Katteb: we tested the AI agent. Here's what actually happened.
We gave Katteb real tasks and checked the results. Fast output, but the research was wrong and the writing was generic. An honest look at what works, what doesn't, and what it costs.
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Katteb is an AI platform that offers chat, writing tasks, and something more unusual: AI agents that sign into your actual tools (LinkedIn, Google Search Console, Shopify, and about 100 others) and do work on your behalf, in a real browser. Plans start at around £14 a month.
We signed up on the free tier and ran two real tests. Here’s what happened.
Test 1: writing LinkedIn posts
The task: Write three LinkedIn posts for a small web design business. One about page speed, one client win story, one accessibility tip.
Time: Under a minute.
Cost: 8 credits (from a starting balance of 576).
What we got back: Three posts, clearly structured, with bullet points and a question to close each one. The page speed post opened with “A beautiful website is not enough if it takes too long to load.” The client win story followed a problem-solution-result structure. The accessibility post suggested replacing “Click here” links with descriptive text.
All three were factually correct. None contained anything wrong or embarrassing.
The verdict on quality
The posts are fine. That’s the problem.
They read like AI-generated LinkedIn content: safe, professional, and completely interchangeable with what thousands of other accounts post every day. There’s no personality, no specific opinion, no reference to anything that actually happened. The “client win story” is fictional by necessity, since Katteb doesn’t know your clients.
You’d need to rewrite at least half of each post to make them sound like they came from a person with real experience and actual views. At that point, you might be quicker starting from a rough outline yourself.
For comparison, you could paste the same prompt into ChatGPT or Claude and get similar (or better) output for free.
Test 2: competitor research
This is where things got more interesting, and more revealing.
The task: “Research my top 3 competitors in the DJ bookings niche and summarise what they’re doing on social media this week. My website is deckgigs.com.”
Time: Around two minutes.
Cost: 18 credits.
What Katteb picked: Encore Musicians, Add to Event, and Bark.
The problem: These aren’t the right competitors. Encore Musicians was acquired by Mixcloud and has pivoted away from being a direct marketplace competitor. Add to Event is a generic events supplier directory, not a DJ-specialist platform. Bark is a lead-generation marketplace covering over 1,000 service categories. None of them is a close competitor to a DJ booking marketplace.
What it should have found
We ran the same research manually. The actual specialist competitors in the UK DJ booking space are:
- Djaayz: 4,000+ verified DJs, curated matching, secure in-app payment. The closest model to a DJ-specific marketplace.
- GigPig: Music marketplace for venues with transparent pricing (£15 per gig or £199/month subscription). DJ profiles organised by genre.
- Alive Network: The UK’s biggest entertainment agency, established 1999, over 194,000 events booked. Traditional agency model with online profiles.
- DJ Agency: Running for 12 years, zero commission model where DJs set their own rates. Browse profiles and listen to mixes before booking.
- Last Minute Musicians: Over 3,500 acts listed since 2003. Detailed profiles with audio, video and reviews.
- JustGig: Self-service platform aimed at venues, with vetting and budget-friendly pricing from £10 per gig.
- PartyMap: Newer entrant with upfront pricing and a performer-tracking feature for event day.
Katteb missed every one of these. It defaulted to big, obvious marketplace names instead of finding the specialist platforms that actually compete for the same customers.
Why this matters
The social media analysis Katteb built on top of those wrong picks was, predictably, thin. It couldn’t verify any current-week posts from its chosen competitors (because it was looking at the wrong companies), so the report was mostly “I could not verify activity” repeated three times.
If you’d acted on its recommendations without checking, you’d have been benchmarking against the wrong businesses entirely. The strategic advice (“own the DJ niche more clearly”) was reasonable in the abstract, but it was disconnected from the competitive reality because the research foundation was wrong.
For a task like this, the speed doesn’t matter if the answer is wrong.
What’s actually interesting about Katteb
The writing and research features are the least distinctive parts of the platform. What makes Katteb different is the agent browser.
The idea: you sign into your own accounts (LinkedIn, Google Ads, Search Console, Shopify, whatever you use) inside a browser that Katteb hosts on its servers. Then you give the agent a task or a goal, and it works in those accounts on your behalf.
The goals feature is the more ambitious version. You set an outcome (“Book 15 sales calls in 30 days”), the agent writes a plan, and then it works toward that target daily, sending you a report each morning. It remembers what it tried, what worked, and what didn’t.
We haven’t tested the agent browser or goals features yet. They need a paid plan and connected accounts to evaluate properly. We’ll update this review when we do.
What it costs
Katteb uses a credit system. Your remaining balance is shown in the header at the top of the page and updates after each task completes, so there’s no need to refresh the page. However, there’s no estimate shown before you run a task, so you won’t know the cost until it’s done.
From our tests: 8 credits for three LinkedIn posts, 18 credits for a competitor research task.
The paid plans:
- Lite: around £14/month. One agent, 30 hours of agent time per week, unlimited chat.
- Business: around £75/month. Ten agents, 120 hours per week, landing pages, Telegram integration, up to 5 agents working at once.
- Enterprise: from $1,000/month. Unlimited agents, white-label option.
There’s also a free tier that gives you the chat and a limited number of credits to try tasks.
Who should look at this
If you just need help writing social posts or emails, Katteb isn’t worth paying for. Use ChatGPT, Claude, or any other LLM. The writing output is comparable and those tools are either free or cheaper.
If you need business research, check the results carefully. Our competitor analysis test returned plausible-sounding but wrong answers. The output reads with confidence regardless of whether it’s accurate, which makes it easy to trust without verifying.
If you run a small business and spend time on repetitive tasks inside web tools (checking analytics, chasing leads, monitoring ad performance, triaging support tickets), the agent and goals features could be worth investigating. The idea of an AI that logs into your tools and does the grunt work daily is genuinely different from a chat window.
We’d suggest starting with the free tier to test the quality yourself before committing to a plan.
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What we’d want to see improved
- Show what a task costs before you run it. Or at least show an estimate so you can decide whether a task is worth the credits.
- Better research accuracy. The competitor analysis defaulted to obvious, high-profile names instead of finding niche-specific competitors. For a tool that charges credits per task, getting the wrong answer is expensive in a way that a free chat window isn’t.
- The writing output needs more personality. It’s technically correct but reads like every other AI post. A “tone of voice” setting or the ability to feed it examples of your previous writing would help.
- Clearer free tier limits. The credit system works, but it took some clicking around to understand what 576 credits actually buys you.
We’ll update this
The agent browser and goals are the features that could make Katteb genuinely useful for a small business. We plan to test both with real accounts and will update this review with what we find.
Last updated: October 2026