Cardhop finds the contact. Fasrad does something with it.

Fasrad as a Cardhop alternative

Cardhop is a clever way to talk to your existing contacts: type "email Jane lunch Thursday" and it parses the verb, finds Jane, and opens a draft. It's a parser sitting on top of your macOS, iCloud, and Google contacts. The contact is the unit of work, and the work stops the moment the card closes.

The problem isn't searching for Jane. It's that you talked to her three weeks ago, promised a proposal, and never sent it — and nothing in your contacts app knows that, reminds you, or writes the first draft. Cardhop has no memory of your conversations, no inbox of its own, and no ability to do the follow-up it helps you start.

Where Fasrad goes further than a contacts app:

• Your contacts live in a real CRM with groups, interaction history, and notes that @-mention each other — and the agent reads all of it before it acts.
• The agent has its own email inbox: it triages replies, drafts personalized follow-ups, and sends staggered outreach to a whole group from a Google Sheet.
• It connects the dots Cardhop can't see — "who haven't I talked to in 60 days," "prep me for the 2pm with the last three emails from this account."
• It runs without you: a new lead from your website embed lands as a contact, gets tagged, and triggers a draft intro while you're asleep.

Cardhop makes one keystroke faster. Fasrad takes the whole loop — capture, remember, decide, follow up — off your plate.

Related pages in this workflow

These pages cover the adjacent jobs buyers usually compare before choosing an AI agent.

• AI CRM Agent — No more dashboard discipline: it logs every call and email, moves deals by what was actually said, and emails you an honest pipeline.
• AI Personal CRM That Remembers People — Never let a relationship go cold: it logs every contact, surfaces the detail you forgot, and flags who’s about to go quiet.
• AI Virtual Assistant — An assistant that does the work, not just the chat: its own inbox and calendar, your meetings booked, the replies you’d forget chased down.
• BigContacts Alternative — BigContacts remembers your contacts; Fasrad works them — drafts the follow-up, books the call, and logs it without you opening the record.
• Clay Alternative — Clay nails the relationship layer; Fasrad acts on it — drafting the emails, booking the meetings, and running the follow-up you’d never get to.
• Covve Alternative — Covve reminds you to reach out; Fasrad does it — reads the inbox, logs the interaction, and drafts the next touch itself.
• AI Personal Assistant — Your calendar, your follow-ups, your morning brief — run by an assistant with its own inbox, so you stop being your own secretary.
• Dex Alternative — Dex is a rolodex you still have to keep. Fasrad keeps it for you — tying every email and meeting to the right person and drafting follow-ups before they go cold.

Frequently asked questions

Is this a contacts app like Cardhop?

No. Cardhop is a front-end for your iCloud/Google contacts — it helps you search and edit cards faster. Fasrad is an AI agent with its own CRM, inbox, and calendar. The contact is where the work starts, not where it ends: the agent reads the history and then drafts, sends, books, and follows up.

Can I get my existing contacts in?

Yes — import a CSV, or use the browser extension to clip contacts off webpages, LinkedIn, and email signatures into the CRM. Each gets deduped and you can sort them into groups. There's no live two-way sync with the macOS Contacts app, so this is a migration, not a mirror.

What does Cardhop still do better?

Honestly: instant native command-line editing of your system address book, deep macOS/iOS integration, and offline access on your phone. If your whole job is keeping a tidy contacts database synced across Apple devices, Cardhop's parser is faster and lives where your phone already looks. Fasrad isn't a replacement for the OS-level contacts your other apps read from — it's a separate brain that acts on relationships.

Does it work on my phone?

Yes, through Telegram. Your agent runs as a private bot, so you can ask it to find someone, draft an email, or book a call from your phone without opening a laptop. It also runs on the web at fasrad.com/chat and answers over email.

Will it email people without asking me?

Only inside the automations you set up. By default it drafts and waits. You can explicitly tell it to send — for outreach campaigns it stages sends across the day (up to about 100) and triages the replies, but you decide what's autonomous and what needs your sign-off.

What does it cost?

$49/month or $490/year — cancel anytime Setup takes about four minutes and it's in public beta — Cardhop is a one-time-ish purchase for a contacts utility, so this is a different kind of tool with a different kind of price.