Arlo (arlomind.com)

A second product called Arlo, unrelated on any page read to the Arlo at arlo.sh: a personal assistant that lives in an iMessage thread, connects to Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Notion and, by its own count, 27 more, and texts you before you ask. Its pitch is that Siri and ChatGPT wait to be asked and this does not: it watches an inbox, tracks what you told it to, and sends a morning briefing.

You start by typing your phone number into the site; it texts you, you reply, and a three-day trial begins with no card. No number is published, so the way in is the form rather than a contact to save. It is built around iMessage and says so, with other texting platforms "on the way", which for a reader on Android means not yet.

The prices are unusually complete for this market and the plans are shaped by how many things you connect: the cheapest plan allows three integrations and one inbox, the dearest all 31 and four inboxes, with "proactive watchers", the things it keeps an eye on unprompted, counted per plan. Its pricing page compares itself with Lindy by name.

What it does not publish is who it is. The privacy policy and the terms, both dated May 2026 with no day, name no company, no jurisdiction and no address, and the only route to a privacy question is the assistant's own thread or the address on a receipt. On training it says it does not use your messages to train general-purpose models for other customers, which is a narrower statement than not training at all, and is recorded as such.