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Kestra

Event Driven Orchestration & Scheduling Platform for Mission Critical Applications

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Activepieces

AI Agents & MCPs & AI Workflow Automation • (~400 MCP servers for AI agents) • AI Automation / AI Agent with MCPs • AI Workflows & AI Agents • MCPs for AI Agents

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Prefect

Prefect is a workflow orchestration framework for building resilient data pipelines in Python.

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career-ops

AI-powered job search system built on Claude Code. 14 skill modes, Go dashboard, PDF generation, batch processing.

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Sim

Build, deploy, and orchestrate AI agents. Sim is the central intelligence layer for your AI workforce.

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Trigger.dev

Trigger.dev – build and deploy fully‑managed AI agents and workflows

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Flyte

Dynamic AI orchestration platform for building workflows across data, models, and compute.

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Unstract

LLM-Driven Extraction of Unstructured Data — Built for API Deployments & ETL Pipeline Workflows

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Inngest

The leading workflow orchestration platform. Run stateful step functions and AI workflows on serverless, servers, or the edge.

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