Cursor and Sentrely are built for different people. Cursor is an AI-first code editor, a fork of VS Code with tab-completion, inline chat and an agent mode that can refactor code across many files. It makes developers faster.
Sentrely is for business owners who need real software but don’t want to become developers. We deploy AI employees that work through an agent in your team’s Slack, supervised by our engineers, and everything they build ships into accounts you own.
What Cursor is
Cursor is the editor a developer opens every day. It provides:
- Tab completion that’s aware of your whole repo
- Inline chat to edit blocks of code
- Agent mode for multi-file changes and bug fixes
- MCP support to connect the editor to external tools
Cursor runs on a developer’s laptop. It writes code and can run shell commands. It assumes someone at the keyboard can read what it wrote, decide whether it’s right, and take it the rest of the way to production.
Where Cursor wins
- You have developers. If you or your team write code, Cursor is one of the best ways to do it faster.
- You want hands-on control. You see every line, approve every edit, and run things your way.
- You already have hosting and deploys. Cursor fits into the setup you have.
Where non-developers get stuck
- You can’t tell if the code is right. Cursor shows you diffs. If you can’t read them, you’re trusting the AI blind.
- Writing code is the easy part. Hosting, deploys, security, backups and monitoring are still on you.
- Nobody to call. When something breaks at 2am, Cursor is an editor, not a support team.
What Sentrely does differently
- Ask in Slack, in plain English. Your team asks our agent to build, ship and monitor production-grade software. No editor, no terminal.
- Engineers behind the AI. Our AI employees are deployed and supervised by our engineers. Every change runs through automated safety checks, and important changes get a human sign-off.
- Ships into your accounts. Your hosting, your code accounts, your data. If we go away, your software keeps running.
- 35-day rewind. Your data and files can be rewound to any point in the last 35 days.
- A named human. You get a named account manager and on-call support.
When to pick which
- Pick Cursor if you or your team write code and want to do it faster.
- Pick Sentrely if you need production software built and run, and you’d rather not become a developer to get it.
Not sure which fits? Book a free 30-minute call and we’ll tell you honestly.