Sidekick

Category

AI & Machine Learning

Launched

August 7, 2026

Website

textsidekick.com

Sidekick is an AI agent that lives inside a text message. It's built for the factory floor, the warehouse, the kitchen—the places where the work happens away from a desk. The pitch is disarmingly simple: workers text a number the way they'd text a coworker, and Sidekick handles the rest. It creates work orders, routes the right person, and turns every fix into searchable knowledge. No app, no login, no training. That's the whole bet. The company, backed by Y Combinator, is targeting what it calls "the 80% of American workers without a desk." It's a bold claim, but the product design backs it up. Sidekick isn't trying to drag frontline workers into a SaaS dashboard; it's meeting them where they already are—on SMS.