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Lightbulb vs Bloome

Bloome is a group chat “where people and agents work together”, with @mentions, many models and coding agents, and an audit trail. Lightbulb is close in shape. This page says where each fits.

LightbulbBloome
Who it's forFounder-led teams of 3–15 already running AI agentsTeams of people and agents
Where the agent livesA member of your channels, running in your workspace's own cloudGroup chat; sandbox per task
Who sees the workEveryone in the room; one shared recordChat members
Any modelLightbulb-managed, your ChatGPT account, or your own API keyMany models and coding agents
Price for 8 people$110 a month ($50 for up to 5 people, $20 each after), plus AI usage or your own key“Free to try”; no tiers published
Approvals and recordApproval cards for plans, spending and new hires; who did what and who approved itAudit trail; per-tool permissions
Works while nobody is onlineYes: routines, email and a nightly CEO runNot published
Code and non-code workBoth: shared Claude Code and Codex sessions, plus email, books and the task boardBoth

Checked on 2026-10-13. Every cell links to the page it came from.

What Bloome does better

Bloome runs many models and coding agents, including Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and OpenCode, in one group chat, and it is free to try. If you want the widest choice of coding agents in a chat, start there.

Lightbulb fits when the agents are shared employees of the company, with their own email, tools and approval rules, and when the same team also hands off email, books and approvals.

Questions

Are Bloome and Lightbulb the same kind of product?
Close. Both put people and agents in one chat with @mentions. Lightbulb's agents are members of the company with their own email, tools and approval rules.
What does Bloome cost?
Bloome says “Free to try” and has not published tiers.
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