Lindy vs Adapt

Which is better, Lindy or Adapt?

Lindy is better if every person should have an inbox, calendar, and meeting assistant today. Adapt is better if a technical team will build one governed company agent across your systems and code, or needs it inside your own infrastructure.

Lindy is a ready AI assistant for each person's inbox, calendar, and meetings, plus a shared teammate in Slack. Adapt is a platform for building and running your company's own agent, with control over models, governance, and hosting.

Lindy is something every employee uses on day one: connect your email and calendar and start delegating. Adapt is something a technical team sets up for the company: choose the model path, connect the business systems, set the approvals and budgets, and decide where it runs. Both have company memory, both run scheduled work, and both work in Slack, email, and iMessage.

This guide is for a growing company whose recruiters want help now while engineering eyes a company-wide agent. If Lindy already covers your recruiters' inboxes and nobody needs a governed agent yet, there's no reason to build one. Every Lindy and Adapt fact here was checked against their own pages on October 20, 2026.

What is Lindy best at?

Lindy is best at personal communication work that every employee has, such as inbox triage, scheduling, meeting notes, and follow-ups, without any build.

A Slack admin installs it and each person links Google or Microsoft and a phone number. Routines start when a meeting ends, an email arrives, or a calendar event approaches. Personal skills apply to one person's requests and team skills to everyone's.

Sources: Lindy quickstart, Lindy skills

What is Adapt best at?

Adapt is best at company-wide work across business systems, such as querying the warehouse, reconciling finance tools, and turning issues into tested pull requests, under governance your team defines.

It connects to Salesforce, HubSpot, BigQuery, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Stripe, QuickBooks, Zendesk, Greenhouse, and GitHub. Its company brain gathers knowledge, skills, and memory from work and prunes what's no longer useful. Governance covers scopes, approvals on named actions, budgets, traces, and audit records.

Sources: Adapt platform, Adapt company brain, Adapt Enterprise

How do Lindy and Adapt compare at a glance?

Lindy is ready for every person's inbox and meetings. Adapt is configurable for company systems and code.

Sources: Lindy: workflow, access, context, security, pricing. Adapt: workflow, access, context, pricing.

Which one handles your product's code, Lindy or Adapt?

Adapt. Engineering issues come back from it as tested pull requests that a person reviews. Lindy builds internal tools and HTML pages, which is useful software but not work on your product's repository.

Adapt's own engineers code through it from Slack, and moved from shared to personal commit identities so each change is attributed to the person who asked. Slack is my IDE. The bigger jobs Lindy shows are internal tools built with company data.

Winner: Adapt. Lindy doesn't open pull requests in an existing codebase.

Sources: Lindy pricing

Which one helps each person with their own inbox, Lindy or Adapt?

Lindy. Each person links their own Google or Microsoft account, and Lindy triages their mail, books meetings, takes notes, and drafts the follow-ups. Adapt reaches email and calendars only through the connections an admin sets up for the company agent.

Lindy keeps a private scope for each person beside the shared one, so a recruiter's inbox help doesn't show up in the team channel.

Adapt is built around one agent acting for the company with a configured identity, which suits shared systems more than a single person's day.

Winner: Lindy. Personal assistance is what it was built for.

Sources: Lindy setup, Lindy memory, Adapt platform

How do Lindy and Adapt control what the agent can touch?

Lindy separates personal and shared scope and asks before the actions you mark. Adapt adds groups, roles, budgets, traces, and audit records, set by whoever owns the agent.

Lindy's guardrails cover which actions in shared Slack threads run alone and which wait for approval.

Adapt lets an admin cap spending, scope each connection, require approval on named actions, and trace every run.

Winner: Adapt, for a company that wants spending caps and a trace of every run.

Sources: Lindy guardrails, Adapt Enterprise

Is Lindy or Adapt more secure?

As of October 2026, both Lindy and managed Adapt hold SOC 2 Type II. Lindy adds a HIPAA agreement, SSO, and SCIM on Enterprise. Adapt includes a standard DPA, and its Enterprise plan adds SSO, SCIM, SIEM audit export, and VPC or on-premises deployment.

Lindy encrypts data in transit and at rest and doesn't train models on customer data. Adapt doesn't train on your data either, and its open-source runtime lets a security team keep the whole agent on its own servers.

Winner: Lindy for a vendor review that asks for HIPAA. Adapt when the agent has to run inside your own network.

Sources: Lindy security, Adapt pricing, Adapt Enterprise

Which is faster to set up, Lindy or Adapt?

Lindy is faster. A Slack admin on a paid Slack plan installs it, and each colleague accepts an invite and links email, calendar, and phone in a few minutes. Adapt asks someone to pick models, connections, an acting identity, approval rules, and budgets for the company.

Adapt's connections take no engineering, and templates cover jobs like ad-spend checks and issue-to-pull-request work. Beyond that, the choices are yours to make and keep current. Adapt also offers a free design session with one of its engineers.

Winner: Lindy. Nobody has to design anything before the first request.

Sources: Lindy setup, Adapt agents, Adapt pricing

What do Lindy and Adapt cost?

As of October 2026, Lindy costs $49.99 per active user per month with 5,000 pooled credits each, models included. Managed Adapt costs $8 per user per month, plus metered compute, memory, and model usage, and its open-source runtime is free to host yourself.

For a ten-person recruiting and operations team, here's the month before any extra usage:

Lindy's bill grows with every person who mentions it in Slack. Adapt's grows with how long its runs take, how much it remembers, and which models it calls.

Winner: Adapt on the seat price, as long as the metered usage stays below the $419.90 gap.

Sources: Lindy pricing, Adapt pricing

How do Lindy and Adapt handle the same hiring pipeline?

Ask Lindy and Adapt to summarize the pipeline and draft a follow-up for roles with interviews but no offer. There are 12 interviews and two offers, and Engineer is the only role that needs the nudge.

Designer had four interviews and one offer, Engineer six and none, Analyst two and one. Lindy works from the recruiter's linked inbox and calendar. Adapt reads the applicant tracking system through a connection someone configured. The right fit is whichever one already has the data where your recruiters keep it.

What do Lindy and Adapt users say in reviews?

As of October 2026, Lindy rates 4.9 out of 5 on G2 from about 170 reviews and 1.7 out of 5 on Trustpilot from 40. We found no G2 or Trustpilot listing for Adapt.

Lindy's G2 reviewers praise how fast a person gets it doing real inbox work. On Trustpilot, the complaints center on credits running out sooner than expected, charges after cancelling, and support that's slow to answer.

Sources: Lindy on G2, Lindy on Trustpilot

What carries over between Lindy and Adapt?

Lindy's team memory files and Adapt's agent instructions carry over as text. Personal Lindy files stay with their owners, and connections are set up again.

Recreate each Lindy routine or Adapt job with one owner, and check approval rules before the first scheduled send.

Sources: Lindy memory, Adapt company brain

So should you choose Lindy or Adapt?

Choose Lindy if you want every person to have an inbox, calendar, and meeting assistant today. Choose Adapt if a technical team wants to build a governed company agent across your business systems and code.

Is there a Lindy or Adapt alternative that's ready and also works on your product?

Yes. Maito is ready for everyone like Lindy and handles company systems and code like Adapt, for $149 per workspace with unlimited people, plus your AI provider's usage.

It runs on the AI provider you choose, keeps each person's connections private, and works in Slack, by email, and in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Grok, and Muse. There's no free plan; an optional $2,999 setup service connects it for you.

Illustrative conversation, not a recorded product test.

#people

Hannah 11:30 AM

@Maito summarize where our five open roles stand in Greenhouse, and check why candidates say the careers page apply button does nothing on phones.

Maito APP 11:52 AM

Summary is in the thread: 2 roles have offers out, 3 need more first interviews this week. On iPhone, the apply button sits under the cookie banner and can't be tapped. Video attached. PR #189 moves the banner and adds a mobile test. Checks pass.

Example complete

Sources: Maito FAQ, Maito pricing

Lindy vs Adapt: frequently asked questions

Is Adapt cheaper than Lindy?

On seats, yes. As of October 2026, ten people pay $80 a month for managed Adapt and $499.90 for Lindy, but Adapt adds metered compute, memory, and models while Lindy's seats include model credits.

Can I try Lindy or Adapt for free?

Lindy, yes: new accounts get $50 in credits that last seven days. Managed Adapt has no free tier, though its open-source runtime costs nothing to host yourself.

Can Lindy or Adapt run on our own servers?

Adapt can. Teams host its free open-source runtime themselves, or buy Enterprise for a VPC or on-premises install. Lindy runs only in its own cloud.

Which one has a SOC 2 Type II report, Lindy or Adapt?

Both. As of October 2026, Lindy is SOC 2 Type II certified, and managed Adapt includes a SOC 2 Type II report with a standard DPA. Only Lindy offers a HIPAA agreement.

Does everyone who uses Lindy or Adapt need a seat?

Yes, on both. Anyone who mentions Lindy in Slack becomes a $49.99 active user after a seven-day trial, and managed Adapt bills $8 for each user.

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