Will Poke be an open solution for all users? The concept is presented by a new startup that gives users access to an AI agent via iMessage, SMS, Telegram, and, in some countries, WhatsApp.
The Poke service was publicly released in March, allowing customers to communicate with a personal assistant who can act on their behalf via a familiar text interface. Today, Poke assists with daily tasks such as day planning, calendar management, health and fitness monitoring, smart home gadget control, photo editing, and more, all via messaging.
With financing from Spark Capital, General Catalyst, and other angels, the firm with a team of ten has raised an additional $10 million on top of its earlier $15 million investment. Following the most recent investment round, the company is valued at approximately $300 million.
How Poke works and what distinguishes it
The platform applies the AI model that is best suited to the task at hand, allowing agents to access a variety of services or open models. Integration with Linq allows agents to operate in messaging apps such as iMessage, SMS, and Telegram; however, support for WhatsApp is limited owing to Meta’s policies.
Getting started is simple: go to Poke.com, select “Start,” and input your phone number; there is no need to install a separate program because the assistant works via text messages.
Compared to other solutions on the market, Poke simplifies usage: there is no need to manually configure the environment; everything operates straight through messaging.
The system includes pre-built “recipes” – tools for automating daily operations or workflows. They work with Gmail, Google Calendar, Outlook, Notion, and a variety of other services; there are even recipes for health and fitness and managing smart gadgets.
Integrations with PostHog, Webflow, Supabase, Vercel, Sentry, GitHub, and other services enable developers to automate operations.
Poke’s security model is multi-layered, with regular penetration testing, multiple protection mechanisms, and authorization limits for agents and workers. Users do not view tokens by default unless they authorize access to logs or analytics in their settings.
In recent weeks, people have generated thousands of new recipes and automations. The company intends to add them to a catalog for future open searches. Poke also incentivizes developers to create sharing recipes by paying for each new user that signs up using the recipe.
Pricing is flexible: it begins at zero dollars and varies depending on whether real-time data is required and how frequently automations run. The main goal is expansion; monetization is secondary.
Spark Capital and General Catalyst are among the investors, along with angels such as the Stripe and Cognition founders. Other IT standards leaders who joined the ecosystem also offer assistance.
The team’s goal is to make Poke a part of billions of people’s daily lives, with a focus on usability and security.
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