Adept

Adept is an automation and workflow platform built to let users speak goals instead of writing brittle scripts. Founded in 2020 and launched publicly with a focus on automating software tasks, Adept positions itself between RPA and developer automation by using models that interpret user goals and then execute sequences of GUI interactions, API calls, and keyboard/mouse actions. The core value proposition is reducing the engineering overhead of building integrations: users define what they want accomplished in plain language and Adept figures out the procedural steps, state checks, and error handling needed to finish the job.

Under the hood Adept provides several concrete features. The Workflows canvas lets you assemble goal-driven automations that combine recorded UI actions, API steps, and conditional logic; each step can be inspected and edited. The Observers and Sensors capture app state via screenshots, DOM reads, or API responses and enable guards and retries when UIs change. Adept ships prebuilt connectors to tools like Slack, Gmail, and Google Sheets and lets you call custom HTTP APIs for systems without native connectors. For developers there is an SDK and versioned run logs that include step-by-step transcripts and screenshots for debugging and audit trails.

Adept’s pricing is freemium. The free tier provides a limited number of runs per month for personal use and access to the Workflows canvas, basic connectors, and community templates. Paid Team plans (publicly listed pricing at the time of review) move to per-seat billing with higher run quotas, SSO, and shared libraries; Enterprise pricing is custom with advanced security, on-prem deployment options, and SLA support. Add-ons include higher execution quotas and priority support. The company publishes exact Team pricing and requires contacting sales for Enterprise quotes; free plan limits and Team quotas are listed on their pricing page and subject to change.

Actual users include operations managers who automate weekly reporting pipelines by routing data from SaaS tools into BI systems, and product operations engineers who replace repetitive QA setup steps with reproducible Workflows. Example roles: a Customer Support Operations Manager automating ticket triage to reduce manual routing by measurable ticket-handling time, and a Product Operations Engineer orchestrating environment setup for reproducible user testing. Compared to classic RPA vendors, Adept emphasizes goal-driven, model-assisted orchestration and editable step transcripts rather than prebuilt macro recordings, making it more flexible for cross-app software automation than legacy RPA.