A feature in your project tool, or the system your business runs on?
Motion is a real product with real traction. The key word in AI Employees is template. Here is the five second version, then the receipts.
Motion AI Employees
The same role templates every customer gets, inside their project suite, per seat plus credits.
Caddy
An AI operating system you own, on your own AI plan, built around one business: yours.
Rent features to organize the work. Own the system that does the work. Those are different purchases with different ceilings.
How do Caddy and Motion AI Employees compare?
Eight rows, no fine print. The green column is the one you keep.
| Motion AI Employees | CaddyYou keep this | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | The same role templates every customer gets | A system built around one business: yours |
| What it knows | Its role in general | Your offers, pricing, procedures and tone |
| What it can do | What the template covers | 140+ skills across 7 systems on day oneAnything you can describe after that |
| Where it works | Inside Motion | Across your documents, spreadsheets, records, reporting and operations |
| The AI underneath | Metered by seat and by credit, with published overage rates | Frontier AI you buy direct, wholesale. No seats, no meter |
| Your data | Through Motion's platform | Never leaves your own AI account |
| Stop paying | The agents and their output stop | The system stays. It is yours |
| Humans | A software subscription | Free capability map, 90 day install, ongoing care |
Motion product and pricing facts from usemotion.com and public coverage, retrieved August 2026.
What do seats plus credits cost over time?
Per seat pricing grows with your team, credits grow with your usage, and both meters run at once. Ownership does not care about either.
Renting: seats plus credits
Public coverage of their 2026 pricing changes reads exactly how you would expectOwning: the machine
Your own AI plan, bought direct. Caddy adds no meterIllustrative shape, not pricing.
Which one should your team pick?
We will be straight with you. Sometimes the bundled feature is the sensible buy.
Choose Motion if…
- Your team already lives in MotionAdoption is the hardest part, and their agents arrive inside a tool your people already open.
- Projects and scheduling are the whole needBuying it as a feature of the tool you already pay for is sensible.
- You want to try agents for a few dollars a seatLow commitment. Just read the credit and overage terms before you scale it.
Choose Caddy if…
- Your business is not a templateA generic AI Marketer has never met your offer, your customers or your voice.
- The work spans more than projectsQuoting, collections, follow up, reporting, operations. The whole building.
- Seats and credits should not stackNo seats. No meter. Your own AI plan, bought direct.
- The system should outlive the subscriptionCancel an add on and its agents leave. Caddy stays. It is yours.
Bundled agents answer what else the tool can do. Caddy answers how the business should run.
Caddy vs Motion, asked and answered.
We already use Motion. Should we just turn on their AI Employees?
If projects and scheduling are the whole ambition, maybe so, and it is the easy path. If the ambition is the business itself, a template inside a project tool is the wrong foundation, and you will feel that ceiling fast.
Does Caddy replace our project management tool?
No. Keep the tools that work, Motion included. Caddy is the layer that runs work across all of them: documents, reporting, customer follow up, operations. It is not another place to move tasks.
What does Caddy cost compared to Motion?
Motion bills per seat plus usage credits with published overage rates. Caddy is quoted live because it depends on how you adopt it: on your own, or installed for you. The shape is what matters: a license you own, no seats, no credit meter, running on the AI plan you already buy direct.