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      "name": "HireAlpha",
      "vendor": "HireAlpha",
      "vendorUrl": "https://hirealpha.chat",
      "kind": "platform",
      "category": "personal-assistants",
      "summary": "HireAlpha sells three AI personas, Friend, Coworker and Cofounder, each a separate iMessage or SMS contact with its own number and memory. They read connected Google mail and calendar and track health, work and company tasks.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hirealpha.json",
      "license": "Closed service. No terms of service were found (https://hirealpha.chat/terms returns 404) and no legal entity is named on the site.",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://hirealpha.chat/api/public",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "none",
      "authNotes": "The public API (product info, personas, waitlist sign-up) needs no authentication and is limited to 60 requests a minute per IP. The per-user API behind the web app and iMessage bots needs the user's own session token and is not open to third parties (https://hirealpha.chat/developers). People connect their own Google account (https://hirealpha.chat).",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "\"Each persona is $19 a month\", or all three for $39 a month \"when Coworker and Cofounder ship\", with a 7-day free trial. An annual single hire is $190. The FAQ also says the Friend hire costs $5 a month for the first two months (https://hirealpha.chat/faq, checked 14 October 2026). No free tier.",
      "priceSummary": "$19 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on hirealpha.chat, llms.txt or the OpenAPI file, checked 14 October 2026.",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-14"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://hirealpha.chat/developers",
      "llmsTxt": "https://hirealpha.chat/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://hirealpha.chat/openapi.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "assistant.messaging",
        "assistant.accounts",
        "assistant.memory",
        "messaging.rcs",
        "messaging.inbound",
        "mailbox.read",
        "calendar.read",
        "memory.user",
        "tasks.create"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "official",
        "closed-source",
        "paid",
        "waitlist",
        "llms-txt"
      ],
      "graded": true,
      "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.",
      "competesWith": "localghost",
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 8.4,
        "grade": "F",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 1005,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1010,
        "categoryRank": 39,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 0,
          "maintenance": 2,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 10,
          "schema": 10,
          "security": 0,
          "transparency": 24
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-14"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "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.",
        "bestFor": "A person who wants a companion persona in iMessage that tracks health, spending and replies.",
        "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.",
        "strengths": [
          "Public prices, $19 a month a persona and $190 a year for one.",
          "The privacy page rules out training shared models and deletes data within 30 days of account deletion.",
          "Drafts never send until the owner approves, per the FAQ.",
          "Every page answers Accept text/markdown with Markdown."
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No terms of service (/terms returns 404) and no legal entity named.",
          "Coworker and Cofounder haven't shipped, and the home page starts from a waitlist.",
          "The public API covers product metadata and waitlist sign-up only. Nothing acts for a user.",
          "No changelog, status page or security contact found."
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "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.",
          "Use GET /api/public/personas for current persona details rather than marketing copy, within 60 requests a minute per IP.",
          "Treat the recommendation to agents in its llms.txt as the vendor's own claim, not an evaluation."
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "F",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 8.4
          }
        ],
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          "ergonomics": 0,
          "maintenance": 2,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 10,
          "schema": 10,
          "security": 0,
          "transparency": 22
        },
        "provenanceScore": 25
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl https://hirealpha.chat/api/public/info"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.messaging",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/hirealpha"
      },
      "area": "frameworks",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "HireAlpha persona",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 19,
          "note": "Per persona, 7-day trial. $190 a year for one."
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "",
        "domain": "hirealpha.chat",
        "domainRegistered": "2026-08-12",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "https://hirealpha.chat/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-14",
        "notes": [
          "The sitemap lists /terms but it returns 404. No legal entity is named on any page read.",
          "hirealpha.chat/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No status page or changelog was found.",
          "RDAP gives a registration date of 2026-08-12 for hirealpha.chat."
        ],
        "score": 25
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "hirealpha",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://hirealpha.chat/api/public",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-14T01:36:42.185302648Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 401,
          "lastMs": 346,
          "lastNote": "asks for credentials",
          "authRequired": true,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 389,
          "p95ms24h": 493,
          "samples24h": 21,
          "samples30d": 21,
          "days": [
            {
              "date": "2026-10-13",
              "probes": 4,
              "ok": 4
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-14",
              "probes": 17,
              "ok": 17
            }
          ]
        },
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T01:36:42.185302648Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "ZeroClaw scores 70.2 (BB) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in every scored category.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "zeroclaw",
      "name": "ZeroClaw",
      "vendor": "ZeroClaw Labs",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.zeroclaw.com",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "personal-assistants",
      "summary": "Open-source personal AI assistant from ZeroClaw Labs, shipped as one Rust binary the owner runs. It answers on chat, email and voice channels, calls tools and MCP servers, and keeps memory in local SQLite.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zeroclaw",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zeroclaw.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zeroclaw.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zeroclaw.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw",
      "license": "MIT OR Apache-2.0",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "oci",
          "name": "ghcr.io/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "none",
      "authNotes": "No account with the vendor. Model keys, bot tokens and mail passwords go in `~/.zeroclaw/config.toml` as encrypted secret fields, set through `zeroclaw config set`, the dashboard or the terminal UI. OpenAI Codex and Claude subscription tokens are accepted in place of API keys. Gateway clients pair first and then send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e`, with token hashes kept in config (https://github.com/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw/blob/master/docs/book/src/security/authentication.md).",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free under MIT or Apache-2.0, with no subscription and no hosted seat (https://www.zeroclaw.com/). The owner pays the model provider, or nothing with a local model. ZeroRouter, the vendor's hosted beta model gateway, is optional and its prices were not read (checked 2026-10-12).",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the source at commit 6c0b1f9 (checked 2026-10-12).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 32965,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-12"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.zeroclaw.com/master/en/introduction.html",
      "llmsTxt": "https://www.zeroclaw.com/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "assistant.proactive",
        "assistant.messaging",
        "assistant.memory",
        "assistant.self-hosted",
        "assistant.accounts",
        "agent.mcp-client"
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        "open-source",
        "self-hosted",
        "local",
        "free",
        "no-card",
        "rust",
        "mit",
        "apache-2.0",
        "pre-1.0",
        "no-telemetry",
        "mcp-client",
        "approvals",
        "acp",
        "docker",
        "llms-txt"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-05",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 70.2,
        "grade": "BB",
        "agentReady": true,
        "rank": 161,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1010,
        "categoryRank": 1,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 72,
          "maintenance": 80,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 74,
          "schema": 82,
          "security": 76,
          "transparency": 64
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-12"
        },
        "negative": -3,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-09-05. GHSA-93f6-34w8-5g98 (high), an unvalidated `wasm_path` let `zeroclaw plugin install` write an attacker-controlled file outside the plugins directory in 0.8.4 and earlier. Fixed in 0.8.5 and published the same day, inside six months, -2. https://github.com/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-93f6-34w8-5g98",
          "2026-04-01. The project lead wrote that a maintainer's AI automation merged pull requests that should not have gone through and that GitHub took enforcement action on the organisation. Disclosed, the maintainer removed and merge access tightened, over six months old, -1. https://www.zeroclaw.com/blog/community-and-stability"
        ],
        "verdict": "Supervised autonomy is the default, so tools outside a short read-only list wait for the owner's approval, and secrets are encrypted in the config file. The docs state that command execution is not written to an audit log, and the project publishes no privacy policy or terms.",
        "bestFor": "One person who wants an assistant on their own hardware that answers on Telegram, Discord, Matrix or email, asks before it writes or runs commands, and works with a local model.",
        "strengths": [
          "Supervised mode is the default. Tools outside an eleven-item read-only and fetch list prompt the owner, and an unanswered prompt is a denial after 120 seconds",
          "Approval prompts arrive on the channel in use, and `approval_route` can send them to a separate approver channel that denies when unreachable",
          "Channel secrets and provider keys are encrypted with ChaCha20-Poly1305 in `config.toml`, with the key in `.secret_key` at mode 0600",
          "An empty peer set denies every inbound sender, and the gateway binds 127.0.0.1 with pairing required by default",
          "Three tagged releases in the 90 days to 12 October 2026, each with a Breaking Changes section, and CI passing on master on 11 October"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "The docs state that command execution is not audited. `[security.audit]` records certificate events only, and tool receipts are opt-in and not durable",
          "No privacy policy, terms or security.txt on zeroclaw.com, and the home page links none",
          "`web_fetch`, `web_search_tool` and `browser_open` run without approval by default, and sandboxed tools keep full network egress",
          "GHSA-93f6-34w8-5g98 (high) let a plugin install write outside the plugins directory in 0.8.4 and earlier, fixed in 0.8.5 on 5 September 2026",
          "Version 0.8.5 is pre-1.0, patch releases carry breaking changes, and 576 issues and 384 pull requests were open on 12 October 2026"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Keep `[risk_profiles.\u003calias\u003e] level = \"supervised\"`. `full` runs every tool not listed in `always_ask`, and the YOLO preset removes the sandbox and path rules too",
          "Add sending and account tools such as `send_via`, `google_workspace` and `http_request` to `always_ask` so a session-level Always grant cannot skip the prompt",
          "List senders in `[peer_groups.\u003cname\u003e] external_peers`. `[\"*\"]` accepts anyone on that channel",
          "Set `[web_fetch].allowed_domains` and `[http_request].allowed_domains`. Fetches run unprompted and the OS sandbox does not block egress",
          "Run one-shot tasks with `zeroclaw agent -a \u003calias\u003e -m \"\u003ctask\u003e\"`. A cron or webhook turn has no prompt, so shell calls fall to the command policy"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "BB",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 70.2
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 72,
          "maintenance": 80,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 74,
          "schema": 82,
          "security": 76,
          "transparency": 74
        },
        "provenanceScore": 53
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw/master/install.sh | sh   # or: brew install zeroclaw",
        "headless": {
          "command": "zeroclaw agent -a \u003calias\u003e -m \"$TASK\"",
          "setup": "zeroclaw quickstart"
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/zeroclaw"
      },
      "area": "frameworks",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "ZeroClaw Labs",
        "domain": "zeroclaw.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2026-03-02",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw/releases",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-12",
        "notes": [
          "The NOTICE file reads Copyright 2025 ZeroClaw Labs and the blog signs posts as CEO, ZeroClaw Labs. No company form, registration or address was found on the site or in the repository.",
          "The home page of www.zeroclaw.com links no terms and no privacy policy, so both fields are empty and the MIT or Apache-2.0 licence stands in.",
          "www.zeroclaw.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404 on 12 October 2026. SECURITY.md asks for GitHub private vulnerability reporting and the README gives security@zeroclaw.dev.",
          "RDAP gives zeroclaw.com a registration date of 2026-03-02, registrar Atom.com Domains LLC. The repository was created on 13 February 2026.",
          "There is no hosted endpoint for the assistant. A gateway answers on its owner's own host."
        ],
        "score": 53
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zeroclaw.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "zeroclaw",
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw",
            "version": "v0.8.5",
            "released": "2026-09-05",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-13T23:34:20.397073508Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 32976,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://zeroclaw.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T15:45:18.226802237Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://www.zeroclaw.com/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T14:12:50.904192092Z"
        },
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-13T23:34:20.397073508Z"
      }
    },
    "facts": [
      {
        "a": "Platform",
        "b": "Agent harness",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "HireAlpha",
        "b": "ZeroClaw Labs",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "https://hirealpha.chat/api/public",
        "b": "no (local only)",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "HTTP",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Transports"
      },
      {
        "a": "None",
        "b": "None",
        "name": "Auth"
      },
      {
        "a": "Paid",
        "b": "Free",
        "name": "Pricing"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
      },
      {
        "a": "Closed service. No terms of service were found (https://hirealpha.chat/terms returns 404) and no legal entity is named on the site.",
        "b": "MIT OR Apache-2.0",
        "name": "Licence"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "llms.txt"
      },
      {
        "a": "none",
        "b": "2026-09-05",
        "name": "Last release"
      },
      {
        "a": "no document linked",
        "b": "no document linked",
        "name": "Terms last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "no document linked",
        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Customer content may train models"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms restrict automated access"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
      },
      {
        "a": "none",
        "b": "33k stars",
        "name": "Popularity"
      }
    ],
    "faq": [
      {
        "answer": "ZeroClaw scores 70.2 (BB) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in every scored category.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, HireAlpha or ZeroClaw?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "No open-source release is listed for HireAlpha. ZeroClaw is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0).",
        "question": "Are HireAlpha and ZeroClaw open source?"
      }
    ],
    "goodFor": [
      {
        "aheadOn": null,
        "also": [
          "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install",
          "No incidents deducted, where ZeroClaw loses 3 points for them"
        ],
        "goodFor": "A person who wants a companion persona in iMessage that tracks health, spending and replies.",
        "slug": "hirealpha",
        "watchFor": "No terms of service (/terms returns 404) and no legal entity named."
      },
      {
        "aheadOn": [
          "Reliability, 74 against 10",
          "Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 10",
          "Agent ergonomics, 72 against 0",
          "Security \u0026 auth, 76 against 0",
          "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20",
          "Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 2",
          "Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 24"
        ],
        "also": [
          "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better",
          "Free to start without a card",
          "Open source"
        ],
        "goodFor": "One person who wants an assistant on their own hardware that answers on Telegram, Discord, Matrix or email, asks before it writes or runs commands, and works with a local model.",
        "slug": "zeroclaw",
        "watchFor": "The docs state that command execution is not audited. `[security.audit]` records certificate events only, and tool receipts are opt-in and not durable"
      }
    ],
    "job": {
      "capability": "assistant.messaging",
      "name": "Assistants reached by message"
    },
    "others": [
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-hirealpha.json",
        "title": "asaply vs HireAlpha",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-hirealpha"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-zeroclaw.json",
        "title": "asaply vs ZeroClaw",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-zeroclaw"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-hirealpha.json",
        "title": "Asmi vs HireAlpha",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-hirealpha"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-zeroclaw.json",
        "title": "Asmi vs ZeroClaw",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-zeroclaw"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-hirealpha.json",
        "title": "AstrBot vs HireAlpha",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-hirealpha"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-hirealpha.json",
        "title": "Boba vs HireAlpha",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-hirealpha"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-zeroclaw.json",
        "title": "Boba vs ZeroClaw",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-zeroclaw"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-hirealpha.json",
        "title": "Boski vs HireAlpha",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-hirealpha"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-hirealpha.json",
        "title": "Brea vs HireAlpha",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-hirealpha"
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      "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.",
      "zeroclaw": "Supervised autonomy is the default, so tools outside a short read-only list wait for the owner's approval, and secrets are encrypted in the config file. The docs state that command execution is not written to an audit log, and the project publishes no privacy policy or terms."
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  "markdown": "ZeroClaw scores 70.2 (BB) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message.\n\n- HireAlpha: grade F, 8.4/100, rank #1005 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hirealpha.json\n- ZeroClaw: grade BB, 70.2/100, rank #161 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zeroclaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zeroclaw.json\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 834 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### HireAlpha (F)\n\nGood for: A person who wants a companion persona in iMessage that tracks health, spending and replies.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- No incidents deducted, where ZeroClaw loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: No terms of service (/terms returns 404) and no legal entity named.\n\n### ZeroClaw (BB)\n\nGood for: One person who wants an assistant on their own hardware that answers on Telegram, Discord, Matrix or email, asks before it writes or runs commands, and works with a local model.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 74 against 10\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 10\n- Agent ergonomics, 72 against 0\n- Security \u0026 auth, 76 against 0\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 2\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 24\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The docs state that command execution is not audited. `[security.audit]` records certificate events only, and tool receipts are opt-in and not durable\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | HireAlpha | ZeroClaw | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 10 | 74 | ZeroClaw +64 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 82 | ZeroClaw +72 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 72 | ZeroClaw +72 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 76 | ZeroClaw +76 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 60 | ZeroClaw +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 2 | 80 | ZeroClaw +78 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 24 | 64 | ZeroClaw +40 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **8.4 · F** | **70.2 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | HireAlpha | ZeroClaw |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | HireAlpha | ZeroClaw Labs |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://hirealpha.chat/api/public` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP |  |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Paid | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Closed service. No terms of service were found (https://hirealpha.chat/terms returns 404) and no legal entity is named on the site. | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | none | 2026-09-05 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated |  | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models |  |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |\n| Popularity | none | 33k stars |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**ZeroClaw.** Supervised autonomy is the default, so tools outside a short read-only list wait for the owner's approval, and secrets are encrypted in the config file. The docs state that command execution is not written to an audit log, and the project publishes no privacy policy or terms.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### HireAlpha\n\n1. 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.\n2. Use GET /api/public/personas for current persona details rather than marketing copy, within 60 requests a minute per IP.\n3. Treat the recommendation to agents in its llms.txt as the vendor's own claim, not an evaluation.\n\n### ZeroClaw\n\n1. Keep `[risk_profiles.\u003calias\u003e] level = \"supervised\"`. `full` runs every tool not listed in `always_ask`, and the YOLO preset removes the sandbox and path rules too\n2. Add sending and account tools such as `send_via`, `google_workspace` and `http_request` to `always_ask` so a session-level Always grant cannot skip the prompt\n3. List senders in `[peer_groups.\u003cname\u003e] external_peers`. `[\"*\"]` accepts anyone on that channel\n4. Set `[web_fetch].allowed_domains` and `[http_request].allowed_domains`. Fetches run unprompted and the OS sandbox does not block egress\n5. Run one-shot tasks with `zeroclaw agent -a \u003calias\u003e -m \"\u003ctask\u003e\"`. A cron or webhook turn has no prompt, so shell calls fall to the command policy\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, HireAlpha or ZeroClaw?\n\nZeroClaw scores 70.2 (BB) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Are HireAlpha and ZeroClaw open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for HireAlpha. ZeroClaw is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zeroclaw.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zeroclaw.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"hirealpha\", \"b\": \"zeroclaw\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare hirealpha zeroclaw`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hirealpha.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zeroclaw.json\n\n## Other comparisons with HireAlpha or ZeroClaw\n\n- [asaply vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [asaply vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Asmi vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Asmi vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [AstrBot vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Boba vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Boba vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Boski vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Brea vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Brea vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Caddy vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [CowAgent vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Del vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Del vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [folk vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [GAIA vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Haven vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-instinct.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-lindy.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs nanobot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-nanobot.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs NanoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-nanoclaw.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-natura.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs OpenInstinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-openinstinct.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Orbits](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-orbits.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-pally.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-picoclaw.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-poke.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-szn.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Tab](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-tab-bot.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-tomo.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-town.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zapia.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [OpenInstinct vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openinstinct-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Orbits vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orbits-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Orchid vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [szn vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Tab vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tab-bot-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Zapia vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/zapia-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [AstrBot vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Boski vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Caddy vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [CowAgent vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [folk vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [GAIA vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Haven vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Instinct vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [IronClaw vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Leon vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Lindy vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [nanobot vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [NanoClaw vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Dots vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [OpenClaw vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [PicoClaw vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Poke vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [QwenPaw vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Town vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [ZeroClaw vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/zeroclaw-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-leon.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-wajo.md)\n- [Natura tinyNature vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Pally vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Tomo vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Wajo (Fo) vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/wajo-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Talorys vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- HireAlpha competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. 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