Instinct
Autonomous AI personal assistant for everyday tasks
CORE INFO
Instinct is building a consumer assistant that connects to email, messages, calendars, documents, devices and other accounts. Individuals can contact it by text or phone to handle tasks such as booking travel, arranging services, shopping and managing subscriptions.
- Series B: $250 million co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark on August 26, 2026, at a reported $2.5 billion valuation.techcrunch.com
- User base: More than 100,000 users as access widened, according to The Information.theinformation.com
- TechCrunch reported privacy and security concerns related to Instinct's access to personal data and ability to take actions or enter transactions on users' behalf.techcrunch.com
WHY WE WOULD WORK AT INSTINCT
Rebuild Everyday Assistance
Help create an autonomous personal assistant that can organize inboxes, book travel, arrange services, shop, and manage tasks through text or phone calls.
Shape a Category
Instinct is still in private beta, giving early employees the chance to define how consumer AI agents become a new personal operating layer.
Work on Agentic AI
Build systems that understand context, use phones and computers, connect across email, messaging, calendars and documents, and take multistep actions on a user's behalf.
Exceptional Momentum
The company has reportedly raised approximately $350 million, including a $250 million Series B at a reported $2.5 billion valuation, while rapidly expanding its product.
Make Broad Impact
Instinct is designed for practical, high-frequency problems—from following up on conversations to booking appointments and cancelling subscriptions—rather than narrow demos.
Research-Led Ambition
Founder Noah Shinn's background includes work on Reflexion and τ-bench, connecting Instinct's product mission to cutting-edge research in self-correcting agents and tool use.
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PRODUCT AND TECH
Autonomous Personal Assistant
Instinct uses artificial intelligence and machine-learning technologies to plan and complete everyday tasks on a user's behalf, including travel, appointments, shopping, inbox organization and subscription cancellations.
Cross-Application Integrations
The service connects with email, messaging, calendars, documents, Google Workspace tools, devices and other third-party accounts. This broad access allows Instinct to coordinate information and actions across a user's existing digital services.
Computer And Phone Use
Instinct is designed to operate phones and computers in a human-like manner, including interacting with screens, cursor positions and keystrokes. This enables multistep task execution on websites and applications rather than answer-only assistance.
Text And Voice Interfaces
Users can contact Instinct through text messages or phone calls, avoiding the need to learn a new dashboard or workflow. The assistant can also proactively text or call users about tasks and follow-ups.
Contextual Personalization
Instinct uses permitted email, messages, documents, calendar, audio, location and screen context to understand what matters to a user. This supports proactive follow-up and personalized task completion across daily activities.