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Gumloop is a general-purpose agent builder with wide model choice and its own NetSuite connector. Erstan is narrower on purpose: agents, skills and controls made for finance and operations teams on NetSuite.
ErstanRole agents for finance, payables, receivables and inventory, plus automations for vendor bills, cash application and close journals.
GumloopPublic templates and use cases centre on marketing, sales, operations, support and engineering. NetSuite is one of 150+ connectors.
ErstanSaved searches, reports, SuiteQL and record tools through NetSuite’s standard MCP tools, plus Add-on actions for files, email and record transforms.
GumloopGumloop’s NetSuite MCP server lists seven tools: list, get, create, update and delete records, run SuiteQL and get a record schema.
ErstanRun traces and the hash-chained approvals ledger are part of the workspace, with CSV export for admins.
GumloopOrganisation audit logs, role-based access control and SSO are listed on the Enterprise plan.
ErstanEvery run becomes a task that moves through Queued, In Progress, Needs Review and Complete, where a teammate can pick it up.
GumloopGumloop has configurable approval rules per tool. A paused agent resumes where it left off once someone approves.
| Erstan | Gumloop | |
|---|---|---|
| NetSuite | ||
| Connects to NetSuite | ||
| Connection | NetSuite MCP tools plus the Erstan Add-on | Gumloop’s own MCP server |
| Runs SuiteQL | ||
| Saved searches and reports | Not listed | |
| Respects NetSuite roles and permissions | ||
| Role agents and skills for NetSuite finance | None listed | |
| How work runs | ||
| Schedules and webhooks | ||
| Works across Slack, email and spreadsheets | ||
| Custom MCP servers | ||
| Runs tracked as tasks with a review stage | ||
| Control | ||
| Approval before writes | ||
| Audit log | Enterprise plan | |
| Roles | Owner, Admin, Member | RBAC on Enterprise |
| Models and price | ||
| Models | Curated catalog; managed or your own key | 35+ models |
| Price | From A$299 per month | From $37 a month |
means partly, or with extra setup. Last checked October 2026 against each vendor’s public documentation. Products change; tell us if a row is out of date.
Specialist or generalist
A general builder gives you the parts and leaves the accounting to you. Erstan’s agents arrive knowing the job: the AP Agent separates disputed and held bills from a payment plan, and says which subsidiary, currency and aging basis its numbers use.
The NetSuite surface
Finance teams live in saved searches and reports as much as records. Erstan agents can run both, read record metadata before they write, and use the Erstan Add-on for the file and email work that sits around a transaction.
Controls
When an agent can post a journal, the record of who approved it should not depend on the plan you bought. In Erstan the approvals ledger and run traces come with the workspace.
Yes, through its own NetSuite MCP server, which reads and writes records and runs SuiteQL under your account’s role and permissions.
No. You can build your own agents in the Agent Builder and connect other tools, but everything in the product assumes the work centres on NetSuite.
Gumloop publishes plans from $37 a month. Erstan Pro is A$299 a month and Team is A$899 a month, with custom terms available for Enterprise.
Yes: Slack, Gmail, Outlook, Google Sheets and Drive, Microsoft Teams and HubSpot, plus any MCP server you add.
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