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

Asmi vs Town

Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do assistants reached by message.

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AsmiHumint Labs, Inc. · Platform F33.3/100#973 of 1010 TownTown.com, Inc. · Platform D48.7/100#834 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.

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).

Town D

Best for An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 35 against 30
  • Schema & documentation, 33 against 20
  • Agent ergonomics, 49 against 43
  • Security & auth, 79 against 49
  • Maintenance & community, 60 against 3
  • Transparency & trust, 63 against 51

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAsmiTownEdge
Reliability16%203035Town +5
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.22033Town +13
Agent ergonomics13%16.24349Town +6
Security & auth14%17.54979Town +30
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8360Town +57
Transparency & trust7%8.85163Town +12
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 33.3/100D 48.7/100

Facts side by side

FactAsmiTown
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorHumint Labs, Inc.Town.com, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://prod.asmiai.com/mcp/claude/no (local only)
TransportsStreamable HTTPHTTP
AuthOAuthOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Asmi's Terms of Service (Humint Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective October 2026).Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026).
Tools exposed12none
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtnono
Last releasenone2026-10-10
Terms last updated
Privacy policy last updated
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.

Town

Town is a hosted assistant that works across the owner's mail, calendar and work apps, and other systems can start its routines through per-routine webhooks with rotatable secrets, idempotency keys and documented errors. A caller can't read a run's result. The privacy policy and trust page disagree on whether training is on by default.

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.

Town

  1. Start a Town routine with POST to its webhook URL, Authorization Bearer whsec_ secret, and application/json or text/plain. Expect 202 only.
  2. Send X-Town-Idempotency-Key with a stable event id on every retry so Town doesn't start a second run.
  3. Treat 404 as wrong secret, disabled endpoint or missing endpoint alike, and ask the owner to check Routine Settings rather than retrying.
  4. Send account_email only if the owner allowed the override. It must match a connected account in full and can't widen the routine's scope.
  5. Ask the owner to keep routines that act on webhook input in approval-required mode, as Town's own docs advise.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Asmi or Town?

Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

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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.

Town 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.

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