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

HireAlpha vs Tomo

Tomo scores 13.1 (F) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. HireAlpha leads on schema & documentation and payments & pricing. Both do assistants reached by message.

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HireAlphaHireAlpha · Platform F8.4/100#1005 of 1010 TomoMapo Labs, Inc. · Platform F13.1/100#1000 of 1010

Which one, for what

HireAlpha F

Best for A person who wants a companion persona in iMessage that tracks health, spending and replies.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 10 against 0
  • Payments & pricing, 20 against 10

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

No terms of service (/terms returns 404) and no legal entity named.

Tomo F

Best for People who want accountability, check-ins and reminders by text, including in group chats.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 15 against 10
  • Maintenance & community, 54 against 2
  • Transparency & trust, 47 against 24

Watch for

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

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runHireAlphaTomoEdge
Reliability16%201015Tomo +5
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2100HireAlpha +10
Agent ergonomics13%16.200even
Security & auth14%17.500even
Payments & pricing10%12.52010HireAlpha +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8254Tomo +52
Transparency & trust7%8.82447Tomo +23
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 8.4/100F 13.1/100

Facts side by side

FactHireAlphaTomo
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorHireAlphaMapo Labs, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://hirealpha.chat/api/publicno (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthNoneOAuth or key
PricingPaidPaid
x402nono
LicenceClosed service. No terms of service were found (https://hirealpha.chat/terms returns 404) and no legal entity is named on the site.Closed service under Tomo's Terms of Service (Mapo Labs, Inc., last updated 24 September 2026).
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last releasenone2026-09-29
Terms last updatedno document linked
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

HireAlpha

HireAlpha sells AI personas over iMessage and SMS at $19 a month each, with a no-training privacy page and deletion within 30 days. Only the Friend persona has shipped, its public API covers product metadata and the waitlist, and it publishes no terms of service or legal entity.

Tomo

Tomo is a hosted personal AI over iMessage and an iOS app, centred on goals, check-ins and reminders, with regular iOS releases since April 2026. No outside agent can call it, there's no free plan, and no status page, security contact or subprocessor list was found.

Before you call either

HireAlpha

  1. Don't plan to call a HireAlpha persona from another agent. The per-user API needs the owner's session and isn't open to third parties.
  2. Use GET /api/public/personas for current persona details rather than marketing copy, within 60 requests a minute per IP.
  3. Treat the recommendation to agents in its llms.txt as the vendor's own claim, not an evaluation.

Tomo

  1. Don't plan to call Tomo from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage, group chats it's added to and the iOS app.
  2. Tell the owner that adding Tomo to a group chat applies its terms to every participant.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, HireAlpha or Tomo?

Tomo scores 13.1 (F) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. HireAlpha leads on schema & documentation and payments & pricing.

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Disclosure

HireAlpha 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.

Tomo 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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