WhatA hosted durable workflow platform built on SQLite that gives developers Temporal-like reliability without the infrastructure overhead of running a separate workflow server.
SignalDevelopers are gravitating toward SQLite for workflow orchestration because existing solutions like Temporal, while powerful, feel heavyweight for the majority of use cases — yet rolling your own SQLite-based workflow engine means solving durability, replication, and introspection from scratch every time.
Why NowThe explosion of AI agent orchestration has created a massive new class of workflow-heavy applications, and tools like Litestream have made SQLite replication viable enough that the gap between 'toy' and 'production' SQLite is closing fast.
MarketDeveloper tools market; buyers are engineering teams at startups and mid-size companies building AI agent pipelines. Competes with Temporal, Inngest, and DBOS. TAM overlaps with the $1B+ workflow orchestration market growing rapidly with AI adoption.
MoatSwitching costs once workflow state and execution history are embedded in the platform, plus potential to build a proprietary reliability layer (replication, conflict resolution) that becomes the de facto standard for single-node durable workflows.
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