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    "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"
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    "slug": "orbits",
    "name": "Orbits",
    "vendor": "Nemus AI, Inc.",
    "vendorUrl": "https://tryorbits.com",
    "kind": "platform",
    "category": "personal-assistants",
    "summary": "Orbits is a household assistant app for iOS and Android with an AI called Bit. It manages family calendars, lists, meals, chores and home upkeep, reads household email, and can place phone calls and build Instacart carts.",
    "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orbits",
    "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orbits.md",
    "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orbits.min.md",
    "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/orbits.json",
    "license": "Closed service under the Orbits Terms of Service (Nemus AI, Inc.).",
    "transports": [],
    "packages": [],
    "auth": "mixed",
    "authNotes": "An account in the Orbits app, with a Home that family members join by invite code. Apple iCloud, Google and Microsoft accounts can be connected, and texting Bit works only from registered phone numbers (https://tryorbits.com and https://tryorbits.com/privacy).",
    "pricing": "paid",
    "pricingNotes": "The app is \"Free to download\" (https://tryorbits.com/install), and the App Store says the assistant needs an Orbits subscription. The App Store lists Orbits Membership in-app purchases at $3.99, $9.99 and $89.99, with no period shown (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/orbits-your-home-handled/id6751995632, checked 14 October 2026). The terms say prices and any free trial are shown at purchase and vary by region and platform (https://tryorbits.com/tos).",
    "priceSummary": "Paid",
    "where": "local",
    "x402": {
      "level": "no",
      "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on tryorbits.com, llms.txt or the terms, checked 14 October 2026.",
      "endpoints": []
    },
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    "popularity": {
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      "npmWeekly": null,
      "pypiWeekly": null,
      "asOf": "2026-10-14"
    },
    "llmsTxt": "https://tryorbits.com/llms.txt",
    "capabilities": [
      "assistant.messaging",
      "assistant.accounts",
      "assistant.memory",
      "calendar.write",
      "mailbox.read",
      "messaging.rcs",
      "messaging.inbound",
      "voice.calls",
      "commerce.checkout",
      "tasks.create",
      "memory.user",
      "notify.push"
    ],
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      "hosted",
      "official",
      "closed-source",
      "paid",
      "ios",
      "android",
      "llms-txt"
    ],
    "lastRelease": "2026-10-13",
    "graded": true,
    "disclosure": "Orbits 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": 15.6,
      "grade": "F",
      "agentReady": false,
      "rank": 997,
      "ranked": true,
      "rankOf": 1010,
      "categoryRank": 33,
      "methodology": "0.4",
      "run": "2026-10-01",
      "scores": {
        "ergonomics": 0,
        "maintenance": 54,
        "payments": 20,
        "reliability": 15,
        "schema": 10,
        "security": 0,
        "transparency": 43
      },
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        "performance",
        "tasks"
      ],
      "breakdown": [
        {
          "key": "reliability",
          "name": "Reliability",
          "weight": 16,
          "effectiveWeight": 20,
          "score": 15,
          "points": 3,
          "reason": "Read with the hosted lines. No status page found, and status.tryorbits.com 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). On the App Store since 5 January 2026 and not labelled beta (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. Orbits 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. tryorbits.com/llms.txt describes the product and says no public agent API is offered (10). It also tells agents how to direct users, which we read as data. 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. Orbits 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 Orbits, 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, Bit places a restaurant call only after the owner approves the restaurant, party size, date, time and name, and texting Bit works only from registered numbers. tryorbits.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no security contact, disclosure policy, bug 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). tryorbits.com publishes no price, but the App Store lists Orbits Membership in-app purchases at $3.99, $9.99 and $89.99 with no period shown, and the terms say prices vary by region and platform. The Tomo dossier took App Store prices as public plan-only pricing (10). The app is free to download, but the App Store page says what it describes needs an Orbits subscription, and any trial is shown only at purchase, a free option hedged the way the Muse dossier's was (10 of 20). A person signs up in the app (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": 54,
          "points": 4.72,
          "reason": "Read for a closed service. Orbits 1.0.81 on 13 October 2026 (30). Nine iOS versions from 23 July to 13 October (20). No changelog, and contact@tryorbits.com, which we didn't test (4 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 35, provenance 51",
          "reason": "Closed service under the Orbits Terms of Service naming Nemus AI, Inc., with no date found (15). The privacy policy, also undated, says connected-account content doesn't train general-purpose or foundation models and that model subprocessors are contractually barred from training on customer content. No retention periods were found (15 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (2 of 20). Subprocessors by category only, large-language-model providers included, with no names or regions, the Instinct dossier's 3 (3 of 20)."
        }
      ],
      "assessment": {
        "date": "2026-10-14",
        "basis": "public evidence",
        "confidence": "medium",
        "notes": {
          "ergonomics": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. Orbits 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. Orbits 1.0.81 on 13 October 2026 (30). Nine iOS versions from 23 July to 13 October (20). No changelog, and contact@tryorbits.com, which we didn't test (4 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). tryorbits.com publishes no price, but the App Store lists Orbits Membership in-app purchases at $3.99, $9.99 and $89.99 with no period shown, and the terms say prices vary by region and platform. The Tomo dossier took App Store prices as public plan-only pricing (10). The app is free to download, but the App Store page says what it describes needs an Orbits subscription, and any trial is shown only at purchase, a free option hedged the way the Muse dossier's was (10 of 20). A person signs up in the app (0).",
          "reliability": "Read with the hosted lines. No status page found, and status.tryorbits.com 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). On the App Store since 5 January 2026 and not labelled beta (10).",
          "schema": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use, as GRADER.md asks. Orbits 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. tryorbits.com/llms.txt describes the product and says no public agent API is offered (10). It also tells agents how to direct users, which we read as data. 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 Orbits, 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, Bit places a restaurant call only after the owner approves the restaurant, party size, date, time and name, and texting Bit works only from registered numbers. tryorbits.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no security contact, disclosure policy, bug bounty, certification or advisories were found (0 of 20).",
          "transparency": "Closed service under the Orbits Terms of Service naming Nemus AI, Inc., with no date found (15). The privacy policy, also undated, says connected-account content doesn't train general-purpose or foundation models and that model subprocessors are contractually barred from training on customer content. No retention periods were found (15 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (2 of 20). Subprocessors by category only, large-language-model providers included, with no names or regions, the Instinct dossier's 3 (3 of 20)."
        },
        "sources": [
          {
            "what": "llms.txt",
            "url": "https://tryorbits.com/llms.txt",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          },
          {
            "what": "privacy policy",
            "url": "https://tryorbits.com/privacy",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          },
          {
            "what": "App Store listing and version history",
            "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/orbits-your-home-handled/id6751995632",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          },
          {
            "what": "terms (per the lister's read)",
            "url": "https://tryorbits.com/tos",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          },
          {
            "what": "homepage (per the lister's read)",
            "url": "https://tryorbits.com",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          },
          {
            "what": "status subdomain DNS lookup",
            "url": "https://dns.google/resolve?name=status.tryorbits.com\u0026type=A",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          },
          {
            "what": "install page",
            "url": "https://tryorbits.com/install",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          },
          {
            "what": "blog feed",
            "url": "https://tryorbits.com/rss.xml",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          }
        ],
        "openQuestions": [
          "Which period each App Store membership price covers, and whether a trial needs a card.",
          "Dates of the terms and privacy policy.",
          "Which model providers process data."
        ]
      },
      "negative": 0,
      "verdict": "Orbits is a family household app whose assistant, Bit, runs shared calendars, lists and meals, reads household email and places restaurant calls after approval, with iOS releases every week or two. No outside agent can call it, prices appear only as App Store in-app purchases, and no status page, security contact or named subprocessors were found.",
      "bestFor": "Families who want one shared assistant for calendars, lists, meals, chores and household email.",
      "disclosure": "Orbits 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": [
        "Bit places a restaurant call only after the owner approves the restaurant, party size, date, time and name.",
        "Nine iOS releases between 23 July and 13 October 2026.",
        "Connected-account content doesn't train foundation models, per the privacy policy."
      ],
      "weaknesses": [
        "No public agent API, as llms.txt states.",
        "No price on tryorbits.com. The assistant needs a subscription, priced only as App Store in-app purchases with no period shown.",
        "Terms and privacy policy carry no dates.",
        "No status page, security.txt or named subprocessors."
      ],
      "agentNotes": [
        "Don't plan to call Orbits from another agent. llms.txt says no public agent API is offered.",
        "Tell the owner the assistant needs an Orbits subscription bought in the app, and that any trial appears only at purchase."
      ],
      "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": 15.6
        }
      ],
      "editorialScores": {
        "ergonomics": 0,
        "maintenance": 54,
        "payments": 20,
        "reliability": 15,
        "schema": 10,
        "security": 0,
        "transparency": 35
      },
      "provenanceScore": 51
    },
    "connect": {},
    "letme": {
      "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.messaging",
      "tool": "https://letme.dev/orbits"
    },
    "notable": [
      "Families chat with Bit in the app, text it directly or add it to the family group chat (https://tryorbits.com/llms.txt)",
      "Bit can place a restaurant reservation call after the owner approves the restaurant, party size, date, time and name, and reports the outcome in chat (https://tryorbits.com)",
      "Supported accounts are Apple Calendar and Mail through iCloud, Google Calendar and Gmail, and Microsoft Outlook (https://tryorbits.com)",
      "llms.txt says \"No public agent API is currently offered\" (https://tryorbits.com/llms.txt)",
      "The privacy policy says connected-account content is not used to train general-purpose or foundation models, and that model subprocessors are contractually restricted from training on customer content (https://tryorbits.com/privacy)",
      "Orbits says it is backed by a16z's Speedrun fund, N49P and Garage Capital, with a pre-seed round of $2.6 million CAD (https://tryorbits.com/llms.txt)"
    ],
    "area": "frameworks",
    "details": [
      {
        "label": "Surface listed",
        "value": "The Orbits app and Bit, read from tryorbits.com, llms.txt, the install page, terms and privacy policy on 14 October 2026. No account was created."
      },
      {
        "label": "Where it runs",
        "value": "A cloud service. Subprocessors are named only by category, including large-language-model providers (https://tryorbits.com/privacy)."
      },
      {
        "label": "What it acts on",
        "value": "Family calendars, tasks, lists, chores, meals and grocery carts handed to Instacart, household email, restaurant calls and service requests (https://tryorbits.com and https://tryorbits.com/llms.txt)."
      },
      {
        "label": "Outside agent access",
        "value": "None. llms.txt says Orbits has no public agent API."
      },
      {
        "label": "Company",
        "value": "Nemus AI, Inc. Founders Nomaan Ahmed (CEO) and Erik Tillberg (CTO). Contact contact@tryorbits.com (https://tryorbits.com/tos and https://tryorbits.com/llms.txt)."
      },
      {
        "label": "Eligibility",
        "value": "18 or the legal age in the user's jurisdiction (https://tryorbits.com/tos)."
      }
    ],
    "provenance": {
      "legalEntity": "Nemus AI, Inc.",
      "domain": "tryorbits.com",
      "domainRegistered": "2025-08-30",
      "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
      "terms": "https://tryorbits.com/tos",
      "privacy": "https://tryorbits.com/privacy",
      "statusPage": "",
      "changelog": "",
      "securityTxt": "none",
      "checked": "2026-10-14",
      "notes": [
        "No date was found on the terms or the privacy policy.",
        "tryorbits.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No status page or changelog was found.",
        "No X account is linked from the pages read.",
        "RDAP gives a registration date of 2025-08-30 for tryorbits.com."
      ],
      "score": 51,
      "checks": [
        {
          "check": "Legal entity named",
          "value": "Nemus AI, Inc.",
          "points": 20,
          "max": 20,
          "state": "ok"
        },
        {
          "check": "Domain age",
          "value": "tryorbits.com, registered 2025-08-30 (1 year)",
          "points": 3,
          "max": 15,
          "state": "part"
        },
        {
          "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"
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        {
          "check": "Status page",
          "value": "not found",
          "points": 0,
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          "state": "no"
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        {
          "check": "Changelog",
          "value": "not found",
          "points": 0,
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          "state": "no"
        },
        {
          "check": "security.txt",
          "value": "not found",
          "points": 0,
          "max": 10,
          "state": "no"
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