Beside
LiveWatches the map while you go about your day and texts the moment you are near what you asked for
Beside is an AI agent you reach on iMessage. To start, text a number. It messages you first rather than waiting to be asked.
How it works
The clearest example in this directory of an agent that does nothing until the world changes. You share your live location and tell it what you care about, a good coffee, a golf deal, a bookshop, and it watches the map in the background and texts when you are near one.
It is metered rather than subscribed, which suits the shape of the product: a standing watch costs more than a question, and the pricing page says so in credits rather than hiding it in a tier. A thousand credits are free to start.
The policy is dated July 2026, states that messages are not used to train third-party AI models, and sets out GDPR legal bases, which puts it among the few listings here written for European rules as well as American ones. The address it answers on is an email address rather than a phone number, which is unusual and means the thread opens in Messages without a number to save.
At a glance
| Channels | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Can do | Web research,Reminders,Travel,Persistent memory |
| Connects to | None named publicly |
| Pricing | 1,000 free credits to start, roughly twenty quick asks or one standing watch. Paid tiers are published at $10, $25 and $50 a month, metered in credits. |
| Number type | Not stated on its own pages |
| Contact number | None published |
| First message, pre-written | None published |
| Runs on | Not disclosed |
| Browses with | Not disclosed |
| Number carrier | No number to look up |
| Status | Live |
Checked 2026-09-09.
Data and policy
| Trains on your conversations | States it does not“se your messages to train third-party AI models” |
|---|---|
| Data of people who never signed up | Not stated in the policy |
| If you cancel | Not stated in the policy |
| Model providers named | None named |
| Jurisdiction | Not stated in the policy |
| Availability | Not stated |
Beside publishes 4 of the 9 things we check for on every listing, which puts it 19th of 37 in personal assistants. They are listed there, and none of them is a judgement about quality.
Quoted verbatim from the published policy on 2026-09-09, and what a document says is not the same as its legal effect.
Who is behind it
| Company | Loki Labs |
|---|---|
| Founders | Not published |
| Based in | Not published |
| Funding | Not published |
| Investors | Not published |
| Traction | Not published |
Checked 2026-09-09.
Every row above is read off Beside’s own public pages at beside.chat. A row that reads not stated is a fact about the product rather than about our research.
If Beside is not the one
Building one instead? The infrastructure side is a separate half of this site: every provider that carries these messages, what they charge, and what the headline price leaves out. Start with How to build an iMessage agent in 2026.