Carly vs Wajo Fo: Which AI Agent Should Do Your Work?
Wajo’s Fo opened to the public on September 28 with a pitch no other personal agent makes: when the AI cannot finish a task, a human executive assistant on Wajo’s staff finishes it. Carly is an AI assistant and agent builder that works inside your email, calendar and the apps your business runs on.
They sound similar. They are built for different days.
The quick answer: Fo for errands, Carly for work. Fo books the haircut and sits through the hold music. Carly answers the client from your address, moves the meeting on both calendars and runs the follow-up on its own when a lead comes in. Free Zapier-style workflows; AI agents from $35/month.
Carly vs Fo at a glance
| Carly | Wajo Fo | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Work email, calendar, CRM, tasks, workflows | Everyday errands: bookings, purchases, calls |
| Sends email as | You, from your Gmail or Outlook | Itself, from Fo’s own address |
| Starts a task | On an event, a schedule, or your request | When you ask |
| Phone calls | Carly Phone for businesses, set up by the Carly team | Fo calls, with human assistants for the rest |
| Team use | Shared agents and workflows | One assistant per person; team on Pro |
| Connects to | Thousands of apps through official connections | Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Slack, the web, phone |
| Pricing | Free workflows; agents from $35/mo | Free with a daily cap; invite tier; Pro unpriced |
What Fo is built for
Wajo’s own examples say it plainly. Get a plumber out this week. Find a barber open on Sunday. Book a physical with Dr. Reyes. Send Mom flowers on the 12th. Cancel the subscriptions I do not use. Fo understands the task, searches, then acts: a call, an email, a checkout on a single-use card. When the business on the other end has no website worth automating, a trained human assistant makes the call and reports back.
It is a good design for that job, and the trust choices are real. Your card number is never exposed. Your passwords are never stored. And Fo never sends as you.
What Carly is built for
Carly’s day starts in your inbox. Connect Google or Microsoft and it triages, drafts replies in your voice and sends them from your address. It finds times, sends invites and reschedules on your real calendar, with booking pages for the people who need to grab a slot. Every request carries through to the rest of the stack: the deal moves in HubSpot, the task lands in Linear, the note files in Notion. Carly connects to thousands of apps.
Then there are workflows. A form submission, an email from a particular sender, a meeting ending, a Monday at 8am: each can start a sequence of steps with an AI decision in the middle, and it runs without anyone typing a task. The agents you build carry those workflows for a whole team.
The email address question
This is the sharpest difference, and it is a design choice on both sides.
Fo emails from its own address and never sends as you. For a florist or a plumber that is fine, and it keeps your inbox out of the loop. For a client, a candidate or a vendor it is the wrong sender. An independent benchmark in September marked Fo’s email test a partial for exactly that reason: the reply was correct and went out from the agent’s address.
Carly sends from the account you connected. The client sees your name, your signature and your thread history, and the sent mail sits in your Sent folder. Connect your inbox here.
Humans in the loop vs events in the loop
Fo’s answer to “what happens when the AI gets stuck” is a person. That is honest, and it is the right answer for a phone menu at a dental office.
Carly’s answer to “what happens when nobody is watching” is a trigger. Emily runs a two-person agency. When a prospect fills in her website form at 11pm, Carly enriches the lead, creates the HubSpot record, drafts the intro email from Emily’s address and books the discovery call from her calendar. She reads the summary in the morning. Nobody asked for the task, and no assistant had to pick up a phone.
Both matter. They solve different failures.
Pricing
Fo Mini is free with a daily task cap. OG Fo removes the cap but needs an invite. Pro adds heavier workloads, MCP access and custom agents, with no published price.
Carly runs Zapier-style workflows free. AI agents start at $35 a month. Get started here.
Which should you choose?
- You want the dentist, the plumber and the gym cancellation handled: Fo
- You want your inbox, calendar and CRM handled, from your own accounts: Carly
- You want work to start on its own when something happens: Carly workflows
- You want one agent for a whole team: Carly agents
- You want a business phone line answered and dialed for you: Carly Phone, book a call to scope it
The wider field, including Meta Muse, Instinct, szn and Catch, is in Wajo Fo alternatives, and the launch itself is in Wajo’s Fo explained.
FAQ
Can Carly do the errands Fo does?
Carly’s strength is work: email, calendar, scheduling, CRM and the workflows that connect them. If the errand runs through an app with an API, from ordering to travel tools, Carly can act on it through its integrations. For the phone-heavy personal errands, Fo is the specialist.
Does Fo work with Outlook?
Wajo lists Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Drive as connected services. Carly connects Google and Microsoft accounts side by side.
Is Fo safe to use for work email?
Fo emails from its own address, records the calls it makes and keeps summaries of them. That is workable for personal errands. For client email, use an assistant that sends as you from your own account and keeps the thread in your Sent folder.
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See what people say
"Before Carly, I relied on a Calendly link, but the whole process felt impersonal and not very professional. Carly changed that by handling all the back-and-forth, so I'm no longer stuck in endless email threads trying to line up schedules.
Now Carly reaches out to candidates, shares my real-time availability, lets them pick a slot, then sends a Zoom link and drops it straight into my calendar. She sends reminders to both of us before each call, which has significantly reduced no-shows and last-minute confusion.
On top of scheduling, Carly acts like a full executive assistant, sending me my schedule the night before so I can prepare for each call. It reminds me of the old x.ai assistant, but Carly is noticeably smarter, faster, and better suited to my healthcare recruitment business."
