Chert

Everybody's building AI for email, for phone calls, for chatbots. But nobody's touching iMessage—which is wild, because it's the most personal channel in existence. One billion people use iMessage daily, and it's原生, trusted, conversational. Chert lets you build AI agents that live inside iMessage and text your customers at scale. Real conversations, not broadcast blasts.

Their demo shows a property rental inquiry getting handled end-to-end: "Hey! Is the 2BR on Pine still open?" → AI responds naturally, confirms the tour, puts it on the calendar. No generic botspeak. They're already working with Autosana and other growing teams who need to automate customer outreach without killing the personal touch. The whole thing runs inside Apple's ecosystem so there's no friction, no app install, no weird third-party UI—just texting.

This is the angle everyone's missed. Everyone chased SMS,吹了多少短信平台, but iMessage has better delivery, richer UI (tapbacks, images, haptics), and actual trust. Chert is betting that the future ofcustomer communication isn't more channels—it's going deeper on the one channel people actually answer.