Build and deploy AI apps vs delegate cross-domain work across your stack As “agents” go mainstream, two adjacent categories get conflated:
Company-wide process automation vs personal, cross-domain execution across your work stack Some agent platforms are designed top-down for enterprise process automation. Others are designed bottom-up for daily execution, starting with how individuals actually work across email, calendar, docs, tasks, chat, and files.
Notion 3.0 is one of the clearest signals that “agents” are becoming the default interface for knowledge work. But there’s still a major divide in how these systems are built: Workspace-native agents: incredible inside one product’s universe.
Plan your day in one hub vs delegate cross-domain execution across your stack There are two very different ways “AI productivity” shows up:
Design and orchestrate agent flows vs delegate outcomes across your work stack Agentic automation is taking two clear forms:
The agent market is splitting into two execution models: Browser-automation agents that can operate like a human in a UI, automating clicks and workflows when APIs aren't available.
Assembling agents and workflows vs a unified system that executes in your voice across your stack The “agent” market has two products that can look similar on the surface:
Self-hosted workflow building vs command-first execution across your entire work stack Agentic automation is pulling the market in two directions: