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.
Poke, from The Interaction Company of California, is a proactive AI assistant that lives inside your text messages. As of mid-2026 it runs as a normal conversation in iMessage, SMS, or WhatsApp — no separate app to install — watching for actionable signals across your connected accounts and pinging you with a concise message plus a one-tap action. It was the first Apple-approved iMessage AI agent and raised $15M from General Catalyst. It schedules meetings, drafts email replies, sets reminders, tracks health, controls smart-home devices, suggests recipes, retrieves files, and runs custom automations — a genuinely polished consumer and prosumer experience.
Fasrad solves a different problem. It is a hosted, no-code business agent, and every agent comes with its OWN dedicated email inbox, 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 — there is no flow canvas. It does not wait to be asked: it sends and triages email from its own inbox, books appointments into its own calendar, files contacts and summaries to the CRM, runs staggered personalized outreach of around 100 messages a day from a Google Sheet and triages the replies, searches the web, reads JavaScript-heavy pages, and calls any REST API.
Where Fasrad goes further:
What Fasrad is: a business operations agent, not a consumer assistant in your texts. It doesn't live natively inside iMessage — its private chat channel is Telegram, not the apps you already text in. Poke runs inside your existing messages at a $9.99/month consumer price; 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, and it'll happily suggest recipes or track what you tell it.
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, connects to Google Calendar, Sheets, and Drive, and runs on a flat-fee subscription with roughly a four-minute setup in public beta.
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Not natively in iMessage — Poke runs there. Connect a messaging API, though, and Fasrad reaches SMS and WhatsApp; out of the box its 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, not the threads where you text friends.
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: each one has its own email inbox, Google Calendar, and a built-in CRM, and it runs outreach, captures website leads, and executes recurring operations work.
It acts. Fasrad sends and triages email from its own dedicated inbox and books appointments directly into its own 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, and its embeddable public website chatbot captures leads with automatic redaction of sensitive data. Poke is built for personal-assistant tasks, not a sales pipeline.
It can. Point its API tool at a smart-home hub and it controls your devices; 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, and triggers — but the capability is there if you want it.
$49/month or $490/year — cancel anytime 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 buying an operations agent, not a consumer plan.