Forgeron3 or Lindy: which one for an SME?

Lindy presents itself as an AI teammate: a single assistant, reached from Slack, by SMS, iMessage or email, that sorts the inbox, records meetings, runs routines and makes calls from its own number. Each person who uses it takes a paid seat, and the whole team draws on a shared pool of credits.

Forgeron3 starts from the same daily work, email, calendar and meetings, but organises it into separate assistants: ten business assistants in the catalogue, and as many custom assistants as you like. The two tools differ mainly on the free plan, where data is hosted, how usage is counted and telephony, which Lindy already offers in the United States and Canada.

Lindy already works on the phone: a dedicated US or Canadian number, calls made on your behalf, a reception service that takes messages and books slots, then a summary after each call. It joins Zoom, Meet and Teams as a visible attendee, files recordings in a shared library and sends recaps. Its skills are written in plain language or learnt from a screen recording. On compliance, the vendor states SOC 2 Type II and GDPR, plus HIPAA, SSO and SCIM on Enterprise.

Lindy counts usage in credits: a simple reply uses a few, a report or a dashboard up to 2,500, and calls are counted per minute. Each seat adds 3,000 credits a month to a shared pool, with no rollover from one month to the next. At Forgeron3, each plan includes a volume of tokens per user. The two units do not convert, so compare the price per user and what is included.

Lindy works as a single assistant that learns your ways of working, skill by skill. Forgeron3 lets you build one assistant per use, with its own knowledge base, and share it internally or on your site via iframe or link. For a French SME, Lindy’s number is limited to US and Canadian codes. Forgeron3 is preparing an optional number, which is not yet available.