Pickaxe
No code platform to build, deploy and monetize custom AI agents: a visual builder with a vector knowledge base, 500+ action integrations, 50+ models and one line embeds, plus branded portals with Stripe billing and access control.
Pickaxe is a no code platform for building, deploying and monetizing custom AI agents, often described as a Shopify for agent powered businesses. In a visual builder, a non technical creator sets an agent's instructions and personality, connects a knowledge base drawn from more than 14 content types including PDFs, websites, Notion, Google Drive and videos with automatic daily syncs and per file context instructions, chooses from more than 50 models from several makers with one click switching, and adds Actions that connect to more than 500 integrations such as HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack, Google Sheets and custom webhooks.
Agents can be routed to specialized sub agents, generate branded PDFs, collect structured data through conversational forms and take real actions in connected tools. Finished agents deploy as a one line website embed, an API, or through email, WhatsApp and Slack, or are packaged into branded Studios and portals with custom domains, user accounts and access groups. Built in monetization lets creators charge through Stripe with subscription, pay per use or one time pricing, per user budgets and paywalls, and white label the whole experience.
Pickaxe is a SOC 2 examined platform with enterprise single sign on, data privacy by design and full visibility into AI activity, and ships a command line interface built for AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor to create agents, sync knowledge and deploy without opening the web app. Founded in 2022, it offers a Gold plan at $29 a month billed annually and a Pro plan at $116 a month billed annually, with usage billed through a transparent credit system.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://pickaxe.co/
Category
Agent builder
Funding status
Privately held, founded 2022. Specific funding not disclosed in retrieved sources; the company operates a self serve SaaS with public credit based pricing and has been distributed via AppSumo.
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Primary use cases
Target customers
Deployment options
Integrations
Connects agents to more than 500 integrations through its Actions system, including HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio, Slack, Google Sheets and Google search, with prebuilt Actions plus custom Actions and Zapier or Make webhooks. Knowledge bases ingest more than 14 content types such as PDFs, websites, Notion, Google Drive and videos with automatic daily syncs. A REST API and a command line interface built for AI coding agents extend the platform programmatically.
In practice
A consultant wants to sell her expertise as an agent. She builds it in Pickaxe from her PDFs and Notion pages, deploys it in a branded portal on her own domain, and charges members through Stripe.
A sales team wants an agent that updates the CRM after each chat. Actions connect the agent to HubSpot or Salesforce, and a workflow fires once the visitor completes a conversational form.
A support team wants answers that remember each customer. The agent stores key details and preferences from each conversation and recalls them on the next visit, and the team reviews every conversation in the activity log.
Sources & related URLs
Related / legacy domains
Research sources
Agentic Index coverage score
10.0 / 14 capabilities · 71%
| Integrations & Tool Calling | Full |
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A browsable Actions and MCP server directory at pickaxe.co/actions lists integrations in CRM (HubSpot, Salesforce and Attio), communication (Gmail and Slack), productivity (Notion, Google Calendar and Google Sheets) and developer tooling (GitHub), plus image generation via DALL-E and Composio for onward tool authentication. Pickaxe counts more than 500 integrations. Actions let the creator and their end users take actions and trigger workflows in connected tools in real time, and MCP servers are published as Actions, so services exposed through MCP become callable by the agent. Custom Actions and Zapier or Make webhooks extend beyond the catalog. A third-party review notes that the Gold tier caps Actions at three per agent, and higher tiers remove the cap. Sourcepickaxe.co actions directory, features and home pagesread 2026-08-31 |
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| Workflow Orchestration | Full |
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Agents route to specialized sub-agents in a waterfall configuration for multi-step tasks, post-submission workflows fire after conversational forms complete, and Actions chain into connected tools in real time. The action set includes PDF generation during a conversation, structured data collection through conversational forms, and code execution. There is no named branching, looping, conditional or parallel control-flow construct and no visual flow canvas. Sourcepickaxe.co features page, client onboarding guide and published user manualread 2026-08-31 |
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| Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Full |
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An integrated vector database provides retrieval-augmented generation over knowledge bases built from more than 14 content types, including PDFs, websites, Notion, Google Drive and video. Automatic daily syncs keep connected sources current, per-file context instructions steer how the agent uses individual documents, and knowledge is shared at workspace level across agents. The CLI syncs knowledge bases programmatically. Pickaxe does not describe its chunking strategy, embedding model, retrieval configuration or citation behavior. Sourcepickaxe.co features page, v1 documentation and published user manualread 2026-08-31 |
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| Human Oversight & Guardrails | Partial |
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Regulated industry customers get sandboxed agent execution through the OpenClaw engine. Controls include access groups (public, member and invite only), per user usage budgets, role based access controls, granular permissions, and per file context instructions that constrain how documents are used. There is no runtime approval step, pending action queue, pause for confirmation, or escalation and handoff path to a person. The API also has a Prompt Injectors section. Sourcepickaxe.co enterprise-ai-security, security and features pages, client onboarding guideread 2026-08-31 |
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| Security, Identity & Governance | Full |
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An independent examination covered security, availability and confidentiality controls, SOC 2 reports are available to enterprise customers through the Trust Center, and Pickaxe is GDPR and CCPA compliant. Customer-facing controls are enterprise single sign-on, role-based access controls, granular permissions, comprehensive audit logging of every interaction, and configurable data retention and access permissions, with encryption at rest and in transit and a commitment that knowledge base content and conversation data are never used to train AI models. Regulated-industry customers are offered sandboxed agent execution through the OpenClaw engine, custom SLAs and advanced data privacy options. Pickaxe uses the word examined throughout and gives no SOC 2 type or observation period. Sourcepickaxe.co enterprise-ai-security, security and features pagesread 2026-08-31 |
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| Observability & Auditability | Full |
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The conversation activity log shows a summary of every conversation, which actions were triggered and how users interacted with the agents. An activity feed covers the workspace in real time, with per user usage and spending. That gives a record of the actions taken in each conversation. Comprehensive audit logging covers every interaction for compliance reviews, and each summary clicks through to the full transcript. Action parameters and results are not shown. Sourcepickaxe.co user-activity-and-memory page, security pageread 2026-09-29 |
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| Memory & State Persistence | Partial |
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Agents automatically store key details from conversations and recall user preferences, past questions and context on the next visit, with memory instructions set per workspace, so the agent writes the store and it is scoped per user. A User Memory list lets the operator filter and download memories as Markdown, PDF, Word or JSON for review, and each plan caps user memories per workspace. There is no retention period, expiry or purge path for stored memories. Sourcepickaxe.co user-activity-and-memory page, changelog user-memory-document-exports, pricing pageread 2026-09-29 |
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| Deployment & Data Residency | Not documented |
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Encryption at rest and in transit, customer data ownership, retention configuration, a Trust Center and custom SLAs are offered, but there is no region selection, virtual private cloud, on premises option, self hosting path or data localization commitment. Advanced data privacy options are offered to enterprise customers without detail. Website embeds, branded portals with custom domains, the API, email, WhatsApp and Slack are ways to distribute agents, not deployment or residency options. Sandboxed agent execution through the OpenClaw engine isolates runs and is not a deployment choice. Sourcepickaxe.co security, enterprise-ai-security and features pagesread 2026-08-31 |
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| Prebuilt Agents / Templates / Packs | Partial |
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A gallery of use case examples shows what customers have built, and an Automatic AI Builder generates an agent from a description. Both illustrate or generate agents and are not packaged assets ready to adopt. The prebuilt Actions library is made of integrations. The Actions pages mention getting started faster with pre-built templates and a library of ready-to-use AI tools, but there is no template library, browsable prebuilt agent catalog or template gallery page. Sourcepickaxe.co features, home, actions and pricing pagesread 2026-08-31 |
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| Triggers & Channel Coverage | Full |
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Agents deploy and are reached across website embeds in inline, floating, popup and iframe forms, branded portals on custom domains with user accounts and access groups, a Completions API, email, Slack and WhatsApp. An agent can run on a real email address with threaded memory and attachments. Actions trigger workflows in connected tools in real time and outbound webhooks notify Zapier, Make and other automation endpoints, while authenticated embeds handle session handoff from a host application. A third-party review adds Telegram and Discord. There is no timer, cron or recurrence capability. Sourcepickaxe.co home, features and v1 documentation pagesread 2026-08-31 |
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| Model Flexibility & Routing | Full |
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Every plan has access to all the latest AI models, with live per model rates updated from real usage. Customers choose from more than 50 models and switch with one click to compare cost, speed and quality. Recent additions come from several makers, including Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 variants, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Grok 4.7, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GLM 5.3, alongside a revised model selector. The choice across makers sits with the customer. Usage is billed at $1 of credit per $1 of model cost. Sourcepickaxe.co pricing and features pages, changelog indexread 2026-09-29 |
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| APIs / SDKs / MCP Extensibility | Full |
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API documentation at pickaxe.co/v1/documentation covers an introduction, a Completions API for deployment inference requests, CLI and coding agents, prompt injectors, environment variables, webhooks and authenticated embeds, plus CRUD and listing endpoints for each resource with request and response examples. A command line interface built for AI coding agents, including Claude Code, Cursor and Windsurf, creates agents, syncs knowledge bases and deploys without opening the web application. Outbound webhooks fire to Zapier, Make and other automation endpoints, and custom Actions extend the tool surface. A community-built MCP server wrapping the public API exists on GitHub, but it is third-party, and Pickaxe publishes no MCP server of its own. Sourcepickaxe.co v1 documentation and features pagesread 2026-08-31 |
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| Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Partial |
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Testing runs through preview and test mode, impersonation of specific users to test access paths, one click model switching to compare cost, speed and quality with live rates shown, a cost estimator, and AI powered prompt improvements with real time testing. There is no scoring of agent outputs, judge, retained test set, expected answers, regression harness or way to compare one agent version against another on the same inputs. Conversation summaries in the Activity tab support after the fact review. Sourcepickaxe.co features, security and pricing pages, client onboarding guide and published user manualread 2026-08-31 |
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| Browser / Computer-use | Not documented |
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Agents act through more than 500 Actions and MCP servers, outbound webhooks, the Completions API and an integrated vector knowledge base, all programmatic interfaces. A Google search Action provides real time web retrieval, and code execution lets an agent run code directly, alongside PDF generation. Neither operates software through an interface that lacks a programmatic alternative. There is no browser control, navigation, form filling, screen interaction, visual grounding or desktop automation, and Pickaxe makes no claim in that area. Sourcepickaxe.co features and actions pages, published user manualread 2026-08-31 |
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The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Not documented against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded
Recent platform changes
A new ChatGPT plugin and Claude directory connector let users build, run and manage their Pickaxe agents from inside either assistant. Once connected, they can create agents, edit instructions and models, attach knowledge, set up actions and MCP connections, and review conversations and deployments.
Bears on: MCP / tool calling / API
View sourcePricing
Gold from $29 a month billed annually ($37 monthly), Pro from $116 a month billed annually ($147 monthly), Business from $597 a month on a six-month minimum, plus credit-based usage at model cost.
Monthly plan plus credit based usage at underlying model cost
Cost watchouts
Credit based usage can escalate quickly at scale, and knowledge storage expansion and higher model tiers add cost; end user usage of monetized agents consumes the creator's credits.
Variable cost rationale
Beyond the flat monthly plan, usage is billed through credits equal to underlying model cost, so total spend scales directly with how much the creator's agents are run, including by their end users, and can dominate at volume.
Sales call required
No, self serve available
Free / trial
No free plan listed on the pricing page; paid plans include monthly usage credits
Lowest paid plan
Gold at $29 a month billed annually ($37 monthly)
Key ambiguities
Plan prices are exact and public, but total cost depends heavily on credit usage, which varies with model choice and how often agents run, including by end users of monetized agents.
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