Town vs Gumloop vs Cabinet
Three products, three theories of how AI should do your work. Town gives every person a Townie that clears the inbox. Gumloop turns processes into agent workflows that run on triggers. Cabinet gives the company a brain: an owned knowledge base where agents work and the results render as live dashboards. Here is how they compare, and when each one wins.
Town
A personal Townie for your inbox, calendar, and meetings.
Gumloop
No-code agent workflows across your SaaS stack.
Cabinet
The knowledge base your company owns, with agents and live apps.
Side by side
The features that decide it
| Feature | Town | Gumloop | Cabinet |
|---|---|---|---|
| A company knowledge base you own as files | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Personal inbox and calendar assistant | Included | Partial | Not included |
| No-code workflow canvas | Not included | Included | Not included |
| AI agents on schedules and triggers | Included | Included | Included |
| Human approval before agents act | Included | Included | Included |
| Work persists as documents and dashboards | Not included | Partial | Included |
| Knowledge rendered as live apps | Not included | Partial | Included |
| Bring your own AI keys at provider cost | Not included | Partial | Included |
| Self-hosted | Not included | Partial | Included |
| Open source | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Free to start | Partial | Not included | Included |
| Built for teams | Partial | Included | Included |
Who each is for
Pick by what you need
Town
One person drowning in email and meetings. A Townie triages, preps, and drafts across the tools you already use, and earns autonomy one workflow at a time.
Gumloop
An ops or GTM team automating processes at volume: enrichment, syncs, scraping, and routing on a no-code canvas, with managed enterprise controls.
Cabinet
A company that wants its knowledge, its AI agents, and the live dashboards they render in one place it owns: open source, self-hosted, on its own AI keys.
The verdict
So which should you choose?
These three are less rivals than three theories of where AI belongs. Town says AI should sit beside a person. Gumloop says AI should sit inside a process. Cabinet says AI should sit inside the company's knowledge, because knowledge is the asset that outlasts both people and processes.
The practical test is what is left after a month. With Town: cleared inboxes and an assistant that knows you better, inside Town's cloud. With Gumloop: completed runs and logs, inside Gumloop's platform. With Cabinet: a knowledge base that got a month bigger, in documents, decisions, and live dashboards, on infrastructure you own.
They also stack. Plenty of teams will keep a Townie for personal triage or a Gumloop flow for pipeline plumbing. The question worth settling first is where the company's brain lives, and of the three, Cabinet is the only one you own.
Questions
Answered
What is the difference between Town, Gumloop, and Cabinet?
Town is a personal AI assistant that triages email and calendars in Town's cloud. Gumloop is a no-code platform that runs AI agent workflows across your SaaS tools on a credit meter. Cabinet is a knowledge workspace your company owns: files on your infrastructure, AI agents working in them on schedules, and live dashboards rendered from the knowledge.
Which is cheapest for a team?
As of August 2026: Town starts at $15 per person per month with about 1,250 credits. Gumloop Pro is $37 per month with 20,000 credits, unlimited seats, and no free plan. Cabinet is open source and free to self-host, with AI billed at provider prices through your own keys.
Can I use Town or Gumloop together with Cabinet?
Yes, and some teams should. A Townie can keep clearing your personal inbox and a Gumloop flow can keep syncing your CRM while Cabinet holds the company knowledge base that people and agents build on. They compete only over where the durable knowledge ends up.
Which should a small team pick first?
Pick by bottleneck. If the founders are buried in email, Town helps today. If ops is drowning in copy-paste between tools, Gumloop. If the company keeps re-answering the same questions because knowledge lives in ten places, start with Cabinet: it is free to run and everything it accumulates stays yours.
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