Cicada
The AI teammate you can text, call and put to work
Details
- External ID
- 1247466
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Cicada
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity, Artificial Intelligence, Tech
- Fetched at
- Sept. 17, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 17, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
Description
Hi PH, I'm Saif, founder of Cicada Labs. Running a real AI agent (memory, autonomy, a way to reach you) used to mean being very technical. With Cicada you describe the job in a sentence, connect your apps in one click (1,000+), and it deploys. It hands you the finished work as sheets, docs and decks, replies on iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or email, makes real phone calls, drives a live browser, and every write waits for your yes. Free to start, no card. What would you hand off first?
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai agents for calls and meetings
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ai teammate via text and voice for work tasks
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Supporting two-way conversational voice calls, SMS, persistent memory, and unified integrations across 1,000+ external tools into autonomous document outputs requires massive agentic orchestration and telephony infrastructure far beyond vibe coding.
What it would actually take: The product requires WebRTC/SIP telephony infrastructure (Twilio/LiveKit) connected to real-time speech-to-speech pipelines, an expansive third-party OAuth app integration ecosystem (like Composio or N8N engines), and sophisticated multi-agent planning frameworks (LangGraph/Temporal). Ensuring reliability, context retention, and sandboxed execution of complex programmatic workflows across thousands of APIs requires a dedicated distributed systems and AI platform engineering team.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 358 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #217 of 359 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.