The Town alternative
An AI teammate for your Mac, not a browser tab
Demi brings context from across your work into a focused Mac app, learns how you operate, and prepares actions for your approval.
- Context from across your work
- Prepared before you ask
- You approve the next step
The same moment
11:20am, Wednesday
Your call just ended. The work is on your Mac. Town is in a tab.
With Town, you feed the tab
- Leave your desktop for the browser tab
- Wire up a notetaker first
- Upload the deck and transcript it cannot see
With Demi, it was already on the Mac
Picked it upRead the transcript itself, nothing uploaded
PulledThe pricing you quoted, off the deal record
DraftedThe follow-up to Nadia, with no tab to open
No tab, no uploads. Approve and send
Trusted by professionals at
- SOC 2 Type II
- CASA Tier II
- Google-verified app
Demi vs Town, side by side
Where it lives
Personal to you
Does the heavy lifting
You stay in control
Connect and pricing
Where it lives
A dedicated Mac app for focused review and action
Demi
Town
Separate web appShared with the team in Slack, and personal on every Mac
Demi
Town
A personal Townie only, never shared
Personal to you
Learns your context and style, and improves over time
Demi
Town
Learns you on day oneSurfaces the next step before you ask
Demi
Town
Scheduled routines and briefings
Does the heavy lifting
Turns conversations into finished work (drafts, briefs, recaps)
Demi
Town
LimitedTracks your deals and follows up on its own
Demi
Town
Routines
You stay in control
Proposes the action and acts only after you approve
Demi
Town
Limited
Connect and pricing
Connects across your tools (Gmail, Calendar, CRM, 100+)
Demi
Town
54 integrationsStarts free, then from $25 a month
Demi
Town
Tiered plans with credit overage
Compiled from publicly available information. Last reviewed June 2026.
Which one is right for you
Choose Demi if
- You want a focused Mac app that connects work across your tools
- You want an AI teammate that learns how you work
- You want to start free, with no card required
Choose Town if
- You prefer a standalone assistant in its own web app
- You mostly want individual, personal help
One follow-up. Two very different places.
You have just come off a 40-minute call, on the Mac you were already working on.
Where Town does it
IN ANOTHER TAB
Leave what you are doing, open the [Town tab], and find the thread.
Paste in [what was said on the call] and [the pricing from the CRM].
It is yours alone, so nobody else on the team sees it.
A place you go to Personal only, and a tab away.
Where Demi does it
WHERE YOU ALREADY ARE
You never left the app you were in.
Demi has the call you just finished, the deal record, and how you write to this account. The team can call the same teammate in Slack.
A teammate that is already there Shared in Slack, personal on every Mac.
Trips you stop making
Each of these is a context switch out of the work and into another place.
4 of 5
steps between you and a finished follow-up that Demi removes.
- 1Stop what you are doing and find the tab
- 2Paste in what was said on the call
- 3Fetch the pricing from the CRM
- 4Switch back to the app you were in
- 5Read it and approveStill yours
Counted from the process above, not from a benchmark.
In your dock
It's on your desktop
Demi lives on your Mac, a keystroke away in whatever app you are already in. Town has no desktop app, so you go to it: a tab, an inbox, a chat.
- Demi
- A native Mac app, across every app and screen
- Town
- A standalone web app in a browser tab
From your 40-minute call
To Nadia Brandt
Confirming the tiered pricing, the security pack by Friday, and the SSO timeline they asked about.
Across the team
Shared and personal
The whole team can call one Demi in Slack, and everyone also gets their own on their Mac. Town gives each person a Townie and nothing shared.
- Demi
- One teammate in Slack, and a personal one on every Mac
- Town
- Personal only, no shared team layer
Context it already had
- Nadia Brandt at Northwind
- Three open items from the transcript
- Security pack promised by Friday
- Tiered pricing from the deal record
Already in context
Nothing to paste in
Demi already has the call you just finished, the deal record and how you write to this account, because it reads across your tools on the Mac you are working on. There is nothing to carry into a tab before the work can start.
- Demi
- Reads the call, the deal and your inbox itself
- Town
- Works from what reaches its tab
Ready in two minutes
- Gmail
Google Calendar
Slack- HubSpot
Demi is reading across all four.
It reads across everything you already have open
Demi connects to the tools your work lives in and carries context between them, without you opening anything.
Explore integrations
Teams that left Town
Founders, sellers, recruiters, and the people who live in their inbox.
“As a founder, my inbox is a constant firehose. Demi shows me what needs attention, drafts responses in my voice, and keeps follow-ups moving.”
Samir DuttaFounder, Farsight AI
“Demi keeps every recruiting conversation organized, helps me prep faster, and makes follow-up feel thoughtful.”
Dana Schafer-SmithDirector, Technical Recruiting, Kleiner Perkins
“Demi preps me for every meeting, updates the CRM, and streamlines my sales motion without extra admin.”
Chase MacaioneHead of Global Sales, Valdera
“The best CEOs stay in touch, follow through, and show up prepared. Demi makes those habits feel effortless.”
Bing GordonDirector, Duolingo
“Demi sounds like me!”
Abby TorgglerProject Manager, Nen Creative
“Demi lets me respond to customers instantly while keeping every reply thoughtful, concise, and personal, adapting to exactly what I need and giving me hours back every week.”
Matthew DumonCustomer Success Manager, Avoca
“Demi is the sales-tuned drafting assistant I could never quite get another tool to be. Takes the drudgery out of replies, recaps, and follow-ups so I can sell faster and more tailored.”
Michael ChapmanEnterprise Account Executive, Spellbook
“Demi’s drafts are so good I can often just hit send. It feels like it already knows what I was going to say.”
Kush AgarwalDirector, AI Deployment, Further AI
“I am absolutely OBSESSED with Demi. I am always so shocked with the drafts it creates for email replies - it's always so spot on with my voice.”
Emma SturtevantFounder, Emma Sturtevant Career Coaching
“As a founder, my inbox is a constant firehose. Demi shows me what needs attention, drafts responses in my voice, and keeps follow-ups moving.”
Samir DuttaFounder, Farsight AI
“I am absolutely OBSESSED with Demi. I am always so shocked with the drafts it creates for email replies - it's always so spot on with my voice.”
Emma SturtevantFounder, Emma Sturtevant Career Coaching
“Demi lets me respond to customers instantly while keeping every reply thoughtful, concise, and personal, adapting to exactly what I need and giving me hours back every week.”
Matthew DumonCustomer Success Manager, Avoca
“Demi preps me for every meeting, updates the CRM, and streamlines my sales motion without extra admin.”
Chase MacaioneHead of Global Sales, Valdera
“Demi is the sales-tuned drafting assistant I could never quite get another tool to be. Takes the drudgery out of replies, recaps, and follow-ups so I can sell faster and more tailored.”
Michael ChapmanEnterprise Account Executive, Spellbook
“Demi keeps every recruiting conversation organized, helps me prep faster, and makes follow-up feel thoughtful.”
Dana Schafer-SmithDirector, Technical Recruiting, Kleiner Perkins
“The best CEOs stay in touch, follow through, and show up prepared. Demi makes those habits feel effortless.”
Bing GordonDirector, Duolingo
“Demi sounds like me!”
Abby TorgglerProject Manager, Nen Creative
“Demi’s drafts are so good I can often just hit send. It feels like it already knows what I was going to say.”
Kush AgarwalDirector, AI Deployment, Further AI
Up and running in minutes
- 01
Download Demi
Add your new teammate to your Mac. It sits in the dock like anything else.
- 02
Connect your tools
Gmail, Calendar, Slack, your CRM. Demi picks up the context from the accounts you choose.
- 03
See what Demi found
Keep working. Demi surfaces what needs you, with the next step already prepared.
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Why do teams choose Demi over Town?
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Demi vs Town
questions
Yes, particularly if your work happens on a Mac rather than in a browser tab. Town is a standalone web app you go to. Demi is an AI teammate that lives on your desktop alongside the mail, docs, calls and CRM you already have open, and the whole team can also call it in Slack.
There is nothing to export. Download Demi for Mac, connect your tools, and it learns from the work already sitting in them. You can run both for a week and compare what each one surfaces without asking.
It is a native Mac app rather than a web app, so it sees the work as you do it instead of waiting for you to open a tab. And it is shared with the team in Slack as well as personal on every Mac, where Town gives each person their own and nothing shared.
Yes, because it works both ways. With Town each person has their own assistant and there is no shared layer, so the team never builds a common one. With Demi the whole team can tag one teammate in Slack while everyone keeps a personal one on their Mac.
It does, and it is credited for that on this page: Town learns you from day one. The difference is reach, not learning. Demi learns you from the work happening on your machine across every tool, rather than from what you bring into a web app.
Yes. Demi builds routines by watching the repetitive work you do, and surfaces the next step before you ask. Town runs scheduled routines you set up, which is closer to configuration than to anticipation.
For most people, yes. Email drafting, meeting follow-ups, CRM updates and the threads that went quiet are all handled on the Mac you already work on, with your approval before anything sends.
Both price the work rather than the seat. Demi has a free plan with up to $50 in credits and no card required, and individual plans from $25 a month with credits included. Town is credit-metered per tier, with overage past your allowance.
Yes. Nothing stops you running both while you decide. Most people find the Mac app makes the browser tab redundant rather than the other way round.
Yes. Demi is SOC 2 Type II compliant, assessed at CASA Tier II, and is a Google-verified app. It uses AI vendors on zero-retention terms, so your data is never used to train models, and you can have it deleted within 24 hours by emailing privacy@demi.ai.
Yes. Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar, Slack, HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio, Close, Gong, Granola, Notion, Linear, Google Drive, Zoom and 100+ more. Demi carries context between them, so what it learns in one shows up in the next without you moving it.
Demi has a free plan rather than a trial. Download it for Mac with no card required, and new accounts get up to $50 in credits. Paid individual plans start at $25 a month with credits included, and you can add more any time.
Where Town slows you down
It lives in another tab
Town is a web app you have to go to. Your work is on your desktop, spread across every app and screen you already have open.
You carry the context in
Town works from what reaches its tab. What was said on the call and the number sitting in the CRM are yours to bring over before it can help with the follow-up.
Personal only, never shared
Everyone gets their own Townie, but there is no shared teammate the whole team can call on in a channel and build on together.
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