Which work agent tells you the most

Agents aimed at professional workflows and teams. Notis discloses the most of the 7 here, at 6 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
Notis
Executes across your existing tools from a text, on five channels
iMessageWhatsAppTelegramSlackEmail
6 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 its model providers
2
Arlo
Reads your work tools and asks approval before anything consequential goes out
iMessageSMSText it, opens with hey Arlo+1 407 234 1884
5 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Names who carries the messages, Says where to report a bug, Says how you start
3
Caddy
A work assistant in your texts, blue bubbles on iPhone and RCS on Android
iMessageRCSSMS
5 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says whether it trains on you, Names who carries the messages, Says how you start
4
Lindy
A work assistant you reach in Slack, iMessage or Gmail, built on the web first
SlackiMessageEmailWeb
5 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says whether it trains on you, Says where to report a bug, Says how you start
5
Vellum
An agent with its own identity and filesystem, across text, desktop and voice
TelegramSlackEmailVoiceWeb
5 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says whether it trains on you, Names its model providers, Says how you start
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
Zo Computer
A cloud computer that runs while you are away, reachable from your Messages app
iMessageSMSTelegramDiscordSlackEmail
4 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says where to report a bug, 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.

1ShuffleAdd a number to a groupiMessageSMS
2ArloText a numberiMessageSMS
3CaddyText a numberiMessageRCSSMS
4LindyCreate an accountSlackiMessageEmailWeb
5VellumCreate an accountTelegramSlackEmailVoiceWeb
6Zo ComputerCreate an accountiMessageSMSTelegramDiscordSlackEmail

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