Orchid

The assistant that never sleeps

Orchid is a personal assistant that runs inside iMessage, letting users delegate errands like booking travel, triaging inboxes, drafting replies, and keeping their calendar in order through plain text messages. It connects your tools, automates your workflows, and handles the busywork so you can focus on what matters. Beyond one-off tasks, it also runs recurring "habits" such as daily news digests, weather alerts, medication reminders, and automatic flight check-ins, and it acts as a long-term memory for personal details a user tells it once, from a spouse's favorite flowers to a kid's allergy. The company was founded in 2025 by Nizar Abi Zaher and Adam Wazzan , and is a Y Combinator Spring 2025 company based in San Francisco. Zaher was previously a co-founder of Zero, the open source email client. The team currently sits at three people. The launch matters because most recently funded AI agents have targeted work inboxes and enterprise workflows, while Orchid is pitched at the personal side of life, the errands and reminders and admin that pile up outside the job. Anchoring the product in SMS and iMessage rather than a new app is the bet: users already live in their messages, so an assistant that shows up there has a lower bar to becoming a daily habit. The launch video leans hard on that positioning, showing the assistant remembering a small personal detail on someone's behalf rather than automating a spreadsheet.

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