DavidAgents

DavidAgents · How we compare

These aren’t competitors.
They’re ingredients, walls, or headcount.

Every buyer weighs four alternatives: build on a framework, rent a vendor’s agent, stitch point products, or hire more people. Here is the honest map — what each is genuinely good at, where it runs out, and why an operating company beats all four at being one.

① Agent SDKs & frameworks② Enterprise agent suites③ Single-purpose AI products④ Agencies & headcount The matrix ↓

① Agent SDKs & frameworks

LangGraph · CrewAI · AutoGen · OpenAI Agents SDK · smolagents

What they give you

Excellent primitives: graphs, tool calling, handoffs, streaming. The Lego.

Where it runs out

Everything around the agent is your problem — identity, memory, approval gates, CRM, comms, data plane, monitoring, and the year of glue code between them. You are not buying a product; you are signing up to build one.

Our verdict: Great for teams building their own platform. We ARE that team, five layers later.

② Enterprise agent suites

Agentforce · Copilot Studio · Now Assist

What they give you

Deep integration inside their own walls, enterprise sales motion, compliance paperwork.

Where it runs out

Their agent works their data in their cloud at their per-conversation price. Cross-vendor work — the actual shape of your business — is somebody's roadmap slide. Your data trains their moat, and leaving is a migration.

Our verdict: Strong if your company lives inside one vendor. Companies don't.

③ Single-purpose AI products

AI SDRs · AI support bots · AI schedulers · AI coding tools

What they give you

Fast start on exactly one job, often genuinely good at it.

Where it runs out

Ten point products = ten identities, ten data silos, ten bills, zero shared memory. The handoffs between them — where the value lives — never exist. It's SaaS sprawl again, now with agents.

Our verdict: Fine as ingredients. We productized the whole kitchen — and our one-job lane (AgentsFast) still shares the spine.

④ Agencies & headcount

Automation agencies · BPOs · another ops hire

What they give you

Humans understand nuance, own outcomes, and can be held accountable.

Where it runs out

Linear cost, business-hours availability, knowledge that walks out the door, and no audit trail on the routine 80%. Agencies hand you a deliverable and leave; the drift starts the next day.

Our verdict: Keep humans for judgment. Stop paying human prices for the routine — and keep every action on a ledger.

Capability by capability

Fourteen capabilities. One column that’s a company.

● first-class & proven on our live wall · ◐ partial or build-it-yourself · ○ absent / not their job

Capability DAS Frameworks Ent. suites Point products Why it matters
Agents with governed identity ● ◐ ◐ ○ directory-governed principals, scoped roles, instant revocation
Managers, org chart, work queues ● ○ ○ ○ an organization, not a bot list
Durable memory that compounds ● ◐ ◐ ○ survives restarts + model swaps; hygiene cycles built in
Human approval gates + decision ledger ● ◐ ◐ ○ HITL on consequences, replayable after the fact
Cross-vendor agent federation ● ◐ ○ ○ open-protocol mesh; identity carried end-to-end
Per-tool, per-agent authorization ● ○ ◐ ○ policy on every tool call, ledgered grants
Company stack included (CRM→billing) ● ○ ◐ ○ the whole floor plan ships in the box
Omnichannel comms with consent gates ● ○ ◐ ◐ voice/SMS/email/chat through one governed broker
Real-time data plane + agent learning loop ● ○ ◐ ○ every event lands once; dashboards, memory, evals share it
Model agnosticism (frontier ↔ local) ● ● ○ ○ per-agent routing, budgets, degrade chains
Customer-owned deployment ● ● ○ ○ your cloud, your rack, your keys — or air-gapped
Continuously re-proven behavior (public wall) ● ○ ○ ○ hundreds of live end-to-end checks, public at /proof
Flat, ownable economics ● ● ○ ◐ no per-seat, no per-conversation meter
Time-to-first-value in minutes ● ○ ◐ ● AgentsFast lane; the platform grows from it

The economics

Per-seat pricing taxes growth. Per-conversation pricing taxes success.

The suite model meters every conversation; the SaaS-stack model meters every employee; the agency model meters every hour. Ours meters none of them: you own the platform, run it on your infrastructure, and pay for outcomes and operations. The better your agents get, the better your economics get — which is the correct direction for that curve to point.

The unfair advantage: we’re not selling a comparison.

Everything in the DAS column is on duty for our own company right now, pinned by a public wall of live end-to-end checks. Frameworks demo notebooks. Suites demo sandboxes. We hand you the receipts.

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