Work & productivity you can text on iMessage

Work assistants earn their place by connecting to the tools where work actually happens, then letting you drive them from a text thread. Arlo positions itself as an AI colleague that lives inside iMessage, Slack, and phone calls, with persistent memory, defined skills, and governance for teams that care who did what. Lindy is the AI employee that plugs into your stack — email, calendar, CRM — and runs multi-step tasks on your behalf. Praxos is built for the messier reality where people and AI agents coordinate in the same threads. The common thread: you delegate by messaging, the way you'd hand something to a coworker, and the agent keeps context across the back-and-forth. If you want automation that reaches your real tools without asking you to learn another app, these are the agents to text first. We order this page editorially, on substance, not by who paid to rank.