Eight personal AI agents worth watching (and where the rest live).
Personal AI agents stopped being a keynote slide the week Muse and Grok Bot shipped into real chats. In the last few months I kept seeing the same shape over and over: text an agent, connect your apps, and it actually books, emails, shops, or pokes you when something needs a yes.
Meta shipped Muse. xAI shipped Grok Bot. Instinct raised into the hundreds of millions. Town took a Series A from a16z. Poke turned Messages into the interface. I was bookmarking launch posts and losing the thread.
So I built Agenthunt, a small directory of Instinct-style personal action agents. Launch month when I can find it, funding when it is public, updated twice a day. No scorecards. Just the products people are actually trying to live with.
Here are eight that are on my short list right now.
Grok Bot (Aug 2026) sits on its own computer, runs your apps, and only pings you when it needs approval. xAI's latest disclosed round was $20B, which is a different scale of bet than most of the list.
Muse (Sep 2026) is Meta's personal agent across the app, web, and WhatsApp. I already wrote about the day-one receipts here, including the Musecases launch that took off on X.
Instinct (Aug 2026) is still the loudest personal-action bet in the category, with $350M raised and privacy debates showing up the same week as the launch chatter.
Town (Jun 2026) watches how you work across your tools, then takes over the busywork. It raised a $55M Series A led by a16z.
Poke (Mar 2026) lives where you already text (Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram), and it raised $25M before Cognition acquired the company.
Lindy has been shipping personal agent workflows longer than the 2026 wave, covering email, Slack, scheduling, and cross-app tasks, with about $50M raised across rounds.
Catch (Sep 2026) came out of stealth focused on admin work like scheduling, email, and calls, with a $5M raise behind it.
Boski (Sep 2026) is a newer personal agent pitched as always-on goal chasing. The founder's launch post is worth a skim:
Those eight are only the short list. The other forty-ish live on Agenthunt with the same launch and funding fields when I can verify them, and a blank when I cannot.
Full directory: https://agent-hunt.netlify.app
If you are shipping a personal agent that does real work for one person, I want it on the list.