Embed GRADLE without daemon

As ANT, GRadle could be use NOT only for building but it could be use as JCL (job control language), also for business logic and so on.

I’m a member of open source solution which wants to manage batches execution.

I’d like to add GRADLE as JCL.

But I see I need a Gradle Daemon to embed Gradle in another tool. And that’s not really good. Why not to leave Embedding API (as ANT does) without using daemon?