What is a texted AI concierge?

A texted AI concierge is an assistant you reach by text message instead of an app. You write to it like a person, it answers in the same thread, and it can write to you first. Housefly Concierge is one: iMessage first, built to keep track of a business, and asking before anything leaves.

Disclosure: Housefly is made by Drifted Marketing, and this page is published by Drifted Marketing. Read it as a maker describing its own product, and check anything that matters to you on a call.

Why call it a concierge and not a chatbot?

A chatbot waits for a question. A concierge keeps track of you. The word fits the idea we are after: someone who knows what you have on, remembers what you asked for last time, mentions the thing you forgot, and gets the right person when a job is beyond them.

The idea is old. A good assistant has always been someone you can reach in one line from wherever you are. What a texted concierge changes is the interface: the thread is the whole product. There is no login, no tabs and no new habit to build.

How does a texted concierge work day to day?

With Housefly, the day looks like a message thread. You text it the way you would text a colleague: "what am I forgetting this week", or "remember I hate calls before 11". It answers in the same thread.

Behind the thread it keeps four running lists for each member:

• what you promised your clients,
• what your clients still owe you,
• a short brief before each call,
• a read of your inbox, your store and your ad numbers.

Those lists are why it can be useful without being asked. The thread on our home page shows the pattern, and it is illustrative rather than a real member's: "Morning. You told a client you'd send a revised quote by Friday. It's Thursday. Want me to draft it?"

Why text, and why iMessage first?

Because it is where many owners already talk to their team and their clients. A concierge that lives in the thread you already check does not ask you to check a new one. Housefly starts with iMessage; this site does not promise other messaging apps, so if you live in a different one, ask us on the call.

There is a second reason. An app waits for you to open it. A text thread works in both directions, so the concierge can speak up first when something matters, instead of sitting quietly until you remember to look.

What does a concierge do when it says "yes, draft it"?

It writes the draft and hands it back. Sending it is a separate yes. That split is deliberate. Reading your numbers, keeping your lists, preparing a brief and writing a draft never leave your hands, so none of them need permission. Sending a message in your name, paying for anything or changing a setting or record in one of your accounts does.

When a step needs your yes, Housefly names it in one sentence before it asks, for example: "Ready: send the revised quote from your email to your client." You see what will happen, from which account and to whom. "Not yet" is a complete answer. The full rules are on nothing leaves without your yes.

What happens when a job needs people?

Some jobs are not software jobs: a launch video, a design, an outreach campaign. A concierge that pretends otherwise wastes your time. Housefly hands those jobs to Drifted Marketing's own team, which does design, video and outreach. That is the "concierge" part in practice: knowing when to call someone.

Who can text it, and who sees what it learns?

Only members on the list get a reply. A message from a number Housefly does not know gets no reply, and nothing from it is kept.

What it learns goes into a sealed memory that belongs to one member. It holds two things: your memory, meaning the facts of your business, your clients and your commitments, and your taste, meaning how you like things written, what you hate and what you always say no to. When Housefly answers you, it sees only your box. There is no shared brain between members. More on the sealed memory page.

What is a texted concierge not?

It is not a chatbot on your website talking to your customers. Housefly works for the owner, not the owner's visitors. It is not free, and it carries no ads. It does not send, pay or change an account on its own. And it is not a replacement for judgement: it drafts, you decide.

How do you get one?

Housefly Concierge is opening to ten founding members first. Solo is $3,000 a quarter and Operator is $6,000 a quarter, paid up front, and founding members keep that price for life in exchange for a five-minute feedback call each week. What separates Solo from Operator has not been decided yet. There is no payment link: it starts with a 30-minute call, so you can ask your questions before anything is paid. See founding seats and pricing.

If you are comparing options, two pages may help: Housefly vs ChatGPT and Housefly vs hiring a virtual assistant.

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