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EnglishWhat Is Iteration Layer, and What Happened to It?
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Iteration Layer no longer exists as a standalone product. It was a European AI worker infrastructure project, and the team behind it has shut it down and moved on to build a different product called Task Machine. If you arrived at iterationlayer.com looking for the original service, the key facts are: the APIs are no longer available, and the site now functions as a handover page pointing visitors to Task Machine.
What Iteration Layer was
Iteration Layer was European AI worker infrastructure — a product the team describes as something they cared a lot about and poured months into. The site's own account is that the deeper the team got into it, the clearer it became that their attention was elsewhere.
That "elsewhere" turned out to be Task Machine, and the team made what they call the hard call to wind Iteration Layer down rather than split their focus.
What happened to it
Iteration Layer has been shut down as a standalone product. The team is explicit that this was not a quiet rebrand or a fresh coat of paint:
- The APIs are no longer available. If you were integrating with Iteration Layer, that integration no longer works, and the team acknowledges the disruption this causes.
- Task Machine is a different product, built by the same team, solving a different problem.
- The reasoning given is that trying to do two things at once meant doing neither of them justice, and the work the team couldn't stop thinking about was Task Machine.
What Task Machine is instead
Task Machine targets recurring work — the follow-ups, reports, and small repeating jobs that eat into a week. The pitch is that you hand these to AI agents while staying in control. The site lists these concrete features:
| Feature | What it means in practice |
|---|---|
| Controlled workflows | A repeated job becomes steps with owners, schedules, approvals, checks, and retries, so it runs the same way each time |
| Inbox-first control | Approvals, questions, blockers, and finished results collect in one place |
| Use subscriptions you already pay for | Agents run on model subscriptions you already have, such as ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot |
| Audit trail | Every decision, check, retry, tool call, and cost stays attached to the run |
| No runaway work | Spending limits are part of the control model |
The stated goal is not to remove you from the loop but to give you time back without giving up the wheel.
If you came here for Iteration Layer
There is no migration path described on the page — the APIs are simply gone, and the team offers an apology for the disruption rather than a replacement for the old infrastructure. What they offer instead is Task Machine, which they describe as the thing they believe in enough to bet everything on.
If you want to evaluate that replacement, Task Machine offers a 7-day trial, and pricing details live at taskmachine.io/pricing. Whether Task Machine fits your use case depends on whether your work looks like the recurring, approval-heavy jobs described above — it is not a drop-in substitute for the AI worker infrastructure Iteration Layer provided.