorp

You want agents to build, launch, and operate a real business: the product, the domain, the payments, the ads, and the outbound. NanoCorp and Task Machine both offer that. They differ on who keeps your money and who keeps control: what it costs to take your earnings out, who holds the accounts, and how much you stay in the loop while agents work.

What NanoCorp does well

NanoCorp's pitch is "Describe the business you wish existed. NanoCorp builds and runs it." Its agents build the landing page, app, database, payments, and domain, then prospect, email customers, run Meta ads, and send daily reports while you steer by chatting with your agent. It can also start from an existing GitHub project, and it claims 96% of its businesses ship a live site.

The entry cost is low. A 3-day free trial with 15 credits and no card gives you one business on a nanocorp.app domain, and the Founder plan costs $30 a month for 30 credits, with larger credit tiers and custom domains. If you want an idea live this afternoon, that is hard to beat.

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

Who keeps your money

NanoCorp charges a 20% fee on money you withdraw, so every dollar the business earns costs twenty cents to take out. Task Machine 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.

Who holds the company

NanoCorp builds the stack for you, so the business runs on the domain, payments, and infrastructure NanoCorp set up. With Task Machine, agents connect to the Stripe, domain, and tools you already own. If you leave, everything was already yours.

A company it builds, or one you shape

A company built end to end by one platform follows that platform's conventions. Task Machine gives you building blocks instead: agents, workflows, documents, and skills, wired to your own accounts. A catalog of 140 playbooks, each with a guide, installs a working setup for jobs such as outbound sales, customer email, ads, and content, so you start fast without handing over the stack.

What you get with Task Machine

Control before money or messages leave. You decide in Chat what each job should do, approvals and questions arrive in one Inbox, and Tasks show how each job is going. A Human approval step holds an ad budget change or an outbound sequence until you approve it.

Budgets that stop runaway spend. Budgets on a workspace, project, workflow, or agent warn you in the Inbox as spending nears the limit and refuse new work once it is reached.

Client work on client accounts. Agencies run the same playbooks for each client on that client's own accounts.

When each fits

Choose NanoCorp if you want a company live from one description with no setup, you are comfortable with the platform building and running the stack, and a 20% fee on withdrawals is a fair price for that speed.

Choose Task Machine if you want to keep 100% of your money, run agents on accounts you own, and approve the consequential steps before they happen.

Common questions

Does Task Machine take a cut like NanoCorp's withdrawal fee? No. You keep 100% of your revenue, Task Machine takes no cut, and it never custodies your accounts.

Who holds my Stripe, domain, and infrastructure? You do. Agents connect to accounts you already own, and Task Machine never takes custody of them.

How do I stay in control of the work? Each recurring job runs as a workflow with Human approval steps where you place them, and every decision arrives in one Inbox before the work goes out.