KentoHQ vs Lindy: AI employees vs AI workflows
Lindy is a strong product — probably the best-known way to build AI workflows: trigger on an email, branch on a condition, call an action. If you think in flowcharts, Lindy gives you power.
The catch for busy owners
Most small-business owners don't want to design a flowchart. They want to say "find me 10 leads and draft each a personal email" and wake up to finished, checkable work. With workflow builders, you are the engineer: you wire the steps, you debug the branches, and when a step silently fails you find out from an angry customer, not from the tool.
How KentoHQ approaches the same job
- You brief, agents plan — no canvas, no nodes. Plain language in, files and live pages out.
- Every task ends in proof — the engine runs machine checks before anything is called done; failures are reported honestly.
- A team, not a single bot — a coordinator plans daily, specialists execute, and they delegate to each other with verified handoffs.
- Feedback sticks — tell an agent "shorter subject lines" once; it's a permanent rule, not a setting you hunt for.
When Lindy is the better pick
If your need is a precise, repetitive pipeline with exact branching logic (triage every support email into 6 buckets within seconds), a hand-built workflow is the right shape. KentoHQ's scheduled agents cover the daily cadence cases, but we don't pretend to be a real-time event router.