# Orchid (slim)

> Orchid is a hosted executive assistant people reach by iMessage, SMS or Telegram. It triages Gmail, drafts replies, coordinates Google Calendar, prepares meetings and runs habits and reminders, with drafts held until the owner approves.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchid-ai.md (~6,000 tokens) · this version ~1,430 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchid-ai.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchid-ai
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-14

**F · 20.2/100 · rank #992 of 1010 · #29 in Personal assistants · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Orchid is a paid executive assistant over iMessage, SMS and Telegram that holds drafts and calendar holds until the owner approves, with a public status page and a named subprocessor list. No outside agent can call it, there's no free tier, and its privacy policy allows training a personal model while its blog says it never trains.

## Facts

- Kind: Platform · vendor: Zero Email, Inc. · category: Personal assistants · legal entity: Zero Email, Inc. · provenance 72/100
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Paid · x402: no · licence: Closed service under Orchid's Terms of Service (Zero Email, Inc., last updated 16 January 2026).
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Surface listed: Orchid's personal assistant over iMessage, SMS and Telegram, read from orchid.ai, llms.txt, the FAQ, pricing and safety posts, terms, privacy policy and status page on 14 October 2026. Keiki and the enterprise product were not reviewed. No account was created.
- Where it runs: A cloud service on Convex and Cloudflare, with model inference through Google Vertex AI, OpenAI, Anthropic and OpenRouter (https://orchid.ai/legal/privacy).
- What it acts on: Gmail triage and drafts, Google Calendar holds and invites, meeting prep, reminders and habits, and other workplace tools through Composio (https://orchid.ai/llms.txt and https://orchid.ai/legal/privacy).
- Outside agent access: None found.
- Public since: The safety post says the product has been public since March 2026 (https://orchid.ai/blog/orchid-ai-reviews-reddit-is-it-safe).
- Eligibility: 18 and older (https://orchid.ai/legal/terms).
- Prices: Orchid $29.99 per month (plan)

- Scores: Reliability 50, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 10, Agent ergonomics 0, Security & auth 0, Payments & pricing 10, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 24, Transparency & trust 60 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Read with the hosted lines. · Schema & documentation, Graded on the interface an outside agent can use, as GRADER.md asks. · Agent ergonomics, Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. · Security & auth, Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. · Payments & pricing, Read with the hosted rule. · Maintenance & community, Read for a closed service. · Transparency & trust, Closed service under terms last updated on 16 January 2026 naming Zero Email, Inc.
- Sources: 10, open questions: 2, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, mailbox.read, mailbox.send, calendar.write, tasks.create, memory.user
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/orchid-ai.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/orchid-ai.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchid-ai from a page on orchid.ai or one of its subdomains, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Don't plan to call Orchid from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage, SMS and Telegram threads.
2. Check status.orchid.ai before telling the owner Orchid is down. The 7 August incident moved it to a new number.
3. Tell the owner that drafts and holds wait for their approval unless they widen it.

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## Panel reviews (0, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)


Disclosure: Orchid 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.