7 Best Righthand Alternatives in 2026
Righthand’s pitch is “delegate your responsibilities, not your tasks.” Each Righthand arrives with its own name, photo, phone number, email address and browser, chases the invoices, answers the phone and triages the inbox, and you pay per Righthand rather than per seat: the first one is free, then $99 or $199 a month depending on capacity.
That is a clean model. The question is whether you want a separate employee with its own identity, or an assistant that works inside yours.
The quick answer: Carly is the best Righthand alternative for work email and calendar. It sends from your own address rather than an agent’s, works across all of your inboxes at once, starts on events instead of waiting to be asked, and carries each request through your CRM, tasks and files. Free Zapier-style workflows; AI agents from $35/month. Connect your inbox here.
Quick comparison
| Alternative | Best for | Reaches you by | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carly | Work email, calendar, workflows and team agents | Email, text, web, ChatGPT and Claude | Free workflows; agents from $35/mo |
| Ako | An AI employee in Slack or WhatsApp | Slack, WhatsApp, email | Free credits; $19, $49, $199/mo |
| Oz | A teammate in Slack or Teams for sales and ops | Slack, Teams, email, phone | $39, $59, $89 per seat |
| Sabi | A text-first EA for one business owner | iMessage, SMS, email, Slack | $295/mo |
| Lindy | Building agents from templates | Web, email, Slack | Free tier; paid plans per user |
| Tasklet | Agents that run inside your existing tools | Web, Slack | Free; Starter $25/mo |
| Wajo Fo | Personal errands with humans on the phone | Email, text, Slack, phone | Free with a daily cap |
1. Carly: the work alternative
Carly is an AI assistant and agent builder for the same responsibilities Righthand lists, the inbox, the calendar, the follow-up and the CRM, with one structural difference: it works as you, not as a new colleague.
Connect Google or Microsoft and Carly reads the thread, drafts the reply in your voice and sends it from your address, so a client sees you and your signature, not a new colleague they have never met. It finds times, sends invites and reschedules on your real calendar. It works across all of your inboxes at once, both providers, one request.
Righthand waits to be asked or runs on a routine. Carly workflows start on events: a lead form comes in, an email arrives from a specific sender, a meeting ends, a Monday morning arrives. Each one can run a sequence of steps with an AI decision in the middle, and the agents you build carry those workflows for a whole team, with no per-agent seat to buy. Carly connects to thousands of apps, from HubSpot and Salesforce to Slack, Linear and Notion, through official connections rather than a browser session that stops at a login wall.
You can also use it where you already work: text it, email it, or add the Carly plugin to ChatGPT or the Carly connector to Claude.
- Best for: professionals and teams who want email, calendar and operations handled in their own accounts
- Pricing: free Zapier-style workflows; AI agents from $35/month
- Limitations: built around work apps rather than personal errands like visa renewals and carpools
2. Ako
Ako is the closest match to Righthand’s shape: an AI employee with its own email address, Slack handle and WhatsApp number that you tag in a channel, schedule, or hand a goal. It pulls reports, chases follow-ups and builds small interfaces on the fly.
- Best for: teams that live in Slack or WhatsApp and want a colleague they can @-mention
- Pricing: free with 2,000 one-time credits, then Lite $19, Starter $49 and Pro $199 a month, billed in credits per task
- Limitations: credit maths gets fiddly on heavy tasks. The field is in Ako alternatives.
3. Oz
Oz, from Anyreach, is a teammate you ask in Slack, Teams, email or on a call, aimed at sales and ops: account briefs, deal intel, follow-ups. Reads are free and every risky action asks first.
- Best for: revenue teams that want research and follow-up handled inside Slack or Teams
- Pricing: Solo $39, Team $59 and Business $89 per seat per month
- Limitations: per-seat pricing scales with headcount, the opposite of Righthand’s per-agent model
4. Sabi
Sabi is a text-first AI executive assistant for business owners. It guards the calendar, triages the inbox and follows up while you sleep, over iMessage, SMS, email and Slack.
- Best for: a single founder who wants one assistant they can text
- Pricing: $295 a month, month to month, with a founding-member discount running
- Limitations: single user, with team seats still on the roadmap. See Sabi alternatives.
5. Lindy
Lindy is an agent builder with a template library: pick an email triage or meeting-scheduler agent, wire it to your tools, and run it.
- Best for: people who want to assemble several narrow agents themselves
- Pricing: free tier, then paid plans per user
- Limitations: the assembly is on you, and each agent is a separate thing to maintain. See Lindy alternatives.
6. Tasklet
Tasklet runs agents inside the tools your team already uses rather than giving the agent its own identity. It is the low-cost route to recurring back-office work.
- Best for: small teams automating a handful of repeatable jobs
- Pricing: free tier, Starter $25 a month
- Limitations: no phone line and no persona. See Tasklet alternatives.
7. Wajo Fo
Fo covers the personal-errand half of Righthand’s skill catalogue: the dentist, the plumber, the renewals, with human assistants making the calls the model cannot. It emails from its own address, like Righthand.
- Best for: personal admin rather than business admin
- Pricing: free with a daily task cap; Pro is unpriced
- Limitations: errands, not your work inbox. See Wajo Fo alternatives.
How to choose a Righthand alternative
- Email, calendar and follow-up in your own accounts, for you or a team: go with Carly
- An AI employee to @-mention in Slack or WhatsApp: Ako
- Sales and ops research inside Slack or Teams: Oz
- One founder, one assistant, by text: Sabi
- Assemble narrow agents yourself: Lindy
- Cheap recurring back-office jobs: Tasklet
- Personal errands with a human on the phone: Wajo Fo
If the phone answering is the part of Righthand you want, Carly Phone gives a business its own numbers, calling, texting and an AI receptionist, set up by the Carly team. Book a call to scope it.
FAQ
How much does Righthand cost?
The first Righthand is free with no card, starting with 14 days of Starter-level capacity. After that, Starter is $99 a month per Righthand and Pro is $199 with four times the capacity; a $39 Usage Boost adds capacity for the rest of a billing cycle. Every feature is on both plans. Carly runs Zapier-style workflows free, and its AI agents start at $35 a month.
Does Righthand send email as me?
Each Righthand has its own email address and can use a custom domain, and what it may send from your connected accounts is set per account. Carly sends from your own Gmail or Outlook, so the client sees you.
Can Righthand make payments?
Righthand’s own FAQ says payments are the one thing it cannot do yet. If the job is a purchase, Wajo Fo checks out on single-use cards.
What is the best Righthand alternative for a team?
Carly. Build an agent once, connect the team’s inboxes and calendars, and let workflows run on events for everyone, without buying a second agent to add capacity.
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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."
