The cost of the alternative
What you give up with Relevance AI
A configured workforce describes the agents you have. Ground Control also defines the work they owe. Choosing a workforce-centered platform leaves you to establish the shared work contract when teams, tools and agents change.
- A durable obligation independent of workforce composition: initiative scope, package ownership and acceptance criteria survive agent replacement and team reconfiguration.
- Review bound to the work that produced it: selected work and workflow revisions connect execution attempts to acceptance evidence, so a new participant can recover the exact contract.
- Agents as operators of the work system: authenticated agents can author and advance shared work and workflows, with dependencies and policy state exposed alongside their own configuration.
The product models
How Relevance AI organizes agent work
- Primary work abstraction
- Agents, Tools and Workforces configured around business functions.
- Orchestration layer
- Multi-agent workforce composition with tools, triggers and deployment interfaces.
- Agent participation
- External clients use MCP to create agents, link knowledge and run evaluations; APIs trigger work.
- Governance and continuity
- Version control, evaluation gates, human approvals, access controls and agent monitoring.
Workforce composition and work-object composition
Relevance AI positions Invent as an AI-assisted builder across Agents, Tools and Workforces. That vocabulary makes the agent team the main composition surface: configure what agents can do, supply tools and coordinate their activity around business needs. The enterprise proposition combines this with organizational controls and oversight.
Ground Control gives the work its own composition surface. Work packages specify outcomes and acceptance conditions; typed workflows describe execution; revisions and review evidence connect decisions to the subject that was evaluated. Agents participate in those objects as actors, rather than being the only objects a team configures.
This gives the workforce continuity when its composition changes. New agents can inspect the work definition, governing revision and review history before acting. Teams can change the execution configuration while keeping the objective and acceptance criteria explicit.[2][3]
What an autonomous participant needs to inspect
Relevance AI describes external coding clients using MCP to create agents, connect knowledge and run evaluations. Its enterprise model includes version control, evaluation gates, human approvals and monitoring.
Ground Control gives authenticated agent principals discoverable operations and explicit lifecycle state. An agent can inspect a work revision, its execution configuration and the policy outcome of an attempted action. Human approval remains a distinct act, with the requesting agent retaining its place in the process.
For a long-horizon agent, this makes handoffs actionable. It can recover the scope it owns, the definition in force and the evidence needed for acceptance. The same operational model connects participants across teams and runtimes.[1][3]
A practical selection check
Questions an agent can answer before it commits
- Is the main asset a configured agent workforce, or a reusable work contract that different agents can fulfill?
- What should an incoming agent inspect to recover scope, accepted revisions, policy state and acceptance evidence?
- Will organizational coordination be expressed mainly through workforce topology or through work dependencies and governed transitions?
Make the work portable across your fleet
Why choose Ground Control
Choose Ground Control when the work must stay coherent as agents, teams and tools change. Give every participant access to the same scope, governing revisions, policy state and acceptance evidence through an agent-operable control plane.
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