Toyo
An AI executive assistant that lives in iMessage, WhatsApp and Slack, and calls your phone
Overview
Toyo bills itself as an AI computer in the cloud for founders who can't yet afford a real executive assistant. Instead of a chat window you have to remember to open, it lives inside iMessage, WhatsApp, or Slack, so asking it to find time with an investor or chase down an email feels like texting a person, not prompting a bot. It runs on isolated cloud infrastructure with app connectors and a human-approval step before it does anything outside its own sandbox, which is a sensible guardrail for a tool that touches your inbox and calendar.
It's a young product. Toyo raised a $4.3 million seed round in early 2026 and only launched publicly on Product Hunt in July 2026, so there's no long track record yet, just a strong debut (4th place on launch day) and a founding team that answered hard questions about safety and context management in public. If you're a solo founder drowning in admin work, it's worth a look. If you need something proven at scale, give it more time to season.
Key Features
Multi-Channel Access: Talk to Toyo over iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack, the web, or an actual phone call, no new app to open.
Inbox and Meeting Prep: Triages your inbox, briefs you before calls on who you're meeting, and sends a recap after using the transcript.
Persistent Memory: Remembers your business context and preferences across months of conversation instead of starting fresh each time.
App Connectors: Connects to Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Slack, and project tools like Linear and Asana to pull context and take action.
Human-in-the-Loop Approval: Drafts outreach, books meetings, and proposes actions, but asks before anything goes external.
Research and Drafting: Researches prospects and competitors, drafts personalized outreach, and reports daily metrics to Slack on higher tiers.
Pricing
Starting price
$29/mo
Solo: $29/month. Messaging and voice calls, inbox triage, meeting prep, daily updates, all standard connectors, standard usage limits.
Pro: $79/month. Everything in Solo, plus white-glove setup, higher usage limits, access to frontier AI models, and deep work workflows like research and content writing.
Toyo for Teams: Custom pricing. Everything in Pro, plus a dedicated agent per team member, shared company memory, custom skills, admin and SSO, and dedicated support.
Disclaimer: pricing may change, confirm current pricing on Toyo's own pricing page before buying.
Pros
No New App to Learn: Works through iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack, or a phone call, so there's no dashboard to check.
Real Meeting Prep: Reviewers on Product Hunt specifically praised the pre-call briefings and post-call recaps as genuinely useful.
Thoughtful Team and Product Design: Early users noted the attention to detail and the founders' willingness to engage directly with tough questions at launch.
Backed by Credible Investors: Seed round included Frontline Ventures, iNovia Capital, and angels from Amazon, Microsoft, and Cloudflare, which suggests real technical scrutiny went into the security model.
Cons
Brand New Product: Publicly launched on Product Hunt in July 2026, so there's no long-term track record and reviews are still thin outside the launch thread.
Unproven Safety Guardrails: Product Hunt commenters flagged open questions about auditable allow-lists for sensitive contacts and how context holds up once hundreds of tools are connected. The team answered but the mechanics aren't independently verified yet.
No Free Tier: Starts at $29/month with no free plan to test it before committing.
Team Pricing Not Public: The Teams tier is custom-quoted only, so you can't compare cost upfront without talking to sales.
What Makes It Unique
Messaging-Native, Not App-Native: Unlike most AI agent tools that ask you to open a new dashboard, Toyo operates entirely inside the messaging apps and phone calls you already use.
Kay Score
6.5
/ 10
Tool Information
Pricing
$29/mo
Category
Automation & AI Agents
Platform
Web / iOS / Android
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