# Town (slim)

> Town is a hosted AI assistant, called a Townie, with its own email address. It works across the owner's email, calendar and connected work apps, runs scheduled routines, and answers by email, text, WhatsApp, Telegram, the web or iOS.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md (~7,450 tokens) · this version ~1,780 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-13

**D · 48.7/100 · rank #834 of 1010 · #12 in Personal assistants · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Town is a hosted assistant that works across the owner's mail, calendar and work apps, and other systems can start its routines through per-routine webhooks with rotatable secrets, idempotency keys and documented errors. A caller can't read a run's result. The privacy policy and trust page disagree on whether training is on by default.

## Facts

- Kind: Platform · vendor: Town.com, Inc. · category: Personal assistants · legal entity: Town.com, Inc. · provenance 76/100
- Local only (HTTP)
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026).
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Surface listed: The Town assistant on the web, iOS, email and messaging channels, and its routine webhooks. Read on 14 October 2026 from the pages town.com's robots.txt allows ClaudeBot to read (home, pricing, docs, terms, privacy policy, trust, subprocessors, updates) and the App Store listing. No account was created.
- Where it runs: A cloud service, US-hosted on Convex and AWS according to the trust page (https://www.town.com/trust).
- What it acts on: Email (drafts, sends, triage), calendars and scheduling with other people's calendars, work apps through integrations or custom MCP servers, documents and decks, and, when enabled, AI phone calls through Vapi (https://www.town.com/docs and https://www.town.com/subprocessors).
- Outside agent access: Per-routine webhook URLs that accept JSON or plain text with a bearer secret and start a routine run (https://www.town.com/docs/routines/stock-routines/webhooks). Anyone can also email a Townie's address. No public API or MCP server for calling a Townie was found.
- Data handling: Account deletion soft-deletes at once and removes all data within 30 days. The trust page says Town does not copy or index the inbox and pulls what a task needs at the time (https://www.town.com/trust).
- Company: Town.com, Inc., 222 Kearny Street, Suite #650, San Francisco, CA 94108. Disputes go to binding arbitration unless the user opts out within 30 days (https://www.town.com/terms-of-service).
- Eligibility: Not intended for anyone under 18 (https://www.town.com/privacy-policy).
- Prices: Town Starter $15 per month (plan); Town Pro $49 per month (plan); Town Power $99 per month (plan); Town Power Plus $199 per month (plan); Town Team $59 per seat per month; Town Pro overage $0.044 per credit

- Scores: Reliability 35, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 33, Agent ergonomics 49, Security & auth 79, Payments & pricing 30, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 60, Transparency & trust 63 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Read with the hosted lines, on the routine webhooks. · Schema & documentation, Graded on the routine webhooks, the one documented route by which an outside system can start Town's work, as the Poke listing was graded on… · Agent ergonomics, Graded on the routine webhooks. · Security & auth, Graded on the routine webhooks. · Payments & pricing, Read with the hosted rule. · Maintenance & community, Read for a closed service. · Transparency & trust, Closed service under terms updated on 21 July 2026 naming Town.com, Inc.
- Sources: 16, open questions: 4, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: assistant.proactive, assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, mailbox.read, mailbox.send, calendar.write, messaging.whatsapp, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, email.inbound, voice.calls, memory.user, tasks.create, notify.push, agent.multi-agent, agent.mcp-client
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/town.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/town.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town from a page on town.com 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. Start a Town routine with POST to its webhook URL, Authorization Bearer whsec_ secret, and application/json or text/plain. Expect 202 only.
2. Send X-Town-Idempotency-Key with a stable event id on every retry so Town doesn't start a second run.
3. Treat 404 as wrong secret, disabled endpoint or missing endpoint alike, and ask the owner to check Routine Settings rather than retrying.
4. Send account_email only if the owner allowed the override. It must match a connected account in full and can't widen the routine's scope.
5. Ask the owner to keep routines that act on webhook input in approval-required mode, as Town's own docs advise.

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


Disclosure: Town 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.