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The best AI assistants
64 AI assistants scored out of 100 for hands-off work.
Last measured 9 October 2026
This month's results
Our pick
Notis for hands-off work
The top 3
The ranking
62 of 65 tracked assistants. 1 awaiting measurement; no rank or verdict yet.
| # | Assistant | Verdict | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Notis Personal AI assistant | 80— | 2.2+2.2 | Bootstrapped— | Underrated |
2 |  Zo ComputerPersonal AI cloud computer | 73— | 0.4+0.4 | Undisclosed— | Underrated |
3 |  TownAI work assistant ("Townie") with built-in routine automation | 69— | 0.9+0.9 | $73M— | Underrated |
4 |  VellumPersonal AI assistant | 77— | 7.5+4.7 | $25M— | Earns it |
5 |  OpenAI DotsAlways-on personal AI agent | 69— | 1.3— | Undisclosed— | Underrated |
6 |  WordwareAI assistant with a companion workflow-automation builder | 60— | 0— | $30M— | Under the radar |
7 |  TabPersonal AI assistant | 73— | 0— | Undisclosed— | Under the radar |
8 |  LindySlack-native AI teammate | 61— | 14.6+2.7 | $50M— | Earns it |
9 |  ChatGPTGeneral-purpose AI assistant | 80— | 78.8+8.4 | $122B— | Earns it |
10 |  ManusAutonomous general AI agent | 62— | 0.9+0.3 | $75M— | Earns it |
11 |  Folk CrewAI personal assistant in your messaging apps | 58— | 0— | $6M— | Under the radar |
12 |  Grok BotAI teammates and automation | 58— | 0.4— | Undisclosed— | Underrated |
13 |  OpenClawOpen-source self-hosted personal AI agent | 88— | 5.7+4.6 | Undisclosed— | Earns it |
14 |  ClaudeAI chat assistant | 67— | 34.9+3.2 | $125B— | Overhyped |
15 |  ViktorAI employee for Slack and Microsoft Teams | 53— | 0— | $78M— | Under the radar |
16 |  Atomic BotManaged hosting and installer for open-source personal AI agents (OpenClaw / Hermes) | 52— | 0— | Undisclosed— | Under the radar |
17 |  QuinAI admin assistant for meetings, CRM, and inbox follow-up | 52— | 0— | Undisclosed— | Under the radar |
18 |  PrioAI chief of staff for founders and executives | 47— | 0— | Undisclosed— | Under the radar |
19 |  OrchidAI personal assistant over messaging | 56— | 0— | Undisclosed— | Under the radar |
20 |  SlashyAI email client | 55— | 0.9+0.3 | Undisclosed— | Earns it |
Ranked by one score: capability 35%, reach 15%, ready to use 15%, autonomy 35%. How each component is measured.
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Score versus attention
Products in the shaded band are within 15 points of the dashed line, where score and attention match. The 27 assistants at the far left have no measured attention and no disclosed funding, so they share one position.
Attention versus funding
How the score is calculated
- 35%Capability
- Share of the capability grid with documented support. Partial support counts half.
- 15%Reach
- Share of the places you might want it: WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram, Slack, email, voice, web, phone.
- 15%Ready to use
- Whether you can sign up and use it, or have to host it and bring your own model key.
- 35%Autonomy
- Whether it works unattended: schedules, reminders, memory, a machine of its own and apps to act on.
Award eligibility
Podium and bonus awards need at least 90% of the category's features checked, at least 80% of every scored feature group and a known setup level. Scores that do not meet these requirements stay in the table but cannot win awards.
Score ordering
Exact ties break on autonomy, then capability, then alphabetically by URL slug. Method version: hands-off-v2.
How attention is measured
Every month, DataForSEO runs 100 neutral prompts per category on three AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Claude and Google AI Overviews), which gives 300 answers per product. Older months that also asked a fourth engine are recomputed on these three from the same stored answers. Attention is a product's visibility and share of voice in those answers. A product named in none of them scores zero. A Google result with no AI Overview counts as a measured absence, and a provider failure leaves its answers unmeasured.
Funding and verdicts
Score and attention are each turned into a percentile position in the field. Disclosed funding adds up to 25 points to attention, on a log scale, before attention is ranked again. Underrated and overhyped both need a gap of at least 15 points between the two positions.
Questions about this ranking
- How is the ranking calculated?
- Each product gets one score out of 100, weighted capability 35%, reach 15%, ready to use 15%, autonomy 35%. Documented support earns 1 point, partial support half a point and no support 0. Unknown support is left out of the score.
- Does AI visibility determine the winner?
- No. The order comes from the product score alone. AI visibility and funding decide the verdicts and the AI visibility awards, never the order.
- What does overhyped mean here?
- A product is overhyped when it ranks at least 15 points higher on attention than on score, with its disclosed funding added to its attention. It also needs at least 5 mentions in the tracked answers.
- What does underrated mean here?
- A product is underrated when it ranks at least 15 points higher on score than on attention, with its disclosed funding added to its attention. A product that no tracked answer names is marked under the radar instead.
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