Asmi AI - AI that handles your personal chores in the real world

@rishi_raj Many congratulations Rishi and team! Excited to hunt Asmi AI today! :)

How I Met the Makers

I met Rishi, co-founder and CEO of Asmi AI, about a month ago. I was genuinely surprised by the product’s actual availability, as I’ve seen many products claim to solve this problem but never truly build it.

In the past few months, several makers approached me trying to build this same solution, but they never delivered anything real.

What Is Asmi AI

Asmi AI is a personal assistant that handles your real-world chores through actual phone calls. Every morning, Asmi calls you; you share your tasks, and it takes care of the rest.

It contacts services like dentists, salons, plumbers, banks, and insurance companies or reaches out to friends and colleagues to coordinate, book, or resolve things.

Once completed, it updates you via WhatsApp or iMessage. Asmi navigates IVRS menus, waits on hold, and handles complex back-and-forth conversations effectively.

Why I Endorse Asmi AI

Rishi and his team come from a credible background. They’ve cracked something broader in consumer AI that we’ve long missed from Product Hunt leaderboards, which are mostly enterprise and business-focused.

I endorse Asmi AI because it addresses real-life pain points, when AI starts taking over our greatest daily burdens, that’s when the true AI revolution begins.

I’m someone who needs to check in frequently with many things and people, and Asmi’s ability to handle IVR calls and back-and-forth conversations is particularly interesting.

Getting updates through WhatsApp and iMessage is incredibly useful, and it truly feels like an assistant I’d want to use daily.

Give it a spin! :)

@rishi_raj Been inside this product for a while now. What keeps striking me is how much the team cares about whether the task actually got done -- not whether we handled it gracefully or gave a smart response, but did the real-world thing happen. Most tools stop at the edge of the digital world. Asmi doesn't. It picks up the phone, waits on hold, navigates the IVR, talks to a real person, and comes back with a result.

My own annoying chore, Asmi helped me with - I'd been putting off calling a specialist doctor for three months. Long hold times, 3-4 month waits, just didn't want to deal with the mental load of planning it out. Mentioned it offhand on a call with Asmi. It set the whole thing up and made the appointment. Still couldn't believe it honestly :D

@rishi_rajThis is fascinating. The Tuesday scenario is all too real. For me, the chore I’ve been delaying is calling three different insurance providers to compare renewal quotes because the hold times are unbearable. If Asmi can navigate those IVRs and get me a side-by-side comparison without me lifting a finger, that’s a game-changer. ;-)

@rishi_raj congrats on the launch Rishi. Very cool. How do you deal with the edge case responses that aren't "conversation natural"?

@outofelement Hi Marat - Asmi does not mimic your voice. Asmi is your personal AI with its own personality, voice and a dedicated phone number. It introduces itself as your personal assistant to the world, and not a copy of you. Also, you don't need to give any data to Asmi to get it to work. Just pick up Asmi's call, pass on your tasks - it asks all relevant questions to get context and gets to work.

@outofelement Totally get the hesitation and a fair concern.

A few things worth knowing: Asmi only acts when you explicitly tell it to - it won't make a call, send a message, or take any action without a direct instruction from you. Every call made on your behalf opens with a clear disclosure that it's an AI. You have full access and deletion rights over everything it stores. On voice: we use AI-generated voice for calls Asmi makes on your behalf - we don't clone or replicate your voice.

Happy to answer anything specific. Check out our detailed privacy policy here - https://www.asmiai.com/privacy

@suhasmotwani Thanks Suhas, you have been a great support!

@suhasmotwani Suhas! Had to do a double take here -- It's been maybe 17 years since I spoke to you back in NPS INR. Still remembering those volleyball games. Small world, eh?

Thanks a bunch for all the support!

@harini_mukesh Thanks Harini. Great question.

When users start using Asmi on day one, we don't ask for any integration or access to any of their personal apps. Asmi calls them every morning, and users share their personal chores to be done that day. That's how Asmi gets context on users each day, and it compounds over time.

To answer your question directly, the biggest challenge in this was that we were thinking we can directly integrate with users' email and calendar to pull up context, but then majority people are not comfortable sharing access to their private data on day one. That's where we created this experience where we don't ask them to integrate anything. It's frictionless and privacy-first. Whatever they want to share, they share, and we keep building this context and show them the value. On day 15 or day 30, users get really comfortable integrating more tools, and that helps them share the context easily, and Asmi becomes more high-agency and autonomous over time.

@artstavenka1 Hi Art - great question! Asmi has access to the world knowledge. Before initiating any task, Asmi will come up with all relevant context required to complete that task at one go. It will first get the context from the user over a quick call or chat. It moves forward to make the call after that. If there is some new info required while it’s talking to bank or others, it will come back to you to over chat, get the context, and immediately close the loop. It is trained to always complete the task, never drop it. Hope it answers your question :)

@montverde Hi Luke - great question! The case you highlighted, if Asmi needs to fight a chargeback, you just need to pass on the relevant info via text, a screenshot or a quick call . It will quote the same facts to the bank and resolve the issue. It does not need your personal card information or any access to your financial accounts. It is built to resolve issues with the information you choose to share with it. Hope it clarifies your doubt.

@kate_ramakaieva Hi Kate - we totally understand your worry. People generally are very responsive to Asmi knowing it’s calling on behalf of a real customer, and there is a real order, booking or issue that needs resolution. Also, the experience is almost similar to talking to a human being given Asmi’s personality, 50+ languages it can speak in - with the authentic accents.

No, we do not copy user’s voice. Asmi has its own personality, voice and a dedicated phone number.

@evakk Thanks Evak!

Absolutely! Asmi can place calls in multiple languages, either explicitly requested by you or smartly deduced from the task context (e.g., using location cues).

This multilingual flexibility ensures Asmi works seamlessly across the globe without any hassle, making it a perfect travel companion for handling local bookings and reservations abroad.

@alexander_gray3 Thanks Alexander. That’s true. Asmi is leading the way for consumers!

@alexander_gray3 Calling is only step 1. Getting that appointment booked, or making sure the cake you ordered will be ready is where it's really at. The magic is in closing the loop!

@himani_sah1 Thank you so much—"chief of staff for personal life" is the ultimate compliment and exactly what we aimed to build! We'd love for you to experience that firsthand by trying it out.

@himani_sah1 Incidentally, that was the first internal title we had for the product! Your comment feels like we've closed the loop!