Cardhop finds the contact. Fasrad does something with it.

Fasrad as a Cardhop alternative

Type "email Jane lunch Thursday" into Cardhop and it parses the verb, finds Jane and opens a draft. It's a clever parser sitting on top of your macOS, iCloud and Google contacts. The contact is the unit of work, and the work stops when the card closes.

Finding Jane was never the hard part. You talked to her three weeks ago, promised a proposal and never sent it. Nothing in your contacts app knows that. Cardhop keeps no memory of your conversations and has no inbox of its own, so the follow-up it helps you start is still yours to finish.

What Fasrad adds on top of a contacts app:

• Your contacts live in a real CRM with groups, interaction history and notes that @-mention each other. The agent reads all of it before it acts.
• It has its own email inbox for triaging replies and drafting personalized follow-ups. Point it at a Google Sheet and it sends staggered outreach to the whole group.
• It answers the questions Cardhop can't, like "who haven't I talked to in 60 days" or "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.

Related pages in this workflow

Buyers usually compare these adjacent jobs before choosing an AI agent.

• AI CRM Agent: It logs every call and email, moves deals by what was actually said, and emails you an honest pipeline without anyone policing the dashboard.
• AI Personal CRM That Remembers People: Keep every relationship warm: 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: your inbox or one of its own, a connected calendar, your meetings booked, and the replies you’d forget chased down.
• BigContacts Alternative: BigContacts remembers your contacts. Fasrad works them: it 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, reading the inbox, logging the interaction and drafting the next touch itself.
• AI Personal Assistant: Your calendar, your follow-ups and your morning brief, run by an assistant with its own inbox. 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.

Frequently asked questions

Is this a contacts app like Cardhop?

No. Cardhop is a front end for your iCloud/Google contacts that helps you search and edit cards faster. Fasrad is an AI agent with its own CRM, inbox and calendar. The contact is where its work starts: the agent reads the history, 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 one gets deduped, and you can sort them into groups. It's a one-time migration into the CRM, with no live two-way sync to the macOS Contacts app.

How is Cardhop different from Fasrad?

Cardhop edits your system address book from a command line, integrates with macOS/iOS and works offline on your phone. It's a front end for the OS-level contacts your other apps read from. Fasrad is a separate brain that acts on relationships. It reads the history, drafts the follow-up, books the call and remembers what you owe each person.

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 automations you set up. By default it drafts and waits. When you tell it to send outreach, it stages the sends across the day (up to about 100) and triages the replies. You decide what runs on its own and what needs your sign-off.

What does it cost?

Start with a 7-day free trial. Full access, no card needed. Then $49 per month. Setup takes about four minutes, and it's in public beta. Cardhop is a one-time-ish purchase for a contacts utility. Fasrad is a different kind of tool, so it has a different kind of price.