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Guardian vs Restless

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Guardian compared with Restless
DetailGuardian logo GuardianRestless logo Restless
What it doesHuman authority infrastructure for autonomous AI An open-source office where people and AI agents share the work
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Pricing modelFreemium Freemium
PricingFree: $0 per month with 2 connections, 1 agent, 500 protected actions per month. Developer: $99/month with 25,000 billable executions included, then $0.001 per billable execution with $500 default overage cap. Business: Contact Sales for paid pilots and enterprise contracts. Restless Core is free and open source. Hosted Restless: Founder plan $49/month for two companies, Scale plan $149/month for five companies. AI use is included in hosted plans; additional usage available as top-ups at cost.
Key features
  • Cryptographically signed receipts and verifiable evidence
  • Multi-party approval for organizational authority
  • Open-source SDK, MCP server, and framework adapters
  • Authority lifecycle management from grant to revocation
  • Supported integrations with payments and cloud accounts
  • Individual, family, business, and enterprise deployment options
  • Enforcement at tool execution boundaries
  • Shared rooms for people and agents to communicate
  • Collaborative documents with feedback and version tracking
  • Task board with status tracking and gates
  • Persistent Linux computer for continuous work
  • AI agents that run builds, exports, and research
  • Prepared decisions requiring only human judgment
  • Work continues after people leave the office
  • Model switching and session management
  • Account permissions and role tagging for team members
  • Spending caps for AI usage control
What makes it different
  • Write-once signed decisions verifiable by auditors without trusting the vendor
  • Controls sit at the point where AI systems take consequential actions
  • One company integrating security and compliance disciplines
  • Open-source cores and published research allow vendor review
  • Human authority never transferred to the agent
  • AI agents handle routine work, so people focus only on decisions requiring judgment
  • Built as a company workspace, not just a chat window
  • Open source core available free to self-host
  • Scales from single maker with one AI lead to larger organizations
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Open sourceNot given Not given
PlatformsNot given Not given
Public APINot given Not given
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)3 no change since last check2 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)00
Citation Flow (Majestic)261
Referring domains (Majestic)182

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