# Tab (slim)

> Tab is a hosted AI assistant in private beta that people text in Messages. It has its own computer and browser, makes phone calls, works with connected accounts, and places orders or pays invoices after the owner approves.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tab-bot.md (~5,200 tokens) · this version ~1,280 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tab-bot.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tab-bot
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-13

**F · 10.7/100 · rank #1003 of 1010 · #37 in Personal assistants · not agent-ready · confidence low**


Assessment: Tab is a private-beta texting assistant with a detailed security page on credential isolation and checkout binding, and a public updates page. No outside agent can call it, no price is published, and its privacy policy says nothing on training with user content.

## Facts

- Kind: Platform · vendor: Terrasoft, Inc. · category: Personal assistants · legal entity: Terrasoft, Inc. · provenance 59/100
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Paid · x402: no · licence: Closed service under Tab's Terms of Use (Terrasoft, Inc., effective 2 September 2026).
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Surface listed: Tab, read from tab.bot, the security page, terms, privacy policy and updates page on 14 October 2026. No waitlist entry was made.
- Where it runs: A cloud service. Providers are named only by category in the privacy policy (https://tab.bot/privacy).
- What it acts on: Websites through its own browser, phone calls, connected accounts, files and media, purchases, reservations and invoice payments (https://tab.bot).
- Outside agent access: None found.
- Access: Private beta. Joining the waitlist needs a name and a mobile number (https://tab.bot).
- Security contact: The security page says to email with the subject line Security. The address on the page decodes to privacy@tab.bot (https://tab.bot/security).
- Eligibility: 18 or the age of majority (https://tab.bot/terms).

- Scores: Reliability 5, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 0, Agent ergonomics 0, Security & auth 4, Payments & pricing 0, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 58, Transparency & trust 45 · 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 effective 2 September 2026 naming Terrasoft, Inc.
- Sources: 7, open questions: 3, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: assistant.messaging, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, browser.hosted, voice.calls, commerce.checkout, payments.card-token, memory.user
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tab-bot.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/tab-bot.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tab-bot from a page on tab.bot 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 Tab from another agent. It answers only the owner's Messages or WhatsApp thread.
2. Tell the owner that access needs a waitlist place and no price is published.

## Similar tools

| Tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | Slim |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OpenInstinct | F | 21.8 | assistant.messaging, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, browser.hosted, commerce.checkout, payments.card-token, memory.user | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openinstinct.min.md |
| Brea | F | 12.9 | assistant.messaging, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, browser.hosted, commerce.checkout, payments.card-token, memory.user | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brea.min.md |
| folk | F | 19.8 | assistant.messaging, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, browser.hosted, voice.calls, memory.user | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/folk-nozomio.min.md |
| Orbits | F | 15.6 | assistant.messaging, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, voice.calls, commerce.checkout, memory.user | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orbits.min.md |
| Town | D | 48.7 | assistant.messaging, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, voice.calls, memory.user | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.min.md |


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


Disclosure: Tab 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.