Nineteen US consumer gen-AI agents, and twelve of them sit in San Francisco

Asked:

“Find consumer gen ai agents like instinct, muse or tab based in the us, exclude large companies”

A curated discovery shortlist of 19 consumer gen-AI agent products from independent US startups — personal, household, social and task-execution assistants — not an enumeration of every US consumer-agent startup. Instinct and Tab appear as the benchmarks the asker named (Instinct Companion is a reference variant of Instinct, not an extra company); Muse is excluded as a Meta product, as are agents from OpenAI, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, xAI and Perplexity. Each row is backed by one of 19 distinct source URLs across 17 hosts. Research current as of 2026-11-03.

Where they sit: a city-grouped startup landscape

available beta invite-only waitlist unknown outlined = named benchmark (Instinct, Tab)

Chip colour means current availability, not identity. Hover or tap a chip for what the agent does. “Bay Area” is placed as its source states it, without a more precise city.

Funding disclosures span four orders of magnitude: Caddy’s $500K pre-seed to Instinct’s $1B raise at a $10B valuation — thecreatorsai.com

13 of 19 products are generally available today; only Instinct is invite-only, while Caddy, Tab and Moonshot hold waitlists — genznewz.com

Text messaging is the dominant interface: most agents live in iMessage, WhatsApp, SMS or Telegram rather than a standalone app — Ollie needs no app download at all — techcrunch.com

The largest disclosed non-benchmark rounds are Ollie Home’s $85M Series A at a $420M valuation and Wabi’s $55M at $1.25B — pomegra.io

Comparison matrix: all 19 products

Sorted by source mentions — the count of distinct research pages mentioning the product, not users or market share. Shaded rows are the named benchmarks. Blank funding or availability means the sources did not disclose it.

Product	Scope	What it does	Interface	HQ	Funding	Availability	Mentions	Source

Curated shortlist of 19 consumer gen-AI agent product rows from independent US startups, one source URL per row (19 URLs, 17 hosts), research current as of 2026-11-03. “Mentions” counts distinct search-result pages naming the product in the research set, nothing more. Funding is as stated by sources, not audited; blank fields reflect undisclosed data and were kept. Availability was normalised to five states for scanning. Capability text is trimmed in the table for space.

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