Lindy sells templates. Pocket Agent gives you the whole stack — plus the room to change it.
Lindy is an AI assistant with a deep library of pre-built automations — pick a template, connect your tools, and it runs. Pocket Agent is a packaged AI team that starts from your business, not from a template gallery.
Generic AI starts from zero. Pocket Agent starts from your business.
The short version.
| Lindy | Pocket Agent | |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | An AI work assistant: inbox, meetings, scheduling, plus a large library of pre-built automations you turn on. | Ten packaged AI Agents — sales, marketing, content, support, research, operations — running on your own business context. |
| Mode | Pick a template, connect your tools, tune the steps, let it run. | Hire the pre-built team. Every outgoing send is staged in Mission Control until you approve it. |
| Where the work lives | Inside Lindy's platform. Leave, and the automations and their history stay behind. | In accounts you own — your GitHub, your Vercel, your Supabase. Leave, and the work stays with you. |
| Pricing | $49.99 / $99.99 / $199.99 a month, credit-based, 7-day trial. | $37, $97, or $497 a month. Flat. No credits to ration. |
Where the two products actually split.
Lindy has earned its reputation. The template library is one of the deepest in the category, the builder is polished, it's raised roughly $50M from Menlo Ventures and Battery Ventures, and computer use — the agent driving a browser — ships on their Pro tier. If your goal is one specific automation running this afternoon, a Lindy template is one of the fastest paths there.
The split is what a template can't hold: your business. A meeting-scheduler template schedules meetings the same way for every customer who installs it. Pocket Agent's agents read your Business Brain first — your voice, your prices, your customers, your past decisions — so the outreach sounds like you wrote it and the proposal quotes your actual rates. Lindy starts from a gallery. Pocket Agent starts from your business. That's the difference between an automation and an employee.
Then there's the line no template crosses: ownership. Everything Lindy runs lives inside Lindy. Everything Pocket Agent builds lands in accounts you own — your Business Brain is a folder of plain files in your own GitHub (a free account you set up in under a minute — Pocket Agent walks you through it), landing pages go live on your own Vercel (also free, also under a minute to set up), customer records sit in your own Supabase (same — free, quick to set up, no technical knowledge required). Cancel tomorrow and the sites stay live, the brain stays yours, everything already made stays made. The agents themselves stop — they live in Pocket Agent — but the work is yours.
You own the stack. You rent the workers. Lindy's automations run in Lindy's house — ours build in yours.
Feature by feature.
The third column says who wins each row. Some rows Lindy wins — a comparison that never concedes anything isn't a comparison.
What the product does
| Lindy | Pocket Agent | Who wins | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The pitch | An AI assistant plus a library of automations you switch on. | A packaged AI team that already knows your business. | Even |
| Time to first automation | Pick a template, connect tools, done — among the fastest in the category. | Connect your free GitHub, seed the Business Brain, then the agents start working with real context. | Lindy |
| Depth of catalog | Hundreds of templates across sales, support, recruiting, and ops. | Ten packaged AI Agents by role, each bundling the Apps and Skills for that job. | Lindy |
Capabilities
| Lindy | Pocket Agent | Who wins | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business memory | Per-automation context and preferences you configure. | A Business Brain — plain files in your own GitHub that every agent reads and every successful run sharpens. | Pocket Agent |
| Voice matching | Prompt-level tone settings per automation. | Agents draft from your actual voice samples in the brain — recaps, outreach, and content that read like you. | Pocket Agent |
| Browser automation | Computer use on Pro tier and up. | Yes — with a trust ladder, so the agent earns permissions instead of starting with all of them. | Even |
| Builds things | Automates workflows across your existing tools. | The Idea AI Agent ships a working website with a signup form and a database to your own accounts. The Marketing AI Agent puts landing pages live. | Pocket Agent |
| Skills that improve | You refine templates by editing them. | Skills evolve — every successful run can write what it learned back to the brain, so the same job gets sharper over time. | Pocket Agent |
| Spend visibility | Credit meter — tasks draw down your monthly allowance. | A Cost Ledger showing every dollar of AI spend to the cent, with a budget cap the agent won't cross without asking. | Pocket Agent |
Ownership
| Lindy | Pocket Agent | Who wins | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the work lives | Inside Lindy's platform. | Your GitHub, your Vercel, your Supabase — accounts in your name. | Pocket Agent |
| After you cancel | Access ends. Automations and their run history stay behind. | Sites stay live, the brain stays yours, everything already made stays. The agents themselves stop — they need Pocket Agent to run. | Pocket Agent |
Pricing
| Lindy | Pocket Agent | Who wins | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $49.99 a month, credit-based. | $37 a month, flat. | Pocket Agent |
| Bill predictability | Credits meter your runs — a busy month burns the allowance faster. | Flat tiers: $37, $97, $497. The bill is the bill, with a spend cap inside it. | Pocket Agent |
The honest take.
Pick Lindy if
- →You want one specific automation live this afternoon and a template already exists for it.
- →You like assembling and tuning workflows yourself in a polished visual builder.
- →Your job is mostly meetings, inbox, and scheduling — Lindy's home turf.
- →You want the bigger company behind the product — Lindy has raised ~$50M.
Pick Pocket Agent if
- →You want workers that know your business, not automations that know their template.
- →You want the work — websites, pages, customer records, memory — in accounts you own.
- →You want every outgoing send staged for approval, with AI spend visible to the cent.
- →You want a flat bill instead of watching a credit meter.
From a customer
This spot is reserved for a real customer, in their own words. We don't print invented quotes, and we don't print composites here either.
Until then: Pocket Agent runs inside three businesses Chase Whited owns — Tennessee Valley Exteriors (a contracting company), Whited Consulting (a software agency), and AthleteOS (a sports SaaS). Same workspace, same brain, same cockpit.
Questions buyers actually ask.
Isn't a big template library better than ten packaged agents?
For breadth of one-off automations, yes — Lindy's catalog is deeper, and we say so in the table above. The trade is depth per job: a template runs the same steps for everyone; a Pocket Agent reads your Business Brain and does the job the way your business does it. Wide and shallow versus narrow and deep. Pick by the shape of your problem.
Lindy has computer use. Does Pocket Agent?
Yes — Pocket Agent agents can drive a browser too, behind a trust ladder: the agent earns permissions step by step instead of starting with the keys. Lindy ships theirs on Pro tier and up.
What's actually in a 'packaged AI Agent'?
A Persona (the worker), the Apps it uses (Email Drafter, Lead Scout, Landing Page Builder, Follow-Up Sweeps), and the Skills it has learned. You see ten agents by role; underneath, it's the same architecture every time, reading the same Business Brain.
What happens if I cancel Pocket Agent?
Everything the agents made stays: websites live on your Vercel, the Business Brain in your GitHub, customer data in your Supabase. The agents themselves stop — they run inside Pocket Agent. Come back any time and pick up where you left off.
Is Pocket Agent SOC 2 certified?
Not yet — SOC 2 Type I is planned. If a certification is a hard requirement today, neither pitch on this page matters until that box is checked.
Lindy sells templates. Pocket Agent gives you the whole stack — plus the room to change it.
The cheapest way to settle it is to run both against a week of your real work.