Reads your work tools and asks approval before anything consequential goes out
Arlo is an AI agent you reach on iMessage and SMS. To start, text a number. It messages you first rather than waiting to be asked.
How Arlo works
There is a second product called Arlo that sells an AI agent in iMessage, at arlomind.com, with its own prices; it is not this one, and nothing on either site connects them. This listing is the Arlo at arlo.sh.
One shared colleague for a company rather than an assistant for a person: Arlo sits in Slack, works across the tools the team already has, and asks before it does anything sensitive. It also joins calls, records them and speaks when brought in.
That last part produces the best answer to a question this directory usually finds unanswered. Almost nothing here says what happens to the people who never signed up. Arlo's policy says it announces itself before recording, tells everyone on the call that it is there and that the conversation is being transcribed, and says so again on calls where it speaks. It then states that recordings and transcripts are not used to train models, are not sold and are not handed to anybody else to train theirs.
Its own training default is the only one of its kind here. A new adult account created from a server-verified United States location starts participating by default. An account created from the EEA, the UK, Switzerland, anywhere else, or an unverified location does not, and needs a separate opt-in. Everything else in this directory has one answer for everybody.
The supplier list is the longest in the set and split by function: Recall.ai for meeting recording, ElevenLabs for voice, Telnyx or Linq for calls, and OpenRouter reaching Anthropic Claude and Moonshot Kimi with OpenAI for memory and search. Moonshot is the first model outside the United States any listing here has named.
Prices run from free to $10,000 a month.
Two things changed in the policy dated 23 September 2026. The operator is now Arlo AI, LLC rather than Idan Mann trading as a sole proprietor, which makes it a company rather than a person holding the data. And the sub-processor list stopped being a page: the old policy published it at arlo.sh/subprocessors, the new one says a current list is kept and will be sent if you email privacy@arlo.sh. The address returns nothing now. The names are still in the policy itself, sorted into categories, which is where the providers recorded here come from.
The policy dated 26 September 2026 sets out what is kept after you leave: account details within 30 days, messages and memory within 30 days and from backups within 90, and one thing kept longer, a keyed one-way fingerprint of the numbers, addresses and messaging IDs an account signed up with, so free credits go only to new people.
What Arlo costs, and how you start
| Channels | iMessageSMS |
|---|---|
| How you start | Text a number |
| Who starts it | Messages you first |
| Is there an app | No app Nothing to install at any point |
| Categories | Personal assistants,Work,Email |
| Can do | Email,Web research,Phone calls,Persistent memory,Task management,Documents,Calls people for you |
| Connects to | Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Notion, Linear, GitHub, HubSpot, Salesforce, Google Docs |
| Pricing | Free to start, then published tiers at $100, $1,000, $1,500 and $10,000 a month, which is the widest price range of any listing here. |
| Number type | Wireless |
| Contact number | +1 407 234 1884 |
| Documentation | arlo.sh/docs |
| First message, pre-written | “hey Arlo”Composed by the product, sent by you. See why that matters. |
| Runs on | Linq (iMessage and FaceTime), Telnyx (phone calls and A2P SMS) (source) |
| Browses with | Anchor Browser, Daytona (source) |
| Number carrier | T-Mobile (Omnipoint Miami E License) block holder, before number portability |
| Status | Live |
Does Arlo train on your conversations?
| Trains on your conversations | Yes, with opt-out“For a new adult account created from a server-verified U.S. location, accepting the current Terms starts prospective participation by default. Accounts created from the EEA, UK, Switzerland, any other non-U.S. country, or an unknown location” |
|---|---|
| Data of people who never signed up | Addressed“We announce it. Before Arlo records, it tells everyone on the call or in the meeting that it is there and that the conversation is being recorded and transcribed.” |
| What it holds when you connect an account | Not stated in the policy |
| If you cancel | Account details deleted within 30 days of closure; messages, memory and transcripts removed from live systems within 30 days and from backups within 90; call audio deleted within 30 days. A keyed one-way fingerprint of the phone numbers, email addresses and messaging IDs it signed up with is kept after deletion, for as long as new-account credits are offered. |
| Model providers named | Anthropic, OpenAI, Moonshot AI, OpenRouter, ElevenLabs |
| Jurisdiction | United States, with the formal California category names used throughout so a reader can match them to their rights, and a separate default for the EEA, the UK and Switzerland. |
| Security document | None published |
| Asks before acting | Nothing published |
| Prompt injection | Not mentioned anywhere public |
| Bug bounty | None published |
| Who is on the line | The agent |
| Calls from its own number | Not stated on its pages |
| Says it is software on the call | “On phone and voice calls, Arlo tells you it is an AI at the start of the call. ... On calls where Arlo speaks, it also tells people up front that they are talking to an AI voice.” |
| Records the call | Yes: “Before Arlo records, it tells everyone on the call or in the meeting that it is there and that the conversation is being recorded and transcribed.” |
| Availability | Not stated |
Arlo’s own pages answer 9 of the 9 questions this site asks of every listing. Every one of them is answered. More than most of its kind: 1st of 56 personal assistants.
Quoted verbatim from the published policy on 2026-10-03, and what a document says is not the same as its legal effect.
Who makes Arlo
| Company | Arlo AI, LLC |
|---|---|
| Founders | Idan Mann |
| Based in | Not published |
| Funding | Not published. No round announced on its own pages. |
| Investors | Not published |
| Traction | Not published |
From Arlo’s own pages at arlo.sh, last read 2026-09-25. Which apps it works in is inferred from its descriptions; it does not list them.
