Text-Message AI Agents Compete for Personal-Assistant Users
TechCrunch profiles AI agents that users can contact through text messages, spanning personal, family, travel and professional-assistant use cases. Featured products include Caddy, Comma, Fambot, Ask Proxy, Maverick, Miso, Ohai, Ollie, Orbits, Pally, Town and Underdog. TechCrunch reports that they can retain context, connect to existing apps and services, and perform tasks such as scheduling appointments, organizing calendars, researching trips, sending emails, making reservations, shopping and setting reminders. Availability, pricing and product features vary, with some services offered free or in beta and others charging by subscription or user.
The article shows multiple companies competing to deliver personal-assistant functions through familiar messaging channels, packaging features such as memory, service integrations and task execution into consumer and workplace products.
Rather than downloading another app, a growing number of agents can simply be texted like an ordinary person.
You text it what you need, and it can remember context, connect to the apps and services you already use, and complete tasks on your behalf. That can mean scheduling an appointment, organizing a calendar, researching a trip, sending an email, making a reservation, shopping online, or reminding you about something days later.
While Instinct is one of the buzziest AI agents at present, thanks to its $10 billion valuation after its latest funding round of $1 billion, there are many others also making a play for this space.
Below are the most notable options so far, from general-purpose personal assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
Caddy
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