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AI Agents & Automation

Ranked by current activity, adjusted for momentum — measured, not bought.

Updated nightly · momentum over the last 7 days · No paid placement. No pay-to-rank. Ever.

Rank shows current measured activity — not which tool is best for you.

bestofnow tracks which AI tools are gaining attention fastest, across ten categories. What do these numbers mean? →

  1. 1
    Acti↗ Rising

    Agentic keyboard — type your intent into any text field on your Mac and an agent carries it out across 100+ connected apps

    Score 75.23

    Why it's rising

    Acti's engagement is rising, with recent Hacker News activity showing 22 stories, 1520 points, and 1264 comments.

  2. 2
    Relevance AI↗ Rising

    Low-code platform for building multi-agent AI workforces that run sales, operations, and support tasks.

    Score 67.53

    Why it's rising

    Relevance AI's engagement is rising, with recent Hacker News activity showing 4 stories totaling 615 points and 580 comments.

  3. 3
    Dust↘ Cooling

    Platform for building and deploying collaborative AI agents connected to company knowledge and 100+ business tools.

    Score 67.29

    Why it's cooling

    Dust's engagement is cooling, with recent Hacker News activity showing 20 stories, 626 points, and 538 comments.

  4. 4
    Hey Noah↗ Rising

    Personal assistant that handles scheduling and follow-ups across a users accounts.

    Score 57.91

    Why it's rising

    Hey Noah's engagement is rising, with recent Hacker News activity showing 8 stories, 238 points, and 177 comments.

  5. 5
    Browser UseWatchlist — no trend yet

    Open-source framework that lets AI agents navigate and act on websites through combined DOM and visual understanding.

    Score 48.04

    What the data shows

    Browser Use has insufficient historical data to establish a reliable trend, with recent activity including 2 Hacker News stories, 111633 GitHub stars, and a latest push on 2026-08-29.

  6. 6
    Grok Bot↘ Cooling

    Always-on AI teammates from xAI that each get a persistent cloud computer sign into your tools work across apps and inboxes and return only when something needs approval

    Score 47.53

    Why it's cooling

    Grok Bot's engagement is cooling, with recent Hacker News activity showing 13 stories, 88 points, and 44 comments.

  7. 7
    ConveyWatchlist — no trend yet

    Enterprise platform for non-technical operators to build and run autonomous digital teammates that execute operational workflows.

    Score 30.72

    What the data shows

    Convey has limited visibility with 1 Hacker News story generating 7 points and 13 comments over the past week, and insufficient history to establish a reliable momentum trend.

  8. 8
    SimWatchlist — no trend yet

    Open-source, agent-first alternative to Zapier and n8n — build AI agent workflows on a visual canvas or in plain English, with 1,000+ integrations

    Score 30.32

    What the data shows

    Sim has accumulated 29,490 GitHub stars and 3,801 forks with its most recent activity on August 29, 2026, but shows no current Hacker News engagement.

  9. 9
    OsaurusWatchlist — no trend yet

    Native macOS app that runs local (MLX) and cloud AI models fully offline, with persistent memory, autonomous agents, and MCP tool sharing

    Score 30.32

    What the data shows

    Osaurus has accumulated 7730 GitHub stars and 454 forks with a recent code push, but shows no current activity on Hacker News.

  10. 10
    Timbal AIWatchlist — no trend yet

    Open-source framework and hosted platform to build, deploy, and govern AI agents and workflows with knowledge bases, evals, and observability

    Score 20.12

    What the data shows

    Timbal AI has accumulated 42 GitHub stars and 9 forks with no recent Hacker News activity.

  11. 11
    SoloopWatchlist — no trend yet

    Approval-first agent OS for solo founders where an AI CEO plans and prioritizes an AI CTO builds and an AI CMO finds users while decisions that need judgment come back to the founder

    Score 9.31

    What the data shows

    Soloop has limited momentum signals with 1 Hacker News story and 1 point recorded over the past 7 days, and lacks a public GitHub repository to assess developer engagement.

Watchlist — building baseline

Too little current activity in our sources to score or read a direction reliably. These are measured nightly — they move up the moment the data does.

  • Gumloop

    No-code visual canvas for building multi-agent workflows that process documents, data, and research without writing code.

  • Viktor

    AI coworker embedded in Slack and Teams that autonomously builds reports, apps, and workflows across connected business tools.

  • Lindy

    No-code platform for building autonomous AI employees that handle inbox, meetings, and CRM across thousands of integrations.

  • Relay.app

    No-code agent builder pairing LLM steps with human-in-the-loop approvals for governed, multi-step automations.

  • WorkBuddy

    Multi-agent platform — describe a task, pick an expert team, and the agents split the work in parallel and return finished files

  • AirKaren

    Agent that fights airline compensation claims — identifies the applicable regulation, files the claim, and pursues the airline on your behalf

  • Pazi

    Describe a business and Pazi assembles autonomous agent teams - developer, SDR, social, DevOps - that plan, execute, and iterate with live dashboards

  • Clark

    Autonomous AI coworker with its own persistent cloud computer - browser, terminal, and files - working unattended for hours and returning finished artifacts

  • Agently

    AI work OS that builds an entity-resolved company knowledge graph from 100+ connectors and dispatches agents to draft and execute work behind approval queues

  • Toyo

    Executive assistant living in iMessage and voice - triages email, schedules, briefs before meetings, tracks commitments, and makes real phone calls

  • Pally

    Personal assistant in your texts over iMessage and RCS with nothing to install - connects Gmail, Slack, and calendar for briefs, follow-ups, and automations

  • Zinley

    Personal AI representative that answers on a users behalf across channels.

  • YAGNI

    Turns recurring manual workflows into scheduled automations without code.

  • Airtop

    Cloud browser infrastructure that lets agents operate live web sessions.

  • Omniwork

    Always-on desktop workspace where specialized agents research create monitor and automate creative work such as scripts visuals video and social posts while a companion pushes results to your screen

  • BetterClaw

    No-code hosted platform for building and running always-on autonomous agents in a visual builder with OpenClaw-compatible skills one-click OAuth integrations Slack and Telegram channels and bring-your-own-key pricing

  • Rindler

    Browser agent that pre-maps each website so it can sign in complete repetitive web work described in plain English and return structured data on a schedule with an MCP endpoint for agent builders

  • Oasis

    No-code workspace where humans and agent teams work together in shared rooms with policies approvals and compounding shared memory plus a Mac app that bridges local agents such as Claude Code

  • Construct

    AI workforce platform for solo founders and small teams where each agent gets a persistent cloud desktop with browser terminal files email calendar and memory and successful runs become reusable workflows

  • Taku AI

    macOS platform that turns AI skills agents and workflows into one-click desktop apps anyone can run remix and share through a marketplace of borrowable setups