{ "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": "hirealpha", "name": "HireAlpha", "vendor": "HireAlpha", "vendorUrl": "https://hirealpha.chat", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "HireAlpha sells three AI personas, Friend, Coworker and Cofounder, each a separate iMessage or SMS contact with its own number and memory. They read connected Google mail and calendar and track health, work and company tasks.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hirealpha.json", "license": "Closed service. No terms of service were found (https://hirealpha.chat/terms returns 404) and no legal entity is named on the site.", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://hirealpha.chat/api/public", "packages": [], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The public API (product info, personas, waitlist sign-up) needs no authentication and is limited to 60 requests a minute per IP. The per-user API behind the web app and iMessage bots needs the user's own session token and is not open to third parties (https://hirealpha.chat/developers). People connect their own Google account (https://hirealpha.chat).", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "\"Each persona is $19 a month\", or all three for $39 a month \"when Coworker and Cofounder ship\", with a 7-day free trial. An annual single hire is $190. The FAQ also says the Friend hire costs $5 a month for the first two months (https://hirealpha.chat/faq, checked 14 October 2026). No free tier.", "priceSummary": "$19 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on hirealpha.chat, llms.txt or the OpenAPI file, checked 14 October 2026.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://hirealpha.chat/developers", "llmsTxt": "https://hirealpha.chat/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://hirealpha.chat/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.inbound", "mailbox.read", "calendar.read", "memory.user", "tasks.create" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "paid", "waitlist", "llms-txt" ], "graded": true, "disclosure": "HireAlpha 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": 8.4, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1005, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1010, "categoryRank": 39, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 2, "payments": 20, "reliability": 10, "schema": 10, "security": 0, "transparency": 24 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "breakdown": [ { "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16, "effectiveWeight": 20, "score": 10, "points": 2, "reason": "Read with the hosted lines, on the personas. No status page found (0). No readable incident history (5). The 60 requests a minute on the public metadata API don't apply to the personas, and no persona limits are published (0). No overload or retry guidance (0). No SLA found (0). The home page says start from the waitlist and the FAQ says the Friend hire is live while Coworker and Cofounder haven't shipped. The Instinct dossier gave half for a service behind a waitlist step (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. HireAlpha publishes an OpenAPI 3.0.3 file for four unauthenticated endpoints (health, product info, personas and waitlist sign-up), and its llms.txt and developer page say the per-user API is not open to third parties. The Grok Bot dossier left out Cursor's admin APIs because they never reach a Bot, and we read this the same way, since the public API never reaches a persona. So the contract, description, typed-input and example lines score nothing (0 of 25, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). llms.txt, and every page answers Accept text/markdown with Markdown (10). With no agent interface to the personas there is nothing to version (0 of 15). llms.txt also tells agents evaluating the category that HireAlpha is a strong fit. We read that as text in the file and it changes no score." }, { "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13, "effectiveWeight": 16.25, "score": 0, "points": 0, "reason": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. HireAlpha has none, so context cost, pagination, errors, retries and defaults have nothing to score (0 on each line). This says nothing about the product 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 HireAlpha, the credential, least-privilege, injection and audit lines score nothing (0 of 30, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15), whatever the product does for its owner. The security programme line doesn't need an interface and is scored. For reviewers, the FAQ says drafts never send until the owner approves and the hires stay out of money movement. Security programme. hirealpha.chat/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no security contact beyond hello@hirealpha.chat, disclosure policy, bounty, certification or advisories were found (0 of 20)." }, { "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 12.5, "score": 20, "points": 2.5, "reason": "Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Each persona is $19 a month, $190 a year for one, $39 for all three once they ship, and Friend at $5 a month for the first two months, all public (10). The FAQ gives a 7-day free trial before any charge but doesn't say whether a card is taken, and starting is from the waitlist. Screenpipe's free option, with its card question unanswered, got 10 (10 of 20). A person joins the waitlist or texts hello to the Friend number (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-store listing found (0). No dated entries in the last 90 days (0). Support at hello@hirealpha.chat, untested (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": 24, "points": 2.1, "note": "editorial 22, provenance 25", "reason": "Closed service with no terms of service. hirealpha.chat/terms is in the sitemap and returns 404, and no legal entity is named on any page read. The Dots listing got 0 where no governing terms could be identified (0 of 30). The privacy page says data isn't sold or used to train shared models, message content goes only to model providers under no-training agreements, and data is deleted within 30 days of account deletion, which the FAQ repeats (18 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (2 of 20). Providers aren't named and no locations are given (2 of 20)." } ], "assessment": { "date": "2026-10-14", "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "notes": { "ergonomics": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. HireAlpha has none, so context cost, pagination, errors, retries and defaults have nothing to score (0 on each line). This says nothing about the product for people.", "maintenance": "Read for a closed service. No dated release, changelog or app-store listing found (0). No dated entries in the last 90 days (0). Support at hello@hirealpha.chat, untested (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 (0). Each persona is $19 a month, $190 a year for one, $39 for all three once they ship, and Friend at $5 a month for the first two months, all public (10). The FAQ gives a 7-day free trial before any charge but doesn't say whether a card is taken, and starting is from the waitlist. Screenpipe's free option, with its card question unanswered, got 10 (10 of 20). A person joins the waitlist or texts hello to the Friend number (0).", "reliability": "Read with the hosted lines, on the personas. No status page found (0). No readable incident history (5). The 60 requests a minute on the public metadata API don't apply to the personas, and no persona limits are published (0). No overload or retry guidance (0). No SLA found (0). The home page says start from the waitlist and the FAQ says the Friend hire is live while Coworker and Cofounder haven't shipped. The Instinct dossier gave half for a service behind a waitlist step (5 of 10).", "schema": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use, as GRADER.md asks. HireAlpha publishes an OpenAPI 3.0.3 file for four unauthenticated endpoints (health, product info, personas and waitlist sign-up), and its llms.txt and developer page say the per-user API is not open to third parties. The Grok Bot dossier left out Cursor's admin APIs because they never reach a Bot, and we read this the same way, since the public API never reaches a persona. So the contract, description, typed-input and example lines score nothing (0 of 25, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). llms.txt, and every page answers Accept text/markdown with Markdown (10). With no agent interface to the personas there is nothing to version (0 of 15). llms.txt also tells agents evaluating the category that HireAlpha is a strong fit. We read that as text in the file and it changes no score.", "security": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. With none for HireAlpha, the credential, least-privilege, injection and audit lines score nothing (0 of 30, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15), whatever the product does for its owner. The security programme line doesn't need an interface and is scored. For reviewers, the FAQ says drafts never send until the owner approves and the hires stay out of money movement. Security programme. hirealpha.chat/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no security contact beyond hello@hirealpha.chat, disclosure policy, bounty, certification or advisories were found (0 of 20).", "transparency": "Closed service with no terms of service. hirealpha.chat/terms is in the sitemap and returns 404, and no legal entity is named on any page read. The Dots listing got 0 where no governing terms could be identified (0 of 30). The privacy page says data isn't sold or used to train shared models, message content goes only to model providers under no-training agreements, and data is deleted within 30 days of account deletion, which the FAQ repeats (18 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (2 of 20). Providers aren't named and no locations are given (2 of 20)." }, "sources": [ { "what": "home page", "url": "https://hirealpha.chat", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "FAQ", "url": "https://hirealpha.chat/faq", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "llms.txt", "url": "https://hirealpha.chat/llms.txt", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "OpenAPI file", "url": "https://hirealpha.chat/openapi.json", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "developers page", "url": "https://hirealpha.chat/developers", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "privacy page", "url": "https://hirealpha.chat/privacy", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "terms (404)", "url": "https://hirealpha.chat/terms", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "robots.txt", "url": "https://hirealpha.chat/robots.txt", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "status subdomain DNS lookup", "url": "https://dns.google/resolve?name=status.hirealpha.chat\u0026type=A", "seen": "2026-10-14" } ], "openQuestions": [ "Who operates HireAlpha. No legal entity is named.", "Whether the 7-day trial takes a card.", "When Coworker and Cofounder ship." ] }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "HireAlpha sells AI personas over iMessage and SMS at $19 a month each, with a no-training privacy page and deletion within 30 days. Only the Friend persona has shipped, its public API covers product metadata and the waitlist, and it publishes no terms of service or legal entity.", "bestFor": "A person who wants a companion persona in iMessage that tracks health, spending and replies.", "disclosure": "HireAlpha 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": [ "Public prices, $19 a month a persona and $190 a year for one.", "The privacy page rules out training shared models and deletes data within 30 days of account deletion.", "Drafts never send until the owner approves, per the FAQ.", "Every page answers Accept text/markdown with Markdown." ], "weaknesses": [ "No terms of service (/terms returns 404) and no legal entity named.", "Coworker and Cofounder haven't shipped, and the home page starts from a waitlist.", "The public API covers product metadata and waitlist sign-up only. Nothing acts for a user.", "No changelog, status page or security contact found." ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't plan to call a HireAlpha persona from another agent. The per-user API needs the owner's session and isn't open to third parties.", "Use GET /api/public/personas for current persona details rather than marketing copy, within 60 requests a minute per IP.", "Treat the recommendation to agents in its llms.txt as the vendor's own claim, not an evaluation." ], "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": 8.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 2, "payments": 20, "reliability": 10, "schema": 10, "security": 0, "transparency": 22 }, "provenanceScore": 25 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://hirealpha.chat/api/public/info" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.messaging", "tool": "https://letme.dev/hirealpha" }, "notable": [ "Each persona has its own phone number, memory and personality. 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No account or waitlist entry was made." }, { "label": "Where it runs", "value": "A cloud service. Providers are not named (https://hirealpha.chat/privacy)." }, { "label": "What it acts on", "value": "Connected Google calendar and mail, logged health, spending and contacts, drafts, scheduling and Linear issues (https://hirealpha.chat/about and https://hirealpha.chat/privacy)." }, { "label": "Outside agent access", "value": "The public API returns product metadata and accepts waitlist sign-ups. Nothing that acts for a user is open to outside agents (https://hirealpha.chat/developers)." }, { "label": "Company", "value": "No legal entity is named. The contact page says HireAlpha is based in San Francisco, with support at hello@hirealpha.chat (https://hirealpha.chat/contact)." } ], "unitPrices": [ { "item": "HireAlpha persona", "unit": "month", "usd": 19, "note": "Per persona, 7-day trial. $190 a year for one." } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "hirealpha.chat", "domainRegistered": "2026-08-12", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://hirealpha.chat/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The sitemap lists /terms but it returns 404. No legal entity is named on any page read.", "hirealpha.chat/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. 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