Lucas AI Is Becoming Sones: What to Do Before November 30
Lucas, the AI assistant that texts you first in iMessage and WhatsApp, is being replaced. On November 10, 2026, its makers announced they’re moving users to Sones, “our newer and much more capable version,” and that Lucas stops answering after November 30, 2026. Switching is free and takes a few minutes, and you can bring your Lucas memory with you or start fresh.
The quick answer: if you use Lucas and like it, switch to Sones before November 30 so you don’t lose your context. If you’d rather leave, delete your Lucas account so the data it stored about your email and calendar is removed. Either way, decide before the cutoff. A disclosure: we make Carly, an AI assistant that also works by text, so we’re one of the alternatives. We’ve kept to what Lucas and Sones say on their own pages.
What’s happening
Lucas announced the change in a product update dated November 10, 2026, titled “Lucas is moving to Sones.” The key points:
- Lucas is being replaced, not just renamed. Sones is described as a newer, more capable agent from the same team, “the result of over a year of work.”
- The cutoff is November 30, 2026. After that, Lucas stops answering.
- Switching is free. You switch at Sones’s Lucas page, and it “takes a few minutes.”
- Your memory can come with you. During onboarding you choose to “start fresh or port your memory from Lucas,” and if you port it, “your context moves over with you automatically.”
The update also says the new version comes “with the backing from some of the world’s leading VCs,” without naming them.
What Lucas was
Lucas was a texting-first assistant from Lucas Intelligence, Inc. Its pitch was “Assistant That Texts You First”: rather than waiting for a prompt, it would notice things and message you. Its site described it as “the organized friend who spots it first: the flight that got canceled, the deposit that never came back, the RSVPs still missing.”
Over 2026 it grew into a capable errand agent. Its update log shows the steps:
- July: iMessage only for a period, plus integrations with Airtable and Cal.com, and texts a few minutes before every online meeting with the join link ready.
- August: a rebuilt web browser for errands like table bookings, cancellations and checkouts, with fewer runs stopped by captchas.
- September 11: back on WhatsApp, so Android users could use it again, plus voice notes, photos and PDFs.
- September 14: up to five errands at once, and flight booking with the full price checked before you approve.
- September 15: Vault, encrypted storage for logins, cards and ID documents, so errands could keep going without stopping to ask.
Lucas’s approach to approvals was careful. Before any booking or payment, it sent “a readable screenshot of the checkout” and waited for your reply, and its Vault was built so “the AI that runs your errands never sees your passwords.”
If you’ve been using Lucas, Sones is meant to pick up all of that and go further.
What Sones adds
According to the switch page, Sones goes beyond Lucas in a few ways:
- Its own identity. “We gave Sones its own email address, phone number, computer and a way to pay, so it can finish any task you throw at it, not just tell you how.”
- More proactive. Sones “finds ways to be helpful before you ask” and “learns how you like things done.”
- Multiplayer. You can link your Sones with friends’ and colleagues’ Sones so they can “work together, find a time that suits everyone or pass messages between you.”
- Group chats. You can add Sones to iMessage group chats to sort a trip or run a family calendar.
The page also calls Sones “the most capable AI personal agent on the market according to 3rd-party benchmarks on long-horizon tasks.” The benchmark it shows is small: eight email, invoice and calendar tasks run three times each, by an independent reviewer in October 2026, with Sones scoring 8 out of 8, Lucas 7.5 and Meta’s Muse 6.67. It’s a useful signal that Sones handles everyday errands well, though eight tasks is a narrow test.
New users currently join a waitlist on the Sones homepage. Lucas users switch through the dedicated Lucas page.
What to do before November 30
If you want to keep going:
- Open Sones’s Lucas page and sign in.
- Choose to port your memory from Lucas, so your context comes with you.
- Check which apps and accounts are connected, and reconnect anything that didn’t come across.
- Re-check your saved logins and cards, and confirm how approvals for payments and bookings work in Sones before handing it a real errand.
If you’d rather leave:
- Disconnect your Google and Microsoft accounts from Lucas.
- Delete your Lucas account. Its privacy policy says some stored records stay hidden but retained “until you delete your Lucas account or request earlier deletion,” and that disconnecting a service doesn’t erase what’s already in your conversations, summaries or memory.
- Remove any logins, cards or ID documents you saved in Vault.
Deleting your account doesn’t touch your original emails or documents, which stay with Google or Microsoft.
Your data
Lucas’s privacy policy, last updated October 13, 2026, makes a few commitments worth knowing as you decide:
- It doesn’t use Google user data “to train generalized artificial intelligence or machine learning models.”
- Disconnecting a Google service stops new access, but stored records are retained until you delete your account or ask for deletion.
- Copies already in your conversations, summaries or memory remain subject to the deletion controls.
If you port your memory to Sones, that context moves to the new product under Sones’s own terms and privacy policy, so it’s worth reading them when you switch.
Alternatives if you’d rather not switch
Our guide to Lucas alternatives compares options for email, scheduling, daily planning and recurring tasks. Other assistants you text include Poke and Tomo, which we cover in Poke alternatives and Tomo alternatives, and our roundup of AI assistants you can text covers the wider field.
If what you mostly used Lucas for was email and calendar, Carly is built for exactly that. It labels and sorts email across all your Gmail and Outlook accounts by rules you set, handles advanced scheduling, and can make and answer calls and texts. You can text it, email it, or use it inside ChatGPT or Claude, and it follows your rules the same way every time.
FAQ
Is Lucas AI shutting down?
Lucas is being replaced by Sones, a newer agent from the same team. Lucas stops answering after November 30, 2026.
What is Sones?
Sones is the successor to Lucas. Its makers describe it as a personal agent with its own email address, phone number, computer and way to pay, which you text to handle real-world tasks. It also works with other people’s Sones and in iMessage group chats.
Is switching from Lucas to Sones free?
Yes. The announcement says switching is free and takes a few minutes, through Sones’s Lucas page.
Will my Lucas memory carry over?
If you choose to. During Sones onboarding you can port your memory from Lucas, and your context moves over automatically, or you can start fresh.
What happens if I don’t switch by November 30?
Lucas stops answering after November 30, 2026. To remove your data rather than leave it, delete your Lucas account.
Who makes Lucas and Sones?
Lucas was made by Lucas Intelligence, Inc. Sones comes from the same team, which describes it as the newer version of Lucas.
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