Town vs Claude

Town is an AI work assistant for people who want to delegate the admin eating up their day. You get your own assistant called a "Townie" (mine's Evie 🦉), which learns about you through your email, calendar, and connected tools.

On my first day, it noticed I followed up on an invoice four times and asked if I wanted it to take over. Um, yes!

It also spotted reporting emails I send every month and suggested handling those too. It was finding work I hadn't even thought to delegate.

It's especially useful for founders, sales teams, recruiters, and anyone managing lots of relationships. It gets even more interesting when your team uses it, because their Townies can work with yours.

• Instantly learns about you and your role
• Proactively spots work it could take off your plate
• Handles recurring tasks, email follow-ups, and scheduling
• Your team can ask your Townie for help while you're away
• Works everywhere (app, SMS, Slack, Telegram, etc)
• Affordable for teams
• It's impossible to not save time using your Townie

• Slight learning curve to get team adoption
• You need to spend some time sorting through which tasks you'd like your Townie to take over (it gives a lot of suggestions)

Town is an AI work assistant built around one "Townie" that learns your work and helps carry out tasks.

If you've ever wished, "I wish I could clone myself", this is the closest I've ever gotten with AI. The idea is that your Townie can answer emails, messages, and do work for you. The work that you'd really rather not do in the first place.

When you create an account, you'll get to name your Townie (mine's name is Evie 🦉). By the time you're finishing onboarding, your Townie will start suggesting work it can take off your plate.

I can message my Townie from anywhere. If it's 11 pm and I'm in bed and I don't want to open my work app, I can just text Evie and say "remind me about this tomorrow" or "can you schedule a meeting with XYZ?" and she already has full context.

Your Townie can work with other people's Townies. For example, say you want to set up a meeting with a group of people. You can just message their Townies to find a suitable time. Since everyone's Townie knows their owner's schedule, they can work together to coordinate (without anyone needing to give up calendar access).

So imagine a future where humans can be left alone when it comes to these menial tasks like scheduling, following up, coordinating humans. This is the first time where I got a glimpse of what that could be.

More examples:

• I was out of office when a coworker needed access to a Superhuman Docs file. They asked my Townie, and it gave him access, knowing he was a trusted coworker. Coming back to my desk with that admin already done is a dream!
• I've scheduled a video shoot and dinner with our editor through Town without opening my calendar or asking everyone for availability.

Heads up, Townies can collaborate via a Town thread within the app, but not within Slack at the moment.

Town can run recurring tasks for yourself, or your entire team. Here are some examples of what we run:

• Every day at 5 pm, Town reads the Granola notes from the partnership calls Alex (my cofounder and Efficient App's CEO) and David (our Head of Partnerships) had that day. It sends a digest of what was discussed and the next steps.
• Every Sunday at 10 am, Town texts me a few questions about my week. I reply with a brain dump of what happened, and the stories that could work as short videos get added to my content tracker.
• Every morning, Town goes through my inboxes and sorts what's there into Urgent and Nice to know. It also lists the low-priority emails I can archive.

• Free: $0. Includes a limited monthly chat allowance, integrations, and a weekly briefing.
• Starter: $15/month, billed monthly. Includes a daily morning briefing, inbox help, two custom daily routines, and 1,250 monthly credits.
• Pro: $49/month per user, billed annually. Includes unlimited custom routines, assistant-to-assistant collaboration, and 5,000 monthly credits.
• • (Get 5,000 credits free with our exclusive Town discount)
• Power: $99/month per user, billed annually. Includes 12,000 monthly credits and higher usage limits.
• Power Plus: $199/month per user, billed annually. Includes 40,000 monthly credits and unlimited person research lookups.

• Team: $59/month per seat, billed annually. Includes a shared workspace and 6,000 credits per seat, pooled across the team.
• Team Plus: $149/month per seat, billed annually. Includes 18,000 pooled credits per seat.
• Enterprise: Custom pricing for organizations with additional requirements.

Claude has a few different versions of AI Agents.

• Claude Code is for developers and can help with coding.
• Claude Cowork is a desktop agent that can work with files on your computer.

• Claude Code is one of the best coding agents available
• Cowork can handle specific tasks like applying brand styles to documents
• Claude holds onto way more context than other AI tools

• Claude Cowork computer use is slow for most tasks
• You have to go to Claude and ask it to do things (not proactive)
• Usage limits are annoying if you use it a lot

Claude Cowork works if you have very specific tasks where you want AI to have some access to your computer.

I use it when I'm creating contracts or pitch decks and I need our exact brand style. I give it access to a folder with our fonts and brand guides, and Claude Cowork applies everything automatically.

Then you can also turn on Claude Computer Use which gives Claude the capability to take over your device and use any app.

But when we tested it, it was incredibly, painfully, slow.

I tried using it to paste a video script from one tool (Motion) into another (teleprompter). Claude took over my computer but it was way too slow to actually be useful. I gave up waiting after 10 minutes as I could have done the task by hand by that point.

Our engineer's favorite AI coding agent is Claude Code.

It can work through code problems, make changes on its own, and help with big refactors.

It's one of the best coding agents you can get. But you need to be on the $200 a month tier, otherwise you'll run out of credits really fast.

• Free: Limited access. Good for trying it out.
• Pro: $20 a month. This is what most people should get. You get the full version and everything that actually matters for daily work.
• Max: $100 a month. Higher limits if you're using Claude a ton and hitting caps constantly.
• Team: $30 per person per month (minimum 5 people). Adds team features and controls.
• Enterprise: Custom pricing for bigger companies with security and compliance needs.