AI Work Assistants You Can Text

The pitch for a work assistant in iMessage is simple: the fastest interface to an AI colleague is the one that pings your phone. These agents aim past errands and into actual work — triaging email, running multi-step tasks across your tools, holding onto context between conversations so you're not re-explaining yourself every Monday.

Arlo is the clearest fit: an AI colleague that works inside iMessage, Slack, and calls, with persistent memory, real skills, and governance so it isn't a black box. Lindy is the AI employee for people who want to wire up automations — it connects to your stack and runs workflows you define, then reports back over text. Praxos is built for the seam where people and AI agents collaborate, keeping the messaging layer coherent when humans and bots share a thread. Notis rounds it out as the delegate-it-like-an-intern option: give it the task, get the result, no workflow-building required.

The real question is how much you want to configure. Notis and Arlo work out of the box; Lindy and Praxos reward setup with more leverage. And check where your work data goes before you connect the tools — governance and data handling matter more here than in a companion app. Text one with a real task and judge the output.