An assistant you text or use on the web that spins up standing agents for research, inbox, fares and bookings
Robyn is an AI agent you reach on iMessage and Web. To start, you need an invitation. It reaches out on a schedule.
How Robyn works
Robyn takes a one-sentence request and sets agents running on it: finding apartments that fit a budget, watching a fare until it drops, sorting a morning inbox, briefing you on a company before a call. Each agent keeps standing instructions and reports back on its own schedule. You reach it on the web or by text, where results arrive as links to a report, a PDF or a photo in the thread.
It opened by invitation on 29 October 2026. Its founder, Jenny Shao, announced it on X with 1,000 invite codes. Its front page names the services it connects to, from Gmail, Slack and GitHub to Plaid, Oura and Home Assistant. It charges in credits per run, and the front page shows what each example cost.
Robyn started as something else. When TechCrunch covered its launch in November 2025, it was an iOS app built as an emotionally intelligent companion, and the same company had raised $5.5 million led by M13. Memory runs through both: Shao worked in the lab of Eric Kandel, who won a Nobel Prize for his research on memory, and the site now describes the product as powered by "neuro-mimetic memory".
Its policy trains on what you send, with one exception, Google account data, and offers no opt-out.
What Robyn costs, and how you start
| Channels | iMessageWeb |
|---|---|
| How you start | Invite only |
| Who starts it | On a schedule |
| Is there an app | Not stated on its own pages |
| Categories | Personal assistants,Work |
| Can do | Web research,Email,Calendar and scheduling,Bookings and reservations,Travel,Documents,Persistent memory |
| Connects to | Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, GitHub, Jira, Asana, Trello, Airtable, Calendly, Typeform, Stripe, Shopify, Plaid, Sentry, Vercel, Supabase, Cloudflare, Datadog, AWS, PagerDuty, Spotify, Apple Music, Strava, Whoop, Oura, Home Assistant |
| Pricing | No price published. The terms describe subscription plans with a monthly allowance of usage, the front page prices each run in credits, and the founder's launch post offered 100 free credits. |
| Number type | Not stated on its own pages |
| Contact number | None published |
| Documentation | None linked |
| First message, pre-written | None published |
| Runs on | Not disclosed |
| Browses with | Not disclosed |
| Number carrier | No number to look up |
| Status | Beta |
Does Robyn train on your conversations?
| Trains on your conversations | States it does“Except for Google user data as described above, to train, develop, and improve the artificial intelligence, machine learning, and models that we use to support our Services” |
|---|---|
| Data of people who never signed up | Not addressed |
| What it holds when you connect an account | Not stated in the policy |
| If you cancel | The terms allow exporting your content for 30 days after a subscription ends, after which Robyn may delete it. Disconnecting Google Calendar or deleting the account deletes or de-identifies the Google data. |
| Model providers named | None named |
| Jurisdiction | United States. The terms require users to be 18 or older. |
| Security document | Not checked yet |
| Asks before acting | Not checked yet |
| Prompt injection | Not mentioned anywhere public |
| Bug bounty | Not checked yet |
| Availability | Not stated |
Robyn’s own pages answer 5 of the 9 questions this site asks of every listing. Not answered: publishes a price, names who carries the messages, names its model providers, says where to report a bug. Fewer than most of its kind: 46th of 57 personal assistants.
Quoted verbatim from the published policy on 2026-10-29, and what a document says is not the same as its legal effect.
Who makes Robyn
| Company | Robyn AI, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Founders | Jenny Shao |
| Based in | Not published |
| Funding | $5.5M seed led by M13, reported in November 2025 when Robyn launched as an iOS companion app. Source: TechCrunch |
| Investors | M13 |
| Traction | Not published |
From Robyn’s own pages at meetrobyn.com, last read 2026-10-29.