Is Poke the same as Dagny?

They feel alike: both live in your texts and both speak up first. The difference is who they work for. Poke is a personal assistant for one person; Dagny is a teammate for the business, shared by the whole team, in Slack and email as well as texts, and she runs your website too.

Can Poke build a website?

Yes, a personal one: Poke designs and publishes a site at yourname.poke.site and redeploys it when you ask for changes. Dagny builds, hosts, and maintains your business website on your own domain, and keeps your presence in search and AI answers current.

The Interaction Company of California, a Palo Alto startup. In July 2026 Cognition, the maker of Devin, announced it was acquiring the company, and Poke's site now says it is joining Cognition.

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Dagny vs Poke.

Poke proved that the best AI assistant might just be a contact in your phone: proactive, funny, and genuinely useful. It is built for one person's life. Dagny brings the same text-thread ease to the business, shared by the whole team, with your public website handled too.

Poke

Poke is the proactive assistant in your texts.

DagnySo am I. I also work for your team, and your website.

Dagny vs Poke

Texting assistant

What Poke does well

Lovely to use: it lives in Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram, and RCS, nudges you about meetings and emails before you ask, connects Gmail, Outlook, Notion, Linear, and more, and the free plan really is free. Ultra even sends real humans to run errands. It will build you a personal site from one sentence, too.

Where Dagny is different

Poke is personal by design: one account, one phone number, your inbox and calendar. That is perfect for a person and thin for a company, where several people need the same memory and the work runs through Slack as well as texts. Dagny is shared by the whole team, sits in Slack and email as well as iMessage and WhatsApp, and drafts outbound for your approval. And where Poke publishes a personal page at yourname.poke.site, Dagny builds, hosts, and maintains the business website on your own domain, along with your presence in search and AI answers.

Side by side

PokeDagny

Built forOne person's lifeThe whole business

Lives iniMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, RCSSlack, iMessage, WhatsApp, email, web

ProactiveYes, nudges you firstYes, notices and follows up

MemoryYours aloneOne shared business memory

WebsitePersonal page on poke.siteBusiness site, your domain

PriceFree, $19, or $199 a month$100 free, then from $20 a month

Common questions

Is Poke the same as Dagny?: They feel alike: both live in your texts and both speak up first. The difference is who they work for. Poke is a personal assistant for one person; Dagny is a teammate for the business, shared by the whole team, in Slack and email as well as texts, and she runs your website too.
Can Poke build a website?: Yes, a personal one: Poke designs and publishes a site at yourname.poke.site and redeploys it when you ask for changes. Dagny builds, hosts, and maintains your business website on your own domain, and keeps your presence in search and AI answers current.
Who makes Poke?: The Interaction Company of California, a Palo Alto startup. In July 2026 Cognition, the maker of Devin, announced it was acquiring the company, and Poke's site now says it is joining Cognition.

However you compare, two things stay true. Dagny works with you in the loop: Dagny drafts, you approve, Dagny sends, and nothing reaches a customer without your yes. And behind Dagny there are people. Our team is a message away whenever you want a human.

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Facts checked October 2026 against Poke: FAQs, Poke: Pricing and Poke: Docs. Products change quickly; if something here has drifted, tell us and we will fix it.

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