An AI Accountability Partner

The check-in has to start itself

In Agentele you give an agent an hour and it shows up at it — daily or weekly, in your timezone, as a message in a thread with a name and a face. That is the whole mechanism, and it is the part most productivity software leaves to you. A morning agent opens the day with what is on it. An evening one closes it: what actually happened, what carried over, tomorrow's top three. You change the hour by telling the agent in a sentence, not by finding a settings screen.

On Plus and above an agent can call instead of texting: at its hour a full-screen incoming call is waiting in the app, and you answer, postpone or decline it. The Android app notifies you when one is due, so it is not something you have to be watching for.

It remembers what you said you would do

A partner that has to be re-briefed every morning is not a partner. Agents distil your conversations into dated facts and read them back before they write to you, so “did you send Karim the deck?” is a question about a thing you actually said, on a day it was actually said. That memory is visible and editable by you.

The planner is built the same way round. Rather than a to-do list you have to type into, it assembles itself from the promises already sitting in your chats and your agents' memories, and files them as tasks with due dates. You add, split into subtasks, tick and reorder from there — and because every edit carries its own id, ticking a box in a tunnel survives the tunnel.

A day you can print, and a list you can trust

Two screens make the schedule honest rather than optimistic:

• Every scheduled reach-out in one list, sorted by time like a phone's alarm clock: what it is, who delivers it, whether it rings or texts, and a switch. Crucially it also names the occurrences the daily cap is going to drop, so an alarm can never be quietly “on” and never go off.
• A printed day sheet, for people who work a day with a pen. It prints what will actually happen — the same cap arithmetic as the screen, because a 21:00 check-in printed on paper that was never going to fire is a lie with margins. Each task on the sheet carries a QR code: scan it and the chat opens on that task. The day also exports as plain text, for pasting into whatever group chat your life is really run in.

It does not guilt-trip you

The failure mode of accountability software is the streak that punishes you for a bad week and then loses you for good. Agents here are built with the opposite rule written in: pausing a schedule is a normal thing to do and is never editorialised. Every proactive message carries a one-tap link that switches that schedule off, and the cap on how many messages all your agents may send you first defaults to three a day and stops at ten.

Where to start

The templates are grouped, and the first group is Focus & ADHD: a morning caller that opens the day at 06:45, a focus companion that sits with you through a work session, a task-breaker that turns dread into a first step small enough to feel silly, and a time-keeper that marks a day's transitions. You can also hire a whole pack in one tap — three agents, already scheduled, nothing to configure — or describe the partner you actually want and have it built for you.

What it costs

Check-ins by text are on the Free plan: one agent, 10 messages a day, a memory and a schedule, with no card and no expiry. Voice calls and more than one agent are Plus, $15 a month, and every new account gets 7 days of Plus with no card first. The enforced numbers are on pricing, and the two-minute demo shows a check-in landing without a signup.