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    "category": "personal-assistants",
    "summary": "Orchid is a hosted executive assistant people reach by iMessage, SMS or Telegram. It triages Gmail, drafts replies, coordinates Google Calendar, prepares meetings and runs habits and reminders, with drafts held until the owner approves.",
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    "license": "Closed service under Orchid's Terms of Service (Zero Email, Inc., last updated 16 January 2026).",
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    "auth": "mixed",
    "authNotes": "Google sign-in, and Orchid never asks for a password (https://orchid.ai/blog/orchid-ai-reviews-reddit-is-it-safe). The terms say integrations use OAuth 2.0 with the minimum permissions needed, and non-Google integrations go through Composio (https://orchid.ai/legal/terms and https://orchid.ai/legal/privacy).",
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    "pricingNotes": "\"Orchid is paid, from $29.99/mo, flat, with no free tier and no meter on your messages\" (https://orchid.ai/blog/is-orchid-ai-free-pricing-explained, 14 September 2026). Students and YC founders get 3 months free, and Notion Mail switchers a free month. Current plan details are inside the app, and orchid.ai/pricing showed no prices when read on 14 October 2026.",
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      "endpoints": []
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      "official",
      "closed-source",
      "paid",
      "status-page",
      "llms-txt"
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          "points": 10,
          "reason": "Read with the hosted lines. status.orchid.ai is a status page with Agent (iMessage, Telegram, RCS) and Dashboard components and a history view (20). The history for August to October 2026 shows one incident, on 7 August, when Orchid's text replies went undelivered and it moved to a new number, with no duration. The page gives 99.97 per cent uptime for iMessage and RCS from July to October, which is under an hour over that period, so we count it as minor (20 of 30). The pricing post says there's no meter on messages, and no limits are published (0). No overload or retry guidance (0). No SLA found (0). Public since March 2026 per the safety post and not labelled beta now (10)."
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          "pending": true,
          "points": 0,
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          "reason": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use, as GRADER.md asks. Orchid 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 product for people. orchid.ai/llms.txt lists the product, comparison, blog and legal pages with summaries (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). This is the reading the 12 October auditor applied to every listing without an agent interface, and app release notes count under maintenance instead."
        },
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          "effectiveWeight": 16.25,
          "score": 0,
          "points": 0,
          "reason": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. Orchid 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",
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          "effectiveWeight": 17.5,
          "score": 0,
          "points": 0,
          "reason": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. With none for Orchid, 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 safety post says drafts stay drafts until the owner says send and calendar holds wait for approval, and Google access is through Google sign-in with no password. Security programme. orchid.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no security contact, disclosure policy, bounty, certification or advisories were found. The privacy policy links Convex's SOC 2 page, which is a subprocessor's, not Orchid's (0 of 20)."
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          "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing",
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          "effectiveWeight": 12.5,
          "score": 10,
          "points": 1.25,
          "reason": "Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). The pricing post of 14 September 2026 says Orchid is from $29.99 a month, flat, and orchid.ai/pricing showed no prices on 14 October, so plan-only pricing in public (10). The same post says there's no free tier. Three months free for students and YC founders and a free month for Notion Mail switchers are promotions for named groups, not a free plan or trial anyone can start (0). A person signs up with Google (0)."
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          "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."
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          "points": 2.1,
          "reason": "Read for a closed service. No changelog. The newest product post is Carousels on 6 August 2026, 69 days before this check. The 14 September posts explain pricing, safety and setup and change nothing, and Keiki (25 August) is a separate product (20). One product entry in the last 90 days (0). Product posts on the blog and a status page whose incident note says what to do, with no support channel tested (4 of 15). No MCP server or SDK (0). No package or CI to judge (0)."
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          "note": "editorial 47, provenance 72",
          "reason": "Closed service under terms last updated on 16 January 2026 naming Zero Email, Inc. (15). The privacy policy of 14 September 2026 says Orchid doesn't train shared models on customer data but may train each customer's personal model on their data, and binds model providers not to train. The safety post of the same date answers whether Orchid trains on your data with No. Never. Backups are kept 30 days after deletion. The two statements disagree, the Grok Bot dossier's 15 for a mismatch on training (15 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (2 of 20). The privacy policy names its subprocessors by role, Convex, Cloudflare, Google Vertex AI, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Composio, Stripe, Resend, Linq, PostHog and Sentry, with no regions (15 of 20)."
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        "basis": "public evidence",
        "confidence": "medium",
        "notes": {
          "ergonomics": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. Orchid 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 changelog. The newest product post is Carousels on 6 August 2026, 69 days before this check. The 14 September posts explain pricing, safety and setup and change nothing, and Keiki (25 August) is a separate product (20). One product entry in the last 90 days (0). Product posts on the blog and a status page whose incident note says what to do, with no support channel tested (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). The pricing post of 14 September 2026 says Orchid is from $29.99 a month, flat, and orchid.ai/pricing showed no prices on 14 October, so plan-only pricing in public (10). The same post says there's no free tier. Three months free for students and YC founders and a free month for Notion Mail switchers are promotions for named groups, not a free plan or trial anyone can start (0). A person signs up with Google (0).",
          "reliability": "Read with the hosted lines. status.orchid.ai is a status page with Agent (iMessage, Telegram, RCS) and Dashboard components and a history view (20). The history for August to October 2026 shows one incident, on 7 August, when Orchid's text replies went undelivered and it moved to a new number, with no duration. The page gives 99.97 per cent uptime for iMessage and RCS from July to October, which is under an hour over that period, so we count it as minor (20 of 30). The pricing post says there's no meter on messages, and no limits are published (0). No overload or retry guidance (0). No SLA found (0). Public since March 2026 per the safety post and not labelled beta now (10).",
          "schema": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use, as GRADER.md asks. Orchid 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 product for people. orchid.ai/llms.txt lists the product, comparison, blog and legal pages with summaries (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). This is the reading the 12 October auditor applied to every listing without an agent interface, and app release notes count under maintenance instead.",
          "security": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. With none for Orchid, 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 safety post says drafts stay drafts until the owner says send and calendar holds wait for approval, and Google access is through Google sign-in with no password. Security programme. orchid.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no security contact, disclosure policy, bounty, certification or advisories were found. The privacy policy links Convex's SOC 2 page, which is a subprocessor's, not Orchid's (0 of 20).",
          "transparency": "Closed service under terms last updated on 16 January 2026 naming Zero Email, Inc. (15). The privacy policy of 14 September 2026 says Orchid doesn't train shared models on customer data but may train each customer's personal model on their data, and binds model providers not to train. The safety post of the same date answers whether Orchid trains on your data with No. Never. Backups are kept 30 days after deletion. The two statements disagree, the Grok Bot dossier's 15 for a mismatch on training (15 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (2 of 20). The privacy policy names its subprocessors by role, Convex, Cloudflare, Google Vertex AI, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Composio, Stripe, Resend, Linq, PostHog and Sentry, with no regions (15 of 20)."
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            "url": "https://status.orchid.ai",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          },
          {
            "what": "status history",
            "url": "https://status.orchid.ai/history",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          },
          {
            "what": "llms.txt",
            "url": "https://orchid.ai/llms.txt",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          },
          {
            "what": "pricing post, 14 September 2026",
            "url": "https://orchid.ai/blog/is-orchid-ai-free-pricing-explained",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          },
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            "what": "safety post, 14 September 2026",
            "url": "https://orchid.ai/blog/orchid-ai-reviews-reddit-is-it-safe",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          },
          {
            "what": "Carousels post, 6 August 2026",
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            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          },
          {
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            "url": "https://orchid.ai/blog",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
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          {
            "what": "privacy policy",
            "url": "https://orchid.ai/legal/privacy",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
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          {
            "what": "terms",
            "url": "https://orchid.ai/legal/terms",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          },
          {
            "what": "sitemap (audit re-read)",
            "url": "https://orchid.ai/sitemap.xml",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
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          "The status page's 7 August note gives a new number, +1 (415) 605-3216, while the 14 September pricing post gives +1 (415) 466-5122. Which is current wasn't established.",
          "Current plan prices, since orchid.ai/pricing showed none."
        ]
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      "verdict": "Orchid is a paid executive assistant over iMessage, SMS and Telegram that holds drafts and calendar holds until the owner approves, with a public status page and a named subprocessor list. No outside agent can call it, there's no free tier, and its privacy policy allows training a personal model while its blog says it never trains.",
      "bestFor": "A founder or operator who wants Gmail and calendar triage by text with approval before anything leaves.",
      "disclosure": "Orchid 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 status page with component history, one incident from August to October 2026.",
        "Drafts and calendar holds wait for the owner's approval by default, per the safety post.",
        "The privacy policy names twelve subprocessors by role, model providers included.",
        "Model providers are contractually barred from training on customer data."
      ],
      "weaknesses": [
        "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.",
        "The privacy policy allows training a personal model on the owner's data, while the safety post says Orchid never trains.",
        "No free tier, and orchid.ai/pricing showed no prices on 14 October 2026.",
        "No security.txt, security contact or certification of its own found."
      ],
      "agentNotes": [
        "Don't plan to call Orchid from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage, SMS and Telegram threads.",
        "Check status.orchid.ai before telling the owner Orchid is down. The 7 August incident moved it to a new number.",
        "Tell the owner that drafts and holds wait for their approval unless they widen it."
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      "avgRating": 0,
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          "grade": "F",
          "methodology": "0.4",
          "pending": [
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            "tasks"
          ],
          "run": "2026-10-01",
          "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
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        "maintenance": 24,
        "payments": 10,
        "reliability": 50,
        "schema": 10,
        "security": 0,
        "transparency": 47
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      "tool": "https://letme.dev/orchid-ai"
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    "notable": [
      "Orchid is reached over iMessage at +1 (415) 466-5122, SMS and Telegram, and the status page lists iMessage, Telegram and RCS components (https://orchid.ai/blog/is-orchid-ai-free-pricing-explained and https://status.orchid.ai)",
      "Connections today are Gmail and Google Calendar through Google sign-in, per the safety post. The home page and terms also name Google Drive, Granola, Sentry and other workplace tools (https://orchid.ai/blog/orchid-ai-reviews-reddit-is-it-safe and https://orchid.ai/legal/terms)",
      "By default nothing that leaves the thread happens without approval. \"Drafts stay drafts until you say send\" and calendar holds wait, and owners can widen this, for example to confirm meetings with named people (https://orchid.ai/blog/orchid-ai-reviews-reddit-is-it-safe)",
      "The privacy policy (14 September 2026) says Orchid does not train shared models on customer data but \"may train your personal model on your data\", and that model providers are contractually barred from training. The safety post answers \"Does Orchid train AI models on my data?\" with \"No. Never.\" (https://orchid.ai/legal/privacy and https://orchid.ai/blog/orchid-ai-reviews-reddit-is-it-safe)",
      "Subprocessors named are Convex, Cloudflare, Google Vertex AI, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Composio, Stripe, Resend, Linq, PostHog and Sentry (https://orchid.ai/legal/privacy)",
      "Backups are kept up to 30 days after account deletion (https://orchid.ai/legal/privacy)",
      "The status page shows 99.97 per cent uptime for the agent components from July to October 2026 (https://status.orchid.ai, read 14 October 2026)",
      "The company also sells Keiki, a customer-facing agent builder, and an enterprise product (https://orchid.ai/blog/introducing-keiki)"
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        "label": "Surface listed",
        "value": "Orchid's personal assistant over iMessage, SMS and Telegram, read from orchid.ai, llms.txt, the FAQ, pricing and safety posts, terms, privacy policy and status page on 14 October 2026. Keiki and the enterprise product were not reviewed. No account was created."
      },
      {
        "label": "Where it runs",
        "value": "A cloud service on Convex and Cloudflare, with model inference through Google Vertex AI, OpenAI, Anthropic and OpenRouter (https://orchid.ai/legal/privacy)."
      },
      {
        "label": "What it acts on",
        "value": "Gmail triage and drafts, Google Calendar holds and invites, meeting prep, reminders and habits, and other workplace tools through Composio (https://orchid.ai/llms.txt and https://orchid.ai/legal/privacy)."
      },
      {
        "label": "Outside agent access",
        "value": "None found."
      },
      {
        "label": "Public since",
        "value": "The safety post says the product has been public since March 2026 (https://orchid.ai/blog/orchid-ai-reviews-reddit-is-it-safe)."
      },
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        "label": "Eligibility",
        "value": "18 and older (https://orchid.ai/legal/terms)."
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      {
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        "usd": 29.99,
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      "domain": "orchid.ai",
      "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16",
      "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
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      "privacy": "https://orchid.ai/legal/privacy",
      "statusPage": "https://status.orchid.ai",
      "changelog": "",
      "securityTxt": "none",
      "checked": "2026-10-14",
      "notes": [
        "The terms name Zero Email, Inc. (\"Orchid\") and were last updated on 16 January 2026. The privacy policy was last updated on 14 September 2026.",
        "orchid.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No changelog was found; the blog carries product posts.",
        "RDAP gives a registration date of 2017-12-16 for orchid.ai, which predates the product."
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          "max": 20,
          "state": "ok"
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          "check": "Domain age",
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          "points": 11,
          "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"
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        {
          "check": "Privacy policy",
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          "points": 10,
          "max": 10,
          "state": "ok"
        },
        {
          "check": "Status page",
          "value": "status.orchid.ai",
          "points": 10,
          "max": 10,
          "state": "ok"
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        {
          "check": "Changelog",
          "value": "not found",
          "points": 0,
          "max": 10,
          "state": "no"
        },
        {
          "check": "security.txt",
          "value": "not found",
          "points": 0,
          "max": 10,
          "state": "no"
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    "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchid-ai.json",
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        "page": "https://status.orchid.ai",
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