Reviewers largely see Pally as a practical relationship manager that pulls context from multiple channels, summarizes past conversations, reminds people to follow up, and helps with meeting prep. Many say it makes networking more consistent and interactions more thoughtful, with several describing it as a “second brain” for staying in touch. The main complaints are limited platform support, especially no mobile or tablet app yet, and a text-heavy interface. A few also note that mixing personal and business relationship management may not suit everyone.
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Hey 👋, we’re Haz and Wyatt, the founders of Pally.
Some of you might remember us… a year ago we launched Pally as a personal CRM. It went well, but after thousands of conversations with users we kept hearing the same thing: nobody wants to manage their relationships in another tool. They want the stuff behind them (the replies, the plans, the follow-ups) to just get done.
So we rebuilt Pally from the ground up as a personal assistant that lives in your texts.
## How does it work?
There’s no app to open. You just text Pally like you’d text a friend (over iMessage or RCS), and it connects to everything else: your inboxes, calendar, files, tasks and the web.
Pally can:
- Reply to your unread DMs for you, in your tone (we’re the only text agent that natively connects to your iMessage and WhatsApp inboxes)
- Make real phone calls: book tables, chase quotes, sit through hold music so you don’t have to
- Book flights, buy things, and pay with locked one-time virtual cards
- Summarize the group chats you’ve been ignoring
- Remind you of things when you arrive somewhere (or leave)
- Keep track of every promise you’ve made, so you never leave anyone hanging (the CRM DNA lives on, just without the admin)
And it’s proactive. Pally texts you first: prepping you for meetings, flagging what needs you, and catching the stuff you’d forget (it’ll still remind you to ring your mum from time to time 🫡).
## Who’s it for?
Anyone who’s drowning in messages: founders, salespeople, recruiters, creators… but also just anyone who leaves people on read and feels bad about it (so, everyone).
## What’s next?
We’re launching publicly today, and we’ll be building in the open from here: more integrations (you can already bring your own via MCP), smarter proactivity, and letting Pally take entire workflows off your plate end-to-end.
Use this sign up link for a free month of Pally Pro: https://my.pally.com/r/GIFTPRODUCTH-FKFCSR
Come say hi in the comments, we’ll be here all day.
Thanks for the support,
Haz + Wyatt 🫶
@hazhubble love this version!! So effective
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@reme_nicole thanks reme!! perfect for real estate professionals who live in the DMs!
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@jakemeadows thanks for all your user testing and feedback! pally = jarvis ;)
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@hazhubble Great Launch - Great Product - Great Team!
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@stepcha_cherkasov thanks Stefan!
@hazhubble Clever idea! Really usefull.
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@stana_ioan thank you!
@hazhubble @stana_ioan Stana, if you do try it, the thing worth paying attention to early is which half you actually end up using.
Pally does two quite different jobs. It does work for you, which is booking, chasing, summarising, and it replies to people as you. The first half is almost pure upside and you will know within a day whether it saves you time.
The second half is where opinions split hard, and it is worth deciding deliberately rather than drifting into it. Some people are completely fine with an assistant answering their messages. Others find out they are not, usually at an awkward moment.
Start with the first half only. If it earns its place, you can decide about the second half later with actual information instead of a guess.
@hazhubble This is interesting, especially the calls and hold-music part, that's the piece automation usually skips. Curious how it handles more relationship-sensitive replies (client negotiations, anything needing judgment on tone). That's usually where I've seen automation hit a wall in the exec support work I do.
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@ibrahim_misturah awesome let us know how it goes!
@hazhubble @ibrahim_misturah Ibrahim, your question is the one I would want answered too, and I do not think "let us know how it goes" closes it.
The wall you have seen in exec support is real and it is not a model quality problem. Tone in a sensitive reply is not a writing task, it is a judgement about the relationship, and the model does not have the thing that judgement runs on. It does not know that this client went quiet for three weeks after the last pricing conversation, or that this person always says fine when they are not.
Which is why I think the useful split is not sensitive versus routine. It is reversible versus not. A misjudged reply to a friend is recoverable. A misjudged reply in a live negotiation is not, and no amount of tone matching fixes the second one, because the failure is confidence rather than style.
Given the work you do, I would genuinely want to know where you draw that line in practice. What is the class of message you would never hand over, even if the tone matching were perfect?
'nobody wants relationships in another tool' is the honest pivot. but i don't have one tone, i text my mum unlike a client. does pally learn tone per person?
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@andrewzakonov it does yes, it adjusts per person and per channel!
@andrewzakonov Your mum example is doing more work than it looks like it is.
Per-person tone is the easy part and Haz confirmed it does that. The harder thing is that tone is not one dial per contact, it moves with what is happening. You text your mum differently when arranging a lift than when something has gone wrong. Same person, same channel, completely different register, and nothing in the message history tells the model which situation it is in.
Which is why the failure mode is not sounding wrong. It is sounding perfectly like you in the wrong emotional key. Nobody notices a slightly stiff reply. Everybody notices a breezy one landing on bad news.
If you try it, that is the case I would watch. Not whether it sounds like you with your mum, but what it does the first time your mum texts something serious.
Congrats !
You're plugging into iMessage & WhatsApp. What's the story on privacy ? Where does the data live ? and what does Pally actually get to see?
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@gameplace iMessage data stays in iMessage, Pally reads it using a mac companion app on demand. WhatsApp builds on top of whatsmeow open source repo, where your data is synced but fully encrypted. read more at pally.com/privacy. Our goal is for as much data to stay in your underlying platforms as possible, and Pally to only read when it needs it.
@gameplace Adding to the answer you got, because there are three separate questions inside yours and they have different answers.
Where data is stored: Haz said it stays in Gmail and iMessage, with Pally reaching in when needed. That is the good shape.
What it can see: broader than storage. To summarise a chat you ignored or prep you before a meeting, something has to be reading continuously, not only when you ask. Haz confirmed it is live on connected accounts. So the honest answer is that it can see whatever those accounts contain, storage location aside.
The third one is the one I would push on, and Chalermpon raised it above without getting a straight answer: whether the connection that reads is the same one that sends. Read-only access that goes wrong leaks. Read-and-write access that goes wrong sends. Those are very different bad days and it is worth knowing which you are signing up for.
Good instinct asking before connecting rather than after. Most people do it the other way round.
Congrats on the relaunch. I read the tone-matching line twice, because whatever writes in my voice has to have read a lot of me first. Where does that reading happen, on the phone, or on your side? My group chats are the last thing I would hand over without knowing that.
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@vollos of course, Pally learns from your platforms but the underlying data stays in them. your emails stay in gmail, your iMessages in iMessage etc. We wanna hold as little data as possible about you, and let Pally just go into answer questions/do work when you need it to! Ultimately there's always some privacy cost, but we do our best to minimize this as much as possible.
@hazhubble Thanks, that's a straight answer. Data staying in Gmail and iMessage with Pally reaching in on request is the shape I was hoping for. The proactive features are where I'd want more detail though, since summarising chats I ignored and prepping me before a meeting both mean something is reading before I ask. Is that a live watch on the connected accounts, or does it wake on a schedule and pull only what that pass needs?
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@vollos it's live on connected accounts, but you can turn any individual feature off, and ask it to remove important message alerts or proactive automations (although this is the main value of Pally imo)
@hazhubble Since Pally also sends in my voice, does the connection doing the watching only read, with sending going through something separate, or is it one connection that reads and sends?
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@etiennegarcia awesome, you can use it just for that! nothing ever goes out without you seeing it anyway!
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Congrats on the launch looks sick! Curious, does Pally have access to Slack for context?
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@mahendrakerr Yep! Pally does
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@mahendrakerr it does! plug into all your tools and let pally automate all of them!
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Congrats on the launch! Can I send it voice notes?
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@anton_muratov yep! one of my fave ways to chat to pally. you can even call it too!