Everything Orb can do
Own it instead of renting it.
| Orb | ChatGPT Plus | Copilot | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Runs on your PC | Yes | No | No |
| Voice-first, always on | Yes | No | No |
| You hold the keys and data | Yes | No | No |
| Change it by asking | Yes | No | No |
| Works with Gmail/calendar | Yes | Some | Some |
| Price | $349 once | $20 / month | $20 / month |
What can a personal AI assistant do?
- Read and answer email. Find what needs you, draft a reply, and send with your approval.
- Run your calendar and reminders. Add or move events and keep track of what is next.
- Make invoices and track expenses. Ask for an invoice by voice and save it; keep your expenses organised.
- Research and take notes. Read sources, return links, and save what you want to remember.
- Phone you or book a table. Call you or a restaurant to arrange a booking with your own Twilio setup.
- Post and reply on Instagram. Use optional social connections with your approval.
- Text you about what matters. Send reminders and important alerts with your own Twilio setup.
- Run on your own PC with your own keys. Keep Orb's files on your computer and connect your own accounts.
Things people actually ask Orb.
Real requests, grouped by the part of the day they belong to. Every one of them runs on your device.
Start the day already briefed.
"What's first tomorrow, and do I have the notes from last time?"
"Read me my schedule while I make coffee."
"Anything urgent land in my inbox overnight?"
"Summarize the news I actually follow, out loud."
Protect the hours that matter.
"Block two hours this afternoon and decline anything that lands in it."
"Look up how their API handles pagination and give me the short version."
"Remind me in 90 minutes to stretch."
"What did I decide about this last time I looked into it?"
The stuff you keep putting off.
"Draft a reply to the landlord — I'm not renewing."
"What's my Anthropic spend this month so far?"
"Add the dentist appointment and text me the address that morning."
"Find the receipt for the thing I bought last week."
Close the day out clean.
"What's on for tomorrow, and what needs prep tonight?"
"Anything I said I'd follow up on today that I forgot?"
"Set a reminder for the call at 9 tomorrow."
"Read me anything that came in after 6."
Every skill is one small file.
Each thing Orb can do lives as a single file in orb/tools/. Open the folder in Claude Code and describe what you want in plain English.
Orb ships with CLAUDE.md, a map of how it's built, so the AI changes the right file.
Changes use the same Claude Pro plan you set Orb up with. Just describe what you want.
You own the copy and hold the keys. Nothing to renew.
from orb.tools.base import Tool, ToolResult def make_weather_tool(config): # read-only, so no confirmation needed def run(city: str): w = fetch_forecast(city) return ToolResult(f"{w.temp}°, {w.summary}") return Tool( name="weather", description="Today's forecast for a city.", input_schema={"city": {"type": "string"}}, run=run, )
Straight to the services you already use.
Orb connects to each service directly with your own key or login. There's no company server in the middle.
- Voice from your mic
- Text in the app
- Telegram from your phone
Orb
Everything it knows stays in files here.
- Claude · your key
- Gmail + Calendar · your login
- Voice · Deepgram key
Everything Orb can do.
Ask in plain English, by voice or text. Orb picks the right tool. Anything that sends, deletes, or spends asks you first.
Email & calendar
- Triage your inbox. Search, read, and summarize what needs you.
- Draft replies in your voice. Customer replies are drafts only.
- Send email once you say yes.
- Run your calendar. See the week, add, move, and cancel events.
- Work in Google Docs. Find, read, create, and add to docs.
- Two Google accounts. Switch between personal and business by voice.
Your day
- Daily brief. Calendar, weather, and the emails that matter, in one go.
- Catch me up. What changed since you were last here.
- Reminders that text your phone at the time you set.
- Needs-attention list. Orb flags loose ends and checks them off when you say "done".
- Weather for anywhere.
- Clipboard. "Summarize what I copied", or "copy that".
Memory & notes
- Remembers you. Preferences and facts carry into every chat, and you can tell it to forget.
- Running notepad in a Google Doc that syncs to your phone.
- Obsidian vault. Read, write, search, and keep a daily log.
- Recall. Answers from your own notes and docs, with where it found them.
- Undo for the last thing it did, when it can be reversed.
Research
- Live web search that reads the pages and answers with links.
- Deep research. Many searches, cross-checked sources, one write-up.
- Shopping lists with exact products and prices.
- Amazon. Check orders, fill your cart, reorder past buys. You check out.Optional
Your computer
- Find files by name across Desktop, Documents, and Downloads.
- Open any app, file, folder, or link.
- Read, write, and edit files and run commands, for people who want it.
- Screen control. Orb sees your screen, clicks, and types, only in a session you approve.Optional
Away from the desk
- Telegram. Talk to Orb from your phone.Optional
- Texts and calls to you. Orb can text you or ring your phone with something urgent.Needs Twilio
- Check-ins while closed. Read-only scans and briefings when the app isn't open.
- Auto-mute. Goes quiet in meetings and when you're away.
- Mute button. Keeps working, just stops talking aloud.
Create
- Images and short video clips from a description.Needs an API key
- Branded motion graphics rendered to MP4.
- Shopify. Store rundowns, promo ideas, and updates with your approval.Optional
- Social posting with your approval.Optional
Voice
- Hands-free. Say "hey Orb", hold a key, or type.
- Talks back sentence by sentence, so answers start fast.
- Two tones. Casual for you, sharper for customer-facing work.
- Your orb, your color. Tap it to change the look.
Built-in limits
- Never spends or moves money. Even if you say yes.
- Asks before it sends or changes anything that matters.
- Pause switch that stops every action at once.
- Emails and web pages can't give it orders. Only you can.
- Runs on your PC, with your own accounts and keys.
Opens Oct 15 · $349, one payment