Toyo is a personal AI assistant that lives in your messages and can call you on the phone. Talk to it like you'd message a coworker. Toyo triages your inbox, preps you for calls, can help keep your projects moving, and pulls answers and context from your company's tools. It works over text and voice: Have it call you when you want to get updates or just talk through some work. It lives in iMessage, so there's no new apps, and no new tabs to manage.
Like many of you, our team spends too much of every day ping-ponging between inboxes, tabs, notifications and follow-ups.
We're tinkerers with some degree of AI psychosis. We'd rather be burning tokens than dealing with email, so we built dozens of internal agents to automate the busywork. They worked, until we were spending our days maintaining an increasingly complex agent stack instead.
So we decided to productize the best of it, and Toyo is the result: the assistant we built for ourselves (and the first part of a larger product vision).
Toyo lives in your messages. You onboard by a quick phone call with Toyo, then connect your tools. Your Toyo gets to know you and your work. Then, it can help you with things like:
Inbox: triages email overnight, texts you a brief on what needs you, drafts replies in your voice.
Meetings: prep before calls, follow-ups after, no scheduling back-and-forth.
Voice: call it, voice-note it from the car, or have it call you.
Projects: connects Linear, Todoist, Asana, Slack and your meeting notes, so nothing from a call evaporates.
Knowledge: ask "what's our current pricing, and what changed last quarter?" and get an answer instead of a search.
We've run lots of our own busywork through it for months, along with a group of early users, and found it can be really helpful — especially when you have connected your email and calendar and set up a few basic workflows.
For me, the combination of scheduled updates tuned to what is important to me + Toyo actively scanning my inbox for urgent/ important emails and notifying me as they come in has super helpful. I start the day with a quick briefing of what is most important when I sit down at my desk and check my inbox way less than I used to throughout the day, which has helped me get distracted less.
The team and I are here all day to help anyone get set up and answer any questions.
Try it, break it, and tell us what you'd want yours to do. We want your feedback and ideas!
If you use PRODUCTHUNT at checkout you can try it out for one month free 🥳
Curious how you’re thinking about user-editable memory over time — for example VIPs, communication preferences, recurring priorities, and project context. Will users be able to inspect and adjust what Toyo “believes” about their work?
"Triages your inbox" and "pulls context from your company's tools" are the two claims that require the most trust upfront, those mean Toyo has read access to email and whatever SaaS stack is connected. Curious what the actual auth and permission scope looks like and whether that's scoped narrowly or broad by default.
This is kinda what Apple Intelligence should've been haha. Can you give any insight to how you manage agent context under the hood and any guardrails you had to build to avoid devious things being done with this assistant?
Turns out that one launch today wasn't enough — we sprinted to add OpenAI's new GPT 5.6 model, which is now powering Toyo :)
The solution looks very interesting, but the inability to trial is a non-starter for us.
Building a group trip planner, so "lives where people already reply" is the whole ballgame for me. When Toyo calls someone's phone, is that a real voice agent talking or just a nudge to open the thread? Curious where a call actually beats a text that gets left on read.
Really like the "assistant in your messages" approach! Curious how you think about third-party integrations over time. Will Toyo become a platform where developers can add new capabilities, or will you keep the experience tightly curated?
Congrats on the launch!! love that it lives in iMessage instead of being yet another app to open, that's honestly the unlock, people already text like they'd message a coworker so there's zero learning curve.
the call-you-when-you-need-updates thing is such a nice touch too, feels way more human than another chat window. excited to see this take off.
How does it actually pull context from company tools without needing a full-on integration setup each time, and is that something you have to configure per tool or does it work out of the box?
@aidanhornsby what's the most magical moment you and/or your team have had dogfooding Toyo?
My 'woah' moment so far is not having to check my inbox when I wake up and instead getting all urgent emails and news summarized into a single text from my Toyo :)
The iMessage integration is clever, no extra app to open is a real win. The phone call feature sounds handy for getting quick updates while away from my desk.
I love using Toyo already. One surprising win: it summarizes all my AI newsletters, pulls out the 5 most interesting/relevant things each day, then just deletes them from my inbox. I signed up for those newsletters to stay on top of AI news, but they ended up stressing me out, cluttering my inbox, and making me feel guilty for not reading them. This is just one small example of the workflows you can set up to make Toyo actually useful for your day, not just another tool to manage.
The phone/iMessage surface is interesting because it puts the assistant where small-business operations already happen. The key trust boundary is what happens before it commits to the outside world: clear confirmation, durable notes, and a trail the owner can inspect later.
living in iMessage instead of requiring a new app is the right distribution call. the hardest part of AI assistant adoption is the habit change and if it's already in a surface you check 50 times a day that problem mostly solves itself. the proactive calling is the interesting differentiator though. most AI assistants wait to be asked. curious what triggers toyo to call you vs send a message, and whether you can tune how proactive it gets so it doesn't become its own source of interruptions.
Great launch! The iMessage-native call is kind of wow. The usual failure mode for these assistants is becoming one more tab we forget to open and living where you already text sidesteps that. One thing - iMessage has no official API, so handling deliverability and Apple changing things might be tricky if I got it right - but I am sure you get it covered in the very near future?
Does it actually plug into tools like Linear or Notion, or is it just working off your inbox and calendar for now?
Congrats on the launch! Nice concept.
How much control is there over what Toyo can access and act on once all your tools are connected?
Love assistants that live inside imessage - have been a user of Poke!
Slightly unrelated question - what did you use to make the video?
About Toyo on Product Hunt
“Exec assistant who lives in iMessage and calls your phone”
Toyo launched on Product Hunt on July 9th, 2026 and earned 313 upvotes and 77 comments, placing #4 on the daily leaderboard. Toyo is a personal AI assistant that lives in your messages and can call you on the phone. Talk to it like you'd message a coworker. Toyo triages your inbox, preps you for calls, can help keep your projects moving, and pulls answers and context from your company's tools. It works over text and voice: Have it call you when you want to get updates or just talk through some work. It lives in iMessage, so there's no new apps, and no new tabs to manage.
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Hey Product Hunt 👋
Aidan here, co-founder at Toyo.
Like many of you, our team spends too much of every day ping-ponging between inboxes, tabs, notifications and follow-ups.
We're tinkerers with some degree of AI psychosis. We'd rather be burning tokens than dealing with email, so we built dozens of internal agents to automate the busywork. They worked, until we were spending our days maintaining an increasingly complex agent stack instead.
So we decided to productize the best of it, and Toyo is the result: the assistant we built for ourselves (and the first part of a larger product vision).
Toyo lives in your messages. You onboard by a quick phone call with Toyo, then connect your tools. Your Toyo gets to know you and your work. Then, it can help you with things like:
Inbox: triages email overnight, texts you a brief on what needs you, drafts replies in your voice.
Meetings: prep before calls, follow-ups after, no scheduling back-and-forth.
Voice: call it, voice-note it from the car, or have it call you.
Projects: connects Linear, Todoist, Asana, Slack and your meeting notes, so nothing from a call evaporates.
Knowledge: ask "what's our current pricing, and what changed last quarter?" and get an answer instead of a search.
We've run lots of our own busywork through it for months, along with a group of early users, and found it can be really helpful — especially when you have connected your email and calendar and set up a few basic workflows.
For me, the combination of scheduled updates tuned to what is important to me + Toyo actively scanning my inbox for urgent/ important emails and notifying me as they come in has super helpful. I start the day with a quick briefing of what is most important when I sit down at my desk and check my inbox way less than I used to throughout the day, which has helped me get distracted less.
The team and I are here all day to help anyone get set up and answer any questions.
Try it, break it, and tell us what you'd want yours to do. We want your feedback and ideas!
If you use PRODUCTHUNT at checkout you can try it out for one month free 🥳