What Kiosk does

Kiosk (legally Reflective Technologies, Inc.) is a Brooklyn-based startup founded in 2024 that operates Kiki, a consumer AI assistant delivered exclusively through SMS and iMessage. Users initiate service by texting +1-332-288-8247 or +1-332-288-8447—no app download, account creation, or platform onboarding required. Kiki handles a broad range of personal tasks including calendar management and rescheduling, document and email drafting, contract review (PDF analysis), product and price lookup, fitness and nutrition tracking, and multi-party group chat coordination. The company simultaneously positions itself as a Web3 social application built on the Farcaster (Framecaster) decentralized social protocol, with the founding team migrating from Mirror following Paragraph's acquisition of Mirror.

Under the hood, Kiki relies on natural language processing to interpret free-form text messages alongside structured data inputs (nutritional values, contract clauses, calendar entries) and image inputs (meals, products). The service is delivered entirely through existing carrier SMS and Apple iMessage infrastructure and is not currently available to users in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland.

The commercial model is described as freemium with the core service offered at no stated direct cost and no publicly disclosed pricing tiers. The company raised a $10 million seed round in May 2024 led by Electric Capital, with participation from a16z Crypto, Union Square Ventures, and Variant Fund. With 1–10 employees and no disclosed revenue or user counts, Kiosk remains an early-stage execution story, leveraging its investor syndicate and the prior Farcaster/Mirror experience of its team to drive consumer adoption.

Name

Kiosk

Legal name

Reflective Technologies, Inc.

Website

https://kiosk.app

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Kiosk operates Kiki, a consumer AI assistant delivered via SMS and iMessage that handles scheduling, document drafting, contract review, product research, and fitness tracking for individual consumers without requiring an app download. The company is also building a Web3 social client on the Farcaster protocol.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Personal Assistant

NAICS

Information (51)

SIC

Telegraph & Other Message Communications (4822)

akta.pro primary industry

Knowledge Management & Wikis (BPAMAMAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Wallet Infrastructure (SDKs, Wallet-as-a-Service) (FSADACAD)

Keywords

• AI messaging assistant
• Text-based AI service
• Personal AI assistant
• Conversational AI tool
• SMS AI assistant

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Direct Consumer Access: Users access the Kiki AI assistant via SMS and iMessage. The service appears to be offered at no direct cost to consumers, potentially monetizing through premium features, partnerships, or data insights.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Kiosk offers Kiki, an AI personal assistant that operates inside users' existing SMS and iMessage text conversations. Users text a phone number to interact with Kiki, which handles scheduling, calendar management, group coordination, product and price research, contract review, document drafting, fitness and nutrition tracking, and personalized recommendations. The service requires no app download or account creation, leveraging native messaging platforms for zero-friction access.

Product overview

Kiosk operates as a consumer AI messaging application with a single unified product called Kiki. Kiki is an AI assistant accessible through SMS and iMessage text conversations. The service is provided by Reflective Technologies, Inc. and handles personal organization tasks including scheduling, task management, recommendations, and information lookup—all through natural language text interactions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Kiki Kiki is an AI personal assistant delivered via SMS and iMessage that handles scheduling, calendar management, group coordination, product and price research, document drafting, contract review, fitness and nutrition tracking, and personalized recommendations through natural language text conversations. It is offered to individual consumers in the United States with no app download or account creation required.

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• FarcastercoreTechnology or IntegrationKiosk is a social client built on the Framecaster decentralized social protocol.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Character.AI: Character.AI offers consumer-facing conversational AI personas. While more entertainment-oriented, it competes for the same consumer AI attention budget as Kiki and shares the distribution challenge of acquiring and retaining users without a workplace wedge.
• Pi (Inflection AI): Pi is a personal, conversational AI assistant focused on everyday tasks — directly analogous to Kiki's positioning as a friendly, always-on AI helper. Both target the 'personal AI for daily life' use case with an emphasis on natural conversation rather than enterprise productivity.
• Replika: Replika is a consumer AI companion accessed primarily through mobile messaging interfaces. It overlaps with Kiosk in targeting individual consumers who use an AI for personal support, scheduling, and lifestyle tasks rather than workplace productivity.
• Warpcast: The leading client on the Farcaster decentralized social protocol. Warpcast is the most direct comparable to Kiosk because both are consumer-facing social clients built on the same underlying protocol, competing for the same on-chain social audience.

Emerging players

• Rabbit: Rabbit's R1 device and 'Large Action Model' approach position an AI agent to handle everyday consumer tasks across services — a horizontally-applied personal assistant in the same conceptual space as Kiki.
• Humane (AI Pin): Humane's AI Pin is an AI-first consumer device positioned around an always-available assistant for daily tasks. While hardware-based, it targets the same 'AI that lives with you' use case Kiki is pursuing through SMS.

Broad incumbents

• ChatGPT (OpenAI): ChatGPT is the default consumer AI assistant for hundreds of millions of users. It overlaps heavily with Kiki's task surface (drafting, planning, advice) and benefits from a much larger model and ecosystem, making it the most important competitive incumbent Kiosk must differentiate against.
• Apple Intelligence: Apple Intelligence embeds AI assistance directly into iMessage, Mail, Calendar, and Siri — the same channels Kiosk depends on. As Apple ships more capabilities natively inside Messages, Kiosk's SMS/iMessage wedge could be partially subsumed by the platform.
• Google Gemini: Gemini is integrated across Android, Google Messages, and Workspace, giving it native reach into the same personal-assistant and messaging surfaces where Kiosk operates. It is a broad incumbent competing for the same consumer AI mindshare.

Others

• Paragraph: Paragraph acquired Mirror and now houses parts of the founding team that subsequently moved to Kiosk. It is adjacent rather than competitive, but sits in the same Web3 publishing/social ecosystem and shares investor overlap (notably USV), making it a thematically and economically connected peer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/KioskSocial

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors4 records

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M&A

Investments

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