Task Machine vs AI Workers

You want AI coworkers that handle real business work, sales, prospecting, content, support, around the clock. AI Workers and Task Machine both offer that. Where they differ is identity and control: agents that take on their own human-looking identity and act on their own, or agents that work transparently through accounts you own, with your judgment in the loop.

What AI Workers does well

AI Workers, by Delos, offers specialized AI workers for business: a roster of role-named persona workers across growth, marketing, finance, content, design, engineering, sales, and legal, not just coding. Its signature move is that each worker has a real professional identity, its own email, phone number, and personality, and reaches people across Slack, Teams, email, and phone, including outbound calls and follow-ups. Autonomy is goals-not-prompts: set an outcome, it figures out the how, runs around the clock, makes its own tool decisions, and escalates only when needed. It connects to thousands of tools and lets you deploy a worker in under five minutes. If you want channel-native AI coworkers that pick up the phone and run with a goal, that is a real, working model, and the native phone, Slack, and Teams presence is genuinely broad.

How you stay in control

AI Workers defines itself by two things Task Machine deliberately does not do. First, its workers take on their own human-looking identity, their own email and phone, so external contacts interact with them without knowing it is AI. Task Machine's agents act transparently through accounts you own and never masquerade as people.

Second, AI Workers is goals-not-prompts autonomy that escalates only when needed, the work runs on its own and surfaces a result. Task Machine is control-first: recurring work runs as deterministic workflows, explicit graphs with branch conditions, human-question nodes, approval nodes, and verifier nodes, and you steer it through the three-surface workflow, chat to direct, inbox to approve, tasks to dig in. You draft and approve before anything client-facing goes out, and every step leaves inspectable logs. The honest tradeoff is that AI Workers' human-passing, run-on-its-own model is the more hands-off option. If you want transparent work you sign off on, Task Machine is built for that.

What you get with Task Machine

Transparent, draft-and-approve work. Task Machine's agents act through accounts you own and never present themselves as human. Anything client-facing is drafted and routed to you for approval before it goes out, rather than a worker with its own email and phone reaching your contacts on its own.

The three-surface workflow. 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. You see and steer where work is, instead of receiving a result from a worker that ran on its own.

Deterministic workflows, with verifiers. Workflows are explicit graphs of steps with branch conditions, human-question nodes, approval nodes, and verifier nodes, with inspectable step-level logs, rather than goals-not-prompts autonomy that escalates only when needed. 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, with a playbook catalog rather than a buy-and-sell worker marketplace.

When each fits

Choose AI Workers if you want channel-native coworkers with their own email and phone that reach contacts on their own, run on goals around the clock, and escalate only when needed.

Choose Task Machine if you want agents that work transparently through accounts you own and never pass as human, with recurring work running as deterministic, verifiable workflows you draft, approve, and review from one inbox.

Common questions

Do Task Machine's agents have their own email and phone like AI Workers? No. Task Machine's agents act transparently through accounts you own and never take on a human-looking identity or masquerade as people to your contacts.

Does work go out automatically, or do I approve it first? You approve it first. Client-facing work is drafted and routed to your inbox for approval before it ships, rather than running on its own and escalating only when needed.

How is Task Machine's control different from goals-not-prompts autonomy? Task Machine runs recurring work as deterministic workflows with approval and verifier nodes and step-level logs, so you see and steer where work is, instead of receiving a result from a worker that acted on its own.