Sistava is an AI workforce platform where solo founders hire AI employees to run their business around the clock. Each AI employee has a specific role like sales, marketing, or customer support, with real tool integrations, persistent memory, and the ability to work inside your existing apps like Slack, Gmail, and HubSpot.

What is an AI employee?

An AI employee is an autonomous AI agent with a defined role, persona, skill set, and tool access. Unlike a chatbot that only answers questions, an AI employee takes on recurring work like writing emails, qualifying leads, answering support tickets, and publishing content, and it works on its own around the clock without being prompted each time.

How is Sistava different from project management software?

Sistava is not project management software. You hire AI employees who do the work, not a tool that tracks work done by humans. Your AI employees run sales outreach, write marketing content, answer support tickets, and handle operations on their own, without constant supervision.

How much does Sistava cost?

Sistava has a free plan you can start without a credit card, plus paid plans that scale with how much work you hand to your AI employees. See the pricing page for current plans.

What can AI employees do on Sistava?

Your AI employees take on the recurring work that runs a business: qualifying and reaching out to leads, writing and publishing marketing content, answering support tickets, and handling day to day operations. Each one comes with a role and skill set, so it can start working the day you hire it.

Sistava is built for solo founders and small teams who need to run sales, marketing, support, and operations without hiring a full human team. It gives you the equivalent of a growth team you can hire in minutes.

Lyzr Alternative: Hire, Do Not Build Agents

Comparison — 2026-07-29 — by Mahmoud Zalt

The best Lyzr alternative for non-builders is Sistava: pre-built AI Employees you hire in plain English instead of assembling agents on a framework.

If you evaluated Lyzr and walked away impressed but stuck, the reason is usually not the product. Lyzr is a serious framework for building agentic systems, with SDKs, orchestration, and enterprise controls that a technical team can lean on hard. The gap most people hit is that it assumes you are a builder. You open it expecting a worker and instead you get the workshop, the tools, and the responsibility to assemble the thing yourself. This is an honest comparison for the founder who wants the outcome without becoming the engineer.

Sistava makes the opposite bet. Instead of a toolkit for composing agents, it ships a workforce of pre-built AI Employees, each with a defined role, a personality, and a starting set of skills and tools already wired in. You do not architect a support agent. You hire the support AI Employee, tell it how your product works and how you like to talk to customers, and it starts drafting replies. The assembly work Lyzr puts on you is work Sistava already did, so your first hour goes to using the teammate rather than building it.

At a Glance

0: Agents to assemble before your first result
49/mo: Sistava entry plan with a full AI Employee
Plain English: How you brief and correct the Employee
Same day: Time from hire to first real task

What is Lyzr actually built for?

Lyzr is an agent framework, and it earns real credit for that. It gives developers an SDK, agent orchestration, guardrails, and the option to run agents inside your own infrastructure, which matters a lot to teams with data-residency or compliance requirements. If you have engineers who want to design a custom multi-agent system and keep it under their own control, Lyzr is a genuinely capable foundation and you should not talk yourself out of it because a competitor is easier.

The honest limit is who it serves. A framework rewards the person who wants to build with it. A non-developer does not want an SDK, an orchestration layer, or a guardrail config. They want the job done: the tickets answered, the leads researched, the reports written, the follow-ups sent. When the platform assumes you will compose the agent yourself, the founder without an engineering partner stalls at exactly the point the demo made look effortless. That is the gap an alternative has to close.

The difference is clearest in how each product treats the first paragraph you write. In Lyzr, that paragraph becomes a spec that a developer turns into agent code and configuration. In Sistava, that paragraph is the entire setup. It is the job description you hand a new hire. You describe your business, your customer, and your tone, and the AI Employee treats it as operating context immediately. Correcting the Employee later is the same motion, plain English, the way you coach a junior teammate instead of editing a config file.

Where does each platform win?

Neither product is strictly better. They are built for different people, and the right pick depends on whether you want to build the worker or hire the worker. The table below is the comparison I would have wanted before choosing, written for a solo founder or small team without a dedicated engineer to own the agent stack.

Comparison

Before	After

Benefits

A defined role

Sales, support, marketing, or ops, with responsibilities and default behavior already set.

Skills and tools pre-wired

Research, drafting, CRM logging, and scheduling arrive connected, not assembled by you.

Plain-English briefing

One paragraph about your business becomes the Employee's operating context immediately.

Memory across tasks

The Employee remembers your customers and past work instead of starting cold each session.

How do you move from a framework to a hire?

Leaving a build-your-own framework sounds like a migration project, but for a non-developer it is usually the reverse. You are not porting agent code. You are describing the outcome you wanted that code to produce and letting a pre-built Employee take it from there. The four steps below are how I onboard a new role, and none of them require touching an SDK.

From framework to working teammate

Pick the role you were building toward — Choose the AI Employee whose job matches the agent you were assembling in Lyzr.
Write the one-paragraph brief — Who you serve, what you sell, the tone you use, and what a good result looks like. No prompt engineering.
Connect the tools it needs — Authorize your CRM, inbox, or help desk in a couple of clicks. The Employee already knows how to use them.
Approve the first batch of work — Read the first outputs, edit what you would change, and the Employee calibrates to your judgment.

This works because the hard part of an agent is not the wiring, it is the judgment: knowing what a good reply sounds like for your business, what counts as a qualified lead, when to escalate to you. A framework cannot supply that judgment, it can only give you the place to encode it once you already have it. A pre-built AI Employee lets you supply that judgment the way you would to a person, through examples and corrections, which is the one interface every non-developer already knows.

One caveat worth stating plainly: if you need a one-of-a-kind agentic system, or you must self-host for compliance, Lyzr's control and flexibility are a real advantage and Sistava's pre-built roles will feel constraining. That case is genuine and it is honest to name it. It is also far rarer than framework demos suggest. Most founders do not need a novel agent architecture. They need a reliable sales, support, or ops teammate doing ordinary work well, and that is exactly where the hire model beats the build model.

Frequently asked questions

FAQ

Is Sistava a true Lyzr alternative?

For the common case, yes. Lyzr is an agent framework aimed at developers who want to build and orchestrate agents. Sistava is a workforce platform where you hire pre-built AI Employees and brief them in plain English. If you want the outcome without building the agent, Sistava is the closer fit. If you specifically want to engineer custom agents or self-host, Lyzr is the better tool.

Do I need any coding to use Sistava?

No. You write a one-paragraph brief describing your business, your customer, and your tone. That brief is closer to a job description than a prompt. You correct the AI Employee afterward in plain English, the same way you would coach a junior hire.

What does Sistava cost compared to Lyzr?

Sistava starts at 49 per month with credits bundled into the plan, and there is no per-seat surcharge to add a teammate to the workspace. Lyzr uses developer and usage-based tiers. For a solo founder running one or two roles, the bundled-credit approach is usually simpler to predict.

Can Sistava handle custom work like a Lyzr agent?

Sistava's AI Employees handle a wide range of real work out of the box, and you shape their behavior through briefing and tool connections rather than agent code. For a genuinely bespoke multi-agent system, a framework gives you more raw flexibility. For ordinary sales, support, marketing, and ops work, the pre-built roles cover it without the build step.

How long until an AI Employee is doing real work?

Same day for most roles. Because the role, skills, and tools are pre-wired, the only setup is your one-paragraph brief and connecting the accounts the Employee needs. Most founders have a teammate producing first drafts within the first hour.

The clean way to decide is to ask what you actually want to spend your time on. If building and orchestrating agents is the work you enjoy and your business needs something custom or self-hosted, Lyzr is a strong framework and you will get a lot out of it. If you want a teammate who already knows the job and simply needs to learn your business, the hire model is the shorter path, and it keeps a non-developer out of an SDK they never wanted to open. Start with the role you were building toward, write the paragraph, and let the Employee do the assembling for you.