A: Hey Mike083,

Thanks for these sharp questions and for comparing us with tools like Taskade – it's important to understand the differences!

1. AgenticFlow vs. Taskade (and its AI Agent/Team features):

Focus & Architecture:
- Taskade: Is primarily a fantastic AI-powered productivity and project management suite. Its "AI Agents" and "Agent Team" features are designed to enhance collaboration, task management, and content generation within that productivity ecosystem. It's excellent for organizing work and using AI to assist with those tasks.

- AgenticFlow: Is built from the ground up as an AI Agent Operating System focused on external and internal process automation and integration. Our core is about enabling AI agents to interact with a vast array of other software and data sources (via 2500+ MCPs and APIs) to perform complex, multi-step tasks that often span multiple platforms. While Taskade's AI helps you within Taskade, AgenticFlow's agents are designed to go out and do things across your entire digital landscape.

2. "Multi-Agent" Definition:

The term "multi-agent" can mean different things. In Taskade, "Agent Team" likely refers to collaborative AI assistance on projects within their platform.

AgenticFlow's Multi-Agent System (MAS) Add-On is about creating an orchestrated team of distinct AI agents, each with specialized tools and knowledge, that can autonomously delegate, execute in parallel, and consolidate results for complex external goals (e.g., running an entire marketing campaign, from research to posting, across multiple platforms). It's about building an AI workforce.

Integration Depth: AgenticFlow's emphasis on the MCP layer and direct API Call nodes is geared towards deep, programmatic integration with a wide array of external business systems (CRMs, email platforms, databases, scraping tools, etc.), which might be beyond the typical scope of a project management tool's internal AI features.

3. Credits, Tiers, and BYOK:

Tier 2 Credits (30k/month): For users who primarily leverage BYOK for their LLM calls, Tier 2 credits (which cover the fixed platform cost per step – 4 credits/step on T1/2) can go a surprisingly long way for many automation tasks that don't heavily rely on our built-in economical LLMs. If a workflow has 5 steps and uses your own keys for AI, that's 20 AgenticFlow credits per run, allowing for 1,500 such runs.

Tier 4 Availability: My apologies if there was any confusion – Tier 4 is available, but it's an exclusive offer for AppSumo Plus members. If you are an AppSumo Plus member, you should see the option to purchase Tier 4. If you're not Plus and are interested, the AppSumo Plus membership itself often pays for itself with the discount on a high-tier deal like ours.

Why Costs with BYOK?: Even when you BYOK (and pay your LLM provider directly for tokens), AgenticFlow still incurs costs for:

- Orchestration & Platform Compute: Running the workflow engine, managing state, executing non-LLM nodes (like data lookups, API calls, MCP interactions), providing the UI, storage for agent configurations, etc. The small fixed credit cost per step helps cover this platform overhead.

This is standard across most automation platforms that integrate with external services.

In essence:
- If your primary need is AI-enhanced project management and collaboration within a single platform, Taskade is excellent.
- If you need to build AI agents that can autonomously interact with a wide range of external tools and APIs, orchestrate complex multi-platform processes, and potentially form collaborative AI teams to achieve broader business automation goals, then AgenticFlow offers a different, more externally-focused and integration-heavy approach.

The "add-on" for our MAS is because that Level 5 orchestration is a significant step up in capability and resource use, akin to features in our $599/mo Business plan, which we're making accessible via LTD as a special offering.

Hope this helps clarify our positioning and the credit model!
— Sean