What is folk?

Folk is an AI assistant that lives inside your messaging apps—iMessage, Telegram, Discord, and more—and gets smarter the more you use it. It tracks flights, joins meetings, researches anything, and can even team up with your friends' Folk to coordinate tasks across the group. Think of it as a persistent, always-on friend that handles the logistics of your life from within the chat you already use every day.

Who it's for

• Busy professionals who need a tireless assistant to monitor emails, schedule meetings, and run research tasks without switching apps.
• Social planners who want to coordinate group outings, book restaurants, and share calendars with friends through a simple text interface.
• Power users who love hacking tools—Folk can SSH into your laptop, monitor code jobs, and connect to GitHub, your bank, or Polymarket through natural language commands.

Key features

Persistent memory that grows with you

Every message, task, and preference Folk learns is stored in a private, encrypted graph that only you can read. It remembers months of context and picks up exactly where you left off, so you never have to repeat yourself.

Multiplayer coordination

Add friends who already use Folk, and your AI agents can work together—booking tables, sharing docs, checking calendars—with a simple tap to approve each request. Your data stays private by design, and nothing happens automatically without your OK.

Always-on private cloud

Folk runs on its own dedicated cloud machine 24/7, with full access to any tool you connect. You ask it to watch, book, buy, write, or remember something, and it stays on the task until it's done, texting you updates along the way.

What stands out

"It's so hackable that I made it SSH into my laptop through my phone to monitor my RL finetuning jobs 24/7."

That quote from a real user captures Folk's unique flexibility. While most AI assistants are locked into predefined workflows, Folk lets you connect it to virtually any tool—from your calendar to your code repos—and execute complex, multi-step tasks through plain text messages. It's not just an assistant; it's a programmable agent that adapts to how you actually work.

Worth checking out if…

You want an AI that lives in your messaging apps, remembers everything, and can coordinate with friends' agents to handle group logistics. It's especially useful if you're tired of juggling separate apps for scheduling, research, and task management, and prefer a single chat interface that gets smarter over time.