HireAlpha FAQ
Everything people ask before they try it: what the hires are, how an AI that lives in iMessage works, what it costs, and what happens to your data.
What is HireAlpha?
HireAlpha is where you hire Friend, Coworker, or Cofounder as AI contacts that live in your real iMessage threads. Each has its own phone number, its own memory, and its own personality — they are not one chatbot with modes.
What is an AI friend that texts first?
Alpha, the Friend hire, is a personal companion in Messages. It texts you first: morning and evening briefs, sleep, food, training, spending, and the people you owe a reply. It remembers your story and checks in — warm, emotionally literate, never clingy.
Can I hire an AI coworker for email?
Alpha (Coworker) runs your workday from the thread: it drafts email replies, preps you before meetings, holds meeting recaps after, shows every free time slot side by side for scheduling, and triages your Linear backlog. Drafts never send until you approve them.
Is there an AI cofounder for startups?
Alpha(CoFounder) is a blunt, loyal startup partner in your texts. Pipeline board, runway tracking, decision ledger, hiring opinions, fundraising pushback, and investor updates. It tells you what you need to hear and separates ego decisions from company decisions.
How is this different from a chatbot or from other AI assistants?
Chatbots are apps you open and prompt; general assistants are one more tool in an interface you have to remember. HireAlpha's hires live in the Messages app you already open, text like people, and keep separate memories and personalities per life role. Most competitive and VC-backed assistants are behind closed waitlists right now; the Friend hire is live today — $19 a month with a 7-day free trial.
What does HireAlpha cost?
Each persona is $19 a month, or an entire hiring bench of all three for $39 a month when Coworker and Cofounder ship. Paid tiers include a 7-day free trial, and an annual single hire is $190 (two months free). There is no ad-supported free tier reading your data.
Does it work on any phone?
Yes — iMessage on iPhone, plain SMS on other phones. Save the number, open your normal Messages app, and text like you would text anyone. No new app to learn.
What happens to my texts and data?
We do not sell conversations, show ads against them, or train shared models on them. A hire reads only the Google data you connect and the things you log or text. Deleting your account deletes your rows within 30 days.
Do the hires replace real people?
No. They are companions and helpers. HireAlpha's own channel rules keep them out of medical or legal advice and money movement, and they never replace a human for grief, live negotiation, or taste you have not taught them.
What happens after I join the waitlist?
You get a number to save in Messages, the hire texts you first, and you have a 7-day free trial before any charge. No charge until you actually hire.