Poke

Poke is a personal AI agent that lives in your text messages, built by The Interaction Company of California in Palo Alto. You message it over Apple Messages, RCS, Telegram or WhatsApp, and it manages email, calendar and reminders, searches the web and carries out tasks for you. Poke became available on Apple Messages on June 4, 2026, and on July 23, 2026 Cognition, the company behind Devin, welcomed The Interaction Company. Both companies say Poke works exactly as before, with Cognition models and infrastructure set to make it faster and more reliable over time. Cognition reports that people exchanged more than 100 million messages with Poke in the three months before the deal and that it is used by hundreds of thousands of people.

Poke connects to Gmail and Microsoft Outlook for email, calendars and contacts, and through Recipes to Notion, Linear, Todoist, Asana, GitHub, Sentry, Vercel, Netlify, Supabase, Ramp, Webflow and DeepWiki. The homepage also shows Oura, Strava, Philips Hue, Sonos and Granola, and a TripIt automation imports travel plans. It is proactive as well as reactive: it sends updates and runs scheduled automations, and on Pro and Ultra those automations run in the background in real time. It can create tables, charts and PDFs, build and publish a personal website, and set up a @poke.com email address. Poke Human, included with Ultra, hands real-world tasks such as restaurant reservations, phone calls, orders and rides to a real person, who sees only the details needed for that task.

Poke is an MCP client. Users connect any MCP server by URL, through the poke CLI or with a local tunnel, and Poke discovers and calls its tools during a conversation. Recipes bundle integrations, automations and onboarding questions, are built and published in Kitchen or the CLI, and earn their authors revenue from MCP usage by the people who install them. A Poke API lets scripts, CI jobs and webhooks send messages to Poke with an API key created in Kitchen.

Pricing is public and self-serve, in USD. Free is $0 a month with no credit card and connects your apps, email and calendar. Pro is $19 a month billed monthly or $16 a month billed yearly ($192 a year) and adds frontier models for complex tasks, real-time background automations, higher rate limits and priority support. Ultra is $199 a month billed monthly or $160 a month billed yearly ($1,920 a year) and adds frontier models on every action, the highest rate limits, Poke Human and pay-as-you-go usage beyond the included credits.

Free includes a small usage allowance, and on every plan Poke switches to a lighter mode once the allowance is used, until it refills automatically. Background automations need Pro, and Poke Human needs Ultra, with any real-world expenses charged at cost from the credit balance.

The Privacy Notice, updated September 11, 2026, states that user data may be used to train its AI models and that data from users who select Maximum Privacy is not used for model training. It includes region-specific disclosures for the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. No security certifications are published, and the plans are for individual accounts, with no team plan listed.

Poke suits people who want a personal assistant they can text, with their email, calendar and personal apps behind it. People who want an AI teammate across Slack and more than 1,000 work apps should consider Lindy, people who live in Google apps should consider Tasks in Gemini, and people who want a desktop agent that produces finished files should consider OpenWorker.

Current state Q4 2026: Poke is available in all regions over Apple Messages, RCS, Telegram and WhatsApp, Ultra and Poke Human launched in June 2026, and Poke has been part of Cognition since July 23, 2026.