Run your AI employees cheaply on Sail
Sail Research sells max-efficiency inference over open-weight models — their claim is up to 10x lower cost per token. For agents that run all day on your bill, that arithmetic is the whole point.
Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.
A Sail-powered employee, not a chatbot
An agent here holds roles exactly like a person does, and its ceiling is its roles' ceiling: whatever someone with those roles could do in Coordinator, you can hand over. Sail decides how well the work gets done — not how far it reaches.
Good delegation ends in a draft invoice, not a chat log.
- Read a forwarded vendor PDF into a draft bill, validated before it touches the books
- Watch receivables aging and draft the chase
- Answer P&L and client-profitability questions from the live ledger
- Create, file and update activities across your pipelines and boards
- Work a queue — claim the next item, do it, hand off
- Run the check-in round-up and keep stages honest
- Log time as it works
- Sweep unbilled hours into a draft invoice
- Keep the time ledger clean enough to bill from
- Triage form submissions into records and the right pipeline
- Keep client records current as work happens
- Find anything — records, contacts, history — on request
- Prep today's meetings from the calendar
- Tend booking-link intake and meeting polls
- Keep resources and rooms straight
- Draft replies, follow-ups and summaries inside your team's threads
- Announce what needs announcing
- Turn a meeting thread into the follow-up tasks
Hold the Owner role. Message outside your organization before you deliberately climb the outbound ladder. Appear human in the audit trail — agent work is labeled agent work, always. Keep going after you hit pause. Everything else opens closed and is yours to grant, role by role.
What Sail itself brings
Any provider on this site can power the delegation above. These are the reasons to pick Sail in particular.
Sail models your agents can use
Prices and lineup verified September 2, 2026. In the product, the picker is fetched live from Sail Research on your own key — it never goes stale, and a custom model id always works if it validates.
vision-capable, 262K context — the strongest generalist on Sail's catalogue
million-token context — the newest text workhorse on the catalogue (GLM 5.2 stays served at a published $0.80/$3.00)
the budget tier that still reads documents
million-token context, high-volume text work at Sail's efficiency prices
Sail's model list is authenticated, so the picker shows exactly what your key can reach
Media through Coordinator's pipeline: images. The authority on current rates is Sail Research's pricing page.
Sail's API, as its users describe it
Recurring themes from public developer forums and reviews — the likes and the complaints — and how each plays out when the provider runs inside your own workspace.
- Honesty first: Sail came out of stealth in mid-2026, and there is very little independent developer discussion yet — what follows is mostly vendor claims and funding press, and we'd rather say that than fake a consensus.
- The facts that are verifiable: an $80M raise led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins, OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs for drop-in migration, and $5 of free credits refreshed monthly to test on.
- The interesting ideas: 'completion windows' trade latency for a claimed 60–80% cost cut on traffic that can wait — a natural fit for overnight agent work.
The 10x cost figure and the benchmark numbers are Sail's own, with no independent replication yet — and the public docs don't publish rate limits, SLAs or a full price list.
Here: Coordinator de-risks the experiment: the authenticated model list proves what your key can reach at connect time, the live ping proves it works before anything is stored, and if the numbers don't hold up, moving those agents to another provider is a settings change.
A young platform means model slugs move and the catalogue shifts.
Here: The live picker absorbs slug churn, and the custom-model field takes whatever id Sail documents this month — the baked list is only a floor.
How Coordinator treats your Sail Research key
The section above is Sail Research's report card. This one is ours — the plumbing decisions that make handing an agent your API key boring instead of brave.
Your key is encrypted like every credential in Coordinator, and after connecting, nothing ever displays more than its last four characters.
Connecting is a live round-trip to Sail Research — a key that doesn't actually work can't be saved, so failures happen in settings, not mid-task.
Zero markup, no metering, no shared key anywhere in the system. Every agent turn bills your own account at the vendor's own prices.
Sail's model list requires your key to answer, so the picker shows exactly what your key can reach — and validation catches an unreachable model before a cent is spent.
From no key to a working agent in a few minutes
Sign up at app.sailresearch.com, create an API key, and make sure the account carries credit. One key reaches every model Sail serves.
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Sign up at app.sailresearch.com.
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Create an API key from the dashboard and name it something you'll recognise later, e.g. Coordinator.
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Copy the key immediately — it is shown once.
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Add billing/credit before real use — a key with no credit authenticates and then fails on every call.
Key verified — a live call to Sail Research confirmed it before anything was stored. Only the last four characters are kept visible.
Settings → AI: pick Sail Research, paste the key. A live call to Sail Research verifies it before anything is stored.
Fetched live from your key — never a stale list. Custom model ids work too.
Choose a default model from your key's live catalogue — or set one per agent later.
Billed per token against your own Sail account; their whole pitch is undercutting the big vendors on inference price, which matters most for AI team members that run many turns. Check docs.sailresearch.com/pricing for current per-million-token rates before switching an agent-heavy org onto a model.
Vision is PER MODEL here: Kimi K2.6 and the Gemma 4 models read images, while GLM, DeepSeek and Nemotron are text-only — pick a vision model if this key should read receipts and photos. Images only either way; a PDF bill will not extract on Sail — connect Anthropic or Gemini for PDFs. Sail is a young platform (launched 2026): model slugs move, and the connect-time check here is what proves the one you picked.
Sail is newer than the big labs and model slugs on a young platform move — Coordinator's live picker and custom-model field absorb that, but it's worth knowing what you're choosing.
Sail bills your account directly. No markup, no shared key. The 10x figure is Sail's claim — check their current pricing against your workload.
Sail + Coordinator, asked directly
Cost per token on long-running agent work. If your AI team members run continuously, inference efficiency compounds — that's Sail's entire pitch.
Open-weight models; Kimi K2.6 is the vision-capable default in Coordinator. The picker lists your key's own authenticated catalogue.
No. Coordinator is free; Sail bills your key directly.
Swap the brain, keep the team
Your agents aren't built out of Sail — they're built out of roles, permissions and workflows. The model behind an agent is a setting: change it in a minute and the team, the history and the fences all stay put. Every provider we support gets the same treatment, and the same honest page:
Put Sail on the payroll
Coordinator is free — the only bill is the one Sail Research already sends you.
Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.