COMPARISON

Interstrata vs Doing Nothing

THE SHORT VERSION

Most teams running AI agents today manage accountability with spreadsheets, Slack trawling, Google Docs postmortems, and hope. It works until something goes wrong, costs spike, or someone asks 'what did our agents actually do?' Interstrata replaces manual reconstruction with automated, evidence-backed accountability that's always current and always provable.

Feature comparison

CAPABILITY
INTERSTRATA
DOING NOTHING
Incident reconstruction
One-click binder with timeline, receipts, decisions, and verification data
Manually trawl Slack, search emails, check dashboards, compile a Google Doc: 4-8 hours
Weekly agent report
Auto-generated accountability report: actions, decisions, costs, outcomes
Ask each team member what happened; compile in a spreadsheet, if it happens at all
Cost tracking
Per-action cost attribution with anomaly alerts and ROI analysis
Monthly cloud bill with no breakdown by agent, workflow, or decision
Decision trail
Automatic extraction with confidence scores, attribution, and evidence links
Scattered across Slack threads, meeting notes, and individual memory: mostly lost
WHERE DOING NOTHING IS STRONG

Zero cost: no software to buy, no integration to maintain

No learning curve: everyone already knows how to use spreadsheets and Slack search

Full flexibility: no constraints on format, process, or workflow

No vendor dependency: you're never locked into a platform's way of doing things

WHERE INTERSTRATA IS DIFFERENT

Automated vs. manual: Interstrata extracts decisions and builds timelines continuously

Provable vs. anecdotal: hash-verified evidence chains vs. 'I think we decided X in a meeting'

Surviving incidents: one-click binder export vs. 8-hour postmortem assembly under pressure

Institutional memory: Interstrata retains everything across employee turnover

Cost visibility: per-action attribution vs. a single monthly cloud bill with no breakdown

Who should use which

Choose Doing Nothing if:

→ You have fewer than 3 agents in production and incident risk is low

→ Nobody asks 'what did our agents do?' and there's no compliance requirement

→ Your team is small enough that everyone knows what happened through conversation

Choose Interstrata if:

→ Someone (VP, board, auditor) is going to ask 'what did our AI do and was it worth it?'

→ You've already had an incident where reconstructing what happened took hours

→ Agent costs are growing and you can't explain where the money goes

→ Team members are leaving and taking institutional knowledge with them

Common questions