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Messaging Agents

Which group agent tells you the most

Agents that join a group thread and coordinate between several people. Ollie discloses the most of the 9 here, at 9 of 9. Every criterion is mechanical and listed below, so you can recompute any position yourself.

What each one tells you

Every disclosure below is something these companies could publish today at no cost. A low score is a choice rather than a limitation.

  1. 1

    Ollie

    A family agent that lives in the household's existing iMessage group thread

    iMessage
    9 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says whether it trains on you, Addresses people who never signed up, Says what happens if you cancel, Names who carries the messages, Names its model providers, Says where to report a bug, Says how you start
  2. 2

    Alfi

    One shared agent per group plus a private solo agent for each member

    iMessageWhatsAppText it, opens with What can you do do?+1 310 460 9758
    5 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Addresses people who never signed up, Says what happens if you cancel, Says how you start
  3. 3

    Boba

    A group agent that stays quiet during normal chatter and joins when needed

    iMessageSMS
    5 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says whether it trains on you, Addresses people who never signed up, Says how you start
  4. 4

    Jarvie

    A group-chat agent that coordinates dinners and trips and remembers the group

    iMessageSMS
    5 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Addresses people who never signed up, Says what happens if you cancel, Says how you start
  5. 5

    Wajo

    A group agent that places its own calls and pays with its own card

    iMessageSMSVoice
    5 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says whether it trains on you, Addresses people who never signed up, Says how you start
  6. 6

    Shuffle

    An AI teammate in iMessage and SMS group chats, summoned with @agent

    iMessageSMSText it, opens with hey shuffle, im new here... what can u actually do?+1 646 382 3248
    4 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Addresses people who never signed up, Says how you start
  7. 7

    Sidekicks

    Add a number to any iMessage or SMS group and it participates like a member

    iMessageSMSText it, opens with Hello 👋+1 628 213 4346
    3 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says how you start
  8. 8

    Town

    A per-user agent that joins your group text and talks to other people's agents

    iMessageSMS
    3 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Says where to report a bug, Says how you start
  9. 9

    brobot

    Added to a group thread you already have, and jumps in on food, drinks and plans

    iMessage
    2 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Says how you start

How this is scored

Publishes a price
You can find out what it costs without signing up
Has a privacy policy
There is a document at all, for a product that reads your messages
Says whether it trains on you
States plainly whether your conversations train a model
Addresses people who never signed up
Says what happens to the data of others in your threads
Says what happens if you cancel
States whether your history is kept or deleted
Names who carries the messages
Names the company that actually holds your texts
Names its model providers
Says which AI companies see your conversations
Says where to report a bug
A researcher who finds a hole has somewhere to send it
Says how you start
You can tell what is required of you before you begin

Fewest steps before it does anything

Counted the same way as the onboarding ladder: joining a thread you are already in is zero, texting a number is one, installing an app before you can begin is four. Agents behind a waitlist or an invite are left out rather than ranked last, because unavailable is not the same as high friction.

  1. 1brobotAdd a number to a groupiMessage
  2. 2JarvieAdd a number to a groupiMessageSMS
  3. 3OllieAdd a number to a groupiMessage
  4. 4ShuffleAdd a number to a groupiMessageSMS
  5. 5SidekicksAdd a number to a groupiMessageSMS
  6. 6BobaText a numberiMessageSMS
  7. 7TownCreate an accountiMessageSMS
  8. 8WajoCreate an accountiMessageSMSVoice
  9. 9AlfiInstall an appiMessageWhatsApp

The group agents in full, unranked and filterable, or the other categories.