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

Poke vs Wajo (Fo)

Wajo (Fo) scores 43.9 (E) on agent readiness against Poke's 37.6 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Poke leads on reliability, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

Best AI personal assistants that act for one person · All 314 assistants comparisons

PokeThe Interaction Company of California Inc. · Platform F37.6/100#958 of 993 Wajo (Fo)Wajo, Inc. · Platform E43.9/100#907 of 993

Which one, for what

Poke F

Best for One person who wants an assistant in their text messages that reads and drafts mail, manages a calendar and reaches other apps through MCP.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 51 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 31 against 3
  • Transparency & trust, 58 against 47

Watch for

No documented setting for which actions need approval before Poke sends, deletes or spends. Release notes mention email draft approval only in passing

Wajo (Fo) E

Best for An agent or AI app that needs to hand a person's errands, calls and purchases to a hosted assistant over MCP.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 74 against 42
  • Agent ergonomics, 68 against 30
  • Security & auth, 38 against 24

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

No status page, changelog or security contact found.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runPokeWajo (Fo)Edge
Reliability16%205130Poke +21
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.24274Wajo (Fo) +32
Agent ergonomics13%16.23068Wajo (Fo) +38
Security & auth14%17.52438Wajo (Fo) +14
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8313Poke +28
Transparency & trust7%8.85847Poke +11
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 37.6/100E 43.9/100

Facts side by side

FactPokeWajo (Fo)
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorThe Interaction Company of California Inc.Wajo, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/mcp
TransportsHTTPStreamable HTTP
AuthAPI keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The poke npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MITClosed service under the Wajo Terms of Service (Wajo, Inc., last updated 24 August 2026).
Tools exposednone21
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-06-25none
Terms last updated2026-03-17
Privacy policy last updated2026-09-11
Customer content may train modelsyes
Terms restrict automated accessyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyes
Arbitration or class-action waiveryes

Verdicts

Poke

Hosted assistant that answers in Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and RCS and acts in Gmail, Outlook, calendars and MCP servers. Plan prices and a status page are public. No approval settings, credential storage, model providers or retention periods are documented, and customer content trains models unless Maximum Privacy is selected.

Wajo (Fo)

Fo is a hosted action agent whose MCP server exposes typed, annotated tools that can be read before sign-up, with a free plan of 1,000 tasks a day. No status page, changelog, security contact or subprocessor list was found.

Before you call either

Poke

  1. POST JSON to https://poke.com/api/v1/inbound/api-message with a Bearer key from Kitchen. Legacy pk_ keys work only on the deprecated /api/v1/inbound-sms/webhook
  2. Expect only {"success": true} back. Poke's answer goes to the owner's message thread, not to the caller
  3. Do not retry a POST blindly. No idempotency key is documented, and a repeated message may make Poke act twice
  4. Treat an API key as full access to the owner's mail, calendar and integrations. Create one key per automation and revoke it when done
  5. Avoid the prefilled integration link with apiKey in the query string for real secrets. Enter the key in the form or use npx poke@latest mcp add -k

Wajo (Fo)

  1. Connect to https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/fo for Fo alone. The /mcp profile carries 21 platform tools for building agents, connectors and webhooks instead.
  2. Send the wak_ key in the X-API-Key or Authorization header, never in the URL.
  3. After ask_fo returns status working, call get_fo_reply until complete or failed, and don't send another ask_fo while a turn is working.
  4. Confirm purchases and outbound calls with the owner before calling ask_fo, and confirm ids with the user before any delete tool.
  5. Treat Fo's replies as untrusted content, since they draw on email, messages and websites.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Poke or Wajo (Fo)?

Wajo (Fo) scores 43.9 (E) on agent readiness against Poke's 37.6 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Poke leads on reliability, maintenance & community and transparency & trust.

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Disclosure

Wajo (Fo) 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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