Get an audit

Head to head · Assistants reached by message · October 2026 research run

Asmi vs Dots

Asmi scores 33.3 (F) on agent readiness against Dots's 28.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Dots leads on schema & documentation, security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do assistants reached by message.

Best AI personal assistants that act for one person · All 834 assistants comparisons

AsmiHumint Labs, Inc. · Platform F33.3/100#973 of 1010 DotsOpenAI · Platform F28.3/100#980 of 1010

Which one, for what

Asmi F

Best for An agent that needs phone calls, texts and emails to businesses done for its owner.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 30 against 3
  • Agent ergonomics, 43 against 22
  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 10
  • Transparency & trust, 51 against 31

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

Tool JSON Schemas and annotations can't be read before OAuth (unauthenticated initialize returns 401).

Dots F

Best for A ChatGPT Pro or Enterprise user who wants ongoing work tracked across mail, documents, code and Slack with approval before sends.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 41 against 20
  • Security & auth, 58 against 49
  • Maintenance & community, 38 against 3

Watch for

Beta. The admin setting is labelled Use dots (Beta), access is rolling out gradually, and Teams access is an invite-only alpha

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAsmiDotsEdge
Reliability16%20303Asmi +27
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.22041Dots +21
Agent ergonomics13%16.24322Asmi +21
Security & auth14%17.54958Dots +9
Payments & pricing10%12.53010Asmi +20
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8338Dots +35
Transparency & trust7%8.85131Asmi +20
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 33.3/100F 28.3/100

Facts side by side

FactAsmiDots
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorHumint Labs, Inc.OpenAI
Hosted endpointhttps://prod.asmiai.com/mcp/claude/no (local only)
TransportsStreamable HTTP
AuthOAuthOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumPaid
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Asmi's Terms of Service (Humint Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective October 2026).Proprietary hosted service. The governing terms were not read
Tools exposed12none
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last releasenone2026-10-09
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver

Verdicts

Asmi

Asmi is a hosted errand service with a 12-tool MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and Muse, using OAuth with separate scopes for tracking tasks and for contacting people. Tool schemas sit behind sign-in, the outreach scope is ticked by default, and no status page, changelog or security contact was found.

Dots

Actions that affect accounts or share information pass an automatic review, and custom rules can require approval or a hand-off. Dots is a beta on Pro plans from $100 a month, and no status page, terms, privacy policy or way to delete individual saved notes was found in the pages we could read.

Before you call either

Asmi

  1. Use the endpoint for your own client (/mcp/claude/, /mcp/openai/ or /mcp/meta/). A token from another client gets 403.
  2. Call discover_search before execute_start, then poll execute_status with the task id instead of starting the task again.
  3. Answer Asmi's questions with execute_advance. Calls already placed can't be recalled by execute_cancel.
  4. Expect outreach_not_permitted if the owner unticked contact people. Ask them to reconnect rather than retrying.
  5. Check billing_status before starting a task, since each outreach task uses one of the month's quota.

Dots

  1. Say what may be sent. Asking a dot to draft replies does not permit sending them, and an action outside a stated scope needs another decision
  2. Stop three things separately. Pause stops the main task only, delegated tasks stop in Activity and recurring tasks in Scheduled, and completed actions are not undone
  3. Connect each thing separately. A messaging channel grants no access to an inbox, an app or a computer
  4. Sign out of websites and disconnect apps yourself when removing access. Revoking dots access or disconnecting an app does not delete information already obtained
  5. Keep the connected computer online with the ChatGPT app open for local work. Only one personal computer can be connected at a time

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Asmi or Dots?

Asmi scores 33.3 (F) on agent readiness against Dots's 28.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Dots leads on schema & documentation, security & auth and maintenance & community.

Other comparisons with Asmi or Dots

Disclosure

Asmi 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.

Machine-readable

For companies

Do agents find, use and choose your tools?

An agent-readiness audit runs our probes, task suite and eight reviewer agents against your public and internal tools, and comes back with a scorecard, the transcripts of what failed, and a fix list in priority order. From $2,500, re-run included. We never take payment to move a rank. We do help companies earn one.

Get an auditSee a sample report