I've been with AgenticFlow since the first Tier 4 + early MAS, and I decided to upgrade to Tier 5.

Here's why.

I've been to the Office Hours.

I've been on personal calls with Sean. What users are seeing with him is the "real work," not just the promise.

I've purchased enough deals to experience useful features that work today, only for the platforms to disappear or stop working tomorrow (when it's no longer their cost-recouping mission, or some pivot or sale trumps commitments to Sumolings). Long-time AS users, just review your personal spreadsheets of purchases that are shaded (e.g. RIP Jooicer, EpicBeat, Billy, Invanto, Fieldbook, PieSync, HelloScribe).

I remember when Robomotion first arrived, and there was a great amount of frustration over the learning curve. Guess what? Faik is still here, their platform is alive and well - and far better - and there's less of a learning curve than there was.

And...Sean and the Team are creating the means for integrating the use of RM in AF.

As it relates to the credits, AF is living forward toward a future where LLMs are operationalized based on use-value, not recency or multi-functionality-everything. Sean worked with me today to think through model comparisons for various agentic needs, and, you guessed it, almost nothing in most business operation production requires frontier models (we're not talking personal compute-intensive creative graphical work).

Think of it like this, frontier LLMs can help you build and structure the right workflow and instruction sets (tasks, which are operation instructions linked in --> workflows, which are run by --> agents, which are embedded in --> Multi-agent Systems - like functional divisions within a complete digital twin), but after you've figured out the right task sequence, and created a workflow that "works" then don't waste tokens/money/resources/compute. That will hurt your business long-term. Take the same logic forward with Agent development.

Here's why I think this is hard to understand.

Most work with LLMs isn't agentic in scope; it's by individual users doing everything themselves within a chat interface - maybe with text-expanding or automated prompts or some other form of automated support to speed up work. Even more, maybe you are using Manus or Comet, or some other agentic tools also.

Especially if you fall into the latter category of users, you should realize that agentic work is you-less. The goal here is to create the kind of Comet experience for your business, and you will be using tokens to run that business...

Thus, it must be low-cost, operationally efficient, and experience zero variation except where intentionally prescribed. Ergo, the only real demand for frontier models is when a focused need for high-compute action is required or on the absolute front end for designing and testing the agentic flow. Said differently, YOU might need the frontier model to design/build, but AgenticFlow SHOULDN'T need it to run once you've turned it on to run automatically. If it does, then it's going to be a resource-intensive, cost-prohibitive platform --> soon shaded.

Sean and his team are building for that. Again, I remember the Robomotion complaints and refunds way back, and today there are so many power users who sing their praise. The AF Discord reminds me of the kind of good work - and problems - that Robomotion had then. I believe AF's success will take a similar trajectory. Those are my 2c.