Show HN: Toivo – A Smarter Assistant

[planar_vector]

We've all been there: drowning in to-do lists, wasting hours on repetitive tasks like booking appointments. Existing AI assistants promise help, but often fall short when it comes to actually completing tasks.

At Toivo [1], we're building a smarter solution. We use Microsoft’s awesome AutoGen [2] framework for agentic applications along with a custom layer of multi-agent orchestration, built specifically to handle ambiguity and allow you to get your task done. This allows Toivo to navigate complex scenarios, ensuring your tasks get done, not just started.

Here's what sets Toivo apart:

- Completes tasks, not just starts them: Tired of AI assistants that leave you halfway through a booking? Toivo uses multi-agent orchestration to handle unexpected situations and complete the task from start to finish.

- Learns and adapts over time: The more you use Toivo, the better it understands your needs and preferences. Imagine an assistant that remembers your preferred restaurant, appointment types, and even travel details.

- Focuses on automation, not information overload: Toivo doesn't just give you endless search results. It uses its intelligence to filter, compare, and complete tasks efficiently.

We're excited to revolutionize the way you get things done! Toivo.ai [1] is still under development, but we'd love to hear from you - feedback, suggestions, everything in between.

[1] - https://toivo.ai

[2] - https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/0.2

[zhendlin]

What are the mechanisms to actually ensure that something is done?

For instance skyvern and agent E are awesome open source frameworks but often times will say a task is completed, but it actually has not done the action.

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Great question. We've implemented a series of extensible hallucination guardrails that are hyper focused on task completion, to deal with various error states, and ultimately get the user to what they wanted complete in the final stages. While AgentE and Skyvern are great platforms that ease the setup of task completion agents, they still lack in being able to get a simple task done. I've tried multiple times to book a restaurant on skyvern and AgentE, but the agents never got to completion. We've approached this very differently with Toivo.