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Claude Cowork alternative

Stepwork is the Claude Cowork alternative for work that repeats

Record a process once. Stepwork repeats that exact path on demand or on a schedule, signs in on its own, and keeps a record of every run.

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The difference

The first run is not the hard part

Claude Cowork works out the steps again each time it runs. Stepwork replays the path it recorded, so the fiftieth run matches the first.

Built for production automation
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Flow in Progress

Built for creative exploration
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Flow in Progress

What changes when the work repeats

Both tools can get through this process once. The differences below are the ones that show up on the fiftieth run, when the same work comes around again.

Stepwork

Claude Cowork

How the work is defined
Stepwork

Record the process once, then run it

Claude Cowork

Describe the outcome, the assistant works through it

The next run
Stepwork

Follows the recorded path

Claude Cowork

Interpreted again

Best suited to
Stepwork

Access reviews, onboarding, offboarding, cross-app processes

Claude Cowork

Exploration, drafting, research, flexible computer work

What you can review
Stepwork

Status, duration, step detail, and every attempt

Claude Cowork

The current session

Operating model
Stepwork

Repeatable, recorded execution

Claude Cowork

Human-guided assistance

Authentication

Stepwork signs in on its own

Stepwork mirrors the way your team already signs in, so a scheduled run never stops to ask a person for permission. Claude Cowork often needs someone to accept an authenticated session before background work continues.

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    Your IdP, unchanged

    Your identity provider and policies stay exactly as they are today.

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    Every sign-in method

    Okta SAML, Microsoft Entra, Google, and API key.

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    Nothing is stored

    Credentials stay in your vault. Stepwork never keeps a copy.

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    Scoped and revocable

    Vault access is scoped per flow and can be revoked at any time.

Works with your existing MFA

  • OTP

    Time-based and authenticator codes

  • Passkeys

    FIDO2 and passkey challenges

  • Email sign-in

    Magic links and email verification

What our customers say

AngelList
“We've saved going forward dozens of hours every week on things where APIs don't exist, and we couldn't trust ppl workflows. Stepwork is running 24/7 in our infrastructure, so it's working even when we're sleeping.”
  • Gabe WiederBusiness systems and automation lead
  • Alice WoChief of staff
  • Andres Ramirez JrInformation technology engineer

Using both

Repeat with Stepwork. Explore with Claude Cowork.

Some work needs flexible reasoning. Other work needs a defined path that can be repeated consistently. Use each tool where it works best.

Standardize and run repeatedly

Stepwork

  • Turn a known process into a Procedure
  • Run access reviews and onboarding workflows
  • Coordinate steps across multiple applications
  • Follow the same path every cycle
  • Review the result of each run

Explore and figure things out

Claude Cowork

  • Explore open-ended tasks
  • Draft and research
  • Work through messy or unfamiliar input
  • Find a path when the process is not defined yet

FAQ

Questions about Stepwork and Claude Cowork

  • For operational work, yes. Stepwork is a deterministic agent platform. You record a process once and it runs that same path every time, on demand, on a schedule, or from Slack. Teams use it for access reviews, onboarding, and offboarding.

  • Claude Cowork is a flexible assistant for open-ended computer work. Stepwork records a process and repeats it. The difference appears after the first run: the recorded path is fixed, runs unattended, and records status, duration, step detail, and the reason for any failure.

  • Yes. Put a flow or a procedure on a schedule. It runs in an isolated container, locally or in a Stepwork cloud container, and signs in using credentials read from 1Password at run time.

  • It stops, names the step that failed and the reason, and keeps the history. If the run was retried, every attempt is recorded. Nothing reports success it did not achieve.

  • No. Stepwork works in the interface, so it covers applications with no API, partial APIs, or APIs that skip the step you care about. If you do have APIs, a procedure can call them mid-process.

  • Stepwork's AI vision recognizes the element in its new position or with its new label, and the run continues on the recorded path. The run is recorded either way.

Next step

Bring a process you already repeat

We will show you what it looks like as a recorded flow, and what the record of each run tells your reviewers.

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