Compared
7 Minds Systems vs Lindy
Lindy is a self-serve AI teammate you build and operate yourself, priced per seat and metered in credits. We build and run managed AI employees for your firm, for one fixed monthly fee.
The verdict, in brief
- Choose 7 Minds Systems if
- You want the front of house answered, qualified, and booked, not a general assistant to build.
- Choose Lindy if
- You want a flexible AI teammate to build and operate yourself across your apps.
The table below holds the detail; the full verdict is at the end.
In short
When you want the front of house answered and booked rather than a platform to build on, 7 Minds Systems is the stronger choice: managed AI employees inside a branch, one fixed fee from £3,000 to set up and £700 a month, no seats or credit meter. Lindy is the right call when you want a flexible AI teammate to build and operate yourself, and its per-seat pricing, from $29.99 a month, suits you.
The longer read
Lindy is a general-purpose AI teammate platform: you build assistants that work across your tools, on a free trial then a per-seat plan metered in credits, published from $29.99 a month per user up to $199.99 (their pricing page, checked 30 August 2026). It is a capable builder for a team that wants to assemble and run its own assistants. We are not a builder. We scope, build, and run managed AI employees around your firm, for a fixed monthly fee with no seats and no credit meter. Choose Lindy when you want a flexible assistant to configure yourself. Choose us when you want the work done and answered for, not a tool to operate.
Side by side
| The question | 7 Minds Systems | Lindy |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A managed service: we build the AI employees, run them, and answer for how they behave. | A self-serve platform of AI teammates you build and operate yourself across your tools. |
| Who builds and runs it | We do, trained on your firm and supervised day to day, improved every month. | You do, in Lindy's builder, and you maintain the assistants as your work changes. |
| How it is billed | One fixed monthly fee, from £3,000 to set up and £700 a month, that does not move with usage. | Per seat, metered in credits: published from $29.99/mo per user (Plus) to $199.99 (Max), plus enterprise. |
| What it is aimed at | Front-of-house work: answering, qualifying, and booking the enquiries a business must not lose. | General assistant tasks across a team's apps; not a dedicated front-of-house receptionist. |
| Who checks the output | We do, and a named person on your team owns every escalation it raises. | You do. Supervision is part of operating the assistants yourself. |
| A busy month | Costs what a quiet month costs. No seat count or credit balance decides when it stops. | Costs more as usage rises: credits are consumed per task and reset rather than carry over. |
What it is
- 7 Minds Systems
- A managed service: we build the AI employees, run them, and answer for how they behave.
- Lindy
- A self-serve platform of AI teammates you build and operate yourself across your tools.
Who builds and runs it
- 7 Minds Systems
- We do, trained on your firm and supervised day to day, improved every month.
- Lindy
- You do, in Lindy's builder, and you maintain the assistants as your work changes.
How it is billed
- 7 Minds Systems
- One fixed monthly fee, from £3,000 to set up and £700 a month, that does not move with usage.
- Lindy
- Per seat, metered in credits: published from $29.99/mo per user (Plus) to $199.99 (Max), plus enterprise.
What it is aimed at
- 7 Minds Systems
- Front-of-house work: answering, qualifying, and booking the enquiries a business must not lose.
- Lindy
- General assistant tasks across a team's apps; not a dedicated front-of-house receptionist.
Who checks the output
- 7 Minds Systems
- We do, and a named person on your team owns every escalation it raises.
- Lindy
- You do. Supervision is part of operating the assistants yourself.
A busy month
- 7 Minds Systems
- Costs what a quiet month costs. No seat count or credit balance decides when it stops.
- Lindy
- Costs more as usage rises: credits are consumed per task and reset rather than carry over.
Sources, checked 30 August 2026
Every figure and product claim in the Lindy column is taken from Lindy's own pages on the date above. Pricing pages change, so we date what we quote and quote only what they publish.
Why the difference matters
The table, in plain words.
7 Minds Systems
AYou want the front of house answered, qualified, and booked, not a general assistant to build.
Lindy
BYou want a flexible AI teammate to build and operate yourself across your apps.
Two honest options, side by side.
A teammate you build, or staff we run
Lindy is a well-made platform for building AI teammates. You describe what you want, connect your tools, and it assembles assistants that act across them, and for a team that wants to build and hold its own automation that is genuinely flexible and quick to start. The difference is who does the building and the running. Lindy hands you the builder; configuring, maintaining, and supervising the assistants is yours. We do not hand you a builder. We scope the role, build the AI employees around your firm, train them on your services, and run them, so what you receive is a working front of house rather than a toolkit to assemble one.
Per seat and per credit, or one fixed fee
Lindy is priced per user and metered in credits: its published plans run from $29.99 a month per seat with a monthly credit allowance up to $199.99, with more credits on the higher tiers (their pricing page, checked 30 August 2026). That suits a team that wants to add seats and meter its own use, but the cost rises with the seats and the work, and a busy month spends the allowance faster. Our fee does not move with either. An AI employee is from £3,000 to set up and £700 a month, and the month the enquiries surge costs exactly what the quiet month costs.
A general assistant, or a front of house
Lindy is general purpose: it helps a team across its apps, which is broad and useful and not the same job as covering the front of house. Our AI employees are built for the enquiry that is worth money: they answer on the web, in chat, and by email, qualify scope and budget in your voice, book the right ones into your calendar, and follow up on the rest, supervised by us. If you want a flexible assistant to build and run yourself across your tools, Lindy is a capable choice. If you want the front of house answered and booked without operating the tool, that is what we build.
See what the difference is worth to you.
The ROI calculator puts your figures behind the table in two minutes: the enquiries a slow reply is costing, and what a branch would book to cover itself.
Who each one is for
Pick the one that fits the problem you actually have.
Choose 7 Minds Systems if
- You want the front of house answered, qualified, and booked, not a general assistant to build.
- You would rather a fixed fee than a per-seat plan metered in credits.
- You want the AI employees built, run, and supervised for you, not a platform to operate.
- You want one team accountable for the work the role books.
Choose Lindy if
- You want a flexible AI teammate to build and operate yourself across your apps.
- Per-seat, credit-metered pricing suits how your team wants to buy.
- The work is general assistant tasks rather than front-of-house enquiry handling.
- You have the time and appetite to configure and maintain the assistants.
When Lindy is the right call
If you want a flexible AI teammate you can build yourself and point at tasks across your team's apps, Lindy is a capable, quick-to-start platform, and per-seat pricing gives you clean control over what you add. Teams that want to own their own automation are well served by it. We are built for a narrower, higher-stakes job: the front of house, where an enquiry worth real money has to be answered, qualified, and booked before a competitor replies, and where a firm would rather that work were run and answered for than operated in-house. If you want the builder, Lindy is a good one; if you want the staff, that is us.
Questions
Before you decide.
Is 7 Minds Systems a build-your-own AI assistant platform like Lindy?
No. Lindy is a self-serve platform you use to build and run your own AI teammates across your tools. We build the AI employees for you, train them on your firm, run and supervise them, and wire them into a branch that answers, qualifies, and books. One is a builder you operate; the other is a managed workforce we operate for you.
How does Lindy's per-seat pricing compare with your fixed fee?
Lindy publishes per-user plans metered in credits, from $29.99 a month per seat up to $199.99, plus enterprise (their pricing page, checked 30 August 2026), so cost rises with seats and usage. A 7 Minds Systems AI employee is a fixed fee, from £3,000 to set up and £700 a month, with no seats and no credit meter. Per-seat suits a team metering its own use; a fixed fee suits a firm that wants the number settled and the work run for it.
Can Lindy work as an AI receptionist?
You could build something toward it, but Lindy is a general assistant platform rather than a dedicated front of house, and the building and supervising would be yours. Our AI receptionist is one managed AI employee we scope, build, and run for you, answering and booking the enquiries a business cannot afford to lose. If a receptionist is the job, a managed role fits it better than a general builder.
Do I need technical people to use Lindy, and do I need them for you?
Lindy is a builder, so getting durable value from it generally means having the time and confidence to configure, connect, and maintain the assistants. With us you need neither: we scope, build, train, and run the workforce, and you approve how it speaks and pick up what it escalates. The building and running are ours.
The verdict
Lindy is a general AI-teammate platform you build and meter by the seat; we build, run, and supervise the AI employees for you, aimed at the front of house, for a fixed fee. Choose Lindy when you want to own and operate a flexible assistant across your tools. Choose us when you want the enquiries answered and booked without running the tool, a busy month that costs no more, and someone else answerable for the output, which the fixed fee and the ROI calculator put a figure on.
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