Boardy vs Series: which AI assistant to text
Both make introductions and neither uses a normal app. Series does it entirely inside iMessage; Boardy phones you.
Boardy is for
Anyone who would rather talk than type, and wants introductions made by something that heard the nuance.
Series is for
Anyone on a campus, or anyone who wants the whole thing to stay in a text thread.
A voice AI that phones you, learns what you need, and makes introductions
- Posted doing a job
- 1
- public posts, each on the listing
- Of those, went wrong
- 1
- fewer is better; people post successes
- Posts for it, against it
- 0 / 0
- nothing posted yet
AI introductions that happen entirely inside iMessage, on 750+ campuses
- Posted doing a job
- 0
- public posts, each on the listing
- Of those, went wrong
- 0
- nothing posted yet
- Posts for it, against it
- 0 / 1
- of 1 public posts about it; the rest mixed or neither
Boardy and Series, side by side
They differ on getting in, trust and who runs it; a dot marks each row where they do.
| Boardy | Series | |
|---|---|---|
| Getting in | ||
| Where do you text it? | Voice. | iMessage. |
| How do you start? | Phone call. | Text a number. |
| Does it work on Android? | Not stated. | No; iMessage only. |
| Is there an app to install? | Optional app: an app exists but is not how you start. | No app: nothing to install at any point. |
| Who starts the conversation? | Calls you first. | Messages you first. |
| Price | ||
| What does it cost? | Not published. | Not published. |
| Trust | ||
| Does it train on my messages? | No policy found to say. | Qualified statement. |
| What does it hold to log in for me? | Holds a scoped token for connected accounts; no security contact published. | Connects no account, so it holds no login of yours. |
| What happens to my messages? | No privacy policy found. | Who carries them is not published. |
| Does it publish about its security? | Nothing published. | Nothing published. |
| Can it phone people? | Yes; the agent speaks. | It does not call. |
| Who runs it | ||
| Who is behind it? | Boardy; funded. | The Founder Series, Inc.; funded. |
| How is it funded? | $3M pre-seed announced October 2024, then an $8M seed raised through the product itself, with investors vetting it by talking to the bot. | $5.1M pre-seed announced April 2026, after an earlier $3.1M raise. |
| What it can do, on its own pages | ||
| Calendar and scheduling | Yes | Not stated |
| Phone calls | Yes | Not stated |
| Yes | Not stated | |
| Group threads | Not stated | Yes |
| Both | Introductions. | |
What people got Boardy and Series to do
1 public posts of either agent doing a specific thing for somebody, counted by the job; each is on the listing with the post behind it.
| Job | Boardy | Series |
|---|---|---|
| Introductions | 1 | 0 |
What separates Boardy and Series
Series works entirely inside iMessage: you text a number, describe who you are and who you want to meet, and it sends back people worth meeting. It reports presence on more than 750 campuses and a claimed 82% day-30 retention, which would be extraordinary for a consumer social product and should be read as a company figure rather than a verified one. Founded by two Yale seniors, Nathaneo Johnson and Sean Hargrow, with a $5.1 million pre-seed led by Pear VC.
Boardy is the only voice-first product in this directory. It phones you, learns what you are looking for, and introduces you, and states on its own site more than 202,000 introductions made, more than 226,000 people spoken with and a 17-hour average time to a match. Its channel has far higher friction per interaction and, by its own numbers, more throughput.
One incident belongs on this comparison. Boardy ran a campaign in which its AI commented on people's appearances, and its chief executive apologised publicly. When an agent introduces people, its judgement is the product, and there is no interface layer between a bad output and a real person hearing it.
What people say about Boardy and Series
Boardy
Series
“Top of page is press coverage from TradPress. Business Insider? Forbes? Bro no one trusts them anymore and you can just pay to be in them.”
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