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Toyo
Exec assistant who lives in iMessage and calls your phone
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Exec assistant who lives in iMessage and calls your phone
116 followers
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.
Toyo
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 🥳
@aidanhornsby Since Toyo handles autonomous workflows like inbox triage and outbound outreach, what specific guardrails or 'human-in-the-loop' confirmation steps are in place to ensure the AI doesn't send inaccurate information or violate communication preferences with sensitive VIP contacts?
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@makimum_dev great question! We're thinking about this very carefully. Right now Toyo by default cannot send any messages on your behalf (only sort, and draft), and requires explicit confirmation from you before taking any destructive action like deleting an email, etc.
How and where Toyo gathers context from you and how it remembers and uses it to try and make more intelligent and informed choices in how it can be useful is an area we are investing a lot of time in getting right. For example, right now Toyo tries to identify VIPs based on the context it draws from you and your tools, but have also been experimenting with more direct onboarding questions to explicitly name all of the VIPs in your life.
@aidanhornsby Thanks for the clarity, Aidan. It’s good to hear the 'draft-first' default is in place. Regarding your experiment with explicitly naming VIPs is there a plan to make that 'VIP list' a dynamic, version-controlled configuration in the agent’s memory that users can inspect and modify, rather than it being a black-box discovery process? As an agent grows in autonomy, having an auditable 'allow-list' feels like a must have layer for safety.
I've been following @dctanner @aidanhornsby and team's journey since the early days, and I'm amazed by the level of thought and attention to details they put into their work. It started with @Layercode (launched here in October 2025, ranked #3 Product of the Day), then pivoted, and now @Toyo. Different products, same level of craft.
If you're looking for an AI assistant built with care, @Toyo is a no-brainer.
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Thank you @fmerian! That's very kind. It's a crazy time to be building and launching products and the pivot from @Layercode was only obvious after the fact.
As we were building the voice AI platform we increasingly felt that despite voice dictation exploding in popularity, conversational voice is a really overlooked way to give agents rich context — it's so natural to verbally dump context to an agent that asks questions).
Alongside that, we observed that many builders and founders were spending increasing amounts of their time building, experimenting with, and maintaining their own internal AI agents to the point that they had created multiple new full-time jobs for themselves and their teams. A totally new kind of busywork that didn't exist even a year ago.
That to say, Toyo is the result of us becoming incredibly passionate about these two insights and we want to try to give more people access to the promise of an AI agent that can communicate with them wherever is easiest, and actually help them get real work done without all the engineering headaches.
One thing that would make Toyo way more useful for me is letting it take notes during my calls and automatically push a summary plus action items to my project board. Right now I still have to recap everything myself after a long call, which defeats the purpose of having it there in the first place.
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Hey Product Hunters, CEO and co-founder of Toyo here.
We’ve had a lot of fun building Toyo and throwing lots of automations and tasks at it for the last couple of months and it continues to surprise us!
Under the hood we built a completely new agent architecture. This allows you to have a never ending single iMessage or voice conversation with Toyo, whilst it seamlessly uses subagents to get things done.
We’ve integrated over 1,000 MCP tools so you can connect all the tools you use today.
Some ideas our team and early users came up with:
Summarize newsletters that hit my inbox and never get read.
Track receipts and expenses in a Google Sheet.
Call me everyday on the phone and talk through my plan for the day.
Send a voice note with the blog post idea and get an instant draft.
We’d love to hear what you’d want to automate.
@dctanner S/O for the great work! curious how you use @Toyo personally? what are your favorite use cases?
I loved the trailer video! it made the product feel much more real than a normal assistant demo :)
the imsg + phone call angle is really exciting. a lot of AI assistants still feel like another tab you have to manage, but Toyo living where conversations already happen makes the whole thing feel closer to an actual coworker. the "AI psychosis" line also made me laugh, because building internal agents until the agent stack becomes its own job is painfully believable. curious how Toyo decides when something is important enough to interrupt you. inbox triage and scheduled briefings sound very useful, but the trust really depends on whether it can learn what deserves attention and what can wait
The “lives in iMessage and calls your phone” part is interesting because it suggests Toyo can handle both async and more urgent workflows. How do you decide when the assistant should call versus just continue in the message thread? I’d also be curious whether users can set rules by topic, like sales follow-ups, calendar changes, or personal errands.