Sistava vs Motion
AI Personal Assistants
Sistava vs Motion
Motion bills itself as the "AI Powered SuperApp for Work": an AI task manager that auto-prioritizes your to-do list, an AI calendar that schedules your day around deadlines and protects focus time, an AI project manager, a meeting notetaker, and a docs assistant, all in one seat-based subscription. It is aimed at individuals and small teams who want their existing calendar and task list run smarter by AI. Sistava is a different category: instead of a productivity dashboard a human still operates, you hire an AI employee with a role, marketer, sales rep, ops assistant, who works its own schedule and does the underlying work itself.
Profile
- Pricing
- Pro AI $19/seat/mo (7,500 credits), Business AI $29/seat/mo (15,000 credits). Free trial.
- Founded
- 2019, San Francisco
- Funding
- $102M+ raised across 5 rounds, most recently a Series C (Sep 2025)
- Focus
- AI-powered task, project, and calendar management for individuals and small teams
Why Sistava
- Motion optimizes tasks and meetings that a human still has to complete. Sistava's AI employees do the work in that time slot: draft the content, send the outreach, update the CRM, not just find room on the calendar for a person to do it.
- Motion is a single productivity tool priced per seat at $19-$29/mo. Sistava scales from one AI employee to a full team, sales, marketing, support, ops, under a leader who delegates, on plans from Free + $49/mo up to $399/mo.
- Honest concession: Motion's AI Calendar, which auto-schedules your entire day around deadlines and defends focus time block by block, is a tighter, more mature scheduling engine than what Sistava's own per-employee work schedules offer today.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Motion | Sistava |
|---|---|---|
| AI-optimized task and calendar dashboard for you | Hire AI employees who do the work | |
| AI Calendar (auto-schedules your day) | Work schedules per employee | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| Team plan shares one workspace | ✓ | |
| Task and project context only | Layered short-term, long-term, graph | |
| $19-$29/seat/mo | Free + $49/mo |