Introducing Binkit actually does the thing
bink
A personal assistant (that texts back)
in iMessage & FaceTime
Dovas & Justas
Every assistant wants its own app
We already have two we never close. So Bink moved in there.
opened once, never again
One contact (three ways in)
No app to install. Bink is just a name in your phone.
FaceTime
Show it what you’re looking at. It sees the call.
iMessage
Text it or send a voice note. Links and files come back.
Group chats
Add it to the group. It settles the plan.
No app. Just a contact.
you text, send a voice note or call
signed in to Messages and FaceTime as Bink
Claude Sonnet 5.5 reads the thread and decides.
Haiku keeps the notes, per person.
- web research
- a real browser
- calendar
- maps
- group polls
- voice memos
- files
the reply lands in the same thread
*currently just Justas’s little sister’s MacBook Air
One borrowed MacBook Air
Justas’s little sister’s, to be exact. It picks up the calls and sends the texts.
MacBook Air
on loan, running Bink
- Messages
- signed in as Bink
- FaceTime
- answers our rings
- Calls
- can ring us, too
- bink core
- 924 tests passing
Show Bink the machine
Dovas shows it on FaceTime. Bink reads the model number off the back and looks up how it works.
Bink
reading the label
Enddrag to turn it, tap to brew
Bink teaches Justas the machine
It texts him how it works, step by step, in its own voice.
Bink, in Justas’s iMessage
dovas says: here’s how his coffee machine works.
1. beans in the top
2. lock the handle in
3. cup on the tray, press brew
got it, making one now.
Example exchange
And more beans for Dovas
Asked on the call. Bink finds a store that has them, fills the cart and sends the total.
Dovas, on FaceTime
and can you order me some more beans?
Bink, in iMessage
yes
done. it’s ordered, to your saved address.
Payment simulated in the beta
Dinner at our usual spot
Justas asks once. Bink starts the group with the people he picks.
Justas
dinner at our usual spot on friday?
i can start a group with the people you pick.
Example exchange
Two times for dinner
Bink posts a real iMessage poll in the group. Go on, vote.
Justas
bink, poll the group. seven or eight?
Bink
8:00 pm
Works for all four
What time works on Friday?
a time, a place and a headcount
Example result
A table for four at eight
Bink prepares the request in private. Justas finishes on the restaurant’s site.
- Restaurant
- Your usual spot
- When
- Friday, 8:00 pm
- Party
- 4 people
Nothing gets bought without a yes
A typed yes or a 👍 on Bink’s confirm, from your own number, within five minutes. Change anything and the yes is void.
👍
•••• 4242sealed to Bink’s Mac
only the last four are kept in the clear
What Bink does (already)
Calendar
adds, moves and cancels plans
its own inbox, sends with your yes
Maps
directions, places, where you are
Shopping
finds it in stock, asks first
Calls
picks up FaceTime, rings you back
Memory
remembers what you tell it
Groups
starts the chat, runs the poll
Files
PDFs, songs and voice notes
The apps we already use
can do more
One assistant across the places we already talk.