--- title: "Lindy Alternative: xSquads for Work on Your Own Files" description: "A Lindy alternative for work that lives in your own files. Lindy lives in Slack and works across the tools you connect. xSquads for Work edits files in place." route: "/xsquad-for-work-vs-lindy" --- Lindy alternative - AI teammates on your own files # A Lindy alternative that works on your files. Not inside Slack and its connected tools. xSquads for Work is a desktop app where your team gives missions to a squad of AI bot teammates. The squad works a shared task board and edits your own files and folders where they already sit, with no upload step and no copy to keep in sync. [Questions? Contact us](https://xsquads.ai/contact) ## In short xSquads for Work is a Lindy alternative that runs a squad of AI bot teammates on your own files and folders. The squad reads and edits your files where they already sit, with no upload step and no copy to keep in sync. Lindy lives in your Slack and works across the tools you connect, and keeps its own files in Lindy's file system. ## xSquads for Work compared with Lindy Both products give you AI teammates that do real work rather than chat. The difference is where you talk to them, and where your work lives. xSquads for Work compared with Lindy | Comparison point | xSquads for Work | Lindy | | --- | --- | --- | | Where your files live | On your machine, on your own files and folders, where they already sit. | In Lindy's own file system, which Lindy's docs describe as its hard drive that you can see into, separate from your machine. Your files reach it by upload or through a connected tool. | | Getting your work there | No upload step. Point the app at a theme, a repo or a launch folder and the squad works inside it. | Files you want Lindy to work on go into that file system, or the work happens in the apps you connect. Lindy's docs say to drag and drop files, or connect a tool and let Lindy act through it. | | After the work is done | Every edit lands on the file itself, sitting next to the file it changed. No copy to keep in sync. | The result is a file in Lindy's file system, or a hosted page Lindy builds for you at its own lindy.link address, private to your workspace by default. | | Where you talk to it | A desktop app. xSquads for Work is a desktop app, not a mobile app. | In your Slack, plus iMessage and SMS and a Chrome extension that runs inside Gmail. Lindy's docs describe no desktop app. | | How the work is coordinated | The squad shares a task board rather than a machine. A bot picks up the card that matches its role and leaves the edit next to the file. | One shared Lindy per team in Slack channels, plus a private Lindy in each person's direct messages. Work is a message, an @mention or a text. | | Runs with your laptop closed | Not a claim we make. xSquads for Work works on the files on your machine. | Yes. Lindy's own security page says it runs on enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure, so a routine is not tied to your laptop being open. | | Working inside web apps | No. The squad works on files and folders rather than in a browser. | Yes. Where a tool has no integration, Lindy drives the browser the way a person would, and on paid plans its agents can use their own cloud computer. | | Plans | A desktop app. | Per-user plans for the whole workspace, with credits pooled across it. Computer use is on Pro and above, not on the entry plan. | Read across and the shape is simple. Lindy is a teammate you summon in Slack, working across the tools you connect and keeping its own files. xSquads for Work leaves your files where they are and sends the squad to them. The Grok Bot alternative page runs the same comparison against a cloud computer, and the Claude Cowork alternative post against Anthropic's agent. ## What Lindy does well A comparison page that only flatters us is not worth reading and will not earn a citation. This is what Lindy is genuinely good at. ### It lives where your team already talks You summon Lindy with an @mention in any Slack channel or DM, and the work happens in the thread the team is already in. That is a reach a desktop app does not have. ### A thousand tools, plus MCP Lindy connects to 1,000+ tools and any MCP server your team runs, with per-person or per-team credentials, so the work happens in the systems you already use. ### It works inside web apps For a tool with no integration, Lindy drives the browser the way a person would, or writes its own integration against the tool's API. That covers work a filing system does not. ### Its own cloud computer on paid plans Lindy's changelog describes giving your agent its own cloud computer, so it can do what you can do on yours, and a routine is not tied to your laptop being open. ### It hosts what it builds Ask for a dashboard or a report and Lindy builds, hosts and links it at its own address, private to your workspace by default, rather than handing you a file to open. ### Approvals are built in Each integration has a guardrail: always allow, require approval in Slack, or do not offer. Reads are never guarded, and writes wait when you ask them to. ## Where xSquads for Work fits The same honesty applies in our direction. This is what a squad that works on your files is for, and where it is the wrong tool. ### Your work stays where it already is A theme, a repo, a launch folder. The squad works inside it in place, with no upload step and no copy to keep in sync. ### The edit lands on the file You see every change next to the file it touched, in the folder you already work in, rather than in a file you have to pull back out of a workspace. ### The board is the coordination Cards move from Backlog to To Do to In Progress to Review to Done, and a bot picks up whatever is unassigned. ### You keep the judgement calls You read what lands in Review and approve it. Bots propose the work, and a person decides what counts. ### Choose it when the work is on your machine If the job is your inbox, your meetings and the apps you connect, Lindy is the right shape and we are not that. If the job is your own files, keep them where they are and send the squad to them. ## Where the Lindy facts come from Every Lindy detail on this page comes from Lindy's own documentation and its own security and changelog pages, read on 30 September 2026. Products change, so check their docs before you decide. [What is Lindy?The Slack-first framing, and the surfaces it names: Slack, iMessage, and the Chrome extension.](https://docs.lindy.ai/index)[MemoryLindy's own file system, described as its hard drive that you can see into, and how files get into it.](https://docs.lindy.ai/teammate/memory)[ArtifactsThe pages Lindy builds and hosts at its own lindy.link address, private to the workspace by default.](https://docs.lindy.ai/teammate/artifacts)[Use casesWhat teams ask Lindy for by role: EA, sales, support, engineering, marketing and people.](https://docs.lindy.ai/use-cases)[Integrations1,000+ tools, MCP, browser-driving, and the per-integration guardrails on writes.](https://docs.lindy.ai/integrations/overview)[PricingPer-user plans with pooled credits, and computer use from the Pro plan up.](https://docs.lindy.ai/pricing)[SecurityLindy's own statement that it runs on enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure.](https://www.lindy.ai/security)[ChangelogAutopilot, described as giving your AI agent its own cloud computer.](https://www.lindy.ai/changelog) Lindy details checked 30 September 2026. Page updated September 2026. ## Frequently Asked Questions: xSquads for Work and Lindy ### Is xSquads for Work a Lindy alternative? Yes, for work that lives in files and folders on your machine. Both products give you AI teammates that do real work rather than chat. Lindy lives in your Slack and works across the tools you connect, and keeps its own files in Lindy's file system. xSquads for Work works on your own files where they already sit, with no upload step and no copy to keep in sync. ### How is xSquads for Work different from Lindy? The difference is where you talk to it and where your work lives. Lindy is a teammate you summon in Slack, iMessage or a Gmail sidebar, working across the tools you connect, with its files in its own file system. xSquads for Work is a desktop app where a squad of bot teammates shares one task board and edits your files where they already sit on your machine. Every edit lands on the file itself. ### Does Lindy have a desktop app? Lindy's documentation does not describe one. It names three surfaces: Slack, iMessage and SMS, and a Chrome extension that runs inside Gmail. Setup is a Slack install plus each person connecting email, calendar and phone. xSquads for Work is a desktop app, and that is a real difference in how you reach it, not a difference in what it can do. ### Do I have to upload my project to use xSquads for Work? No. The squad works inside the folder you point it at, in place, and the changes land on the files themselves. There is no upload step before the work starts and no copy to keep in sync after it. ### What does Lindy do better than xSquads for Work? Lindy lives in Slack, so it works in the thread your team already reads, and it connects to 1,000+ tools and any MCP server you run. It drives a browser for tools with no integration, and on paid plans its agents can use their own cloud computer, so a routine is not tied to your laptop being open. It also builds and hosts pages for you. If those are the jobs you have, Lindy is the better fit. ### Can I use Lindy and xSquads for Work together? Plenty of teams would. Lindy is strong for work that happens in Slack and in the apps you connect, because that is where it lives and what it reaches. xSquads for Work is for work that lives in files on your machine, where the edit needs to land on the real file. They solve different halves of the same problem, and neither one is a downgrade of the other. ## Run your squad on your own files xSquads for Work is the Lindy alternative that leaves your files where they are. No spam and no sales calls. Early access and product updates, nothing else. [Questions? Contact us](https://xsquads.ai/contact) ## Related Reading [ ### xSquads for Work The product this page compares: a squad of AI bot teammates on a shared task board, working on your own files and folders. ](https://xsquads.ai/xsquad-for-work)[ ### Grok Bot Alternative: xSquads for Work on Your Files The same contrast against a different competitor. Grok Bot puts a computer in the cloud and hands it to your bots, so your work has to live there first. ](https://xsquads.ai/xsquad-for-work-vs-grok-bot)[ ### Claude Cowork Alternative: xSquads on Your Own Files The same question asked of Anthropic's agent instead. Claude Cowork runs its agent loop in a cloud sandbox, and from 6 October 2026 new Pro and Max tasks run there by default. ](https://xsquads.ai/blog/claude-cowork-alternative)[ ### ChatGPT Agent Alternative: xSquads on Your Own Files A ChatGPT agent alternative for work that lives in your own files. OpenAI's agent uses a virtual computer. xSquads for Work edits your files in place. ](https://xsquads.ai/blog/chatgpt-agent-alternative)[ ### Grok Bot vs Claude Cowork: Two Cloud Agents Compared A Grok Bot vs Claude Cowork comparison. Both run your work in the cloud. See the documented differences, and where a squad on your own files fits. ](https://xsquads.ai/blog/grok-bot-vs-claude-cowork)[ ### How xSquads Works Missions, squads and the shared board, from the first task to the reviewed change. ](https://xsquads.ai/how-it-works) Questions about running a squad on your own files? Email [raina@infiniteagenci.com](mailto:raina@infiniteagenci.com) or use [contact](https://xsquads.ai/contact).