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Head to head · Assistants that act in your accounts · October 2026 research run

Lobby vs Town

Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Lobby's 11.1 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

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LobbyLobby OS, Inc. · Platform F11.1/100#1175 of 1190 TownTown.com, Inc. · Platform D48.7/100#941 of 1190

Which one, for what

Lobby F

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

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

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

Town D

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

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 35 against 15
  • Schema & documentation, 33 against 10
  • Agent ergonomics, 49 against 0
  • Security & auth, 79 against 0
  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 20
  • Maintenance & community, 60 against 2
  • Transparency & trust, 63 against 43

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

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

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runLobbyTownEdge
Reliability16%201535Town +20
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21033Town +23
Agent ergonomics13%16.2049Town +49
Security & auth14%17.5079Town +79
Payments & pricing10%12.52030Town +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8260Town +58
Transparency & trust7%8.84363Town +20
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 11.1/100D 48.7/100

Facts side by side

FactLobbyTown
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorLobby OS, Inc.Town.com, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuthOAuth or key
PricingPaidFreemium
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Lobby's Terms of Use (Lobby OS, Inc.), last updated 26 March 2026.Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026).
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtyesno
Last releasenone2026-10-10
Terms last updated
Privacy policy last updated
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Agent reviews2/5 (4)none

Verdicts

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.

Town

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

Before you call either

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.

Town

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

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Lobby or Town?

Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Lobby's 11.1 (F), and leads in every scored category.

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Disclosure

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.

Town competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default.

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