Long before there was Claude Tag and Victor, there was Scarlett.
We built Scarlett over a year ago as a fun experiment to see what agents could do. To our surprise, she almost immediately started doing probably 90% of our work for us.
We've been reluctant to launch because we knew the competition would be fierce, but our benchmarks show that Scarlett is more than holding her own on both speed & quality.
She also has a host of unique qualities & features:
1) She Just Works. After a year of experimenting with various models, architectures & backends, she just works (and does work).
2) Autopilot. She is trained on 50+ business/growth books, you have the option to use her passively or to set her free to essentially run your whole company from marketing to support.
3) iMessage. A lot of people (solopreneurs) don't like or need slack, so we have an alternative.
4) Use Our Keys. With OpenClaw, Claude, etc you need to buy subscriptions to the things you want to use like HeyGen or XAI, but with Scarlett you can use our keys and we'll pass along the cost.
5) Right Model, Right Job. You can use Opus for chat, Sol for Coding, Fable for design, you pick the right model for the job.
I've been looking for an agent platform that will be able to broadly help me run my three sepearate businesses. I'm non-technical, but can handle some set up. I struggled with OpenClaw and Hermes, so I've been more excited to see tools like this. I've tried Viktor, and Hyperagent. Both are outrageously expensive on token. consumption. So I'm curious, how does Scarlett measure up on this front. I assume there's two key factors in this: 1) how much Scarlett marks up the token cost, and 2) How well Scarlett manages token efficiency by choosing models, and prompts. The convenience factor of getting the tokens through one harness is real, but also, I'm not afraid of managing a few API keys to make sure I'm not paying a massive premium on token consumption. I'd love any insights from people that have been using it, especially if they also used Viktor and Hyperagent as well.
I'm also quite curious how people have found Scarlett for content and media production. I'd love to be able to give an agent platform video production jobs and social content/visuals without getting garbage outputs.
The iMessage-native choice is the detail that jumps out at me. Meeting people in the channel they already live in beats asking them to adopt a new app. We build voice AI that phones aging parents every day, and we landed on plain phone calls for the same reason: the interface people already trust tends to win over the "better" one they have to learn. Question for you, Dan: over a long-running relationship, how do you keep Scarlett feeling like the same colleague from session to session? Is the compiled, entity-scoped memory enough to hold a consistent persona, or did you end up tuning tone separately? That continuity has been the hardest part for us.
the "she just works" framing is refreshing after a year of watching demos that require a PhD to trigger.
real q: when scarlett does 90% of the work, does the client on the other end of the slack/imessage know they're talking to an agent, or does it happen invisibly? asking because agent-mediated work is going to be a huge trust question in the next 12 months and being on the right side of the disclosure norm feels important.
Congrats on the launch! I'm curious, after a year of using Scarlett internally, what's one workflow your team can no longer imagine doing manually? Those real-world use cases are always the most interesting.
Congrats on the launch! The "real colleague, not a bot" positioning is the hard part to earn. Curious how Scarlett handles uncertainty — does she escalate to a human in-thread when she's not sure, or attempt and flag afterwards? That handoff boundary is usually where trust with an AI coworker is won or lost.
Great product guys, love the fact it comes with 500+ connectors. Let's goo!
congratulations! after a year of testing internally, what was the biggest wow moment that convinced your team she was ready for a public launch?
Played around with Scarlett for a bit and was surprised how naturally it slotted into our slack workflow without feeling like another chatbot. The autopilot features still need some tuning but the teammate framing actually clicked for me.
Congrats! the autopilot feature is fascinating. can users customize how much control Scarlett has over marketing, support or operations based on their comfort level?
congratulations! the she Just works philosophy really stood out. what were the biggest engineering challenges you faced over the past year to make Scarlett reliable enough for daily use?
one thing that caught my attention was the ability to use your managed keys for external services. that's a great onboarding experience. how easy is it for users to switch to their own API keys if they decide to later?
Really interesting direction. How do you think about control vs. autonomy - especially when decisions have real business impact? Congrats on the launch!
Congratulations on the launch!
i really like the idea of using your API keys instead of requiring users to manage multiple subscriptions. how do you handle usage limits and cost optimization behind the scenes?
the Autopilot capability sounds powerful. for founders who are just getting started, what are the first three workflows you would recommend automating with Scarlett to see value quickly?
Congratulations on the launch!
Scarlett sounds like a practical AI agent rather than just another chatbot. how does she decide when to act autonomously versus asking the user for approval, especially in business workflows?
I like that you're positioning Scarlett as a co-worker rather than another AI assistant. That's a much higher bar, because teammates aren't judged by how much they can do—they're judged by whether people trust them with responsibility. If AI reaches that point, the relationship users have with these products changes completely.
Love the "right model, right job" approach ☺️☺️ Curious how you think about external tools and live data, do you see Scarlett becoming more of an orchestrator that can plug into specialized capabilities over time, or do you prefer building everything natively?
@dansutera This one's personal. I've been duct-taping AI tools together at Ctruh to cover exactly this gap, and an AI teammate that actually holds context and owns the ops glue is the dream. Congrats team, taking it for a spin this week. 🔥
About Scarlett. on Product Hunt
“Your AI Co-Worker in Slack & iMessage”
Scarlett. launched on Product Hunt on July 10th, 2026 and earned 411 upvotes and 60 comments, placing #4 on the daily leaderboard. Not another AI bot, a real colleague to work alongside your team. Give your team superpowers or even run your company on autopilot.
Scarlett. was featured in Marketing (466k followers), Artificial Intelligence (473.7k followers) and CRM (2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 185.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Scarlett.?
Scarlett. was hunted by Ben Lang. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Ben Lang
Hello PH fam!
Long before there was Claude Tag and Victor, there was Scarlett.
We built Scarlett over a year ago as a fun experiment to see what agents could do. To our surprise, she almost immediately started doing probably 90% of our work for us.
We've been reluctant to launch because we knew the competition would be fierce, but our benchmarks show that Scarlett is more than holding her own on both speed & quality.
She also has a host of unique qualities & features:
1) She Just Works. After a year of experimenting with various models, architectures & backends, she just works (and does work).
2) Autopilot. She is trained on 50+ business/growth books, you have the option to use her passively or to set her free to essentially run your whole company from marketing to support.
3) iMessage. A lot of people (solopreneurs) don't like or need slack, so we have an alternative.
4) Use Our Keys. With OpenClaw, Claude, etc you need to buy subscriptions to the things you want to use like HeyGen or XAI, but with Scarlett you can use our keys and we'll pass along the cost.
5) Right Model, Right Job. You can use Opus for chat, Sol for Coding, Fable for design, you pick the right model for the job.
We hope you love her as much as we do!
Cheers,
Dan