After a slew of personal agents got released last month from all the big players (except Anthropic) so I thought I would put together my findings (and favorite!).
- Facebook Muse — great place to get started if you’re new to the concept of personal agents. Meta promises safety and privacy (!!) and free until you start using it a LOT.
- ChatGPT Dots — Reviews have been largely underwhelming and currently requires the larger $100+ plan for access.
- Grok Bot — My personal favorite so far. Free trial. Very easy and fun to use. Has great apps across all your devices, and proactively helps without being annoying. You can have a master agent that manages all your other agents, and each one has a virtual computer in which you can teach it to do things by clicking around.
- OpenClaw / Hermes — This is where I started, but it is not really advised for people who are not technical. And even for more technical people, they can been a real PITA! A good portion of my OpenClaw work has been spent fixing OpenClaw.
- Instinct, Hark, Underdog, Tab and the myriad of other personal agents being released) are interesting to explore, but many of them are either under-featured or have murky data usage and privacy TOS… Definitely curious if people are loving them though!
- Claude — Noticeably absent from this list! Some might say that everything you can do with these other things you can already do with the Claude app, but for most people that want a clean, easy UI personal assistant, Anthropic hasn’t entered the game just yet. It’s very likely they will soon, and have it be targeted for the working professional (stay tuned!)
One of the interesting things I think about a lot is no one’s going to completely own the entire personal agent market space. So, how these agents begin to work and play together is going to open up some very interesting opportunities.
