Epismo Kickoff Agent

We'd reach for Epismo when a workflow keeps dying at the same place: someone does good AI-assisted work, it goes stale, and the next person starts from zero. Renewal reviews, approval-process fixes, hiring loops, anything where the evidence matters as much as the answer. The case structure is real coordination, not a shared doc with extra steps. Where it bites is scope. Epismo tells you plainly it isn't a runtime, so if you were hoping for model routing, retries, and execution graphs, you're still choosing those yourself in Codex, Claude Code, or your own agent. It's a layer above that, and it only pays off if handoffs are actually a problem for you. The closest alternative for most teams is a well-maintained Notion or Confluence space plus discipline. That's cheaper and it will work until two people and an agent need the same artifact at once with a defined evidence standard. Playbooks are where the discipline stops being optional: immutable versions, named skills and connectors per stage, and an explicit human approval step. Credit math deserves a hard look. Free gives one person 1,000 credits a month; Pro is $300/mo per workspace with 30,000 shared credits and unlimited members, so headcount never moves the bill. Failed operations don't consume credits and balance-checking operations won't run if you're short, which softens the blow. Still, a token-heavy pipeline will eat 30,000 credits fast, and $0.01 per extra credit is the number to model before you commit. Publishing playbooks others save earns credits, up to $200 worth per playbook. The case for Pro rests on unlimited members. A five-person team is $60 a head at $300; a twenty-person team is $15. If you're a solo operator, Free plus browsing covers a surprising amount of ground and there's no reason to