Town vs Stilla

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.

Stilla is an AI assistant that lives across Slack, Linear, GitHub, your CRM, meetings, and the other tools your company already uses. Instead of stopping at "here's what happened," it helps answer, "Okay, what needs to happen next, and where does it need to happen?"

In September 2026, Stilla announced they were acquired by Meta. While they claim the product will still continue to serve it's users, the main focus will be to strengthen Meta's AI products for business.

• Turns meeting context into actual follow-up across Linear, Slack, GitHub, your CRM, and other tools
• Lets operators create recurring automations using plain English
• Gives admins granular control over what Stilla can read, write, or connect to

• Uncertain future, acquired by Meta, focus will be on improving Meta's AI products
• Interface feels busy and slightly overwhelming at first
• Setup requires a clear idea of what you want Stilla to do
• It becomes less useful when you aren't comfortable granting access to company tools

Traditional automation tools like Zapier and Make require you to know the trigger, action, fields, and exact workflow structure upfront. With Stilla, you can describe what you want in normal language, select which tools it can access, and define what it is allowed to change.

I set up an automation that checks my email and tools every morning and tells me what to focus on. Other teams could use it to monitor a support channel, prepare CRM updates after calls, or summarize merged pull requests every Friday.

The hard part isn't necessarily building the automation. It's deciding what should be automated in the first place. After about 28 days, the workflows that stuck for me were the obvious recurring ones: a morning email brief, call notes, and Linear updates after engineering syncs.

I'd love Stilla to become more proactive here. Something like, "Hey, you do this every Monday. Want me to automate it?" would make the product much easier to adopt.

That's why our team prefers Viktor over Stilla, it's just a lot more proactive.

Stilla records meetings without adding a visible bot to the call. It creates notes, identifies action items, connects the conversation to your other tools, and prepares follow-up actions for approval.

During an engineering conversation, it can surface relevant Linear tickets, suggest comments, change priorities, or move work forward based on what the team discussed. In our usage, around 80% to 90% of those Linear suggestions were useful enough to approve.

That said, Stilla only knows what it was present for or can access. If it missed the meeting or doesn't have permission to read the relevant tool, its understanding will be incomplete.

We also had a browser crash end a note-taking session early and generate incomplete notes. We had to restart from zero. That might sound small, but reliability matters when a product wants to become part of your company's operating system.

• 14-day Free Trial: $100 in credits (no credit card required). Best for testing how Stilla actually works and how far the "agent" workflows can go.
• Team: $50/mo ($40/mo annual). Best for technical teams looking to automate workflows and take action across their systems.
• Enterprise: Custom. Best for larger organizations that need unlimited members, advanced security, and tighter control.