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For BusinessFour questions to ask the AI agent you already have.
An AI agent may have come with an app you already use, set up the way its company chose. These four questions show what it can do without you and where it does its work, and each one says where to find the answer.
Archie’s own answers sit beside each one. Archie is in beta.
Four questions to ask any AI agent, and Archie’s answer to each.
Where to find each answer for the agent you already have.
Search its help pages for the words cloud, server or virtual machine. An agent that keeps working while every device you own is switched off is working on a computer its company runs.
Open its settings and look for words like approval, permission or ask first. Read what each choice allows, and look for email and calendar by name.
In the same settings, look for a choice that stops the asking. Read the buttons on an approval prompt too, because a choice like “always allow” can stop the asking for a whole kind of action.
Open its pricing page and look for credits, actions or tasks. A price counted in those grows with a busy month, so check whether unused ones carry over.
Change a setting, keep your agent for some jobs, or move a job to Archie.
You do not have to switch anything. If one answer bothers you, change that setting first, or keep your agent for the jobs where that answer matters less.
To see how other agents answer the first and third questions, the comparison sorts each one from its company’s own pages, with sources and dates.
To try Archie on one job, setup is five steps, about five to ten minutes by our estimate, with no code to write. You can keep the agent you have.
Sources for Archie’s answers
Where your conversations go, what we hold, the email and calendar holds, buying, and the switches on the Setup tab are on our Trust page, with how to watch what Archie sends yourself.
In full: Archie works on your own computer, while it is awake, and a routine set for a time can wake it once you set that up. Your conversations go to your AI company, and we keep no copy we can read.
A drafted email waits until you send it or set a time, and a calendar change waits for your yes. It stops before an order is final, and it buys only if you switch that on, at shops you pick, up to your limit.
Neither hold is a setting anyone can turn off. What you can turn off is what your agent is able to do at all, on its Setup tab under What it can do.
Archie is free at 20 jobs a day on an AI account of your own, or $30 a month without the limit. The AI company bills what your agent uses at its own price, $1 to $5 a month for a handful of tasks a day.
Our own price, and our own measured figure for light AI use, both broken down on the pricing page. Heavier use costs more, and the AI company’s own dashboard has the real bill.
Try Archie on one job, on your own computer.
You do not have to switch anything. Archie is free for 20 jobs a day on your own AI account.