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Choosing a framework

CrewAI, LangGraph or AutoGen: which fits your task?

Tell us what the work looks like and we highlight the usual fit. We then confirm it on a slice of your own data in the free audit.

CrewAI

Role-based agent teams

Choose it if

  • The task maps cleanly to roles, such as research, draft and review
  • You want a working prototype quickly
  • The steps run in a mostly fixed order

Watch out for: Less fine-grained control over branching and recovery, so complex flows can outgrow it.

LangGraph

Stateful graphs you control

Choose it if

  • You need loops, branches, retries or human approval steps
  • A run must survive failures and resume where it stopped
  • You want an exact record of state at every step

Watch out for: More design work up front. It pays off when the process has to be predictable.

AutoGen-style conversations

Agents that talk it through

Choose it if

  • The value comes from agents challenging and refining each other
  • The work is open-ended research or analysis
  • A person reads the result before anything acts

Watch out for: Outputs are harder to make deterministic, so we add evaluation and a clear stop rule.

Often we test two of them on a slice of your data before recommending one. Sometimes the right answer is a simpler workflow with no agent framework at all, and we will say so.

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Our CrewAI / LangGraph Development Services

CrewAI agent team architecture and design

We design role-based agent teams where each agent has a clear specialty — researcher, writer, reviewer, coordinator — collaborating to complete complex tasks that no single agent can handle alone.

LangGraph stateful workflow development

We build LangGraph workflows with persistent state, conditional branching, cycles, and checkpoints — giving you fine-grained control over multi-step AI processes that need deterministic behavior.

AutoGen multi-agent conversations

We implement Microsoft AutoGen patterns for conversational multi-agent systems where agents debate, critique, and refine outputs through structured dialogue — ideal for research, analysis, and decision support.

Agent memory and context management

Your agents remember previous interactions, maintain working memory across tasks, and share knowledge through vector stores — so they build expertise over time rather than starting from scratch.

Tool integration and API connections

Every agent connects to your real systems — databases, CRMs, APIs, file storage, communication tools — executing actions, not just generating suggestions.

Production deployment and monitoring

We deploy agent systems with LangSmith monitoring, cost tracking, performance dashboards, and alerting — because multi-agent systems need visibility into what every agent is doing and why.

Who it is for

Built for teams choosing between CrewAI and LangGraph

Pick the situation closest to yours and see how the work runs today, and once the right framework runs it.

Which one sounds like you?

Today
Read the comparisons
Guesses
Every post disagrees Choice stalls
Guesses
Prototype in the wrong one Rewrite later
With Groovy
Workload reviewed
Both tried on your task
Framework chosen on evidence
Build starts

What we doWe test both on a slice of your real task and recommend the one that fits, including when neither is needed.

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Reasons our Clients Prefer Us as CrewAI / LangGraph Development Company

CrewAI / LangGraph Expertise

Groovy has invested immensely in CrewAI / LangGraph team expansion and has a well-established team of CrewAI / LangGraph experts.

Cost Effective Partners

Groovy provides cost-effective solutions, which makes us the partner of your choice.

Agile Development & On-Time Delivery

Our modern Agile approach to project management allows us to deliver on time with quality.

Easy and Regular Communication

We use the communication channel that our client prefers, making it easy for our clients to communicate.

Free Post development Support

Our clients can focus on marketing as we hold their back by providing free and best post-development support.

Starts at $18/H

Our hourly rates for dedicated resources start at $18 / Hour, which are the most competitive in the market.

How to start

From first call to a multi-agent system in production

Three steps. Each stands on its own, so you can stop after any of them.

You do

Describe the task you want agents to do. A screen share or a short written brief is enough.

We do

Map the task to roles or a graph, and compare CrewAI, LangGraph and the alternatives against it.

You get

  • A recommended framework and why
  • A rough scope and timeline
  • A straight answer if agents are not the right fit

NDA from day oneYou own 100% of the code and IPStart in 48 hours4-hour overlap with US Eastern time

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

CrewAI is best for role-based agent teams (researcher, writer, reviewer) that collaborate through natural language. LangGraph is best for stateful workflows with precise control over execution flow, branching, and checkpoints. We often use CrewAI for rapid prototyping and LangGraph for production — or combine both in a single system.
A simple 2-3 agent system costs $15,000-$35,000. Production multi-agent platforms with tool integration, monitoring, and feedback loops cost $35,000-$80,000. Enterprise systems with 10+ agents, complex orchestration, and custom training cost $80,000-$180,000. We prototype fast — working multi-agent demo in 2 weeks.
Research plus reporting (agents gather, verify, and synthesize information), content production (writer, editor, fact-checker agents), code generation plus review (coding agent, testing agent, review agent), customer support (triage, resolution, escalation agents), data analysis (extraction, analysis, visualization agents), and any complex task that benefits from specialization.
We implement maximum iteration limits, timeout guards, progress tracking (agents must show forward progress each step), deadlock detection, supervisor agents that monitor and intervene, and circuit breakers that escalate to humans when agents cannot converge. Production agent systems need these guardrails — demos don't.
Yes. CrewAI and LangGraph agents connect to any tool with an API — databases, CRMs, email systems, file storage, internal APIs, web scraping, code execution, and more. We build custom tool wrappers that handle authentication, rate limiting, and error recovery so agents interact with your systems reliably.
Microsoft AutoGen excels at conversational multi-agent patterns — agents that debate, critique, and refine through structured dialogue. It is ideal for research, analysis, and decision support where multiple perspectives improve output quality. We use AutoGen alongside CrewAI and LangGraph based on the conversation pattern your use case requires.
Design your first agent team

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When this happens:

A research brief is requested
Researcher gathers sources
Writer drafts the report
Reviewer checks claims

When a research brief is requested, a researcher agent gathers sources, a writer drafts the report and a reviewer checks every claim.

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