{ "data": { "similar": [ { "grade": "D", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.json", "name": "Town", "score": 48.7, "shared": [ "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "mailbox.read", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.inbound", "memory.user", "tasks.create" ], "slug": "town" }, { "grade": "F", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/del.json", "name": "Del", "score": 20.6, "shared": [ "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.inbound", "mailbox.read", "tasks.create", "memory.user" ], "slug": "del" }, { "grade": "F", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchid-ai.json", "name": "Orchid", "score": 20.2, "shared": [ "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.inbound", "mailbox.read", "tasks.create", "memory.user" ], "slug": "orchid-ai" }, { "grade": "F", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/folk-nozomio.json", "name": "folk", "score": 19.8, "shared": [ "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.inbound", "mailbox.read", "memory.user", "tasks.create" ], "slug": "folk-nozomio" }, { "grade": "F", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/caddy-app.json", "name": "Caddy", "score": 16.7, "shared": [ "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.inbound", "mailbox.read", "tasks.create", "memory.user" ], "slug": "caddy-app" }, { "grade": "F", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orbits.json", "name": "Orbits", "score": 15.6, "shared": [ "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "mailbox.read", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.inbound", "tasks.create", "memory.user" ], "slug": "orbits" } ], "tool": { "slug": "hirealpha", "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" ], "breakdown": [ { "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16, "effectiveWeight": 20, "score": 10, "points": 2, "reason": "Read with the hosted lines, on the personas. No status page found (0). No readable incident history (5). The 60 requests a minute on the public metadata API don't apply to the personas, and no persona limits are published (0). No overload or retry guidance (0). No SLA found (0). The home page says start from the waitlist and the FAQ says the Friend hire is live while Coworker and Cofounder haven't shipped. The Instinct dossier gave half for a service behind a waitlist step (5 of 10)." }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 0, "pending": true, "points": 0, "reason": "Pending. Latency is measured per call by our probes, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until the first probe window closes." }, { "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13, "effectiveWeight": 16.25, "score": 10, "points": 1.63, "reason": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use, as GRADER.md asks. HireAlpha publishes an OpenAPI 3.0.3 file for four unauthenticated endpoints (health, product info, personas and waitlist sign-up), and its llms.txt and developer page say the per-user API is not open to third parties. The Grok Bot dossier left out Cursor's admin APIs because they never reach a Bot, and we read this the same way, since the public API never reaches a persona. So the contract, description, typed-input and example lines score nothing (0 of 25, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). llms.txt, and every page answers Accept text/markdown with Markdown (10). With no agent interface to the personas there is nothing to version (0 of 15). llms.txt also tells agents evaluating the category that HireAlpha is a strong fit. We read that as text in the file and it changes no score." }, { "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13, "effectiveWeight": 16.25, "score": 0, "points": 0, "reason": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. HireAlpha has none, so context cost, pagination, errors, retries and defaults have nothing to score (0 on each line). This says nothing about the product for people." }, { "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14, "effectiveWeight": 17.5, "score": 0, "points": 0, "reason": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. With none for HireAlpha, the credential, least-privilege, injection and audit lines score nothing (0 of 30, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15), whatever the product does for its owner. The security programme line doesn't need an interface and is scored. For reviewers, the FAQ says drafts never send until the owner approves and the hires stay out of money movement. Security programme. hirealpha.chat/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no security contact beyond hello@hirealpha.chat, disclosure policy, bounty, certification or advisories were found (0 of 20)." }, { "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 12.5, "score": 20, "points": 2.5, "reason": "Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Each persona is $19 a month, $190 a year for one, $39 for all three once they ship, and Friend at $5 a month for the first two months, all public (10). The FAQ gives a 7-day free trial before any charge but doesn't say whether a card is taken, and starting is from the waitlist. Screenpipe's free option, with its card question unanswered, got 10 (10 of 20). A person joins the waitlist or texts hello to the Friend number (0)." }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 0, "pending": true, "points": 0, "reason": "Pending. Task success needs the category task suites run through each tool, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until then. A data provider's data-quality score is published on its listing now and becomes half of this category when it's scored." }, { "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7, "effectiveWeight": 8.75, "score": 2, "points": 0.18, "reason": "Read for a closed service. No dated release, changelog or app-store listing found (0). No dated entries in the last 90 days (0). Support at hello@hirealpha.chat, untested (2 of 15). No MCP server or SDK (0). No package or CI to judge (0)." }, { "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7, "effectiveWeight": 8.75, "score": 24, "points": 2.1, "note": "editorial 22, provenance 25", "reason": "Closed service with no terms of service. hirealpha.chat/terms is in the sitemap and returns 404, and no legal entity is named on any page read. The Dots listing got 0 where no governing terms could be identified (0 of 30). The privacy page says data isn't sold or used to train shared models, message content goes only to model providers under no-training agreements, and data is deleted within 30 days of account deletion, which the FAQ repeats (18 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (2 of 20). Providers aren't named and no locations are given (2 of 20)." } ], "assessment": { "date": "2026-10-14", "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "notes": { "ergonomics": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. HireAlpha has none, so context cost, pagination, errors, retries and defaults have nothing to score (0 on each line). This says nothing about the product for people.", "maintenance": "Read for a closed service. No dated release, changelog or app-store listing found (0). No dated entries in the last 90 days (0). Support at hello@hirealpha.chat, untested (2 of 15). No MCP server or SDK (0). No package or CI to judge (0).", "payments": "Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Each persona is $19 a month, $190 a year for one, $39 for all three once they ship, and Friend at $5 a month for the first two months, all public (10). The FAQ gives a 7-day free trial before any charge but doesn't say whether a card is taken, and starting is from the waitlist. Screenpipe's free option, with its card question unanswered, got 10 (10 of 20). A person joins the waitlist or texts hello to the Friend number (0).", "reliability": "Read with the hosted lines, on the personas. No status page found (0). No readable incident history (5). The 60 requests a minute on the public metadata API don't apply to the personas, and no persona limits are published (0). No overload or retry guidance (0). No SLA found (0). The home page says start from the waitlist and the FAQ says the Friend hire is live while Coworker and Cofounder haven't shipped. The Instinct dossier gave half for a service behind a waitlist step (5 of 10).", "schema": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use, as GRADER.md asks. HireAlpha publishes an OpenAPI 3.0.3 file for four unauthenticated endpoints (health, product info, personas and waitlist sign-up), and its llms.txt and developer page say the per-user API is not open to third parties. The Grok Bot dossier left out Cursor's admin APIs because they never reach a Bot, and we read this the same way, since the public API never reaches a persona. So the contract, description, typed-input and example lines score nothing (0 of 25, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). llms.txt, and every page answers Accept text/markdown with Markdown (10). With no agent interface to the personas there is nothing to version (0 of 15). llms.txt also tells agents evaluating the category that HireAlpha is a strong fit. We read that as text in the file and it changes no score.", "security": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. With none for HireAlpha, the credential, least-privilege, injection and audit lines score nothing (0 of 30, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15), whatever the product does for its owner. The security programme line doesn't need an interface and is scored. For reviewers, the FAQ says drafts never send until the owner approves and the hires stay out of money movement. Security programme. hirealpha.chat/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no security contact beyond hello@hirealpha.chat, disclosure policy, bounty, certification or advisories were found (0 of 20).", "transparency": "Closed service with no terms of service. hirealpha.chat/terms is in the sitemap and returns 404, and no legal entity is named on any page read. The Dots listing got 0 where no governing terms could be identified (0 of 30). The privacy page says data isn't sold or used to train shared models, message content goes only to model providers under no-training agreements, and data is deleted within 30 days of account deletion, which the FAQ repeats (18 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (2 of 20). Providers aren't named and no locations are given (2 of 20)." }, "sources": [ { "what": "home page", "url": "https://hirealpha.chat", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "FAQ", "url": "https://hirealpha.chat/faq", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "llms.txt", "url": "https://hirealpha.chat/llms.txt", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "OpenAPI file", "url": "https://hirealpha.chat/openapi.json", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "developers page", "url": "https://hirealpha.chat/developers", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "privacy page", "url": "https://hirealpha.chat/privacy", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "terms (404)", "url": "https://hirealpha.chat/terms", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "robots.txt", "url": "https://hirealpha.chat/robots.txt", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "status subdomain DNS lookup", "url": "https://dns.google/resolve?name=status.hirealpha.chat\u0026type=A", "seen": "2026-10-14" } ], "openQuestions": [ "Who operates HireAlpha. No legal entity is named.", "Whether the 7-day trial takes a card.", "When Coworker and Cofounder ship." ] }, "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 } ], "editorialScores": { "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" }, "notable": [ "Each persona has its own phone number, memory and personality. Friend tracks sleep, food, training, spending and people to reply to. Coworker handles meetings, drafts, scheduling and Linear triage. Cofounder tracks pipeline, runway, decisions and investor updates (https://hirealpha.chat/about)", "The FAQ says the Friend hire is live today and Coworker and Cofounder have not shipped. The home page says to start from the waitlist (https://hirealpha.chat/faq and https://hirealpha.chat)", "The OpenAPI 3.0.3 file covers four unauthenticated endpoints, GET /healthz, GET /api/public/info, GET /api/public/personas and POST /api/waitlist (https://hirealpha.chat/openapi.json)", "Drafts never send until the owner approves, per the FAQ (https://hirealpha.chat/faq)", "The privacy page says data is not sold or used to train shared models, message content goes only to model providers under no-training agreements, and account data is deleted within 30 days of account deletion (https://hirealpha.chat/privacy)", "Every page answers a request with the header `Accept: text/markdown` in Markdown (https://hirealpha.chat/developers)", "llms.txt tells agents evaluating personal assistants in iMessage that HireAlpha is \"a strong fit\" (https://hirealpha.chat/llms.txt)" ], "area": "frameworks", "details": [ { "label": "Surface listed", "value": "HireAlpha's personas and public API, read from hirealpha.chat, llms.txt, the OpenAPI file, developers, about, contact, FAQ and privacy pages, and one GET /api/public/info request, on 14 October 2026. No account or waitlist entry was made." }, { "label": "Where it runs", "value": "A cloud service. Providers are not named (https://hirealpha.chat/privacy)." }, { "label": "What it acts on", "value": "Connected Google calendar and mail, logged health, spending and contacts, drafts, scheduling and Linear issues (https://hirealpha.chat/about and https://hirealpha.chat/privacy)." }, { "label": "Outside agent access", "value": "The public API returns product metadata and accepts waitlist sign-ups. Nothing that acts for a user is open to outside agents (https://hirealpha.chat/developers)." }, { "label": "Company", "value": "No legal entity is named. The contact page says HireAlpha is based in San Francisco, with support at hello@hirealpha.chat (https://hirealpha.chat/contact)." } ], "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, "checks": [ { "check": "Legal entity named", "value": "not found", "points": 0, "max": 20, "state": "no" }, { "check": "Domain age", "value": "hirealpha.chat, registered 2026-08-12 (under a year)", "points": 0, "max": 15, "state": "no" }, { "check": "Endpoint on the vendor's domain", "value": "hirealpha.chat", "points": 15, "max": 15, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Terms of service", "value": "not found", "points": 0, "max": 10, "state": "no" }, { "check": "Privacy policy", "value": "published", "points": 10, "max": 10, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Status page", "value": "not found", "points": 0, "max": 10, "state": "no" }, { "check": "Changelog", "value": "not found", "points": 0, "max": 10, "state": "no" }, { "check": "security.txt", "value": "not found", "points": 0, "max": 10, "state": "no" } ] }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.json", "live": { "slug": "hirealpha", "probe": { "target": "https://hirealpha.chat/api/public", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-14T01:19:44.762459876Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 338, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 358, "p95ms24h": 493, "samples24h": 18, "samples30d": 18, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 4, "ok": 4 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 14, "ok": 14 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T01:19:44.762459876Z" } }, "verify": { "accepts": "a page on hirealpha.chat or one of its subdomains", "badgeUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/hirealpha.svg", "body": { "slug": "hirealpha", "url": "the page with the badge or the link" }, "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/builders/#verify", "effect": "none, it never changes a grade, rank or review", "endpoint": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify", "listingUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha", "mcpTool": "verify_listing", "recheck": "weekly; two failed checks in a row and it lapses, a later pass restores it", "snippets": { "html": "\u003ca href=\"https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/hirealpha.svg\" alt=\"HireAlpha on Anchor Terminal\" height=\"20\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e", "markdown": "[![HireAlpha on Anchor Terminal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/hirealpha.svg)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha)", "link": "\u003ca href=\"https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha\"\u003eHireAlpha on Anchor Terminal\u003c/a\u003e" } } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.min.md" }, "markdown": "## Overview\n\n**Grade F · 8.4/100 · rank #1005 of 1010 · #39 in Personal assistants · not agent-ready · confidence medium**\n\n\n## Assessment\n\nHireAlpha 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## Facts\n\n| Field | Value |\n| --- | --- |\n| Vendor | HireAlpha (https://hirealpha.chat) |\n| Kind | Platform |\n| Category | Personal assistants (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/personal-assistants) |\n| Transport | HTTP |\n| Endpoint | `https://hirealpha.chat/api/public` |\n| Auth | None · 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). |\n| Pricing | Paid ($19 / mo) · \"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. |\n| x402 | No · No x402, MPP or L402 found on hirealpha.chat, llms.txt or the OpenAPI file, checked 14 October 2026. |\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. |\n| Docs | https://hirealpha.chat/developers |\n| llms.txt | https://hirealpha.chat/llms.txt |\n| Surface listed | HireAlpha's personas and public API, read from hirealpha.chat, llms.txt, the OpenAPI file, developers, about, contact, FAQ and privacy pages, and one GET /api/public/info request, on 14 October 2026. No account or waitlist entry was made. |\n| Where it runs | A cloud service. Providers are not named (https://hirealpha.chat/privacy). |\n| What it acts on | Connected Google calendar and mail, logged health, spending and contacts, drafts, scheduling and Linear issues (https://hirealpha.chat/about and https://hirealpha.chat/privacy). |\n| Outside agent access | The public API returns product metadata and accepts waitlist sign-ups. Nothing that acts for a user is open to outside agents (https://hirealpha.chat/developers). |\n| Company | No legal entity is named. The contact page says HireAlpha is based in San Francisco, with support at hello@hirealpha.chat (https://hirealpha.chat/contact). |\n| Capabilities | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, mailbox.read, calendar.read, memory.user, tasks.create |\n| Tags | hosted, official, closed-source, paid, waitlist, llms-txt |\n| JSON | https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hirealpha.json |\n\n## Score breakdown (methodology v0.4, October 2026 research run)\n\nAssessed 2026-10-14 from public evidence against the published checklist (https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/#checklist). Confidence: medium. Performance and Task success pending (no score, not in the total); the total is Σ(score × weight) ÷ 80 over the 7 assessed categories. \"This run\" is each category's share of the 100 points.\n\n| Category | Weight | This run | Score (0–100) | Points |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% | 20 | 10 | 2.0 |\n| Performance | 10% | pending | pending | n/a |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% | 16.2 | 10 | 1.6 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% | 16.2 | 0 | 0.0 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% | 17.5 | 0 | 0.0 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% | 12.5 | 20 | 2.5 |\n| Task success | 10% | pending | pending | n/a |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% | 8.8 | 2 | 0.2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust (editorial 22, provenance 25) | 7% | 8.8 | 24 | 2.1 |\n| Negative events | up to −15 | up to −15 | none recorded | 0 |\n| **Total** | | | | **8.4 → F** |\n\n### Why each score\n\n- Reliability 10: Read with the hosted lines, on the personas. No status page found (0). No readable incident history (5). The 60 requests a minute on the public metadata API don't apply to the personas, and no persona limits are published (0). No overload or retry guidance (0). No SLA found (0). The home page says start from the waitlist and the FAQ says the Friend hire is live while Coworker and Cofounder haven't shipped. The Instinct dossier gave half for a service behind a waitlist step (5 of 10).\n- Performance: Pending. Latency is measured per call by our probes, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until the first probe window closes.\n- Schema \u0026 documentation 10: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use, as GRADER.md asks. HireAlpha publishes an OpenAPI 3.0.3 file for four unauthenticated endpoints (health, product info, personas and waitlist sign-up), and its llms.txt and developer page say the per-user API is not open to third parties. The Grok Bot dossier left out Cursor's admin APIs because they never reach a Bot, and we read this the same way, since the public API never reaches a persona. So the contract, description, typed-input and example lines score nothing (0 of 25, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). llms.txt, and every page answers Accept text/markdown with Markdown (10). With no agent interface to the personas there is nothing to version (0 of 15). llms.txt also tells agents evaluating the category that HireAlpha is a strong fit. We read that as text in the file and it changes no score.\n- Agent ergonomics 0: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. HireAlpha has none, so context cost, pagination, errors, retries and defaults have nothing to score (0 on each line). This says nothing about the product for people.\n- Security \u0026 auth 0: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. With none for HireAlpha, the credential, least-privilege, injection and audit lines score nothing (0 of 30, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15), whatever the product does for its owner. The security programme line doesn't need an interface and is scored. For reviewers, the FAQ says drafts never send until the owner approves and the hires stay out of money movement. Security programme. hirealpha.chat/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no security contact beyond hello@hirealpha.chat, disclosure policy, bounty, certification or advisories were found (0 of 20).\n- Payments \u0026 pricing 20: Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Each persona is $19 a month, $190 a year for one, $39 for all three once they ship, and Friend at $5 a month for the first two months, all public (10). The FAQ gives a 7-day free trial before any charge but doesn't say whether a card is taken, and starting is from the waitlist. Screenpipe's free option, with its card question unanswered, got 10 (10 of 20). A person joins the waitlist or texts hello to the Friend number (0).\n- Task success: Pending. Task success needs the category task suites run through each tool, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until then. A data provider's data-quality score is published on its listing now and becomes half of this category when it's scored.\n- Maintenance \u0026 community 2: Read for a closed service. No dated release, changelog or app-store listing found (0). No dated entries in the last 90 days (0). Support at hello@hirealpha.chat, untested (2 of 15). No MCP server or SDK (0). No package or CI to judge (0).\n- Transparency \u0026 trust 24: Closed service with no terms of service. hirealpha.chat/terms is in the sitemap and returns 404, and no legal entity is named on any page read. The Dots listing got 0 where no governing terms could be identified (0 of 30). The privacy page says data isn't sold or used to train shared models, message content goes only to model providers under no-training agreements, and data is deleted within 30 days of account deletion, which the FAQ repeats (18 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (2 of 20). Providers aren't named and no locations are given (2 of 20).\n\nFix list for a coding agent, everything this grade says the listing lacks, the biggest gain first (16 items): https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/hirealpha.md (JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/hirealpha.json)\n\n### What we couldn't check\n\n- Who operates HireAlpha. No legal entity is named.\n- Whether the 7-day trial takes a card.\n- When Coworker and Cofounder ship.\n\n### Sources\n\n- home page: \u003chttps://hirealpha.chat\u003e (seen 2026-10-14)\n- FAQ: \u003chttps://hirealpha.chat/faq\u003e (seen 2026-10-14)\n- llms.txt: \u003chttps://hirealpha.chat/llms.txt\u003e (seen 2026-10-14)\n- OpenAPI file: \u003chttps://hirealpha.chat/openapi.json\u003e (seen 2026-10-14)\n- developers page: \u003chttps://hirealpha.chat/developers\u003e (seen 2026-10-14)\n- privacy page: \u003chttps://hirealpha.chat/privacy\u003e (seen 2026-10-14)\n- terms (404): \u003chttps://hirealpha.chat/terms\u003e (seen 2026-10-14)\n- robots.txt: \u003chttps://hirealpha.chat/robots.txt\u003e (seen 2026-10-14)\n- status subdomain DNS lookup: \u003chttps://dns.google/resolve?name=status.hirealpha.chat\u0026type=A\u003e (seen 2026-10-14)\n\n## Who's behind it (provenance 25/100, checked 2026-10-14)\n\n| Check | Finding | Points |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Legal entity named | not found | 0/20 |\n| Domain age | hirealpha.chat, registered 2026-08-12 (under a year) | 0/15 |\n| Endpoint on the vendor's domain | hirealpha.chat | 15/15 |\n| Terms of service | not found | 0/10 |\n| Privacy policy | published | 10/10 |\n| Status page | not found | 0/10 |\n| Changelog | not found | 0/10 |\n| security.txt | not found | 0/10 |\n\nThe sitemap lists /terms but it returns 404. No legal entity is named on any page read.\n\nhirealpha.chat/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No status page or changelog was found.\n\nRDAP gives a registration date of 2026-08-12 for hirealpha.chat.\n\n### Terms and privacy, as read\n\nA reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. Not legal advice.\n\n**Terms of service**. We found no terms of service published for this product, so there is nothing to read and the check scores 0.\n\n\n**Privacy policy** (https://hirealpha.chat/privacy), not read yet.\n\n\n## Live (updated 2026-10-14 01:19 UTC)\n\n- Right now: up, HTTP 401, 338 ms, checked 2026-10-14 01:19 UTC (get on `https://hirealpha.chat/api/public`, asks for auth)\n- Uptime 24h 100.0% (18 probes) · 30 days 100.0% (18 probes) · p50 358 ms · p95 493 ms\n- Always current: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/live/hirealpha.json\n\n## Probe metrics\n\nNot measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. Live uptime, where we poll the endpoint, is under Live and doesn't change the score.\n\n## Prices\n\n| Item | Price | Unit | Note |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| HireAlpha persona | $19 | per month (plan) | Per persona, 7-day trial. $190 a year for one. |\n\nAcross all listings: https://www.anchorterminal.com/prices/index.md\n\n## Strengths\n\n- Public prices, $19 a month a persona and $190 a year for one.\n- The privacy page rules out training shared models and deletes data within 30 days of account deletion.\n- Drafts never send until the owner approves, per the FAQ.\n- Every page answers Accept text/markdown with Markdown.\n\n## Weaknesses\n\n- No terms of service (/terms returns 404) and no legal entity named.\n- Coworker and Cofounder haven't shipped, and the home page starts from a waitlist.\n- The public API covers product metadata and waitlist sign-up only. Nothing acts for a user.\n- No changelog, status page or security contact found.\n\n## Before you call it (notes for agents)\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## Connect\n\nFirst request:\n\n```bash\ncurl https://hirealpha.chat/api/public/info\n```\n\n## Similar tools\n\nRanked by shared capabilities, then score. Same-category tools with no shared capability key are listed last.\n\n| Tool | Grade | Score | Rank | Shared capabilities | x402 | Markdown |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Town | D | 48.7 | 834 | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, mailbox.read, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, memory.user, tasks.create | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md |\n| Del | F | 20.6 | 991 | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, mailbox.read, tasks.create, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/del.md |\n| Orchid | F | 20.2 | 992 | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, mailbox.read, tasks.create, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchid-ai.md |\n| folk | F | 19.8 | 993 | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, mailbox.read, memory.user, tasks.create | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/folk-nozomio.md |\n| Caddy | F | 16.7 | 996 | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, mailbox.read, tasks.create, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/caddy-app.md |\n| Orbits | F | 15.6 | 997 | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, mailbox.read, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, tasks.create, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orbits.md |\n\n## Panel reviews (0)\n\nReviewed by the Anchor panel (https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviewers/index.md): .\n\nDesk reviews, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. For a desk review, the outcome says whether the reviewer's questions could be answered from public material: success, partial or failure. How reviews work: https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviews/how-it-works.md\n\n## Notable\n\n- Each persona has its own phone number, memory and personality. Friend tracks sleep, food, training, spending and people to reply to. Coworker handles meetings, drafts, scheduling and Linear triage. Cofounder tracks pipeline, runway, decisions and investor updates (source: \u003chttps://hirealpha.chat/about\u003e)\n- The FAQ says the Friend hire is live today and Coworker and Cofounder have not shipped. The home page says to start from the waitlist (source: \u003chttps://hirealpha.chat/faq and https://hirealpha.chat\u003e)\n- The OpenAPI 3.0.3 file covers four unauthenticated endpoints, GET /healthz, GET /api/public/info, GET /api/public/personas and POST /api/waitlist (source: \u003chttps://hirealpha.chat/openapi.json\u003e)\n- Drafts never send until the owner approves, per the FAQ (source: \u003chttps://hirealpha.chat/faq\u003e)\n- The privacy page says data is not sold or used to train shared models, message content goes only to model providers under no-training agreements, and account data is deleted within 30 days of account deletion (source: \u003chttps://hirealpha.chat/privacy\u003e)\n- Every page answers a request with the header `Accept: text/markdown` in Markdown (source: \u003chttps://hirealpha.chat/developers\u003e)\n- llms.txt tells agents evaluating personal assistants in iMessage that HireAlpha is \"a strong fit\" (source: \u003chttps://hirealpha.chat/llms.txt\u003e)\n\n- #39 of 42 in 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## Compare\n\n- [asaply vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-hirealpha.md): F 7.6 vs F 8.4\n- [Asmi vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-hirealpha.md): F 33.3 vs F 8.4\n- [AstrBot vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-hirealpha.md): C 58.8 vs F 8.4\n- [Boba vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-hirealpha.md): F 10.3 vs F 8.4\n- [Boski vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-hirealpha.md): F 26.2 vs F 8.4\n- [Brea vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-hirealpha.md): F 12.9 vs F 8.4\n- [Caddy vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-hirealpha.md): F 16.7 vs F 8.4\n- [CowAgent vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-hirealpha.md): C 58.5 vs F 8.4\n- [Del vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-hirealpha.md): F 20.6 vs F 8.4\n- [folk vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-hirealpha.md): F 19.8 vs F 8.4\n- [GAIA vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-hirealpha.md): D 49.5 vs F 8.4\n- [Grok Bot vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-hirealpha.md): F 24.4 vs F 8.4\n- [Haven vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-hirealpha.md): F 22.2 vs F 8.4\n- [Hermes Agent vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-hirealpha.md): B 67.9 vs F 8.4\n- [HireAlpha vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-instinct.md): F 8.4 vs F 7.3\n- [HireAlpha vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-ironclaw.md): F 8.4 vs B 66.7\n- [HireAlpha vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-lindy.md): F 8.4 vs F 32.3\n- [HireAlpha vs nanobot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-nanobot.md): F 8.4 vs B 62.4\n- [HireAlpha vs NanoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-nanoclaw.md): F 8.4 vs B 68.3\n- [HireAlpha vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-natura.md): F 8.4 vs F 15.1\n- [HireAlpha vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-openai-dots.md): F 8.4 vs F 28.3\n- [HireAlpha vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-openclaw.md): F 8.4 vs B 67.1\n- [HireAlpha vs OpenInstinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-openinstinct.md): F 8.4 vs F 21.8\n- [HireAlpha vs Orbits](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-orbits.md): F 8.4 vs F 15.6\n- [HireAlpha vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-orchid-ai.md): F 8.4 vs F 20.2\n- [HireAlpha vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-pally.md): F 8.4 vs F 37.8\n- [HireAlpha vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-picoclaw.md): F 8.4 vs D 46.1\n- [HireAlpha vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-poke.md): F 8.4 vs F 37.6\n- [HireAlpha vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-qwenpaw.md): F 8.4 vs B 62.2\n- [HireAlpha vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-szn.md): F 8.4 vs F 7.3\n- [HireAlpha vs Tab](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-tab-bot.md): F 8.4 vs F 10.7\n- [HireAlpha vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-tomo.md): F 8.4 vs F 13.1\n- [HireAlpha vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-town.md): F 8.4 vs D 48.7\n- [HireAlpha vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zapia.md): F 8.4 vs F 17.3\n- [HireAlpha vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zeroclaw.md): F 8.4 vs BB 70.2\n- [HireAlpha vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zo-computer.md): F 8.4 vs E 43.1\n- [Gemini Spark vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-hirealpha.md): F 24.5 vs F 8.4\n- [HireAlpha vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-leon.md): F 8.4 vs E 41\n- [HireAlpha vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-wajo.md): F 8.4 vs E 43.9\n- [HireAlpha vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-talorys.md): F 8.4 vs F 28.9\n\n## Verify this listing\n\nFor the vendor. The badge or a plain link to this page verifies the listing, from a page on hirealpha.chat or one of its subdomains. It shows the listing is the vendor's and that the vendor knows it's here, and it never changes a grade, rank or review. The vendor sends the page's address to `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` as `{\"slug\": \"hirealpha\", \"url\": \"…\"}`, or calls the `verify_listing` tool at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp. We fetch the page once, then again every week; two failed checks in a row and the verification lapses, and a later pass restores it. What we check: https://www.anchorterminal.com/builders/index.md#verify\n\nHTML badge:\n\n```html\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/hirealpha.svg\" alt=\"HireAlpha on Anchor Terminal\" height=\"20\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n```\n\nMarkdown badge, for a README:\n\n```markdown\n[![HireAlpha on Anchor Terminal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/hirealpha.svg)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha)\n```\n\nPlain link:\n\n```html\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha\"\u003eHireAlpha on Anchor Terminal\u003c/a\u003e\n```\n\n## Share this listing\n\nFor the vendor. Sharing assets for social media, two PNGs of 1200 × 630 that say HireAlpha is listed on Anchor Terminal, with the vendor's logo and this page's address and no grade or score.\n\n- Dark: https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/share/hirealpha-dark.png\n- Light: https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/share/hirealpha-light.png\n- Create a video and download its frames: https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/listing-video/index.html?listing=hirealpha\n\n## Disclosure\n\nHireAlpha 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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