Poke is a delightful assistant that lives in your text messages. Fasrad is a business agent with its own inbox, calendar, and CRM.
Poke is a personal assistant in your texts. Fasrad is built for running a business, with its own inbox, calendar and CRM.
$15M from General Catalyst and the first Apple-approved iMessage AI agent: Poke, from The Interaction Company of California, has earned its attention. As of mid-2026 it runs as a normal conversation in iMessage, SMS or WhatsApp, with no separate app to install. It watches your connected accounts for things you can act on and pings you with a concise message plus a one-tap action. It schedules meetings, drafts email replies, sets reminders, tracks health, controls smart-home devices, suggests recipes, retrieves files and runs custom automations. As a consumer and prosumer product, it's genuinely polished.
Fasrad solves a different problem. It's a hosted, no-code business agent that connects to your OWN existing Gmail, Google Workspace or IMAP inbox and watches it read-only. It never marks mail read, moves it or deletes it, and it follows the plain-language standing rules you write. If you'd rather keep a support@ or sales@ queue separate, it runs its own dedicated inbox instead. It brings its own Google Calendar, a built-in CRM (contacts, interactions, groups), rich-text Notes with @-mentions and backlinks, and private datastores it creates, writes and queries.
You instruct it in plain language, and there's no flow canvas. It also doesn't wait to be asked. It triages your inbox against your rules, drafts replies and sends them as you once you approve, and books appointments into its own calendar. Contacts and summaries go to the CRM. From a Google Sheet it runs staggered personalized outreach of around 100 messages a day and triages the replies. It searches the web, reads JavaScript-heavy pages and calls any REST API.
Where Fasrad goes further:
Fasrad's private chat channel is Telegram, and its home turf is business operations. Poke runs inside your existing messages at a $9.99/month consumer price, while Fasrad is priced and built as a business agent. The personal-life skills are still there. Point Fasrad's API tool at a smart-home hub and it controls your devices. Connect a messaging API and it reaches SMS or WhatsApp. It'll happily suggest recipes or track what you tell it, too.
Pick Fasrad when you need an agent that runs operations: its own inbox and calendar, a CRM, recurring scheduled work, event triggers on new email or a new website lead, and a public chatbot on your site. It lives on the web app, a private Telegram bot, email and an embeddable public embed. It connects to Google Calendar, Sheets and Drive, runs on a flat-fee subscription, and takes roughly four minutes to set up in public beta.
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SMS and WhatsApp, yes, once you connect a messaging API. iMessage is where Poke runs natively. Out of the box Fasrad's private chat channel is Telegram, and it also lives on a web app, email and an embeddable public website chatbot: the channels where you run a business.
Poke is a proactive consumer assistant that lives in your text messages and handles personal life: scheduling, reminders, smart-home, recipes, health. Fasrad is a business agent. It connects to your own Gmail, Workspace or IMAP inbox (or runs its own dedicated one), plus a Google Calendar and a built-in CRM, and it runs outreach, captures website leads and does recurring operations work.
It acts. Fasrad watches your own connected Gmail, Workspace or IMAP inbox read-only, drafts replies against your standing rules, and sends them as you from your own address once you approve. Or it runs its own dedicated inbox and controls it end to end. Either way it books appointments directly into a Google Calendar, then files the contact and a summary to its CRM. Poke, as of mid-2026, leans toward drafting replies and surfacing one-tap actions for you to confirm.
Yes. Fasrad runs staggered, personalized outreach of around 100 messages a day from a Google Sheet and triages the replies. Its embeddable public website chatbot captures leads with automatic redaction of sensitive data. Poke is built for personal-assistant tasks, and a sales pipeline isn't one of them.
It can. Point its API tool at a smart-home hub and it controls your devices, and it'll suggest recipes and track what you tell it just as readily. Poke focuses on those personal-life tasks. Fasrad's focus is front-desk and operations work (inbox, calendar, CRM, outreach, triggers), and the personal capability is there when you want it.
Start with a 7-day free trial. Full access, no card needed. Then $49 per month. Poke's $9.99/month Pro plan is a consumer price for a personal assistant in your texts. Fasrad is a business agent with its own inbox, calendar and CRM, priced as a flat-fee subscription. You're paying for an operations agent.