Proactive AI assistant
Poke
An AI assistant that lives inside your texts. It watches your inbox, calendar, and code, then acts before you ask - no tab to babysit, no prompt to write.
$ poke
Poke is online. Watching inbox, calendar, and code.
[09:41]poke: Flight UA 1234 is delayed 40 min. I moved your 14:30 call to 15:10 and texted the client.
[09:41]poke: PR #482 merged. Deployed to staging. All 214 tests green.
[09:42]poke: Rent is due Friday. I paid it and filed the receipt under Finances.
[09:43]you: Wait - I didn't ask you to do any of that.
[09:43]poke: Right. That's the point.
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Born in California
Poke comes from sunny Palo Alto, where the Interaction Company of California builds it. That California energy is the whole point: optimistic, warm, a little playful, and marked by a single minimalist palm tree.
It is a friendly consumer face with a precise company behind it. The palm is the brand - a quiet reminder that this assistant was built in the sun, not in a gray server room.
- HQ
- Palo Alto, CA
- Coordinates
- 37.44° N, 122.14° W
What Poke can do
Integrations
Reads the inbox, drafts replies, and keeps threads moving without you pasting every message.
Calendar
Schedules, reschedules, and guards your time. It knows when to say no for you.
Developer tools
Reads pull requests, merges, deploys, and runs the checks so your code ships itself.
Real-world intelligence
Tracks flights, weather, traffic, and the live details that change your plans.
In the flow of life and work
Takes action
Pays the bill, books the table, sends the follow-up. It does the thing, not just the plan.
Connected workflows
One action chains into the next - a delay becomes a reschedule becomes a text to the client.
Surfaces context
Pulls up the right detail at the right moment, so you are never scrambling for it.
Researches
Digs through the web and your own history to answer the question you actually meant.
Coordinates
Lines up the people, times, and moving parts across your life and work.
Helps in the flow
Shows up inside the conversation you are already in, not in a separate app to remember.
Fast, direct, proactive, useful, and brutally honest.
Poke is not a polite chatbot that waits to be asked. It is a sharp assistant with an opinion, a bias toward action, and no patience for busywork. Here is how it shows up.
- 01Fast
- Answers and actions land in seconds, not after a loading spinner and a prayer.
- 02Direct
- It says the useful thing plainly. No hedging, no burying the lede.
- 03Proactive
- It works ahead of you and tells you after, because waiting for a prompt wastes your day.
- 04Useful
- Every message earns its place. If it would not help, it does not send.
- 05Brutally honest
- It will tell you your plan is bad, your deadline is tight, and your idea needs work. Then it fixes it.
See Poke in action
A short look at how Poke moves through a day. This is an illustrative demo, not real data - pick a scenario and copy the transcript if you want to study it.
$ poke --mode inbox
Email that answers itself
poke: Your client asked for the revised estimate. I sent it with the updated line items.
poke: The invoice from last week was marked paid. I filed it under Finances.
you: Did you flag the one that needs a signature?
poke: Yes. It is the third one down, waiting on you. Everything else is handled.
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Presented by
Miska Hämäläinen
handle: usa
This is a personal showcase of Poke, the proactive AI assistant - what it is, where it comes from, and how it works. No invented biography, no fabricated metrics. Just the assistant, explored.