AI agents that do the same jobs but cannot be texted
These do the same work as the 90 in the directory and are not in it, for one reason each: you reach them in an app of their own rather than in a thread you already have. The job is identical and the reach is not, and reach is the whole premise of this site, so the line stays and the exclusions get a page.
What is out, and why
An answering service that replies to a business's customers across calls, texts, DMs and email
Why it is not listed. It is reached by a business's customers rather than by the person who buys it, so the messaging channel points the other way: you do not text Central, Central texts the people who contact your company.
A general assistant with file, search and computer use, in its own apps and on the web
Why it is not listed. You reach it in Anthropic's own apps or on the web. It publishes no messaging channel, no number and no way into a thread you already have.
Agents that each get their own phone number, email address, card and workspace, reached by downloading its app
Why it is not listed. The only ways in are a macOS download and a mobile app. No page names a number to text, a messaging app or a link into an existing thread, and the words iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram and SMS appear nowhere on the front page. The phone it describes belongs to the agent rather than being the way you reach it.
An agent you brief like a teammate, working on a persistent cloud machine with a browser and a terminal
Why it is not listed. Its own documentation says you work with a Bot by messaging it inside the Grok Bot app. There is no thread you already have.
One thread for everything, with a computer-use agent of its own, inside the Hark Pro app
Why it is not listed. The thread is in the Hark Pro app on the web, iOS and Android, and you sign in with Google or Apple to reach it. Neither its front page nor its help pages mention iMessage, SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram or a number to text.
Adapts a brand's own storefront to each shopper, recommending products and rewriting pages as they browse
Why it is not listed. It sits on the shop's side of the transaction rather than the shopper's. Every listing here is something a person reaches in their own thread; Kinect is bought by the merchant and met by whoever lands on the product page, so the buyer never texts it and never chooses it.
Group assistants that sit in a chat with you and your friends, inside its own app
Why it is not listed. The chat is Shapes' own: you make a chat in its iPhone or Android app or on the web and invite your friends into it. No page names a number to text or a way to bring a shape into a WhatsApp, iMessage or Telegram group you already have.
