Compared with Pickaxe
Both let somebody publish something other people can run. What they publish ABOUT it before anybody pays is where they differ, and that is what this page is for.
This comparison has not been written yet. The page below states what YAMO publishes about a Service before anybody pays to run it. It makes no claim about Pickaxe — where a claim would go, it says what to go and check instead.
What YAMO publishes before a run is bought
Every Service on YAMO carries the same four things in public, on its own page: what starts a run, what the buyer supplies each time, the artifact that comes back, and how it arrives. That is the contract, and it is the same contract the runtime executes — not a summary written for a marketing page.
A Playbook in the library also publishes a real example output, so a buyer reads what the work looks like before they commit to a run rather than after.
What to check on any platform, including this one
- Can you see what the work produces before you pay for it?
- Is the thing you buy a finished outcome, or a tool you still have to operate?
- When a run fails, who carries the cost of the attempt?
- Does the person who wrote the method keep it when they leave the platform?
What goes here next
The written comparison, sourced and dated, with the same four questions answered for both platforms and a link to where each answer was found.
The five questions this family asks
The left column is what YAMO publishes. The right column is what to go and check, because this page does not assert anything about another platform it has not sourced.
| What to compare | YAMO | Pickaxe |
|---|---|---|
| What starts the work | Published on the Service page before anybody pays: on demand, on a schedule, or on an event. | Check whether the trigger is documented publicly, or only visible once you are inside an account. |
| What you supply | The intake is part of the published contract, so a buyer knows what each run will ask of them. | Check whether the inputs are listed before purchase, and what happens when one is missing. |
| What comes back | A named artifact, with a real example output on the page for the buyer to read first. | Check whether a real example of the output is published, or only a description of it. |
| What a failure costs | A run that does not deliver is credited back to your YAMO balance rather than charged. | Check what is charged when a run fails, and who decides whether it delivered. |
| Who keeps the method | The Playbook is the expert’s. Publishing it as a Service changes who can run it, not who owns it. | Check what happens to a published method if you leave, and whether it travels with you. |
Where to go next
Compared with MindStudio
YAMO compared with MindStudio, for an expert packaging a repeatable service. What each one publishes about a job before anybody pays to run it.Compared with Relevance AI
YAMO compared with Relevance AI, for an expert packaging a repeatable service. What each one publishes about a job before anybody pays to run it.Compared with Lindy
YAMO compared with Lindy, for an expert deciding where a repeatable service should live. What each one publishes about a job before anybody pays.Pricing
How YAMO charges: you pay for the runs you make, and nothing for the ones you do not. What a run is, what it includes, and what publishing costs.Who it's for
The six kinds of expert YAMO is built for, and what changes when the method you already follow becomes a Service that somebody else can run.
Read a published contract
Every Playbook in the library publishes its contract and a real example output. That is the comparison this page is really about.