Agents that book things for you

Twelve agents in this directory claim they will book something on your behalf: a restaurant table, an appointment, a group dinner. The claim is the same across all of them and the mechanism underneath is not, which is the thing worth understanding before you rely on one.

12 agents that state this

Agents compared by channel, how you start using them and pricing. Status is shown only where it is not live.
Agent	Channels	How you start	Pricing
222A questionnaire, then a reservation for a blind group dinner	iMessageSMS	Install an app	$22.22/month
AlfiOne shared agent per group plus a private solo agent for each memberText it, opens with What can you do do?	iMessageWhatsApp	Install an app	Unknown
CaddyA work assistant in your texts, blue bubbles on iPhone and RCS on Android	iMessageRCSSMS	Text a number	Unknown
CatchEmail, scheduling, travel and outbound phone calls, proactive by default	SMSEmailVoice	Create an account	$99/month
DuckbillThe model plans, background-checked humans execute	SMSEmailWeb	Create an account	Unknown
folkA personal AI with an isolated cloud computer and a persistent memory graph	iMessageTelegramWhatsAppDiscord	Unknown	Unknown
HomerTexts you back on iMessage or SMS, and will phone a business for youText it, opens with Hey Homer	iMessageSMS	Text a number	Free tier; Pro $9.99/month; Business $29.99/month
InstinctA general agent that acts before asking, and is criticised for exactly that	iMessage	Invite only	Unknown
JarvieA group-chat agent that coordinates dinners and trips and remembers the group	iMessageSMS	Add a number to a group	Unknown
OrchidEmail triage, calendar and bookings, with 220,000+ emails processedText it	Email	Unknown	Unknown
PallyLife-admin triage where relationship nudges are a side effect, not the pitch	iMessageWhatsAppEmailSlack	Unknown	Free tier; Pro $25/month; Max $100/month
WajoA group agent that places its own calls and pays with its own card	iMessageSMSVoice	Create an account	Free tier available

Recorded only where the product’s own public pages state it. An agent missing here may still do this and simply not say so.

What the claim actually covers

There are three approaches in use, and they fail in different ways. Some agents book through a partner network, which is fast and reliable inside that network and unable to help outside it. Alfi books through Yelp, which tells you exactly which restaurants it can reach.

Some place a real phone call. Wajo's agent calls from its own number and pays with its own credit card, which is the most autonomous version of this and the one that requires the most trust. Duckbill takes the opposite route: the model works out what needs doing and a background-checked human executes it, which is the model that Magic, Fin and Facebook M all abandoned, now being retested with cheaper planning.

And some simply hand you a link. That is not booking, though the marketing rarely distinguishes it.

The question to ask is not whether an agent can book, but what happens when the booking fails. A partner network returns an error. A phone call gets a human who says no. A link does nothing at all and you find out at the restaurant.

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