{ "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", "calendar.write", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.inbound", "voice.calls", "memory.user", "tasks.create" ], "slug": "town" }, { "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", "calendar.write", "voice.calls", "memory.user", "tasks.create" ], "slug": "folk-nozomio" }, { "grade": "F", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orbits.json", "name": "Orbits", "score": 15.6, "shared": [ "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "calendar.write", "mailbox.read", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.inbound", "voice.calls", "tasks.create", "memory.user" ], "slug": "orbits" }, { "grade": "F", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pally.json", "name": "Pally", "score": 37.8, "shared": [ "assistant.accounts", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.memory", "messaging.rcs", "mailbox.read", "calendar.write", "voice.calls", "travel.booking", "memory.user" ], "slug": "pally" }, { "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", "calendar.write", "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", "calendar.write", "tasks.create", "memory.user" ], "slug": "orchid-ai" } ], "tool": { "slug": "szn", "name": "szn", "vendor": "Nomadic Futures", "vendorUrl": "https://theszn.ai", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "szn (pronounced season) is a hosted personal assistant that carries out errands end to end. It makes phone calls, sends emails, books and follows up for the owner, reached through its web app, iMessage, SMS and email.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/szn", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/szn.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/szn.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/szn.json", "license": "Closed service. No terms of service were found on theszn.ai. A privacy policy and an acceptable use policy (both last updated March 2026) apply.", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Sign-in through Google or Apple, and some parts can be used without an account under a temporary anonymous session (https://theszn.ai/privacy). New accounts start from an access-code page (https://theszn.ai/access). Gmail access is read-only and Google Calendar access can read, create and change events (https://theszn.ai/privacy).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "\"Free during early preview\" (https://theszn.ai, checked 14 October 2026). No paid plan was found. The acceptable use policy says users are responsible for \"token consumption and costs from executed tasks\" (https://theszn.ai/aup), and the privacy policy says payments go through providers such as Stripe.", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on theszn.ai, its llms.txt, privacy policy and acceptable use policy, checked 14 October 2026.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "llmsTxt": "https://theszn.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "voice.calls", "email.send", "mailbox.read", "calendar.write", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.inbound", "travel.booking", "memory.user", "tasks.create" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "free", "waitlist", "llms-txt" ], "graded": true, "disclosure": "szn 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": 1010, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1010, "categoryRank": 42, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 2, "payments": 20, "reliability": 5, "schema": 10, "security": 0, "transparency": 23 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "breakdown": [ { "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16, "effectiveWeight": 20, "score": 5, "points": 1, "reason": "Read with the hosted lines. No status page found (0). No readable incident history (5). No limits published (0). No overload or retry guidance (0). No SLA found (0). llms.txt says live, with early access, and the access page asks for an access code before sign-in, which the Dots listing scored 0 for a gated rollout (0)." }, { "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. szn has no API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an agent, so the contract, description, typed-input and example lines score nothing (0 of 25, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). That is a statement about agent access, not about the product for people. theszn.ai/llms.txt describes the product, channels and operator (10). The versioning and changelog line versions an agent interface, and with none there is nothing to version, so it scores nothing (0 of 15). This is the reading the 12 October auditor applied to every listing without an agent interface, and app release notes count under maintenance instead." }, { "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13, "effectiveWeight": 16.25, "score": 0, "points": 0, "reason": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. szn 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 szn, 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 acceptable use policy says tasks can't always be undone and makes the user responsible for reviewing and confirming actions before execution, and credentials can be kept in an encrypted vault not shared with AI providers. Security programme. theszn.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no security contact beyond hello@theszn.ai, 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). The home page says free during early preview, and no paid plan is published, so the public price is a free preview (10). The free option is limited to the preview and needs an access code, and the acceptable use policy makes users responsible for token consumption and costs from executed tasks. That's hedged the way the Muse dossier's limited-period free use was (10 of 20). A person needs an access code and Google or Apple sign-in (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, and the methodology page says coming soon (0). No dated entries in the last 90 days (0). Contact at hello@theszn.ai, 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": 23, "points": 2.01, "note": "editorial 19, provenance 27", "reason": "Closed service with no terms of service found. An acceptable use policy and a privacy policy, both last updated in March 2026, name the service but no legal entity, and only llms.txt names Nomadic Futures as operator. The Dots listing got 0 where no governing terms could be identified, and an acceptable use policy sets some terms (5 of 30). The privacy policy keeps account data until deletion, task data until the user deletes it and logs for limited periods, and deletes or anonymises a closed account within a reasonable timeframe. It names third-party AI providers without listing them and says nothing on training (10 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (2 of 20). Operated from the United States with providers unnamed (2 of 20)." } ], "assessment": { "date": "2026-10-14", "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "notes": { "ergonomics": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. szn 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, and the methodology page says coming soon (0). No dated entries in the last 90 days (0). Contact at hello@theszn.ai, 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). The home page says free during early preview, and no paid plan is published, so the public price is a free preview (10). The free option is limited to the preview and needs an access code, and the acceptable use policy makes users responsible for token consumption and costs from executed tasks. That's hedged the way the Muse dossier's limited-period free use was (10 of 20). A person needs an access code and Google or Apple sign-in (0).", "reliability": "Read with the hosted lines. No status page found (0). No readable incident history (5). No limits published (0). No overload or retry guidance (0). No SLA found (0). llms.txt says live, with early access, and the access page asks for an access code before sign-in, which the Dots listing scored 0 for a gated rollout (0).", "schema": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use, as GRADER.md asks. szn has no API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an agent, so the contract, description, typed-input and example lines score nothing (0 of 25, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). That is a statement about agent access, not about the product for people. theszn.ai/llms.txt describes the product, channels and operator (10). The versioning and changelog line versions an agent interface, and with none there is nothing to version, so it scores nothing (0 of 15). This is the reading the 12 October auditor applied to every listing without an agent interface, and app release notes count under maintenance instead.", "security": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. With none for szn, 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 acceptable use policy says tasks can't always be undone and makes the user responsible for reviewing and confirming actions before execution, and credentials can be kept in an encrypted vault not shared with AI providers. Security programme. theszn.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no security contact beyond hello@theszn.ai, disclosure policy, bounty, certification or advisories were found (0 of 20).", "transparency": "Closed service with no terms of service found. An acceptable use policy and a privacy policy, both last updated in March 2026, name the service but no legal entity, and only llms.txt names Nomadic Futures as operator. The Dots listing got 0 where no governing terms could be identified, and an acceptable use policy sets some terms (5 of 30). The privacy policy keeps account data until deletion, task data until the user deletes it and logs for limited periods, and deletes or anonymises a closed account within a reasonable timeframe. It names third-party AI providers without listing them and says nothing on training (10 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (2 of 20). Operated from the United States with providers unnamed (2 of 20)." }, "sources": [ { "what": "home page", "url": "https://theszn.ai", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "llms.txt", "url": "https://theszn.ai/llms.txt", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "access page", "url": "https://theszn.ai/access", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "privacy policy", "url": "https://theszn.ai/privacy", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "acceptable use policy", "url": "https://theszn.ai/aup", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "robots.txt", "url": "https://theszn.ai/robots.txt", "seen": "2026-10-14" }, { "what": "status subdomain DNS lookup", "url": "https://dns.google/resolve?name=status.theszn.ai\u0026type=A", "seen": "2026-10-14" } ], "openQuestions": [ "Who the legal operator is. llms.txt names Nomadic Futures with no legal form.", "Whether user content trains models.", "Whether a person can start without an access code." ] }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "szn is an errand assistant in early access that makes calls, sends emails and books for its owner, free during the preview for people with an access code. No outside agent can call it, no terms of service or legal entity appear in its policies, and its privacy policy says nothing on training.", "bestFor": "A person who wants calls, emails and bookings done for them and has an access code.", "disclosure": "szn 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": [ "Free during the early preview.", "Credentials can be kept in an encrypted vault that the privacy policy says isn't shared with AI providers.", "Gmail access is read-only, per the privacy policy." ], "weaknesses": [ "Early access by access code only.", "No terms of service found, and no legal entity named in its policies.", "The privacy policy says nothing on training with user content and doesn't name its AI providers.", "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent." ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't plan to call szn from another agent. It answers only its web app, iMessage, SMS and email for the owner.", "Tell the owner they need an access code to start, and that the acceptable use policy makes them responsible for confirming actions." ], "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": 20, "reliability": 5, "schema": 10, "security": 0, "transparency": 19 }, "provenanceScore": 27 }, "connect": {}, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.messaging", "tool": "https://letme.dev/szn" }, "notable": [ "llms.txt says szn makes the phone calls, sends the emails, fills the bookings and follows up until a task is done, over the web app, iMessage, SMS and email, and that it is built and operated by Nomadic Futures (https://theszn.ai/llms.txt)", "The access page asks for an access code before sign-in, and llms.txt describes the status as \"live, with early access\" (https://theszn.ai/access and https://theszn.ai/llms.txt)", "Owners can keep credentials in an encrypted vault for automated tasks. The privacy policy says vault contents are not shared with AI providers (https://theszn.ai/privacy)", "Calls, emails from system-managed inboxes and SMS sent to third parties are processed and may be recorded or transcribed (https://theszn.ai/privacy)", "The acceptable use policy says tasks can have consequences that cannot be undone and that \"You are responsible for reviewing and confirming actions before execution\" (https://theszn.ai/aup)", "No statement on training models with user content was found in the privacy policy. It names third-party AI providers without listing them (https://theszn.ai/privacy)", "The methodology page reads \"Coming soon\" (https://theszn.ai/methodology)" ], "area": "frameworks", "details": [ { "label": "Surface listed", "value": "The szn web app and its iMessage, SMS and email channels, read from theszn.ai, llms.txt, the access page, privacy policy and acceptable use policy on 14 October 2026. /app is disallowed by robots.txt and was not requested. No account was created." }, { "label": "Where it runs", "value": "A cloud service operated from the United States (https://theszn.ai/privacy). Providers are not named." }, { "label": "What it acts on", "value": "Phone calls to businesses, email, SMS, bookings and orders, Gmail (read-only) and Google Calendar (https://theszn.ai/llms.txt and https://theszn.ai/privacy)." }, { "label": "Outside agent access", "value": "None found." }, { "label": "Access", "value": "Early access by access code (https://theszn.ai/access). Whether a new person can start without a code was not established." }, { "label": "Data handling", "value": "Account data until deletion, task data until the user deletes it, and log data for limited periods. Deleted accounts are deleted or anonymised \"within a reasonable timeframe\" (https://theszn.ai/privacy)." }, { "label": "Eligibility", "value": "Not intended for users under 16 (https://theszn.ai/privacy)." } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "theszn.ai", "domainRegistered": "2024-12-18", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://theszn.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "No terms of service were found. The sitemap lists the home, product, methodology, access, privacy and AUP pages only.", "The privacy policy and AUP name the service as theszn.ai (\"szn\") with no legal entity. llms.txt says szn is built and operated by Nomadic Futures (https://nomadicfutures.ai); its legal form is not stated.", "Contact hello@theszn.ai. theszn.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No status page or changelog was found.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 2024-12-18 for theszn.ai." ], "score": 27, "checks": [ { "check": "Legal entity named", "value": "not found", "points": 0, "max": 20, "state": "no" }, { "check": "Domain age", "value": "theszn.ai, registered 2024-12-18 (1 year)", "points": 3, "max": 15, "state": "part" }, { "check": "Endpoint on the vendor's domain", "value": "no hosted endpoint", "points": 0, "max": 0, "state": "na" }, { "check": "Terms of service", "value": "nothing hosted, so the Closed service. No terms of service were found on theszn.ai. A privacy policy and an acceptable use policy (both last updated March 2026) apply. licence stands in", "points": 10, "max": 10, "state": "ok" }, { "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/szn.json" }, "verify": { "accepts": "a page on theszn.ai or one of its subdomains", "badgeUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/szn.svg", "body": { "slug": "szn", "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/szn", "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/szn\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/szn.svg\" alt=\"szn on Anchor Terminal\" height=\"20\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e", "markdown": "[![szn on Anchor Terminal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/szn.svg)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/szn)", "link": "\u003ca href=\"https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/szn\"\u003eszn 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/szn", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/szn.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/szn.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/szn.min.md" }, "markdown": "## Overview\n\n**Grade F · 7.3/100 · rank #1010 of 1010 · #42 in Personal assistants · not agent-ready · confidence medium**\n\n\n## Assessment\n\nszn is an errand assistant in early access that makes calls, sends emails and books for its owner, free during the preview for people with an access code. No outside agent can call it, no terms of service or legal entity appear in its policies, and its privacy policy says nothing on training.\n\n## Facts\n\n| Field | Value |\n| --- | --- |\n| Vendor | Nomadic Futures (https://theszn.ai) |\n| Kind | Platform |\n| Category | Personal assistants (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/personal-assistants) |\n| Auth | OAuth or key · Sign-in through Google or Apple, and some parts can be used without an account under a temporary anonymous session (https://theszn.ai/privacy). New accounts start from an access-code page (https://theszn.ai/access). Gmail access is read-only and Google Calendar access can read, create and change events (https://theszn.ai/privacy). |\n| Pricing | Free (Free) · \"Free during early preview\" (https://theszn.ai, checked 14 October 2026). No paid plan was found. The acceptable use policy says users are responsible for \"token consumption and costs from executed tasks\" (https://theszn.ai/aup), and the privacy policy says payments go through providers such as Stripe. |\n| x402 | No · No x402, MPP or L402 found on theszn.ai, its llms.txt, privacy policy and acceptable use policy, checked 14 October 2026. |\n| Licence | Closed service. No terms of service were found on theszn.ai. A privacy policy and an acceptable use policy (both last updated March 2026) apply. |\n| llms.txt | https://theszn.ai/llms.txt |\n| Surface listed | The szn web app and its iMessage, SMS and email channels, read from theszn.ai, llms.txt, the access page, privacy policy and acceptable use policy on 14 October 2026. /app is disallowed by robots.txt and was not requested. No account was created. |\n| Where it runs | A cloud service operated from the United States (https://theszn.ai/privacy). Providers are not named. |\n| What it acts on | Phone calls to businesses, email, SMS, bookings and orders, Gmail (read-only) and Google Calendar (https://theszn.ai/llms.txt and https://theszn.ai/privacy). |\n| Outside agent access | None found. |\n| Access | Early access by access code (https://theszn.ai/access). Whether a new person can start without a code was not established. |\n| Data handling | Account data until deletion, task data until the user deletes it, and log data for limited periods. Deleted accounts are deleted or anonymised \"within a reasonable timeframe\" (https://theszn.ai/privacy). |\n| Eligibility | Not intended for users under 16 (https://theszn.ai/privacy). |\n| Capabilities | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, voice.calls, email.send, mailbox.read, calendar.write, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, travel.booking, memory.user, tasks.create |\n| Tags | hosted, official, closed-source, free, waitlist, llms-txt |\n| JSON | https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/szn.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 | 5 | 1.0 |\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 19, provenance 27) | 7% | 8.8 | 23 | 2.0 |\n| Negative events | up to −15 | up to −15 | none recorded | 0 |\n| **Total** | | | | **7.3 → F** |\n\n### Why each score\n\n- Reliability 5: Read with the hosted lines. No status page found (0). No readable incident history (5). No limits published (0). No overload or retry guidance (0). No SLA found (0). llms.txt says live, with early access, and the access page asks for an access code before sign-in, which the Dots listing scored 0 for a gated rollout (0).\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. szn has no API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an agent, so the contract, description, typed-input and example lines score nothing (0 of 25, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). That is a statement about agent access, not about the product for people. theszn.ai/llms.txt describes the product, channels and operator (10). The versioning and changelog line versions an agent interface, and with none there is nothing to version, so it scores nothing (0 of 15). This is the reading the 12 October auditor applied to every listing without an agent interface, and app release notes count under maintenance instead.\n- Agent ergonomics 0: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. szn 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 szn, 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 acceptable use policy says tasks can't always be undone and makes the user responsible for reviewing and confirming actions before execution, and credentials can be kept in an encrypted vault not shared with AI providers. Security programme. theszn.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no security contact beyond hello@theszn.ai, 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). The home page says free during early preview, and no paid plan is published, so the public price is a free preview (10). The free option is limited to the preview and needs an access code, and the acceptable use policy makes users responsible for token consumption and costs from executed tasks. That's hedged the way the Muse dossier's limited-period free use was (10 of 20). A person needs an access code and Google or Apple sign-in (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, and the methodology page says coming soon (0). No dated entries in the last 90 days (0). Contact at hello@theszn.ai, untested (2 of 15). No MCP server or SDK (0). No package or CI to judge (0).\n- Transparency \u0026 trust 23: Closed service with no terms of service found. An acceptable use policy and a privacy policy, both last updated in March 2026, name the service but no legal entity, and only llms.txt names Nomadic Futures as operator. The Dots listing got 0 where no governing terms could be identified, and an acceptable use policy sets some terms (5 of 30). The privacy policy keeps account data until deletion, task data until the user deletes it and logs for limited periods, and deletes or anonymises a closed account within a reasonable timeframe. It names third-party AI providers without listing them and says nothing on training (10 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (2 of 20). Operated from the United States with providers unnamed (2 of 20).\n\nFix list for a coding agent, everything this grade says the listing lacks, the biggest gain first (15 items): https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/szn.md (JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/szn.json)\n\n### What we couldn't check\n\n- Who the legal operator is. llms.txt names Nomadic Futures with no legal form.\n- Whether user content trains models.\n- Whether a person can start without an access code.\n\n### Sources\n\n- home page: \u003chttps://theszn.ai\u003e (seen 2026-10-14)\n- llms.txt: \u003chttps://theszn.ai/llms.txt\u003e (seen 2026-10-14)\n- access page: \u003chttps://theszn.ai/access\u003e (seen 2026-10-14)\n- privacy policy: \u003chttps://theszn.ai/privacy\u003e (seen 2026-10-14)\n- acceptable use policy: \u003chttps://theszn.ai/aup\u003e (seen 2026-10-14)\n- robots.txt: \u003chttps://theszn.ai/robots.txt\u003e (seen 2026-10-14)\n- status subdomain DNS lookup: \u003chttps://dns.google/resolve?name=status.theszn.ai\u0026type=A\u003e (seen 2026-10-14)\n\n## Who's behind it (provenance 27/100, checked 2026-10-14)\n\n| Check | Finding | Points |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Legal entity named | not found | 0/20 |\n| Domain age | theszn.ai, registered 2024-12-18 (1 year) | 3/15 |\n| Endpoint on the vendor's domain | no hosted endpoint | n/a |\n| Terms of service | nothing hosted, so the Closed service. No terms of service were found on theszn.ai. A privacy policy and an acceptable use policy (both last updated March 2026) apply. licence stands in | 10/10 |\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\nNo terms of service were found. The sitemap lists the home, product, methodology, access, privacy and AUP pages only.\n\nThe privacy policy and AUP name the service as theszn.ai (\"szn\") with no legal entity. llms.txt says szn is built and operated by Nomadic Futures (https://nomadicfutures.ai); its legal form is not stated.\n\nContact hello@theszn.ai. theszn.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No status page or changelog was found.\n\nRDAP gives a registration date of 2024-12-18 for theszn.ai.\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**. Nothing is hosted by the vendor, so there are no terms of service to read. The Closed service. No terms of service were found on theszn.ai. A privacy policy and an acceptable use policy (both last updated March 2026) apply. licence stands in and the check scores in full.\n\n\n**Privacy policy** (https://theszn.ai/privacy), not read yet.\n\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## Strengths\n\n- Free during the early preview.\n- Credentials can be kept in an encrypted vault that the privacy policy says isn't shared with AI providers.\n- Gmail access is read-only, per the privacy policy.\n\n## Weaknesses\n\n- Early access by access code only.\n- No terms of service found, and no legal entity named in its policies.\n- The privacy policy says nothing on training with user content and doesn't name its AI providers.\n- No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.\n\n## Before you call it (notes for agents)\n\n1. Don't plan to call szn from another agent. It answers only its web app, iMessage, SMS and email for the owner.\n2. Tell the owner they need an access code to start, and that the acceptable use policy makes them responsible for confirming actions.\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, calendar.write, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, voice.calls, memory.user, tasks.create | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md |\n| folk | F | 19.8 | 993 | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, mailbox.read, calendar.write, voice.calls, memory.user, tasks.create | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/folk-nozomio.md |\n| Orbits | F | 15.6 | 997 | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, calendar.write, mailbox.read, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, voice.calls, tasks.create, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orbits.md |\n| Pally | F | 37.8 | 958 | assistant.accounts, assistant.messaging, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, mailbox.read, calendar.write, voice.calls, travel.booking, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pally.md |\n| Del | F | 20.6 | 991 | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, mailbox.read, calendar.write, 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, calendar.write, tasks.create, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchid-ai.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- llms.txt says szn makes the phone calls, sends the emails, fills the bookings and follows up until a task is done, over the web app, iMessage, SMS and email, and that it is built and operated by Nomadic Futures (source: \u003chttps://theszn.ai/llms.txt\u003e)\n- The access page asks for an access code before sign-in, and llms.txt describes the status as \"live, with early access\" (source: \u003chttps://theszn.ai/access and https://theszn.ai/llms.txt\u003e)\n- Owners can keep credentials in an encrypted vault for automated tasks. The privacy policy says vault contents are not shared with AI providers (source: \u003chttps://theszn.ai/privacy\u003e)\n- Calls, emails from system-managed inboxes and SMS sent to third parties are processed and may be recorded or transcribed (source: \u003chttps://theszn.ai/privacy\u003e)\n- The acceptable use policy says tasks can have consequences that cannot be undone and that \"You are responsible for reviewing and confirming actions before execution\" (source: \u003chttps://theszn.ai/aup\u003e)\n- No statement on training models with user content was found in the privacy policy. It names third-party AI providers without listing them (source: \u003chttps://theszn.ai/privacy\u003e)\n- The methodology page reads \"Coming soon\" (source: \u003chttps://theszn.ai/methodology\u003e)\n\n- #42 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 szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-szn.md): F 7.6 vs F 7.3\n- [Asmi vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-szn.md): F 33.3 vs F 7.3\n- [AstrBot vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-szn.md): C 58.8 vs F 7.3\n- [Boba vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-szn.md): F 10.3 vs F 7.3\n- [Boski vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-szn.md): F 26.2 vs F 7.3\n- [Brea vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-szn.md): F 12.9 vs F 7.3\n- [Caddy vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-szn.md): F 16.7 vs F 7.3\n- [CowAgent vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-szn.md): C 58.5 vs F 7.3\n- [Del vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-szn.md): F 20.6 vs F 7.3\n- [folk vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-szn.md): F 19.8 vs F 7.3\n- [GAIA vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-szn.md): D 49.5 vs F 7.3\n- [Grok Bot vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-szn.md): F 24.4 vs F 7.3\n- [Haven vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-szn.md): F 22.2 vs F 7.3\n- [Hermes Agent vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-szn.md): B 67.9 vs F 7.3\n- [HireAlpha vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-szn.md): F 8.4 vs F 7.3\n- [Instinct vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-szn.md): F 7.3 vs F 7.3\n- [IronClaw vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-szn.md): B 66.7 vs F 7.3\n- [Lindy vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-szn.md): F 32.3 vs F 7.3\n- [nanobot vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-szn.md): B 62.4 vs F 7.3\n- [NanoClaw vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-szn.md): B 68.3 vs F 7.3\n- [Dots vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-szn.md): F 28.3 vs F 7.3\n- [OpenClaw vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-szn.md): B 67.1 vs F 7.3\n- [OpenInstinct vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openinstinct-vs-szn.md): F 21.8 vs F 7.3\n- [Orbits vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orbits-vs-szn.md): F 15.6 vs F 7.3\n- [Orchid vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-szn.md): F 20.2 vs F 7.3\n- [PicoClaw vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-szn.md): D 46.1 vs F 7.3\n- [Poke vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-szn.md): F 37.6 vs F 7.3\n- [QwenPaw vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-szn.md): B 62.2 vs F 7.3\n- [szn vs Tab](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-tab-bot.md): F 7.3 vs F 10.7\n- [szn vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-tomo.md): F 7.3 vs F 13.1\n- [szn vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-town.md): F 7.3 vs D 48.7\n- [szn vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-zapia.md): F 7.3 vs F 17.3\n- [szn vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-zeroclaw.md): F 7.3 vs BB 70.2\n- [szn vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-zo-computer.md): F 7.3 vs E 43.1\n- [Gemini Spark vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-szn.md): F 24.5 vs F 7.3\n- [Leon vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-szn.md): E 41 vs F 7.3\n- [Natura tinyNature vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-szn.md): F 15.1 vs F 7.3\n- [Pally vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-szn.md): F 37.8 vs F 7.3\n- [szn vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-wajo.md): F 7.3 vs E 43.9\n- [szn vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-talorys.md): F 7.3 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 theszn.ai 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\": \"szn\", \"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/szn\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/szn.svg\" alt=\"szn on Anchor Terminal\" height=\"20\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n```\n\nMarkdown badge, for a README:\n\n```markdown\n[![szn on Anchor Terminal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/szn.svg)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/szn)\n```\n\nPlain link:\n\n```html\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/szn\"\u003eszn 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 szn 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/szn-dark.png\n- Light: https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/share/szn-light.png\n- Create a video and download its frames: https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/listing-video/index.html?listing=szn\n\n## Disclosure\n\nszn 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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