Workflow Automation
Lindy
Email-and-calendar agents with a leash
Lindy is an agent that lives in email and calendar. Start with drafts. Do not give send authority on day one.
Buyer verdict
Lindy is most interesting when one person or team wants an assistant that can work across inbox, calendar, meetings, and connected systems. The risk is granting broad access before the workflow has a clear owner. Start with drafts and read-only preparation, then earn each consequential action through approval and recovery tests.
Pricing and feature limits checked September 23, 2026. Vendor terms can change.
What it costs
Use the list price as a starting point. Model every role and the limits your operating process will actually use.
| Plan | Published price | What to notice |
|---|---|---|
| Plus | $29.99/user/month | 3,000 credits per user each month. |
| Pro | $99.99/user/month | 15,000 credits per user each month. |
| Max | $199.99/user/month | 35,000 credits per user each month. |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Adds enterprise support and controls including audit logs and additional compliance options. |
Worked cost check
Five Plus seats publish at $149.95 per month and contribute 15,000 credits to the shared workspace pool. The real unit is not a prompt: vendor examples range from a few credits for simple work to hundreds or thousands for research and larger builds. Replay the intended jobs and record credits per accepted outcome.
Where it earns the seat
- • A team wants one assistant to prepare work across email, meetings, calendar, documents, and connected applications.
- • Consequential actions can wait for an explicit approval and every run has an accountable owner.
- • The business will measure accepted outcomes and correction work rather than tasks attempted.
Where it faceplants
- • A broad integration list is mistaken for permission to update every connected system.
- • Credit estimates use a simple lookup even though the live job performs research, drafting, and several writes.
- • The workflow sends or updates externally before the team has tested duplicates, stale context, and reversals.
A test that produces a buying answer
Run these jobs with your data. Record the result before anyone discusses whether the interface feels modern.
TEST 1
Draft a meeting follow-up
Measure: Commitments correctly attributed, unsupported claims, edits, and whether send approval is preserved.
TEST 2
Process a mixed inbox queue
Measure: Correct classification, missed high-risk messages, credit use, and human review time.
TEST 3
Inject a duplicate event
Measure: Whether the workflow repeats an external action or detects the duplicate safely.
TEST 4
Remove an integration permission
Measure: Failure visibility, contained access, recoverability, and quality of the audit record.
Continue the decision
Price the whole operating change
Model every seat and the human work around it, then document the baseline, evidence grade, and stop rule before approval.
Primary sources
AAT · Editorial reading
The Dials
Four readings. Not a score. Not a room.
An agent in the inbox. Start as drafts. The danger is send authority.
Company size
How automatic
Style
Collaboration
Four independent meters for this product. They do not cross. Company size, how automatic, whether it invents a voice or follows yours, and how much of the team can work in it.
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