Today, we’re welcoming The Interaction Company of California, the makers of Poke, to Cognition.

If you’ve used Poke, you know why we’re so excited. Poke is a personal agent that lives in your texts. It messages you first, follows up with you, and feels less like software and more like a friend. People have exchanged more than 100 million messages with it in just the last three months, and it’s the only AI agent approved to text natively on Apple Messages.

The Interaction team has built an agent that people love: it’s proactive, it knows you, and it’s fun to talk to. That’s exactly how working with Devin should feel, and now we get to build it together.

We’ve known and admired Marvin and his team for years. In fact, Walden and I were early angels in Interaction. They are exceptional people who move extremely fast and aim for only the most ambitious products. And from the beginning, our teams have been making the same bet: always-on cloud agents.

Today, Poke users can continue using the product just as before. Soon, Cognition’s models and infrastructure will make Poke even faster and more reliable.

Devin is used by some of the world’s top companies for software engineering, while Poke is beloved by hundreds of thousands of people as a partner in everyday life. Together, we’re excited to shape the way humans and AI collaborate for the future.