A family agent that lives in the household's existing iMessage group thread
Ollie is an AI agent you reach on iMessage. To start, add a number to a group. It messages you first rather than waiting to be asked.
How Ollie works
Ollie is "your family, by text." It joins the family's existing iMessage group thread, which means the second and third family members arrive with no invite, no install and no signup, they were already in the thread.
Its pricing is unusual for this category: it prices the household rather than the individual seat, and meters the agent's outbound messages rather than the number of people. That structure follows from the onboarding model, since a per-seat price would tax exactly the thing the product is good at.
Its policy is the most complete in this directory and worth reading against the others. It names its subprocessors rather than describing them: Anthropic, OpenAI and Groq for the models, Linqapp for carrying the messages, and Instacart, Walmart and Amazon, which tells you what the assistant is expected to buy. It states retention in numbers, 24 months for messages, 30 days to delete a profile on request and 90 for backups, where most listings here state nothing at all.
Two qualifications are worth carrying in full.
Ollie says it does not use message content to train third-party models for general use,
Separately, it says that message content may be reviewed or used in aggregate to improve its own systems, which is a narrower promise than a reader skimming the first half would take away. And on the household: adults may use it to manage information about their children, and the policy places responsibility for that on the adult, treating what you share about your family as your content rather than as the child's data. For a product whose whole premise is a family group chat, that is the sentence to read twice.
Read again in September. Its training answer is the most complete of the qualified ones: the model vendors are barred by their enterprise terms from training on your content, and Ollie says in the same breath that it may use de-identified or aggregated message data to evaluate, debug and improve its own systems. Two claims, both stated, which is more than most listings manage with one.
It also names group chat participation among what it collects, and does not say what the other participants can ask for.
What Ollie costs, and how you start
| Channels | iMessage |
|---|---|
| How you start | Add a number to a group |
| Who starts it | Messages you first |
| Is there an app | No app Nothing to install at any point |
| Categories | Group agents,Family |
| Can do | Group threads |
| Connects to | Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Instacart, Walmart |
| Pricing | Free $0 for 50 messages a month, Everyday $25/month for 150, Always-On $100/month for 1,000. One subscription covers the whole family group chat. |
| Number type | Not stated on its own pages |
| Contact number | None published |
| Documentation | None linked |
| First message, pre-written | None published |
| Runs on | Linq (source) |
| Browses with | Not disclosed |
| Number carrier | No number to look up |
| Status | Live |
Does Ollie train on your conversations?
| Trains on your conversations | Qualified statement“governed by their enterprise data-protection commitments, which prohibit them from using your content to train their public models. We may also use de-identified or aggregated message data to evaluate, debug, and improve Ollie's own systems” |
|---|---|
| Data of people who never signed up | Not addressed“Adults may use Ollie to manage information about their household, including their children. When you do, you are the user and are responsible for the information you share about your child.” |
| What it holds when you connect an account | Not stated in the policy |
| If you cancel | Email and calendar content kept until it is no longer needed or the account is deleted, whichever comes first. On a deletion request data is removed immediately from core services and fully removed from logs and backups. |
| Model providers named | Anthropic, OpenAI, Groq |
| Jurisdiction | California, with CCPA disclosures. The operator is a California corporation in San Diego. |
| Security document | Published. A trust centre: SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR and HITECH listed, application penetration testing, responsible disclosure, audit logging, disk encryption, certificates of destruction. |
| Asks before acting | Nothing published |
| Prompt injection | Not mentioned anywhere public |
| Bug bounty | None published |
| Availability | Not stated |
Ollie’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 13 group agents.
Quoted verbatim from the published policy on 2026-09-10, and what a document says is not the same as its legal effect.
Who makes Ollie
| Company | Confabulation Corporation, trading as Ollie |
|---|---|
| Founders | Max Fergus, Christine Shannon, Bill Lennon |
| Based in | San Diego, California |
| Funding | $7.5M seed announced September 2026, led by Khosla Ventures with AI House participating. Source: finsmes.com |
| Investors | Khosla Ventures, AI House |
| Traction | Not published |
From Ollie’s own pages at ollie.ai, last read 2026-09-10.