Orchid

Orchid is a message-based personal assistant that connects to Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Notion and other tools, sets recurring habits, triages email and keeps reminders, all through a text thread instead of an app dashboard.

Orchid is a text-first personal assistant that stays in contact with you through your messaging app rather than a standalone dashboard. You send an SMS with a request in plain language (book a villa, draft a reply, remind me at 9) and Orchid answers in the same thread, fetching options, quoting prices and handling the follow-through. It is designed for people who want a helper that reaches them where they already look at their phone, not another tab to check. The product rests on three pillars: connected tools, habits and admin relief. Orchid links to the apps you already use, including Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Notion, Figma, Dropbox and Attio, and pulls context from all of them so one request can draw on mail, calendar and files at once. You can ask it to set recurring routines, such as a morning news digest, a rain alert or a calorie tracker that you feed with photo messages, and those routines run on a schedule without being restarted. Day to day, it triages your inbox, drafts replies, keeps your calendar in order and nudges you before deadlines, flight check-ins and personal dates slip by. It also works as a memory layer: tell it a detail once (a restaurant you loved, your child's allergy, where you parked) and it can recall it later. The site presents Orchid as one assistant replacing a scattered set of apps, with a live counter of emails processed and actions logged as evidence of volume. The pitch puts Orchid in the same territory as general AI assistants, but its delivery method is the differentiator: a chat thread tied to your real accounts and routines. Anyone weighing it should confirm pricing, data handling and which integrations are live, since the homepage does not spell those out.