AI Agents
AI agents are software systems that use reasoning, planning, and tools to assist or automate complex tasks. We compare the top open-source and commercial agents.
- AI AgentsInsightSep 15
AI Agent Sprawl Signs & Checklist to Manage Sprawl
Nearly 80% of organizations have deployed agentic AI. Yet only 21% have a mature governance model for these systems. The gap shows up in practice as agent sprawl, a buildup of redundant, ungoverned, and conflicting AI agents across the business. 40% of agentic AI projects is estimated to fail by 2027 due to weak governance…
- AI AgentsInsightSep 15
Top 30+ Agentic AI Companies
Though AI agents are being hyped and some companies rebrand their chatbots as agentic tools, there are still a few agents in production. Previously, we benchmarked several capable AI agents over several real-world tasks. We listed: These companies primarily focus on agentic AI research and development, offering initiatives like ethical AI guidelines and environments for…
- Agentic WebBenchmarkSep 12
AI Deep Research: Codex vs Claude vs Grok vs Exa
A deep research tool answers a question with a written report instead of a page of links. We ran five ways of producing one over the same 20 business research briefs and scored every report against rules written before the runs to find the best tool for deep research. Four of the five are coding…
- AI AgentsOpen World EvaluationSep 11
Low/No-Code AI Agent Builders: n8n,make, Zapier
We spent three days configuring low- and no-code AI agent builders, AI-agent workflows, manually setting up LLM actions, document parsers, search tools, and building pipelines with triggers, conditional steps, tool calls, and webhooks to compare how each system handles multi-step agent automation. We used the free tiers of n8n (self-hosted), make, and Zapier, the trial…
- AI AgentsFeature ComparisonSep 3
OpenClaw Alternatives: Hermes vs ZeroClaw vs Grok Bot
Autonomous AI agents, such as OpenClaw and Hermes agent, automate multi-step tasks that would normally require constant human input. While OpenClaw has become the most widely adopted always-on autonomous agent, many users are seeking alternatives due to its challenging deployment process and complex configuration requirements. We provide 5 leading OpenClaw alternatives, highlighting their key capabilities…
- AI AgentsOpen World EvaluationSep 1
30+ Industrial AI Agents to Watch
Industrial AI agents address the limitations of siloed data by autonomously integrating and deriving actionable insights from IoT, controls systems (e.g. SCADA), and connected assets. Below is a categorized review of over 30 key vendors offering AI agent platforms and tools: To explore each section and discover the relevant vendors, tools, platforms, capabilities, and focus…
- Agentic WebOpen World EvaluationSep 1
Best 30+ Open Source Web Agents
We tested 30+ open-source web agents across four categories: autonomous agents, computer-use controllers, web scrapers, and developer frameworks. We ran identical benchmarks using the WebVoyager test suite, which covers 643 tasks across 15 real websites, to measure which tools actually complete multi-step web tasks and which fail when sites use dynamic dropdowns or JavaScript-heavy layouts.…
- AI AgentsInsightSep 1
Building AI Agents with Composable Patterns
We spent 3 days experimenting with workflows and agent pipelines in n8n, following Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s guides on building effective AI agents. Explore the core AI agent components, how to choose the right components and tools, in addition to building agent workflows based on Anthropic’s simple, composable patterns such as prompt chaining, routing, parallelization, orchestrator…