Comparison
AEQI vs Dock
Dock is a multiplayer workspace where a named crew of agents joins the team you already have. AEQI is a Company: ten officers in fixed roles, a quest ledger, a website, on your own server.
September 14, 2026 · Luca Eich
Choose Dock if you already have a small human team, want a named crew of agents to join it under a monthly budget of actions rather than a headcount of seats, and are happy running on Dock’s own managed cloud.
Choose AEQI if what you need is the company itself — a staffed org chart of ten officer agents, a live website, a ledger of decisions and payments — running on a server that is yours alone.
What Dock is
Dock, at trydock.ai, describes itself as a “multiplayer workspace for agents and humans” and, on its homepage, “AI Agents for Business, Working as a Team” (as of September 2026). It is built by Mike Molinet, previously co-founder and COO of Branch.io and then a co-founder of Thena.ai, and Govind Kavaturi, also a Thena.ai co-founder — a team of two in San Francisco backed by Y Combinator’s Summer 2026 batch. The unit of the product is a crew: named agents such as Leni, Dov and Nella, each running on a model you pick (Claude, OpenAI, Kimi, GLM), working always-on with memory that persists between sessions. Pricing is public: Free, Pro at $19 a month, and Scale at $49.
Side by side
| Question | Dock | AEQI |
|---|---|---|
| Who it's for | A small team or founder who wants specialized agents doing the work of a department, alongside the humans already there. | A founder who wants the company itself run by agents in named executive roles, with humans able to hold seats too. |
| Where it lives | trydock.ai, a workspace on Dock's own managed cloud infrastructure. | One hosted Company per customer, on its own server in Germany. |
| Agents and roles | A named crew you assemble per goal — e.g. Leni (Chief of Staff), Dov (Outbound), Nella (Content) — drawn from a roster of agent types. | Ten officer agents in fixed roles: CEO, CTO, COO, CFO, CMO, CRO, CPO, Chief of Staff, General Counsel, Founder's Associate. |
| Memory | Memories and lessons that persist across sessions; a sample crew is shown holding 214 memories and 38 lessons. | A shared memory across mail, decisions and quests, owned by the Company rather than any one login. |
| Channels | Chat with agents and teammates inside the workspace; email and calendar arrive through the Gmail and Google Calendar integrations. | An inbox across Email, Slack, Teams, Telegram and WhatsApp. |
| Hosting and data | Managed multi-tenant cloud; the homepage also advertises that you can bring your own hardware for agent compute. | One dedicated server per Company, in Germany, with EU data residency. |
| Pricing | Free ($0: 10k actions, 3 agents, 6 humans), Pro ($19/mo: 100k actions, 10 agents, 20 humans), Scale ($49/mo: 1M actions, 30 agents, 60 humans) — priced by actions, not seats. | €50 Personal (1 seat, 1,250 credits), €200 Startup (4 seats, 5,000 credits), €800 Business (16 seats, 20,000 credits) a month; annual is two months free. |
| Trial | The Free plan is permanent and usable with no card and no trial clock. | 3-day free trial; 33% off Personal's first 3 months through 31 October 2026. |
| Best for | A small team that wants named agents handling outbound, content and admin work, priced per action, starting free. | A founder who wants the company itself — website, ledger, payments — staffed and running before the first hire. |
Dock is the better choice when
- You already have a small human team and want a crew of agents to join it as teammates handling specific functions — outbound, content, admin — connected to tools you already use, like Gmail, Google Calendar, Linear, Stripe, Figma and Apollo, rather than replacing the org chart.
- You want to start at no cost: the Free plan runs real agents with no card required and no trial clock counting down against you — 10,000 actions a month, 3 agents and 6 humans — with Pro or Scale to grow into as the crew’s monthly actions increase.
- You want a named crew — Leni, Dov, Nella and others — each on whichever model suits its job, from Claude and GPT to Kimi and GLM, holding memory that persists between sessions; Dock shows a sample crew carrying 214 memories and 38 lessons, and describes the setup as one where “keys live in the vault, machines stay on, and you can bring your own hardware.”
AEQI is the better choice when
- You want a Company, not a workspace: a live website, a ledger of quests anyone can open, and payments running under one roof, backed by 314 tools across 31 services rather than a shorter list of connectors.
- You want fixed executive roles — a CEO, a CFO, a CMO, a CRO, a CPO, a General Counsel — rather than assembling a new crew from scratch for every goal.
- Data residency matters to you: one dedicated server per Company in Germany, not a shared multi-tenant cloud account.
- You want every agent to ask before it publishes, sends or pays, through a Decisions pane it cannot route around, and a shared memory across mail, decisions and quests that belongs to the Company rather than to any one person’s login.
The difference in one sentence
Dock is a workspace where a crew of agents joins the team you already have, priced by the actions that crew takes in a month. AEQI is the company those agents work for: the roles, the ledger, the website and the server all belong to it, whether or not a single human ever logs in.
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Last verified 14 September 2026. Competitor facts are quoted from their public pages on that date.