{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "instinct", "name": "Instinct", "vendor": "Spear Street Technology, Inc. (d/b/a Instinct)", "vendorUrl": "https://instinct.com", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Instinct is a hosted personal assistant that a person texts or calls. It uses a phone and a computer on the owner's behalf, connects to Google Workspace and WhatsApp, and handles tasks such as bills, gifts, groceries and appointments.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/instinct", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/instinct.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/instinct.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/instinct.json", "license": "Closed service under Instinct's Terms of Service (Spear Street Technology, Inc. d/b/a Instinct, last revised 26 August 2026).", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "People sign in to the web app at https://app.instinct.com/login, and the terms allow linking an Apple, Facebook or Google account (https://instinct.com/terms). The web app's onboarding has a capacity waitlist state (\"You're on the waitlist. We're letting people in as fast as we can.\") and an invite page, so a new sign-up may not get access straight away. No API key, MCP server or other programmatic access was found.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No price or plan was published on instinct.com or found in the web app, checked 12 October 2026. The terms say people may have to pay fees for some parts of the service, charged in US dollars (https://instinct.com/terms, section 4). The value of this field is unconfirmed.", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on instinct.com or in the web app, checked 12 October 2026.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "mailbox.read", "calendar.write", "messaging.whatsapp", "voice.calls", "commerce.checkout", "memory.user" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "security-txt", "waitlist" ], "graded": true, "disclosure": "Instinct 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": 7.3, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1009, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1010, "categoryRank": 41, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 2, "payments": 0, "reliability": 10, "schema": 0, "security": 3, "transparency": 53 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Instinct is a hosted assistant reached by text or call that acts in the owner's Google Workspace and WhatsApp and can make purchases. No outside agent can call it, no price is published, new sign-ups may meet a capacity waitlist, and materials train models unless the owner opts out.", "bestFor": "People who want to hand errands to an assistant by text or phone.", "disclosure": "Instinct 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": [ "The privacy policy warns that third parties may plant instructions aimed at autonomous agents and asks owners to review actions.", "Google Workspace data and Vault items are excluded from model training.", "security.txt published with a contact and an expiry of 18 February 2027." ], "weaknesses": [ "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.", "No published price, plan or free tier.", "The web app has a capacity waitlist step for new sign-ups.", "Materials train models by default, and indexed data stays in use after a disconnect unless deletion is requested." ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't look for an endpoint. app.instinct.com/mcp serves the web app shell and refuses POST with 405.", "Confirm any purchase with the owner. The terms say Actions may not be reversible." ], "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": 7.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 2, "payments": 0, "reliability": 10, "schema": 0, "security": 3, "transparency": 33 }, "provenanceScore": 72 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/instinct" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Spear Street Technology, Inc. (d/b/a Instinct)", "domain": "instinct.com", "domainRegistered": "1997-05-20", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://instinct.com/terms", "privacy": "https://instinct.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "instinct.co redirects to instinct.com.", "instinct.com/.well-known/security.txt names support@instinct.com and expires on 18 February 2027.", "Privacy questions go to privacy@instinct.com, and the site footer gives comms@instinct.com.", "No status page, changelog or llms.txt was found. Unknown paths on instinct.com return the site's HTML shell.", "The terms and privacy policy were last revised on 26 August 2026.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 1997-05-20 for instinct.com, which predates the company." ], "score": 72 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/instinct.json", "live": { "slug": "instinct", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://instinct.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-02-18T00:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T15:45:01.894126056Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://instinct.com/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T20:18:01.474114904Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "bb6232361476" }, { "url": "https://instinct.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T20:18:03.550077596Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "eb19bd068bfc" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-13T20:18:03.550077596Z" } }, "answer": "Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Instinct's 7.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "town", "name": "Town", "vendor": "Town.com, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.town.com", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Town is a hosted AI assistant, called a Townie, with its own email address. It works across the owner's email, calendar and connected work apps, runs scheduled routines, and answers by email, text, WhatsApp, Telegram, the web or iOS.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/town.json", "license": "Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026).", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "People sign up at town.com with account credentials or a linked Google or single sign-on account (https://www.town.com/terms-of-service). A routine can expose its own webhook URL, called with a bearer secret that is shown once and can be rotated. Town answers a wrong secret, a disabled endpoint and a missing one with the same 404 (https://www.town.com/docs/routines/stock-routines/webhooks).", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free at $0 with no credit card, 30 chat messages a month, the weekly briefing and a 7-day Pro trial on signup. Starter is $15 a month billed monthly with 1,250 credits. Pro ($49), Power ($99) and Power Plus ($199) are monthly prices at the billed-annually rate, and monthly billing is \"available at a slightly higher rate\". Team is $59 and Team Plus $149 a seat a month. Credits past the allotment bill at $0.044 (Pro), $0.038 (Power, Team), $0.032 (Power Plus) and $0.030 (Team Plus), with an optional monthly spend cap (https://www.town.com/pricing and https://www.town.com/docs/billing/plans, checked 14 October 2026).", "priceSummary": "$15 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on town.com's pricing, docs and terms, checked 14 October 2026.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.town.com/docs", "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "mailbox.read", "mailbox.send", "calendar.write", "messaging.whatsapp", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.inbound", "email.inbound", "voice.calls", "memory.user", "tasks.create", "notify.push", "agent.multi-agent", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "ios", "soc2", "webhooks" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-10", "graded": true, "disclosure": "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.", "competesWith": "localghost", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 48.7, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 834, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1010, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 49, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 30, "reliability": 35, "schema": 33, "security": 79, "transparency": 63 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger.", "disclosure": "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.", "strengths": [ "Per-routine webhook secrets, shown once and rotatable, with an X-Town-Idempotency-Key header and six documented responses.", "Routines run in autonomous, approval-required or read-only mode, with per-tool overrides and account scope defaulting to the trigger account.", "Webhook payloads are framed as untrusted data, and Town can block a webhook routine that combines untrusted input with autonomous sending.", "SOC 2 Type 2 audited per the trust page, with a security@corp.town.com reporting address.", "Free plan at $0 with no credit card, and a dated subprocessor list naming model providers." ], "weaknesses": [ "The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in.", "The trust page says Town never sends without the owner's OK, while the docs describe autonomous routines and an Allow all actions session mode.", "A webhook call returns only 202, so the caller can't read what the routine did.", "No status page, published webhook rate limit or SLA found." ], "agentNotes": [ "Start a Town routine with POST to its webhook URL, Authorization Bearer whsec_ secret, and application/json or text/plain. Expect 202 only.", "Send X-Town-Idempotency-Key with a stable event id on every retry so Town doesn't start a second run.", "Treat 404 as wrong secret, disabled endpoint or missing endpoint alike, and ask the owner to check Routine Settings rather than retrying.", "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.", "Ask the owner to keep routines that act on webhook input in approval-required mode, as Town's own docs advise." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 48.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 49, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 30, "reliability": 35, "schema": 33, "security": 79, "transparency": 50 }, "provenanceScore": 76 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/town" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Town Starter", "unit": "month", "usd": 15, "note": "Billed monthly, 1,250 credits. Checked 14 October 2026." }, { "item": "Town Pro", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "Billed annually, 5,000 credits. Monthly billing costs more." }, { "item": "Town Power", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "Billed annually, 12,000 credits." }, { "item": "Town Power Plus", "unit": "month", "usd": 199, "note": "40,000 credits." }, { "item": "Town Team", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 59, "note": "6,000 credits a seat, pooled." }, { "item": "Town Pro overage", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.044, "note": "Per credit past the plan allotment." } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Town.com, Inc.", "domain": "town.com", "domainRegistered": "1996-11-13", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.town.com/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.town.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://www.town.com/updates", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "town.com's robots.txt gives ClaudeBot an allow list of named pages and disallows everything else, so only listed pages were read. security.txt and llms.txt are not on the list and were not requested.", "The terms name Town.com, Inc. and were updated on 21 July 2026. Legal contact legal@corp.town.com, support support@corp.town.com.", "No status page was found on the pages read.", "Webhook URLs are created per routine on Town's own service; their host is not shown in the docs.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 1996-11-13 for town.com, which predates the company." ], "score": 76 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Platform", "b": "Platform", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Spear Street Technology, Inc. (d/b/a Instinct)", "b": "Town.com, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Closed service under Instinct's Terms of Service (Spear Street Technology, Inc. d/b/a Instinct, last revised 26 August 2026).", "b": "Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026).", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2026-10-10", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-08-26", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-08-26", "b": "", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes, with an opt-out", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Instinct's 7.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Instinct or Town?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "People who want to hand errands to an assistant by text or phone.", "slug": "instinct", "watchFor": "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent." }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 35 against 10", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 33 against 0", "Agent ergonomics, 49 against 0", "Security \u0026 auth, 79 against 3", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 0", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 60 against 2", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 53" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger.", "slug": "town", "watchFor": "The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in." } ], "job": { "capability": "assistant.proactive", "name": "Proactive personal assistants" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-instinct.json", "title": "asaply vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-town.json", "title": "asaply vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Asmi vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-town.json", "title": "Asmi vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Boba vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-town.json", "title": "Boba vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Brea vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-town.json", "title": "Brea vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Del vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-town.json", "title": "Del vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-instinct.json", "title": "HireAlpha vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-town.json", "title": "HireAlpha vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openinstinct.json", "title": "Instinct vs OpenInstinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openinstinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-orbits.json", "title": "Instinct vs Orbits", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-orbits" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-orchid-ai.json", "title": "Instinct vs Orchid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-orchid-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-szn.json", "title": "Instinct vs szn", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-szn" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-tab-bot.json", "title": "Instinct vs Tab", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-tab-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-zapia.json", "title": "Instinct vs Zapia", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-zapia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openinstinct-vs-town.json", "title": "OpenInstinct vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openinstinct-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orbits-vs-town.json", "title": "Orbits vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orbits-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-town.json", "title": "Orchid vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-town.json", "title": "szn vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tab-bot-vs-town.json", "title": "Tab vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tab-bot-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zapia.json", "title": "Town vs Zapia", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zapia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-instinct.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-town.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Boski vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-town.json", "title": "Boski vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Caddy vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-town.json", "title": "Caddy vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-instinct.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-town.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-instinct.json", "title": "folk vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-town.json", "title": "folk vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-instinct.json", "title": "GAIA vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-town.json", "title": "GAIA vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-town.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-town.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Haven vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-town.json", "title": "Haven vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-town.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-ironclaw.json", "title": "Instinct vs IronClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-ironclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-leon.json", "title": "Instinct vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Instinct vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-nanobot.json", "title": "Instinct vs nanobot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-nanobot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-nanoclaw.json", "title": "Instinct vs NanoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-nanoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "Instinct vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Instinct vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-picoclaw.json", "title": "Instinct vs PicoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-picoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-poke.json", "title": "Instinct vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-qwenpaw.json", "title": "Instinct vs QwenPaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-qwenpaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "Instinct vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "Instinct vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-town.json", "title": "IronClaw vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-town.json", "title": "Leon vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-town.json", "title": "Lindy vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-town.json", "title": "nanobot vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-town.json", "title": "NanoClaw vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-town.json", "title": "Dots vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-town.json", "title": "OpenClaw vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-town.json", "title": "PicoClaw vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-town.json", "title": "Poke vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-town.json", "title": "QwenPaw vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "Town vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "Town vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-natura.json", "title": "Instinct vs Natura tinyNature", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-natura" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-pally.json", "title": "Instinct vs Pally", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-pally" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-tomo.json", "title": "Instinct vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-wajo.json", "title": "Instinct vs Wajo (Fo)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-wajo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-town.json", "title": "Natura tinyNature vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-town.json", "title": "Pally vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-town.json", "title": "Tomo vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-wajo.json", "title": "Town vs Wajo (Fo)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-wajo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-talorys.json", "title": "Instinct vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-town.json", "title": "Talorys vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-town" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 25, "edge": "town", "instinct": 10, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "town": 35, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 33, "edge": "town", "instinct": 0, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "town": 33, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 49, "edge": "town", "instinct": 0, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "town": 49, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 76, "edge": "town", "instinct": 3, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "town": 79, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 30, "edge": "town", "instinct": 0, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "town": 30, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 58, "edge": "town", "instinct": 2, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "town": 60, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "town", "instinct": 53, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "town": 63, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Instinct's 7.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do proactive personal assistants.", "verdicts": { "instinct": "Instinct is a hosted assistant reached by text or call that acts in the owner's Google Workspace and WhatsApp and can make purchases. No outside agent can call it, no price is published, new sign-ups may meet a capacity waitlist, and materials train models unless the owner opts out.", "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-town", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-town.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-town.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-town.min.md" }, "markdown": "Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Instinct's 7.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do proactive personal assistants.\n\n- Instinct: grade F, 7.3/100, rank #1009 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/instinct.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/instinct.json\n- Town: grade D, 48.7/100, rank #834 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/town.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### Instinct (F)\n\nGood for: People who want to hand errands to an assistant by text or phone.\n\nWatch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.\n\n### Town (D)\n\nGood for: An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 35 against 10\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 33 against 0\n- Agent ergonomics, 49 against 0\n- Security \u0026 auth, 79 against 3\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 0\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 60 against 2\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 53\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in.\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Instinct | Town | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 10 | 35 | Town +25 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 33 | Town +33 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 49 | Town +49 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 3 | 79 | Town +76 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 30 | Town +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 2 | 60 | Town +58 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 53 | 63 | Town +10 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **7.3 · F** | **48.7 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Instinct | Town |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | Platform |\n| Vendor | Spear Street Technology, Inc. (d/b/a Instinct) | Town.com, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Closed service under Instinct's Terms of Service (Spear Street Technology, Inc. d/b/a Instinct, last revised 26 August 2026). | Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026). |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | none | 2026-10-10 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-26 | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-26 | |\n| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Instinct.** Instinct is a hosted assistant reached by text or call that acts in the owner's Google Workspace and WhatsApp and can make purchases. No outside agent can call it, no price is published, new sign-ups may meet a capacity waitlist, and materials train models unless the owner opts out.\n\n**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.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Instinct\n\n1. Don't look for an endpoint. app.instinct.com/mcp serves the web app shell and refuses POST with 405.\n2. Confirm any purchase with the owner. The terms say Actions may not be reversible.\n\n### Town\n\n1. Start a Town routine with POST to its webhook URL, Authorization Bearer whsec_ secret, and application/json or text/plain. Expect 202 only.\n2. Send X-Town-Idempotency-Key with a stable event id on every retry so Town doesn't start a second run.\n3. Treat 404 as wrong secret, disabled endpoint or missing endpoint alike, and ask the owner to check Routine Settings rather than retrying.\n4. 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.\n5. Ask the owner to keep routines that act on webhook input in approval-required mode, as Town's own docs advise.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Instinct or Town?\n\nTown scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Instinct's 7.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-town.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-town.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"instinct\", \"b\": \"town\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare instinct town`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/instinct.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/town.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Instinct or Town\n\n- [asaply vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-instinct.md)\n- [asaply vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-town.md)\n- [Asmi vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Asmi vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-town.md)\n- [Boba vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Boba vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-town.md)\n- [Brea vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Brea vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-town.md)\n- [Del vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Del vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-town.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-instinct.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-town.md)\n- [Instinct vs OpenInstinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openinstinct.md)\n- [Instinct vs Orbits](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-orbits.md)\n- [Instinct vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Instinct vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-szn.md)\n- [Instinct vs Tab](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-tab-bot.md)\n- [Instinct vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-zapia.md)\n- [OpenInstinct vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openinstinct-vs-town.md)\n- [Orbits vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orbits-vs-town.md)\n- [Orchid vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-town.md)\n- [szn vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-town.md)\n- [Tab vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tab-bot-vs-town.md)\n- [Town vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zapia.md)\n- [AstrBot vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-instinct.md)\n- [AstrBot vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-town.md)\n- [Boski vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Boski vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-town.md)\n- [Caddy vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Caddy vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-town.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-instinct.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-town.md)\n- [folk vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-instinct.md)\n- [folk vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-town.md)\n- [GAIA vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-instinct.md)\n- [GAIA vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-town.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-town.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-town.md)\n- [Haven vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Haven vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-town.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-town.md)\n- [Instinct vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [Instinct vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-leon.md)\n- [Instinct vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Instinct vs nanobot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-nanobot.md)\n- [Instinct vs NanoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-nanoclaw.md)\n- [Instinct vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [Instinct vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Instinct vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-picoclaw.md)\n- [Instinct vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-poke.md)\n- [Instinct vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Instinct vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Instinct vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-town.md)\n- [Leon vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-town.md)\n- [Lindy vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-town.md)\n- [nanobot vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-town.md)\n- [NanoClaw vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-town.md)\n- [Dots vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-town.md)\n- [OpenClaw vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-town.md)\n- [PicoClaw vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-town.md)\n- [Poke vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-town.md)\n- [QwenPaw vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-town.md)\n- [Town vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Town vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [Instinct vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-natura.md)\n- [Instinct vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-pally.md)\n- [Instinct vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Instinct vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-wajo.md)\n- [Natura tinyNature vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-town.md)\n- [Pally vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-town.md)\n- [Tomo vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-town.md)\n- [Town vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-wajo.md)\n- [Instinct vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Talorys vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-town.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- Instinct 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.\n- 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. 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