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jo is a voice-first digital personality that works alongside you…

askjo.ai
HQ: Menlo Park, CA, USA; Remote
1-10
Consumer

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Overview

jo (askjo.ai) is a San Francisco-based consumer AI assistant company founded in 2023. Its product helps Mac users and households stay ahead of the day by reading email/calendar/chats overnight, generating a morning brief, drafting replies, and coordinating tasks across Mac, Telegram, WhatsApp, and email with a strong privacy-first posture.

Primary product

Personal AI assistant for Mac and messaging apps that prepares your day overnight with briefs, drafts, and proactive task handling.

Founded

2023

Headquarters

2261 Market Street STE 10471, San Francisco, CA 94114

Team size

1-10

Industry

Technology, Information and Internet

Sub-industry

personal AI assistant / consumer productivity AI

Offices

2261 Market Street STE 10471, San Francisco, CA 94114

Business model

consumer subscription
usage-based add-on

Funding

Stage

pre-seed

Total raised

$500K

Latest round

Pre-Seed · Apr 2026

Latest amount

$500K

Pre-Seed

Apr 2026

$500K

People & investors

Leadership

Pradeep Elankumaran

Co-Founder, CEO

Kevin Li

CMO

Investors

Resolute Ventures
Y Combinator

Work & culture

Public materials emphasize privacy-first execution, proactive automation, family/household use cases, and open-source roots. No public employee-benefits page was found.

Compensation

No public employee salary bands, comp philosophy, or compensation ranges were found.

Product & market

Pricing

Standard subscription at $39/month after a 7-day trial; Solo 'Let Me Cook' at $99/month plus usage; no credit card required to start.

Differentiators

  • —proactive overnight briefings and drafting
  • —privacy-first zero-data-retention AI endpoints
  • —personal data stays on the user’s Mac unless approved
  • —dedicated isolated cloud machine per user
  • —Telegram, WhatsApp, Mac, and email access
  • —family/household sharing in the Standard plan
  • —browser automation and autonomous recurring tasks
  • —open-source roots and contribution back

Technology

macOS
Apple Silicon
Telegram
WhatsApp
Gmail
Google Calendar
Google Drive
Google Contacts
Claude
ChatGPT
Gemini
Grok
Kimi
PostHog
Google Analytics
JavaScript
TypeScript
Rust
Go
Python

Customers

individual consumers
families/households
busy professionals
Apple Silicon Mac users

Competitors

Superhuman
Notion AI
part-time virtual assistants
general-purpose AI assistants

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

≈$171k annual revenue (third-party estimate)

Estimated monthly visits

1K

oss@askjo.ai

Latest news

Jo Review 2026: The Personal AI Assistant Built for Real Life

Agent Finder · May 2026

Hands-on review highlighting jo's overnight autonomous work, pricing, Apple Silicon-only support, Telegram/WhatsApp access, and privacy-first design.

jo 1.0 Launches: A Personal AI That Actually Knows You

Fondo · Mar 2026

Coverage of the 2026 launch/relaunch that reiterates jo's Mac-plus-private-cloud architecture, privacy posture, and new product direction.

jo 1.0 - a personal AI that actually knows you

Y Combinator · Mar 2026

YC launch describing jo as a personal AI that runs on the user's Mac and private cloud machine, with proactive daily briefs, browser control, messaging integrations, and open-source roots.

AI voice-first digital personality 'jo' launched for Apple users

American Bazaar · Dec 2024

Early launch coverage noting the original voice-first macOS product, the founders, and the local/remote LLM and macOS-native implementation.

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