agent · workflow
BuildShip vs Gumloop
55 fields both were evaluated on, 28 of them different — including where one discloses something the other does not. Every value links to the document it came from. 27 further fields are disclosed by neither and are listed at the end rather than tabled.
Assurance
| Field | BuildShip | Gumloop |
|---|---|---|
| Audit trail· | “Logs, Monitor Status, Alerts and more Get actionable insights to keep your operations running smoothly. Get instant alerts if an execution failed and monitor concurrent executions and request latency in real time.”buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | “Audit logging Capture detailed audit trails for actions across the organization to understand where data is flowing.”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 |
| Runtime governance· | no public information buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | Spend and action controls enforced at run time: budget and quota controls, spend caps by agent/team/org with approval on costly actions, and plain-English policy rules that block, tag or log actions before they run. “App policies and guardrails . Write plain English rules that block, tag, or log actions before they run.”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
| Permission scopes· | “Granular Role-Based Access Control Set precise permissions for admins, editors, and viewers to keep collaboration secure.”buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | Reusable roles with scoped access to credentials and secrets; SAML SSO and SCIM offered. “Roles and permissions . Manage reusable roles, credentials, and secrets with scoped access.”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
| Compliance certifications· | no public information buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | SOC 2 Type II, independently audited; GDPR with Zero Data Retention agreements for third-party models. No auditor, certificate or report date published on the page checked. “SOC 2 Type II . Independently audited and compliant. GDPR . Zero Data Retention agreements for third-party models.”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
| Regulatory alignment· | no public information buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | SOC 2 Type II and GDPR are the two frameworks named on the vendor page. “SOC 2 Type II . Independently audited and compliant. GDPR . Zero Data Retention agreements for third-party models.”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
Agency
| Field | BuildShip | Gumloop |
|---|---|---|
| Human oversight· | no public information buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | Spend/budget increases above a set cap require explicit human approval (approve/deny) “Raise to 75k? Deny Approve”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
| Action space· | no public information buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | Agents can take write actions such as drafting and saving emails on the user's behalf “Draft outreach to the top two and save to my Gmail drafts.”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
| Operating environment· | no public information buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | Agents are used from Slack, Microsoft Teams and Gmail. WhatsApp, listed in the earlier capture, is no longer named on the page. “Microsoft Teams Bring agents into your chats and channels”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
| Initiative· | no public information buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | Agents can be started by app triggers and recurring (scheduled) tasks. The earlier "running in the background" wording is no longer on the page. “App triggers Recurring tasks 300+ Connectors”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
Safety
| Field | BuildShip | Gumloop |
|---|---|---|
| Safety policy· | no public information buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | Zero Data Retention agreements are in place for third-party models. The stronger claim in the earlier capture - that Gumloop never uses customer data to train AI models - is NOT on the current page; "never uses customer data to train" returns zero matches. “GDPR . Zero Data Retention agreements for third-party models.”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
| Third-party evaluations· | no public information buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | Independently audited and SOC 2 Type II compliant “SOC 2 Type II . Independently audited and compliant.”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
| Data handling· | no public information buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | Zero Data Retention agreements are in place for third-party models. The stronger claim in the earlier capture - that Gumloop never uses customer data to train AI models - is NOT on the current page; "never uses customer data to train" returns zero matches. “GDPR . Zero Data Retention agreements for third-party models.”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
Practicality
| Field | BuildShip | Gumloop |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model· | no public information www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 | |
| Deployment options· | no public information buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | Offers VPC deployment inside customer AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud environments, in addition to cloud SaaS “Deploy Gumloop inside your own AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud environment to keep data in your network.”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
| Integrations· | no public information buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | Offers 300+ pre-built connectors to external tools “300+ Connectors”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
| Support model· | no public information www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
Foundation models
| Field | BuildShip | Gumloop |
|---|---|---|
| Base models· | “Multimodal flows with LLMs, image and video gen using AI models on OpenAI, Stable Diffusion, HuggingFace, and more.”buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | Model picker on the vendor page shows Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.7 Flash, GPT-5.6 Sol, DeepSeek V4-Pro and Grok 4.5. The earlier provider-level list (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek) is no longer on the page; Grok is new. “Claude Opus 5 Claude Opus 5 Gemini 3.7 Flash Gemini 3.7 Flash GPT-5.6 Sol GPT-5.6 Sol DeepSeek V4-Pro DeepSeek V4-Pro Grok 4.5 Grok 4.5”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
| Model provider· | “Multimodal flows with LLMs, image and video gen using AI models on OpenAI, Stable Diffusion, HuggingFace, and more.”buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | Model picker on the vendor page shows Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.7 Flash, GPT-5.6 Sol, DeepSeek V4-Pro and Grok 4.5. The earlier provider-level list (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek) is no longer on the page; Grok is new. “Claude Opus 5 Claude Opus 5 Gemini 3.7 Flash Gemini 3.7 Flash GPT-5.6 Sol GPT-5.6 Sol DeepSeek V4-Pro DeepSeek V4-Pro Grok 4.5 Grok 4.5”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
| Model swappable· | “Use any AI model with Keyless Nodes to build fast with flexibility to bring your own API keys to optimize costs”buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | Control which AI models teams can use; model access can also be set per custom role. “AI model restrictions . Control which AI models teams can use.”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
| Fine-tuning· | “Fine-tune behavior, add custom scripts, or debug easily.”buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | no public information www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
Ecosystem
| Field | BuildShip | Gumloop |
|---|---|---|
| Protocols supported· | no public information buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | Supports MCP (Model Context Protocol) for connecting agents to external tool servers “MCP client and server tracking”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
| Tool use· | “Supercharge your AI Agent with custom tools.”buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | Every tool call traced through one logging and analytics layer (MCP client and server tracking). “Trace every tool call through one logging and analytics layer.”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
| Multi-agent· | “Agents & Automation AI agents and automated flows that execute tasks, decisions, and processes for you.”buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | no public information www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
| API access· | “Create workflows triggered via APIs, scheduled jobs, database events and even your own custom triggers”buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | Publishes a developer API for managing agent skills and connectors “Manage Agent Skills and Connectors from the API”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 Not in our latest capture. We captured this page again on Sep 17, 2026 and this quote was not there. How we re-check citations |
Impact
| Field | BuildShip | Gumloop |
|---|---|---|
| User base· | no public information buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | Named customers include Instacart, Samsara and Gusto, with a cited $1.5M+ additional ARR case study “Gumloop has been critical in helping all teams at Instacart”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
| Deployment scale· | no public information buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | Self-described as infrastructure for "the world's most AI native companies"; no customer count or deployment figure is published. “The AI infrastructure powering the world”www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 Not in our latest capture. We captured this page again on Sep 17, 2026 and this quote was not there. How we re-check citations |
| Target sectors· | no public information www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 | |
| High-risk domains· | “BuildShip was made for sensitive domains like healthcare, finance, and internal ops.”buildship.com · checked Aug 1, 2026 | no public information www.gumloop.com · checked Aug 18, 2026 |
Disclosed by neither
Both BuildShip and Gumloop publish nothing on these 27 fields. That is a finding about the category rather than a difference between them, so it is recorded here instead of as 27 identical table rows. Each is shown with its source check on the individual profiles.
- Autonomy level
- Goal complexity
- Documented incidents
- Price point
- Availability
- Supported regions
- Open weights
- Context window
- Open source
- Marketplace presence
- Safety evaluations
- Red teaming
- Usage restrictions
- Model or system card
- Incident reporting
- Insurance available
- Insurance carriers
- Coverage limits
- Indemnification
- Liability cap
- Tamper-evident log
- Explainability
- Outcome-based pricing
- Settlement mechanism
- Dispute process
- SLA terms
- Evaluation coverage
Questions
- How do BuildShip and Gumloop compare on human oversight?
- BuildShip: no public information disclosed. Gumloop: Spend/budget increases above a set cap require explicit human approval (approve/deny).
- How do BuildShip and Gumloop compare on action space?
- BuildShip: no public information disclosed. Gumloop: Agents can take write actions such as drafting and saving emails on the user's behalf.
- How do BuildShip and Gumloop compare on operating environment?
- BuildShip: no public information disclosed. Gumloop: Agents are used from Slack, Microsoft Teams and Gmail. WhatsApp, listed in the earlier capture, is no longer named on the page..
- How do BuildShip and Gumloop compare on initiative?
- BuildShip: no public information disclosed. Gumloop: Agents can be started by app triggers and recurring (scheduled) tasks. The earlier "running in the background" wording is no longer on the page..
- How do BuildShip and Gumloop compare on user base?
- BuildShip: no public information disclosed. Gumloop: Named customers include Instacart, Samsara and Gusto, with a cited $1.5M+ additional ARR case study.
- How do BuildShip and Gumloop compare on deployment scale?
- BuildShip: no public information disclosed. Gumloop: Self-described as infrastructure for "the world's most AI native companies"; no customer count or deployment figure is published..