Where scheduled AI agents pay off
Most teams do not need an assistant that waits for a prompt. They need the same checks, lookups and summaries done every morning, every Monday or every hour, whether anyone remembers or not. That is the gap a scheduled AI agent fills. You write the job once, for example "Every weekday at 8 AM pull new trial signups from HubSpot, research each company and post the ten best fits to Slack", and Crons turns it into a recurring AI cron job with a schedule, steps and a destination.
Because every cron keeps memory between runs, the output stays useful over time. It reports what changed since last week instead of repeating the whole list, skips items it already sent and flags anything new. Failed steps retry three times with backoff, and if a run still fails you get an alert by email or Slack.
Use cases by department
Each department page below shows example crons, the controls that matter for that team and which plan fits the volume.
| Team | Typical recurring job | Where results go |
|---|---|---|
| Sales | Research new inbound leads and score fit every morning | Slack, HubSpot after approval |
| Marketing | Weekly SEO audit and content checks on key pages | Google Sheets, Slack |
| Competitive intelligence | Track competitor pricing and feature pages for changes | Slack, Notion |
| Recruiting | Source candidates matching open roles and summarize them | Google Sheets, Gmail draft |
| Finance | Reconcile payouts and list overdue invoices | Google Sheets, approval queue |
| Customer success | Daily account health digest with at risk accounts first | Slack, Notion |
- AI agents for sales for lead research, enrichment and pipeline hygiene
- AI agents for marketing for SEO audits, content checks and reporting
- Competitive intelligence AI agent for pricing and product monitoring
- AI agents for recruiting for sourcing and pipeline summaries
- AI agents for finance for reconciliation and overdue checks
- AI agents for customer success for health digests and renewal prep
What every business cron includes
Every cron is built from steps you can read and edit. An AI reasoning step decides what matters, a web fetch or headless browser action reads pages, an HTTP request calls an API with stored credentials, and an integration action writes to Slack, Gmail, HubSpot, Google Sheets or Notion. Approval gates hold critical steps, such as emailing a customer, writing to your CRM or posting to a public channel, until a person on your team approves them. Payments are never executed by a cron.
Every run is recorded in the run log with each step, its input, output, retries and timing, so anyone on the team can see exactly what the agent did and why. You can try any job in dry run mode before it touches a real system.
How to pick a plan for your team
Starter covers one person with up to 10 active crons and 300 runs a month. Pro adds 5 seats, 50 crons, 1,500 runs, code steps and API access. Teams gives 25 seats, approval rules per team, SSO and a one year run log. Full limits are on the pricing page.
Frequently asked questions
What is an AI agent for business?
It is a program that completes a defined job, such as researching leads or checking invoices, by reading data, reasoning about it and taking actions in your tools. In Crons each agent runs on a schedule you set in plain English.
Do I need to write code to set one up?
No. You describe the job in one sentence and Crons builds the schedule and steps. Code steps exist on Pro and Teams for people who want them, but they are optional.
Can an agent send emails or change records without asking?
Only if you allow it. Emailing customers, writing to a CRM and posting to public channels can sit behind an approval gate, and payments are never executed.
Which tools do the agents connect to?
Slack, Gmail, HubSpot, Google Sheets, Notion and any service reachable by webhook or HTTP request with stored credentials. See integrations.
Is there a free plan?
There is no free plan. You can try the demo on the homepage without an account to see the parsed schedule, steps and a sample result, then choose a paid plan to run crons.