Keep the platforms you run. Govern them from one place.
Most automation platforms orchestrate their own tools best. Optomo is the neutral layer above them, and several of the platforms below run under it as workers.
Where Optomo differs
Six principles behind the platform.
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Neutral by design
Runs the RPA, AI agents and integrations you already have, from any vendor. Swap a worker without rebuilding the process.
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The case is the unit
One case carries the work across RPA, agents, APIs and people, with its whole history in one place.
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Governance travels with every case
SLA, approval, spend cap and audit trail are set once and apply to every case, not tool by tool.
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Agents under the same rules
AI agents get scoped tools, spend caps, redaction and a path to a person, like any other worker.
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Measured in cost and return
Licenses, runtime and agent spend against the value returned, reported per process.
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Work scheduled by deadline
Cases are ordered by how close they are to their SLA, with quarantine, service windows and recovery on every worker.
Put a number on the switch
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Nine platforms, twelve capabilities
What each platform covers. Pick the platforms you run today.
- Built in
- Partly
- Not built in
| Capability | OptomoControl layer | MicrosoftPower Automate, Copilot Studio, Foundry, Agent 365 | n8nCloud and self-hosted | AppianAppian Platform | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orchestration | Orchestration | |||||
| Built inBlue Prism, Power Automate, UiPath, APIs, agents and people as governed executors. | PartlyOwn flows, APIs and agents. UiPath only through UiPath's connector, no Blue Prism. | Partly2,000+ API and SaaS integrations. No RPA nodes, HTTP and webhooks only. | PartlyAppian RPA natively. UiPath and Blue Prism jobs started, not scheduled or pooled. | |||
| Built inCritical-ratio scheduling on deadlines and SLAs, with quarantine, service windows and pools on every executor. | PartlyWork queue SLAs prioritize items near breach. Desktop runs still queue per machine. | PartlyTriggers, retries and queue mode. No SLA routing and no pools. | PartlyTimers, deadlines and escalation. RPA queues and scheduling removed in 26.1. | |||
| Built inStaged orchestrations with a case per instance, its own queue and deadlines. Month-end close runs end to end. | PartlyAssembled from Power Automate, Logic Apps, Copilot Studio and Foundry. No shared case object. | PartlySub-workflows and wait nodes. | Built inBPMN and DMN engine across people, RPA, documents, APIs and agents, plus case management. | |||
| Built inTeam inbox with due dates, versioned and conditional forms, and answers by email or Teams. | PartlyApprovals and information requests in Teams and Outlook. No task inbox with due dates. | PartlyWait for a form or a chat approval. No inbox, due dates or escalation. | Built inUser tasks with forms, group assignment, deadlines and escalation. | |||
| Agents | Agents | |||||
| Built inTools, memory and escalation to a person, permissions capped at the designer's, every call logged. | Built inCopilot Studio and Foundry agents with guardrails, evaluation and a choice of models. | Built inAgent builder with any model, tools, memory, sub-agents and evaluations. | Built inAgent Studio with scoped tools, knowledge sets, testing and monitoring. | |||
| Built inA2A with other vendors' agents in and outside workflows, and MCP for outside agents. | Built inMCP in Copilot Studio, A2A in Foundry and agent identities in Entra. | Built inMCP server and client nodes in both directions. A2A planned. | PartlyMCP server on Appian Cloud only. A2A on the roadmap. | |||
| Governance and audit | Governance and audit | |||||
| Built inThe case is the unit: an append-only log across runs, versions and SLAs, with session recording. | PartlyRun history kept 28 days by default. Purview logs configuration, not runs. | PartlyExecution logs per run. Audit events and log streaming on Enterprise. | Built inHistory per process instance and agent monitoring. Completed processes archived after 7 days by default. | |||
| PartlyRoles enforced at the API, SSO, environments and a secrets vault. ISO 27001 certified. | Built inEntra agent identities, DLP, managed environments, SOC 2 and ISO 27001. | PartlySOC 2 report on request. SSO, secrets and log streaming on Enterprise. | Built inRow and column security, ISO 27001, SOC 2 and FedRAMP High. | |||
| Buying and running | Buying and running | |||||
| Built inFully on-prem on Enterprise, or EU or local cloud. | PartlyPower Automate and Copilot Studio are SaaS only. Parts of Azure run on-prem. | Built inEU cloud or free self-hosting, including air-gapped. | Built inAppian Cloud in eight European regions, or self-managed on Kubernetes. | |||
| Built inVersioned workflows, a debugger on real resources, testing and promotion. Five weeks to production. | Built inA first flow in an afternoon, with pipelines, Git and agent evaluation. | Built inRuns in minutes, with Git environments, diffs and test mode. | PartlyLow-code with CI/CD, in a proprietary language with a steep learning curve. | |||
| Breadth | Breadth | |||||
| PartlyCustom API connectors to any system, as agent tools or workflow API calls. An RPA template lets teams connect UiPath or Automation Anywhere themselves. | Built in1,400+ connectors and custom connectors. | Built in2,000+ integrations and code nodes. | Built inHundreds of connectors and an integration SDK. | |||
| PartlyDocument extraction through AI agents in workflows. No process mining. | Built inAI Builder document processing and process mining. | PartlyDocument and AI tasks through nodes. No process mining. | Built inDocument processing, process mining and Appian RPA. | |||
Twelve capabilities across nine platforms. A check is a strong, shipped capability an enterprise buyer would recognize. A partial is bounded, an add-on, hybrid or in development. A cross is not offered or not documented. Competitor facts come from vendor documentation, marketplace listings and public reviews. Product names are trademarks of their owners.
Estimate today. Prove it in five weeks.
The first step takes two minutes and changes nothing: your spend and platforms give you a savings estimate. Then a guided trial on one real process.
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Savings estimate
Two minutes, freeBased on your spend and platforms.
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Guided trial on one process
Weeks 1 to 5One real process, run on your estate.
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Readout and decision
Week 5The trial's numbers next to the estimate.