Rene

Rene calls itself the best contact in your phone: one agent you text from iMessage that reads Gmail, moves the calendar, drafts the Slack update, files the Linear issue, prioritises GitHub reviews and checks the WHOOP recovery score, and starts each day with a brief of what changed and what needs a decision. A Mac app that takes spoken thoughts and turns them into drafts and tasks is stated as coming, and so is a mobile app; the thread is the product today.

Two things in its policy are rarer than the feature list. It asks for consent before it first sends your data to an outside AI provider, and you can decline; and it says what you share stays out of generalised model training, which is a sentence about providers and about Rene's own use of Google data rather than about everything you tell it, so the row reads qualified. Email and calendar are connected with delegated access and the page says it never sees or stores a password.

The way in is not published: the page says to text Rene from iMessage and gives no number, and the FAQ asks "how do I start" and "will Rene act without me" and the answers are behind clicks that did not render, so the access and approval rows stay blank until they do. No price above free. The company is Second Enlightenment Limited, named in the footer and nowhere else.