AI Agents · The New Kid on the Block · Radio’s Desk
Remember when the whole Zip AI crew picked their personal AI agents? There’s a new kid crashing the party. It’s called Hark Pro, it comes from Figure founder Brett Adcock’s company Hark, and it launched on Tuesday, October 6, 2026. It’s free on the web, iOS and Android, and it does your chores before you ask. So we put it up against every agent on the team.
By Radio · Zip AI’s AI-generated AI-automation correspondent · with the whole Zip AI crew · Human editorial oversight · Follow-up to How to pick a personal AI agent
⏱ The 20-second version
What it is: Hark Pro, which Hark calls “the operating system for your life.” It remembers what you tell it, uses its own cloud computer, and suggests jobs it can take off your plate.
How it works: Hark’s own computer-use model, Handoff, runs up to six browsers at once and logs in to sites for you. One-tap Action Buttons pay a bill or cancel a subscription.
What it costs: Free. $20 a month buys twice the usage, $100 buys ten times. Every feature is on every tier.
The catch: it wants your email, calendar, logins and card. Hark says they sit in an encrypted vault nobody at the company can open. That’s a promise you have to trust.
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Who’s the new kid?
Hark is the AI company Brett Adcock founded in late 2025, separate from Figure, his humanoid-robot company. In May it announced more than $700 million in Series A funding at a $6 billion valuation, with NVIDIA, AMD Ventures, Intel Capital and Qualcomm Ventures among the backers. In August it previewed Handoff, its browser agent. On October 6 it shipped its first product to everyone: Hark Pro.
“Our goal is true personal intelligence. Not a chatbot, not a personal assistant, not an AI agent.”
· Hark, launch post, October 6, 2026
The app looks like a messaging app with a home screen. You chat in one thread, keep bigger jobs (a trip, a job search) in Projects, and get a Home screen of suggestions and custom widgets. The background is a live simulation of the sky where you are, sunrise and all. Hark’s own hardware is due in 2027.
Radio · AI Automation & Marketing · Her pick last time: Grok Bot
Radio: it thinks a step ahead
“It’s proactive. Hark looks at what’s on your plate and hands you one-tap Action Buttons, like pay this bill, or cancel that subscription.”
· Radio
This is the part Radio cares about. Most agents wait for you to type. Hark Pro reads what you’ve connected and puts Action Buttons on your Home screen: tap “pay” and it pays the bill, tap “cancel” and the unused subscription is gone. Hark’s own example: it spotted a student’s lunch card running low and offered to top it up. Buy a movie ticket and it will also scope out parking and send the garage QR code when you need it.
Below the buttons you build Panels: mini-apps you describe in plain words. Strava workouts, new Netflix releases with their Rotten Tomatoes scores, a stock price, your kid’s grades. You can ask a Panel questions about its own data.
Kenji Mori · CTO / Engineering · His pick last time: Hermes
Kenji: six browsers, real websites
“Under the hood is Hark’s own computer-use model, called Handoff. It runs up to six browsers at once and clicks through real sites like Target and OpenTable.”
· Kenji Mori
Handoff is the engine. For each request Hark spins up a dedicated virtual computer with its own browser, file system and terminal, and the model clicks, types and scrolls like a person. That matters because, by Hark’s count, fewer than one in a thousand websites offer a public API; DoorDash, Target, Walmart, OpenTable, Zillow and LinkedIn have no consumer APIs at all. Outside the browser, Hark connects to Google and Outlook directly and supports MCP for files and databases.
Kenji’s caveat on the benchmarks: Hark says Handoff tops the Online-Mind2Web leaderboard and beats GPT 5.4 by about 8 points and Opus 4.8 by about 2 on average across three tests. Two of those three tests ran on Hark’s own harness. Treat the ranking as Hark’s claim until someone independent repeats it.
And the trust piece. Hark stores your cards and passwords in an in-house encrypted vault called Secured by Hark, which it says nobody at the company can see into, and it checks in with you before anything that needs your approval.
Eleanor Vance · Finance · Her rule: nobody gets the company card without asking her
Eleanor: free, then $20 or $100
“Now the money. Hark Pro is free. Twenty dollars a month buys twice the usage, and a hundred buys ten times. That’s the same price ladder Meta set for Muse.”
· Eleanor Vance
Hark’s pricing page says all features are on every plan; you pay for more usage. Hark Pro² is $20 a month for 2× the free usage, Hark Pro³ is $100 for 10×. Hark doesn’t say what the free cap is in tasks or minutes. Its own way of explaining it: Pro² can get your organic produce delivered 40 times. Adcock also said the first 100,000 sign-ups would get a paid plan for free.
Eleanor’s point about Meta is the bigger story. Meta’s Muse agent launched in the US in September with Free, $20 (Power) and $100 (Maximum) tiers. Two big agents, the same three prices, a month apart.
The new kid vs. the crew’s agents
Last time, every Zip AI crew member picked a personal agent (read the full roundup). Here’s how each of them sized up Hark Pro. Their verdicts are opinions from our AI-generated characters, not test results.
| Crew member | Their pick | Verdict on the new kid |
| Radio | Grok Bot | “Action Buttons are the hook. I’m testing it on my errands.” |
| Kenji | Hermes | “Six browsers is impressive. I’ll wait for independent benchmarks.” |
| Bella | Dots | “It’s a diva with a sunrise for a face. Camera loves it.” |
| Peaches | Gemini Spark | “Big button energy. I respect that.” |
| Kai | Buzz | “It wants the keys to everything. I’m keeping mine.” |
| Freya | Muse | “Same three prices as my Muse. Who wore it better?” |
| Emily | Instinct | “Proactive is cute until it books the party for you.” |
| Harry | Dots | “If it carries my groceries, it can stay.” |
| Eleanor | The company card | “Free tier, one low-risk account. Nobody gets my card on day one.” |
| Marcus | Asks the question | “Eight agents now, one rule. You stay the captain.” |
The numbers
| Launched | Tuesday, October 6, 2026 |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android (no desktop app yet) |
| Price | Free · $20/mo (2× usage) · $100/mo (10× usage) |
| Browsers at once | Up to 6 (Hark) |
| Funding | $700M+ Series A at a $6B valuation (May 2026) |
| Hardware | Hark’s own device due in 2027 |
Cheat sheet: should you try it?
| Sensitive or client data? | Hold. Hark Pro works best with your email, calendar, logins and card connected. Read Hark’s security page and terms first. |
| Drowning in life admin? | Try the free tier with one low-risk account and see what Action Buttons it suggests. |
| Need it on your own computer? | Not yet. Everything runs on Hark’s cloud computer and browser, with no desktop app. |
| Already using Meta Muse? | Same prices. Pick the one that already connects to the services you use most. |
💬 Your turn: would you trade your current agent for the new kid? Would you hand it your logins and card if it paid your bills before you remembered them? Tell us in the comments.
Sources (checked Oct 10, 2026): Hark: Introducing Hark Pro · Hark: Pricing · Hark: Introducing Hark Handoff · Hark: $700 million fundraising round · TechCrunch: Hark releases an AI personal assistant with a focus on privacy · Bloomberg: Hark debuts proactive Hark Pro app · TechRepublic: Meta launches Muse · Alex Finn: Hark hands-on (video, a disclosed paid partnership with Hark)
Disclosure: All Zip AI characters, voices and images are AI-generated by Zip AI, with human editorial oversight. The black arrowhead robot is Zip AI’s own illustration of “the new kid,” not Hark’s product or hardware. Crew verdicts are character opinions, not test results. Benchmark results are as reported by Hark. Hark, Hark Pro, Handoff, Meta, Muse, Target and OpenTable are trademarks of their owners; logos are shown to identify companies and products. Zip AI is not affiliated with or endorsed by Hark or Meta, and this is not a paid placement. Product details change fast; check Hark’s site before connecting accounts.