Cue by ManusReview: Personal agents with their own phone number, email and wallet.

AudioPen turns rambling into tidy text. Talk for a few minutes about an idea, a meeting or the draft you keep putting off. It transcribes you, strips out the ums, and rewrites the result in the style you pick: casual, professional, academic, or a custom voice you set up. You can dial the rewrite from a light clean-up to a full restructure. Your phone can already transcribe. The rewrite is why you'd pay. Say "so basically I was thinking we could maybe, um, do the thing where we split the project into like three phases" and you get back a clean paragraph about a three-phase plan. It runs on iOS, Android, Chrome, Mac and Windows. There's a free tier, and AudioPen Prime costs $8.25 a month on the annual plan.

Iris is an AI agent you text from iMessage. You tell it what you need in an ordinary Messages thread. When it needs access to Gmail, Calendar or Drive, it sends you a link to connect that one account, so there's no setup up front. Anything you ask for often can be saved as a skill and run again later. It can write, code and translate. The free plan includes iMessage, the supported connections, memory and saved skills, and doesn't ask for a card. Plus is a paid monthly plan for longer jobs and scheduled skills. Everything happens over iMessage and SMS, so there's no app or desktop window to learn. That's great if you live in Messages. If you're Android only, or you want an assistant that docks next to your work on a Mac, look at Sider Omni instead.

Dots are always-on agents inside ChatGPT, powered by GPT-6 Astra. Each dot has its own cloud computer and browser and works toward your goals around the clock. It's aimed at professionals and teams who want an agent that takes a project and keeps going with it between conversations. You message or call your dot in ChatGPT on desktop, web or mobile, or message it in Slack and Teams. It learns from your feedback, flags what needs attention and comes back with finished work for you to review. In one early test, a dot noticed a forgotten invoice, prepared it and sent it once the user approved. Custom Rules and an Activity View decide how much it does without asking.

Mycel is for people who deliver the same kind of client work every month, like a month-end close, a proposal or a listing audit. Upload one past example and it drafts the next one for each client. Nothing goes to a client until you approve it. You also see which invoices need chasing, plus a chart of how much of each draft you still end up rewriting, which is a refreshingly honest number for a tool to show you. Setting it up takes about an afternoon: describe the service, upload one file and give it this week's work. The hosted Starter plan is $299 a month after a seven-day free trial. If you'd rather host it yourself, it's free and open source under Apache-2.0, as long as you bring your own model key. It's not worth it for one-off projects, or if $299 is more than a client pays you each month.