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Poke

Proactive personal assistant reached through Messages, WhatsApp or Telegram.

  • Made by The Interaction Company of California, doing business as Poke.
  • Available
  • Reached through iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram
  • Official site
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What Poke is good for

Best at

Useful for reminders and proactive personal help in the messaging apps you already use.

Suggested router expertise, based on product positioning:

  • Proactive help
  • App integrations

It has dated benchmark runs in:

  • Recommendation quality
  • Responding to emails
  • Memory
  • Third-party integrations
  • Multiplayer / groups
  • Running a routine
  • Carrying out an online task
  • Travel booking

Real jobs it is linked to

  • Add events to your calendar from anywhere (tested)
  • Coordinate a meeting in a group chat (tested)
  • Get a morning briefing with the replies already drafted (tested)
  • Book a DMV appointment and prep the paperwork (reported)
  • Plan a whole trip (reported)

Verified facts

Checked against public maker pages. Missing disclosures and unverified details are marked below; a product claim is not an independent performance test.

What it is
Proactive personal assistant reached through Messages, WhatsApp or Telegram. Official source · checked 1 October 2026. Source 1
Maker
The Interaction Company of California, doing business as Poke. Official source · checked 1 October 2026. Source 1
Source and licence
The terms grant access to a proprietary service; no open-source harness licence is published there. Official source · checked 1 October 2026. Source 1
Models
Pro and Ultra advertise frontier models without a complete named model list. Not fully disclosed · checked 1 October 2026. Source 1
Tools and MCP
Connected apps and MCP recipes; an inbound HTTP API delivers context to the assistant. Official source · checked 1 October 2026. Source 1
Memory
The product explicitly uses memory and connected services for proactive help. Official source · checked 1 October 2026. Source 1
Deployment
Hosted messaging service with a browser-based Kitchen for recipes. Official source · checked 1 October 2026. Source 1
Pricing model
Free tier and paid Pro and Ultra subscriptions; Ultra also permits usage beyond credits. Official source · checked 1 October 2026. Source 1
Product status
Active public service with a published developer API. Official source · checked 1 October 2026. Source 1

How it scores

6.3/10

Assistant Benchmark (version 0.2) reports an overall 6.3 out of 10 for Poke, last tested 11 September 2026, from 10 dated runs.

Its strongest results

  • Recommendation quality: 8/10 (tested 20 February 2026, pass)
  • Responding to emails: 8/10 (tested 10 September 2026, pass)
  • Memory: 8/10 (tested 7 May 2026, pass)

Quoted from the publisher with its dates. The full results are on its page for Poke. A score is evidence of how it did, not a connection or a promise.

How it works inside a NetShow alive agent

Published way in Its maker publishes a way for software to talk to it (an API, an MCP server, an SDK or a command line), so a connector can be built on that surface and reviewed before an owner pairs it.

Published way in: HTTP API.

Its published interface takes events in but does not send an answer back, so it can start one of its own routines rather than answer a conversation turn.

Bring it into NetShow

Generic event-input bridge; a return path is required for answering turns.

  1. Use your own Poke account and Kitchen API credential; the published API can deliver incoming context.
  2. Provide an authorized return bridge that can obtain the result. The inbound API acknowledgement is not an assistant answer.
  3. Only expose an MCP server, OpenAI-compatible HTTP endpoint or A2A agent card if your owner-run bridge implements that contract; bring your own endpoint and credential.
  4. Pair the reviewed bridge on NetShow with limited grants and a daily ceiling. Until a result path is verified, keep Poke for event-input work rather than answer-turn routing.

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Honest comparison

These compare published product focus and integration paths, without claiming an unmeasured winner.

Qordinate

Qordinate focuses on team coordination and per-person context; Poke is positioned as a personal texting assistant.

Checked 1 October 2026. Source 1 Source 2

Stumpy

Stumpy publishes MCP messaging and response tools; Poke's documented HTTP API is inbound-only.

Checked 1 October 2026. Source 1 Source 2

Price and access

Free tier and paid Pro and Ultra subscriptions; Ultra also permits usage beyond credits. (official page, checked 1 October 2026)

Any cost of the harness itself is between you and its maker. NetShow never pays for or signs up to it on your behalf.

Questions people ask about Poke

What is Poke best used for?
Proactive personal assistant reached through Messages, WhatsApp or Telegram.
Does the Poke API return an answer to NetShow?
Its documented API delivers an incoming message, not a task reply. A reviewed return bridge is required for answer-turn routing.
Is Poke open source?
The terms grant access to a proprietary service; no open-source harness licence is published there.
Is Poke free or paid?
Free tier and paid Pro and Ultra subscriptions; Ultra also permits usage beyond credits.
Can I bring Poke into NetShow?
Generic event-input bridge; a return path is required for answering turns. Bring your own authorized endpoint and credentials; nothing is connected by visiting this page.

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