Ako review, pricing and verdict

Best for small teams without engineers that want routine operations work, such as weekly reports and follow-ups, handed to something that lives in chat. It replaces a junior ops hire for repeatable jobs, not for judgment calls. Four plans let you test one workflow free before paying, but watch credit burn on heavy jobs.

Ako is an AI teammate from Getaide that completes multi-step business tasks over three channels: Slack, WhatsApp and email. Each deployment gets its own handle, number and email address, connects to business apps through per-user OAuth, and works on demand, on a schedule or toward a goal, with an audit trail on every action.

Maker: Getaide · Autonomy: semi autonomous · Maturity: GA

Underlying models: Anthropic models, Google Gemini models, OpenAI models, ElevenLabs voice models

About Ako

Ako is an AI teammate from Getaide, a company whose founding year, funding and headquarters are not published on its website. The product is aimed at teams that are not software engineers: you give it a role and a task in plain English, and it carries the work out across the business apps your team already uses, then reports back in the same chat. Getaide's own FAQ draws the line against a chat assistant by saying Ako has its own email, Slack and WhatsApp identity and completes multi-step jobs across systems instead of waiting for step-by-step prompts.

The mechanics are simple to describe. Each deployment is given a dedicated Slack handle, a WhatsApp number and a mailbox. You connect apps such as HubSpot, Stripe and Notion, then teach a process once through chat, a sample task or an existing document. Getaide says Ako then repeats that process the same way each time, whether you ask for it on the spot, on a schedule or as an open goal. It can also build a small interface for the job, such as a screen where a person signs off on every outgoing email. The vendor lists Anthropic, Google Gemini, OpenAI and ElevenLabs as the AI providers behind it, without saying which model handles which task.

The best fit is a small team that loses hours each week to routine operations: pulling a weekly report from a payments tool, chasing follow-ups in a CRM, watching brand mentions, drafting replies for a person to approve. Because Ako is shared across a team rather than tied to one seat, an owner or an ops lead can set it up once and let colleagues message it like any other coworker. Pricing runs by credits rather than seats, and every plan includes all channels, which is covered in the cost answer below.

Be realistic about what you are buying. Getaide publishes no benchmarks, no usage numbers and no named customers on its site, and the only independent profile HokAI found was a startup directory entry that repeats the vendor's own description. If you want an agent inside Meta's apps, look at Muse; if you want a general agent in its own app, compare Manus, and for a chat assistant to pair with it, see ChatGPT or Claude; and for fixed rules between apps, Zapier or Make are cheaper to run. Ako connects to HubSpot, Notion and Figma among others, and more personal and team agents sit in the AI agents directory.

Pricing

Free start, then Lite $19 a month, Starter $49 and Pro $199, metered in credits with every channel and unlimited users on each plan. Managed setup is $499 and listed on Pro. Getaide shows prices in USD or INR. Heavy multi-step work burns credits fastest, so check the credit table against your own tasks before choosing a plan, and compare [Muse](/hub/agents/muse) if you prefer a flat consumer plan.

Key Features

• Own identity in your channels: Each Ako gets its own Slack handle, WhatsApp number and email address, so colleagues reach it the way they would reach a new hire.
• Scheduled and goal-driven work: Runs a task on demand, on a recurring schedule such as every Monday at 8 a.m., or toward a stated goal such as lowering cost per acquisition.
• Taught processes: Learns a workflow from a chat, a sample task or an existing document, then repeats it the same way each run.
• Task-specific interfaces: Builds a dashboard or review screen for the job at hand, for example one where a person approves each email before it is sent.
• Access and spend controls: Uses per-user OAuth instead of shared admin credentials, role-based access, an audit trail on every action and a spending limit per task.
• Meeting capture: Can sit in on meetings to capture what is discussed and act on it afterwards.

Strengths

• Lives in the chat apps a team already uses, so there is no new tool to roll out; Getaide lists Microsoft Teams as coming soon.
• Plans are priced per team with unlimited users, which suits larger groups where per-seat agent pricing would climb quickly.
• Lets the owner choose how much freedom it has, from full autonomy to review before anything leaves the building, which is the judgment call most buyers worry about.

Weaknesses

• Credit metering makes the monthly bill hard to predict, since multi-step jobs cost far more than quick questions and the free allowance does not refill.
• No benchmarks, usage figures or named customers are published, and Getaide names its AI providers without saying which model runs which task.
• Country availability, company location and funding are not stated on the site, so buyers with data-residency needs have to ask before committing.

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