Overview Lindy is an AI agent platform that ships with a specific bet: the future of business software is not more Zaps, more dashboards, or more SaaS logins, but a small team of AI workers you configure once and let run in the background. Founded in 2022 by Flo Crivello — the ex Teleport engineer who has been consistently right about developer tools for a decade — Lindy started as a general "AI employee" builder and has narrowed, sensibly, into the shape of work that AI agents actually do well in 2026: inbox management, meeting scheduling, sales prospecting, customer support triage, and voice phone agents. The framing is the product. Where Zapier invites you to build Trigger Action Zaps and layer AI steps on top, Lindy invites you to build "Lindies" — named, persistent AI agents with a role, a set of tools, memory across conversations, and a schedule. You do not build a workflow that fires when an email arrives. You build "Riley, my inbox manager" — an agent that watches your inbox continuously, drafts replies to routine emails, schedules meetings without asking, and only bothers you when it hits something outside its playbook. It is a mental model shift, and for the specific buyer it targets — a founder or ops lead drowning in shallow work — the shift is genuinely useful. In 2026 Lindy is not the cheapest automation tool, not the most integration rich, and not the most reliable at the edges. It is the automation…