{ "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-14", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.4", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "tool": { "slug": "asaply", "name": "asaply", "vendor": "Asaply Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://asaply.ai", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "asaply is a hosted errand assistant people text over iMessage or SMS to order coffee and lunch for pickup, buy tickets, book rides and make reservations, with payment through Apple Pay.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/asaply", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/asaply.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/asaply.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/asaply.json", "license": "Closed service under asaply's Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Messaging Terms (Asaply Inc., a Delaware corporation, last updated 11 October 2026).", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "No app or account form. The phone number is the account, and texting asaply's number accepts the terms (https://asaply.ai and https://asaply.ai/text). Google Calendar and Gmail connections are optional, with tokens encrypted at rest (https://asaply.ai/legal).", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "\"You pay for your order plus a small service fee for the running-around. No subscription\" (https://asaply.ai, FAQ, checked 14 October 2026). The fee amount is not published. The terms say fees are non-refundable except where the law requires (https://asaply.ai/legal).", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on asaply.ai, llms.txt or the legal page, checked 14 October 2026. People pay with Apple Pay.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "llmsTxt": "https://asaply.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.inbound", "commerce.checkout", "travel.booking", "calendar.write", "mailbox.read", "mailbox.send", "memory.user" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "waitlist", "llms-txt" ], "graded": true, "disclosure": "asaply competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default.", "competesWith": "localghost", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 7.6, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1006, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1010, "categoryRank": 40, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 2, "payments": 0, "reliability": 10, "schema": 10, "security": 0, "transparency": 43 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "breakdown": [ { "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16, "effectiveWeight": 20, "score": 10, "points": 2, "reason": "Read with the hosted lines. No status page found, and status.asaply.ai has no DNS record (0). No readable incident history (5). No limits published, and no interface for an outside agent (0). No overload or retry guidance (0). No SLA (0). asaply answers texts today but is in early access, rolling out neighbourhood by neighbourhood, and people outside covered areas are told they'll hear when it arrives. The Instinct and Marmot dossiers gave half for a service that takes sign-ups behind a limit (5 of 10)." }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 0, "pending": true, "points": 0, "reason": "Pending. Latency is measured per call by our probes, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until the first probe window closes." }, { "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13, "effectiveWeight": 16.25, "score": 10, "points": 1.63, "reason": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use, as GRADER.md asks. asaply has no API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an agent, so the contract, description, typed-input and example lines score nothing (0 of 25, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). That is a statement about agent access, not about the service for people. asaply.ai/llms.txt describes the consumer service, the merchant product and contacts (10). The versioning and changelog line versions an agent interface, and with none there is nothing to version, so it scores nothing (0 of 15), the reading the 12 October audit applied to every listing without an agent interface." }, { "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13, "effectiveWeight": 16.25, "score": 0, "points": 0, "reason": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. asaply has none, so context cost, pagination, errors, retries and defaults have nothing to score (0 on each line). This says nothing about the service for people." }, { "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14, "effectiveWeight": 17.5, "score": 0, "points": 0, "reason": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. With none for asaply, the credential, least-privilege, injection and audit lines score nothing (0 of 30, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15), whatever the service does for its owner. The security programme line doesn't need an interface and is scored. For the record, the legal page says asaply waits for approval before cancelling other events, changing events with other invitees or sending any email, with a 30-minute undo on calendar changes, and Apple Pay keeps the card number from asaply. asaply.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no security contact, disclosure policy, bug bounty, certification or advisories were found. The legal page gives only legal@asaply.ai (0 of 20)." }, { "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 12.5, "score": 0, "points": 0, "reason": "Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402. People pay with Apple Pay (0). The home page FAQ says the owner pays for the order plus a small service fee with no subscription, and the fee isn't published (0). No free plan or trial, since every errand carries the unpublished fee (0). A person starts by texting the number from their phone (0)." }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 0, "pending": true, "points": 0, "reason": "Pending. Task success needs the category task suites run through each tool, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until then. A data provider's data-quality score is published on its listing now and becomes half of this category when it's scored." }, { "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7, "effectiveWeight": 8.75, "score": 2, "points": 0.18, "reason": "Read for a closed service. No dated release, changelog or app listing found. The legal page was updated on 11 October 2026, which isn't a product change (0). No dated entries in the last 90 days (0). No changelog, and legal@asaply.ai is the only address found, which we didn't test (2 of 15). No MCP server or SDK (0). No package or CI to judge (0)." }, { "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7, "effectiveWeight": 8.75, "score": 43, "points": 3.76, "note": "editorial 39, provenance 47", "reason": "Closed service under one legal page of terms, privacy policy and messaging terms, updated on 11 October 2026 and naming Asaply Inc. (15). Google data goes to Google Cloud Vertex AI and isn't used to train generalised models, location history is deleted within 90 days, linked data is removed when the account is deleted, and an archive of the account record, messages and orders is kept up to a year for disputes and fraud. No statement on training with non-Google content was found (18 of 30). No deprecation policy or notices found (2 of 20). Google Cloud Vertex AI is the only processor named, and hosting isn't named (4 of 20)." } ], "assessment": { "date": "2026-10-14", "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "notes": { "ergonomics": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. asaply has none, so context cost, pagination, errors, retries and defaults have nothing to score (0 on each line). This says nothing about the service for people.", "maintenance": "Read for a closed service. No dated release, changelog or app listing found. The legal page was updated on 11 October 2026, which isn't a product change (0). No dated entries in the last 90 days (0). No changelog, and legal@asaply.ai is the only address found, which we didn't test (2 of 15). No MCP server or SDK (0). No package or CI to judge (0).", "payments": "Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402. People pay with Apple Pay (0). The home page FAQ says the owner pays for the order plus a small service fee with no subscription, and the fee isn't published (0). No free plan or trial, since every errand carries the unpublished fee (0). A person starts by texting the number from their phone (0).", "reliability": "Read with the hosted lines. No status page found, and status.asaply.ai has no DNS record (0). No readable incident history (5). No limits published, and no interface for an outside agent (0). No overload or retry guidance (0). No SLA (0). asaply answers texts today but is in early access, rolling out neighbourhood by neighbourhood, and people outside covered areas are told they'll hear when it arrives. The Instinct and Marmot dossiers gave half for a service that takes sign-ups behind a limit (5 of 10).", "schema": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use, as GRADER.md asks. asaply has no API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an agent, so the contract, description, typed-input and example lines score nothing (0 of 25, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). That is a statement about agent access, not about the service for people. asaply.ai/llms.txt describes the consumer service, the merchant product and contacts (10). The versioning and changelog line versions an agent interface, and with none there is nothing to version, so it scores nothing (0 of 15), the reading the 12 October audit applied to every listing without an agent interface.", "security": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. With none for asaply, the credential, least-privilege, injection and audit lines score nothing (0 of 30, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15), whatever the service does for its owner. The security programme line doesn't need an interface and is scored. For the record, the legal page says asaply waits for approval before cancelling other events, changing events with other invitees or sending any email, with a 30-minute undo on calendar changes, and Apple Pay keeps the card number from asaply. asaply.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no security contact, disclosure policy, bug bounty, certification or advisories were found. The legal page gives only legal@asaply.ai (0 of 20).", "transparency": "Closed service under one legal page of terms, privacy policy and messaging terms, updated on 11 October 2026 and naming Asaply Inc. (15). Google data goes to Google Cloud Vertex AI and isn't used to train generalised models, location history is deleted within 90 days, linked data is removed when the account is deleted, and an archive of the account record, messages and orders is kept up to a year for disputes and fraud. No statement on training with non-Google content was found (18 of 30). No deprecation policy or notices found (2 of 20). Google Cloud Vertex AI is the only processor named, and hosting isn't named (4 of 20)." }, "sources": [ { "what": "homepage and FAQ", "url": "https://asaply.ai", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "legal page (terms, privacy, messaging terms)", "url": "https://asaply.ai/legal", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "llms.txt", "url": "https://asaply.ai/llms.txt", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "robots.txt", "url": "https://asaply.ai/robots.txt", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "status subdomain DNS lookup", "url": "https://dns.google/resolve?name=status.asaply.ai\u0026type=A", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "text page", "url": "https://asaply.ai/text", "seen": "2026-10-14" } ], "openQuestions": [ "The service fee on each errand.", "Which neighbourhoods are covered.", "unchecked: the EULA at asaply.ai/eula and the merchant product." ] }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "asaply is a text-only errand assistant in early access that orders, books and pays through Apple Pay after showing the total, and can read and change a connected Google Calendar and Gmail. No outside agent can call it, the service fee isn't published, and no status page or security contact was found.", "bestFor": "People in covered neighbourhoods who want coffee, lunch, tickets and rides handled by text.", "disclosure": "asaply competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default.", "strengths": [ "The total is shown before anything is confirmed, and Apple Pay keeps the card number from asaply.", "It asks before cancelling events, changing events with other invitees or sending any email, with a 30-minute undo on calendar changes.", "Location history is deleted within 90 days, per the legal page.", "In group chats, other members see only the owner's free and busy times." ], "weaknesses": [ "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.", "The service fee on each errand isn't published.", "Early access only, rolling out by neighbourhood.", "No status page, changelog or security contact found." ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't plan to call asaply from another agent. It answers only texts from the owner's phone number and group chats it joins.", "Tell the owner each errand adds an unpublished service fee to the order total." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 7.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 2, "payments": 0, "reliability": 10, "schema": 10, "security": 0, "transparency": 39 }, "provenanceScore": 47 }, "connect": {}, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.messaging", "tool": "https://letme.dev/asaply" }, "notable": [ "asaply is reached at (628) 264-4787 by iMessage or SMS, and works in group chats, where it can split a cart between members (https://asaply.ai/legal and https://asaply.ai)", "The consumer service is early access and rolling out neighbourhood by neighbourhood. A merchant product at vendors.asaply.ai costs vendors $15 a month (https://asaply.ai/llms.txt)", "Payment is one tap with Apple Pay and the FAQ says asaply never sees the card number. The total is shown before anything is confirmed (https://asaply.ai)", "With Google connected, asaply reads the calendar and Gmail when asked, adds or moves events and may shorten or shift an overlapping event, with a 30-minute undo. It waits for approval before cancelling other events, changing events with other invitees, or sending any email (https://asaply.ai/legal)", "In group chats, other members can ask when the owner is free. asaply answers with free and busy times only (https://asaply.ai/legal)", "Google data goes to Google Cloud Vertex AI and is not used to train generalised models. Location history is deleted within 90 days (https://asaply.ai/legal)", "Deleting the account removes linked data at once. An archive of the account record, messages and orders is kept up to one year for disputes and fraud (https://asaply.ai/legal)" ], "area": "frameworks", "details": [ { "label": "Surface listed", "value": "The asaply consumer texting service, read from asaply.ai, llms.txt, the text page and the legal page on 14 October 2026. The merchant product was not reviewed. No message was sent." }, { "label": "Where it runs", "value": "A cloud service. Google Cloud Vertex AI processes Google data (https://asaply.ai/legal). Hosting is not otherwise named." }, { "label": "What it acts on", "value": "Pickup orders, tickets, rides, reservations and payments through Apple Pay, plus Google Calendar and Gmail when connected (https://asaply.ai and https://asaply.ai/legal)." }, { "label": "Outside agent access", "value": "None found." }, { "label": "Access", "value": "Early access, rolling out by neighbourhood. People outside covered areas are told they will hear when it arrives (https://asaply.ai)." }, { "label": "Company", "value": "Asaply Inc., a Delaware corporation. Legal contact legal@asaply.ai (https://asaply.ai/legal)." }, { "label": "Eligibility", "value": "18 and older (https://asaply.ai/legal)." } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Asaply Inc.", "domain": "asaply.ai", "domainRegistered": "2026-04-27", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://asaply.ai/legal", "privacy": "https://asaply.ai/legal", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The privacy policy, terms of service and messaging terms are one page, last updated 11 October 2026. An EULA for the asaply apps is at https://asaply.ai/eula and was not read.", "asaply.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No status page or changelog was found.", "No X account is linked from asaply.ai. llms.txt lists Instagram and LinkedIn.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 2026-04-27 for asaply.ai." ], "score": 47, "checks": [ { "check": "Legal entity named", "value": "Asaply Inc.", "points": 20, "max": 20, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Domain age", "value": "asaply.ai, registered 2026-04-27 (under a year)", "points": 0, "max": 15, "state": "no" }, { "check": "Endpoint on the vendor's domain", "value": "no hosted endpoint", "points": 0, "max": 0, "state": "na" }, { "check": "Terms of service", "value": "published", "points": 10, "max": 10, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Privacy policy", "value": "published", "points": 10, "max": 10, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Status page", "value": "not found", "points": 0, "max": 10, "state": "no" }, { "check": "Changelog", "value": "not found", "points": 0, "max": 10, "state": "no" }, { "check": "security.txt", "value": "not found", "points": 0, "max": 10, "state": "no" } ] }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/asaply.json" } }