What Is Task Machine and What Kind of Work Is It For?

Task Machine is the product that replaced Iteration Layer. It turns recurring work — follow-ups, reports, and small jobs that repeat every week — into AI agent workflows you can schedule, approve, and audit. It is built by the same team, but it is a different product solving a different problem, not a rebrand of Iteration Layer.

What happened to Iteration Layer

Iteration Layer was European AI worker infrastructure. According to the site, the team wound it down as a standalone product because running two things at once meant doing neither well, and their attention had moved elsewhere. The practical consequence for existing users: Iteration Layer's APIs are no longer available. If you arrived looking for that product, there is nothing to sign up for — the worker infrastructure idea now continues inside Task Machine.

What Task Machine actually does

The core idea is narrow and specific: take work that never really ends and hand it to AI agents without leaving the loop yourself.

• 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, so you don't have to watch every run.
• Bring your own model subscription — agents run on subscriptions you already pay for, such as ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot.
• Audit trail — every decision, check, retry, tool call, and cost stays attached to the run.
• Spending limits — the site explicitly frames this as preventing "runaway work."

What kind of work it's for

The site names the target directly: the follow-ups, the reports, and the small recurring jobs that quietly eat your week. The pattern to look for is work that is repetitive, scheduled, and checkable — something you'd otherwise do the same way on a recurring basis.

It is less obviously suited to one-off, judgment-heavy tasks where there's no repeatable shape to encode.

How it differs from a typical automation tool

The distinguishing claim is control rather than full autonomy. The stated point is "not to take you out of the loop" but to give time back "without giving up the wheel." That shows up in the approval steps, the inbox as the control surface, and the per-run history — you can verify what happened instead of trusting a black box.

Getting started

The site points to Task Machine with a 7-day trial. Pricing details live on the Task Machine pricing page rather than on this site, so check there for current terms.