Both of these products promise help running a company, but they sit at different points in that work. Soloop calls itself an AI cofounder that plans, builds and markets. You give it an idea, a link, a file or your code, and it runs tasks and returns results. Its terms describe the product as being in beta.
Nautis starts from a company's records rather than its product. The two overlap on planning and go-to-market thinking, then split. This page uses Soloop's pricing page, product manual, about page and terms, read in October 2026, and it works through what the credit system means for a real month of use.
Which gap do you have this month?
Write down the three things that went undone last week, then sort them. Soloop fits a list like "nobody fixed the signup bug", "we haven't posted in a month" and "I don't know who my competitors are". Those are tasks a person would otherwise have to sit down and do.
Nautis fits a list like "I lost track of which investors owe me a reply", "I don't know our runway this month" and "an invoice went overdue and nobody noticed". That work needs records that stay current and something that reads across them. If your list mixes both, deal with whichever costs more this quarter. A founder with no users has little to coordinate, and a founder two months from running out of cash shouldn't be tuning ad copy.
How Soloop's task loop works
Soloop keeps project context in four records. The Product Doc is an editable brief covering the product, target user, problem and advantage. Documents hold your uploads. Tasks hold status, output, failures and credit use. Inbox holds monitored replies and outside signals. Chat is one view over those.
Its manual lists concrete jobs: compare competitors from public sources, publish on X, send or reply from a connected Gmail account, change code from a GitHub repo or ZIP in a sandbox and prepare a deployment, find Reddit communities and prepare posts, and launch Google Ads campaigns with a budget you set up. Campaign budgets and other third-party charges sit outside Soloop's credits.
That record of what ran is a good design choice. If a task fails, you can see the state and the error, and the support page asks for the task ID. Uploads have stated limits too: 10 MB per document, 50 MB for a code ZIP and up to 5 files in a message.
Nautis vs Soloop, job by job
| Job | Soloop | Nautis |
|---|---|---|
| Write and change product code | Yes, in a sandbox from an idea, GitHub repo or ZIP, with checks and deployment results | No coding agent in its guides. GitHub connects through the integrations catalog |
| Market research | Competitor and market reports with source links | SWOT canvas, GTM Planner and Find Investors, built around your own company data |
| Posting and outreach | X, then cold email from Builder and multiple channels from Operator, with Gmail and Reddit tasks in the manual | Social Calendar plans and approves posts, and you publish them yourself. MailBox handles email |
| Paid ads | Google Ads campaigns, with a separate wallet | No ad-buying module in its guides |
| Fundraising pipeline | Not listed | Fundraising CRM with Raise HQ, plus Find Investors and Investor Readiness |
| Runway and finance | Not listed | Startup Health, Financial Planner, invoices and expenses. Not an accounting system |
| Team records | Team plan offers shared execution and review | Employee management, roles, Team Chat, Burnout Radar |
| Daily summary | Weekly planning and regular reviews, per its homepage | Briefing at 7:00 am, grouped into Priorities, Blockers, Approvals, Pipeline, Today and Runway |
| Control over outside actions | "Approval-first external actions" on Builder, a monitoring and approval queue on Operator | Approval Center, with capabilities set to Ask every time by default |
Soloop's plan table lists channels as X on Free, "X + Cold email" on Builder and multiple channels on Operator and Team. If a particular channel decides this for you, confirm it on the pricing page before paying.
What 40 credits buy in practice
One Soloop credit equals one task, and chat is free. The detail to read twice is channel activity: it costs 1 credit per company, channel and day when content or a reply is sent. So a company posting on X every day uses about 30 credits a month before you run anything else. Add daily cold email and that becomes about 60, which is more than Builder includes.
Nautis credits measure something else, and the two numbers can't be compared. Chat, voice and custom advisors draw on them. Once they're gone, nothing more can be sent until the monthly reset or a top-up. Prices below are monthly list prices as of October 2026, billed monthly, and Soloop's pricing page doesn't price per seat.
| Plan | Monthly price | What's metered | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soloop Free | $0 | 5 one-time credits | 1 company, core planning and chat |
| Soloop Builder | $39 | 40 tasks a month | 2 companies, research, coding and growth workflows |
| Soloop Operator | $99 | 100 tasks a month | 5 companies, recurring runs, approval queue |
| Soloop Team | From $199 | 200 to 1,000 tasks a month | 10 companies, shared work, priority support |
| Nautis Launch | $49 | 1,000 AI credits | 5 team members, 5 routines |
| Nautis Voyage | $99 | 2,000 AI credits | 10 team members, 10 routines, cap table |
| Nautis Fleet | $129 | 2,600 AI credits | 25 team members, 15 routines |
Soloop takes 15% off annual billing, charged up front with credits granted monthly. On Nautis, paying yearly saves two months. Soloop lets you start on Free with no card, and its terms also describe a 7-day Builder trial with 100 credits that does need a card. Nautis has a 14-day trial, also with no card, and no $0 plan after it. One thing to check: Soloop's pricing page says 5 one-time credits on Free, while its terms, dated September 24, 2026, say 15 credits each month. This table follows the pricing page.
One launch month, handled in each
Picture a two-person seed startup that has a working product, 40 paying users and a bridge conversation starting in six weeks. Your to-do list has a checkout bug, a competitor to understand and a need for more trial signups.
- With Soloop: you connect the repo and ask it to fix the bug and show how it checked the change. You ask for a competitor report with sources. You connect X and Gmail so it can draft posts and outreach for you to approve. Each of those runs as a task. On Builder, a daily channel plus a handful of tasks would come close to the monthly allowance.
- With Nautis: none of that code or posting happens for you. You log cash and burn in Startup Health, open a round in the Fundraising CRM, and let Investor Readiness rank what's missing. The morning briefing shows fundraising signals and runway beside overdue invoices and blocked tasks, and Investor Readiness gives you a raise window. A follow-up to an investor waits for your approval.
Neither product does the other's half of that month. A team in this spot could reasonably run Soloop for shipping and marketing, and keep the raise and finance records elsewhere.
Where Soloop is the stronger choice
- It does the hands-on work. Code changes, research reports and posts come back as finished output. Nothing in Nautis's guides will fix your signup bug.
- It starts earlier. An idea or a link is enough, so a founder with no company yet has something to do on day one. Nautis gets useful as its records fill up.
- Several projects. Builder covers 2 companies and Team covers 10, which suits someone testing ideas or an agency.
- Cost per task is plain. One credit, one task, is easy to reason about when you're budgeting.
Where Nautis has the edge, and its weak points
Nautis's advantage is depth of company records in one place: an investor pipeline, a cap table on Voyage and Fleet, data rooms, invoices, pay runs, document signing and a credentials vault. The Chief of Staff reads across those, so an overdue invoice and a runway number appear together. Soloop's pages describe company context, files and task history. Finance and fundraising records aren't listed on the pages we read.
The weak points are real. Nautis only went public on Product Hunt in July 2026, and outside reviews are scarce, so don't treat it as the proven option here. It covers many functions, and a dedicated CRM or accounting tool will go further in each. Approvals take attention, because the default is to ask every time. And if your real problem is getting your first ten users, a workspace of records won't get them for you. If that's where you are, our page for solo founders is honest about what fits and what doesn't.
Picking one
- Pick Soloop if you're solo or nearly so, have no one to write code or run outreach, and want to pay by the task.
- Pick Nautis if you have a team of 3 to 25, are raising or about to, and keep losing track of what's happening across functions. The startup operating system guide shows what that covers.
- Wait on both if you're still deciding what to build and can do the research yourself in an afternoon. Soloop's $0 start is enough to find out whether its task model suits you.
FAQ
Should I use Soloop or Nautis to run my startup?
Soloop does product and marketing tasks: research, code changes, posts, outreach and Google Ads. Nautis keeps a startup's operating records, such as investors, runway, invoices and team, and adds an AI Chief of Staff that reads them. They overlap on planning and little else.
How much does Soloop cost?
Soloop's October 2026 price list shows Free with 5 one-time credits, Builder at $39 a month with 40 credits, Operator at $99 with 100, and Team from $199 with 200 to 1,000. Annual billing takes 15% off. Ad spend is separate from credits.
How do Soloop credits work?
One credit runs one task, and chat doesn't use credits. Channel activity costs 1 credit per company, channel and day when something is sent. A daily presence on one channel therefore uses about 30 credits a month.
Does Soloop ask before it posts or sends?
Its pricing page lists approval-first external actions on Builder and a monitoring and approval queue on Operator. Its terms tell you to review output, posts, code and deploys, and they make you responsible for what you approve or publish. Read the settings for each channel before connecting an account.
Can Nautis build my product like Soloop does?
No. The Nautis guides don't describe a coding agent or a website builder. It can connect to GitHub through its integrations catalog, but building your product isn't what it's for.
Disclosure: We make Nautis, so we have a stake in this comparison. It's based on published information, not a scored hands-on test. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we will correct it.
Sources
- Soloop: pricing (checked Oct 31, 2026)
- Soloop: product manual (checked Oct 31, 2026)
- Soloop: homepage (checked Oct 31, 2026)
- Soloop: about (checked Oct 31, 2026)
- Soloop: terms of use (checked Oct 31, 2026)