Question 1

What is Cromus?

Accepted Answer

Cromus is the first Workflow Intelligence as a Service (WIaaS) platform — a pre-execution layer that helps organizations compile, optimize, and govern AI workflows before spending on compute.

Question 2

What are Croms?

Accepted Answer

A Crom is one unit of preventable AI workflow waste. Croms measure inefficiency across four dimensions: cost waste, latency waste, failure risk, and structural inefficiency.

Question 3

How is Cromus different from LangGraph or CrewAI?

Accepted Answer

LangGraph and CrewAI are workflow orchestration frameworks — they execute workflows. Cromus is a pre-execution layer — it analyzes, optimizes, and governs workflows before they run, and can export to those frameworks.

Question 4

What is a SKILL.md file?

Accepted Answer

SKILL.md is an open standard for portable, structured AI workflow specifications. It captures execution profiles, model requirements, token estimates, and governance constraints in a single file.

Question 5

Is Cromus free to try?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Every new account gets a 7-day free trial with full Builder access. After the trial, the Lite plan starts at $9.99/month. Paid plans start at $19/month for Founding Members.