What is Instinct?
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The short answer
Instinct is a personal AI assistant that lives in the messaging apps you already use. You text it or call it - on WhatsApp, iMessage, SMS or by phone - and it carries out real tasks: booking, ordering, scheduling, researching, following up. There is no new app to learn. Its own pitch: "no new interfaces - it can use a phone and computer in the same way that you do."
Behind the chat, Instinct works on a cloud computer of its own and uses the accounts you choose to connect - email, calendar, Google Workspace, Slack and more. It reports back in the same thread.
Who makes it
Instinct is a new company based in San Francisco building a personal agent. Noah Shinn founded Instinct. Learn more at instinct.com.
Not that Instinct
Three other things share the name. This site is about the personal AI assistant at instinct.com - not the Garmin Instinct watch, not Instinct pet food, and not the sales-coaching product at getinstinct.io.
Where it stands today
- Access is invite-only: an invitation from a current user, or approval from the waitlist.
- It is free during the invite-only period, founder Noah Shinn has said. No public price yet.
- New features land fast: phone calls and group chats arrived in the past few weeks.
Read next: How to get Instinct and what it can actually do.