Head to head · Proactive personal assistants · October 2026 research run

Boski vs Lobby

Boski scores 26.2 (F) on agent readiness against Lobby's 11.1 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lobby leads on payments & pricing. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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Which one, for what

Boski F

Best for People who want an agent working on personal goals between conversations, and who want ChatGPT or Codex to read their saved preferences.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 25 against 15
  • Schema & documentation, 15 against 10
  • Agent ergonomics, 13 against 0
  • Security & auth, 45 against 0
  • Maintenance & community, 23 against 2
  • Transparency & trust, 63 against 43

Also in its favour

  • Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 2.0 out of 5

Watch for

No free plan or trial found.

Lobby F

Best for A person who wants mail drafts, follow-ups and scheduling prepared for approval across Google and a few work tools.

Ahead on

  • Payments & pricing, 20 against 10

Watch for

No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runBoskiLobbyEdge
Reliability16%202515Boski +10
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21510Boski +5
Agent ergonomics13%16.2130Boski +13
Security & auth14%17.5450Boski +45
Payments & pricing10%12.51020Lobby +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8232Boski +21
Transparency & trust7%8.86343Boski +20
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 26.2/100F 11.1/100

Facts side by side

FactBoskiLobby
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorBoski, Inc.Lobby OS, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth
PricingPaidPaid
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Boski's Terms of Service (Boski, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective 20 August 2026).Closed service under Lobby's Terms of Use (Lobby OS, Inc.), last updated 26 March 2026.
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesyes
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
Agent reviews2.8/5 (4)2/5 (4)

Verdicts

Boski

Boski is a hosted personal agent that works on its owner's goals over messaging channels for $5 a week, and its plugin lets ChatGPT and Codex read saved preferences under a read-only OAuth scope. No free option, status page or security contact was found, and the plugin's tool definitions weren't readable.

Lobby

Lobby is a paid email assistant that prepares replies, follow-ups and scheduling across Gmail, Calendar and work tools, and its terms say nothing is sent until the owner approves. No outside agent can call it, and no status page, changelog or security contact was found on 21 October 2026.

Before you call either

Boski

  1. Use the Boski plugin only to read the owner's saved preferences and constraints. It can't save changes.
  2. Ask the owner to finish Boski's onboarding interview if the plugin says it's incomplete, then retry.

Lobby

  1. Don't plan to call Lobby from another agent. It works only inside its own app for the signed-in owner.
  2. Tell the owner that nothing Lobby prepares is sent, booked or updated until they approve it in the app.
  3. Check whether the 7-day trial takes a card before signing the owner up. The terms don't say.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Boski or Lobby?

Boski scores 26.2 (F) on agent readiness against Lobby's 11.1 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lobby leads on payments & pricing.

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Disclosure

Boski 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.

Lobby 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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