Emergent's agents code from a prompt.
You deserve a brief.
Emergent's Planner, Coder, Tester and Deployer agents run autonomously — starting from your guess. We give you the brief those agents are missing: market research, a full team of AI experts' plan, a security review, a brand kit. Before the agents run.
Autonomous ≠ correct.
Unprompted launching of the wrong thing.
Agents optimize for ‘it runs’. They don’t check if the market wants it. Need for Build does the market work first.
Multi-agent debug hell.
When autonomous agents drift, you untangle Planner/Coder/Tester output. A validated build plan shortens every future iteration.
No security or compliance audit.
Emergent tests that the app runs — not that it can survive an attack, or that it's ready for GDPR. Your build plan includes both.
Subscription + usage caps.
Starter $20/mo, Pro $200/mo, usage caps on top. A $69 build plan keeps every agent run spent on code, not discovery.
What each product actually delivers.
Agent orchestration is powerful. Pointing it at a validated brief is what gets you something you can actually launch.
Or try a free build plan. First.
$69 once vs. $240–$2,400 per year.
Emergent bills monthly. $20–$200/mo plus usage. That’s $240 to $2,400 per year before your agent does anything non-trivial. Need for Build is $69 once, and makes every agent run more surgical.
Run us first. Their agents build it right.
You shouldn't waste agent hours on discovery. $69 for the validated brief — Planner stops guessing, Coder builds from a real file tree, Tester has something concrete to check.
Need for Build delivers a build plan, not a hosted app. You own every file. No lock-in.