What Pepper is

Pepper is your personal AI assistant. You talk to it in plain language — by text message, by WhatsApp, by phone call, by email, in the web chat, or from the command line — and it helps you stay on top of your day: your calendar, your inbox, your reminders, the news you follow, and the running list of things you've asked it to remember.

It's one continuous assistant, not a fresh chatbot each time. Pepper remembers what you've talked about before, so you don't have to re-explain yourself.

Three things are worth knowing before anything else:

• There's nothing to learn. No filters, no tags, no rules to configure, no dashboard to keep up to date. You ask for things the way you'd ask a person, and Pepper works out the rest.
• It reads across everything, not one thing at a time. The work of staying on top of a life is mostly reconciliation — a calendar against an inbox against a list of things you meant to do. That's the part Pepper does, so you get an answer rather than another place to look.
• It only sees what you connect. Every account is opt-in and revocable in a click, and you can switch individual capabilities — reading mail, sending mail, changing your calendar — on and off without disconnecting anything. See Connecting your accounts — and Your data for what Pepper keeps once a connection is live, who else ever touches it, and how to delete it or get a copy.

What you can do, at a glance

• Check or change your schedule. "What's on my calendar today?" — Pepper reads your Google Calendar(s) and tells you. "Push my 2pm to Thursday" — Pepper adds, moves, or cancels events too, confirming the details first. See Calendar.
• Keep a meeting's notes, files, and recording together. Every meeting on your calendar has its own page, opened from the event, for an autosaving note, attached files, and audio you can record right there, with timestamped bookmarks that jump back to the moment. See Meetings.
• Get a morning brief. A short daily rundown of today and a look at tomorrow, plus a short feeds: block — two to four notable stories from the news you follow, each with a sentence or two of context. You can schedule it to arrive every morning, and change how far ahead it looks. See Reminders & scheduling.
• Triage your inbox and send replies. Pepper searches and reads your Gmail, summarizes what's worth your attention, and either drafts or sends messages on your behalf — from your Gmail when you're writing personally, or from Pepper's own address (with you CC'd) when you're delegating outreach. See Email.
• Set reminders and recurring tasks. "Remind me tomorrow at 3" or "text me every weekday at 8am." See Reminders & scheduling.
• Keep a to-do list. "Add 'call the dentist' to my list." See Todos.
• Follow news and blogs. Subscribe to sites and feeds, and follow teams, shows and podcasts, all in the Following app; Pepper surfaces new articles in your brief and answers follow-ups. See Following and Feeds & news.
• Remember your preferences. Tell it you're vegetarian, where you live, who's in your family — it keeps a profile and uses it. See Memory & preferences.
• Look things up. Weather, places and directions, general web search, and — if you've connected them — people you know ("what's Sam's email?") and your Google Drive: find a file ("find the Q3 budget") and read what's inside it, whether that's a doc, a spreadsheet, or a slide deck ("summarize the roadmap doc"). See Other lookups.
• Create images. "Make me a picture of…", or edit/restyle one you've shared — the result is saved to your artifacts, and comes back as a picture wherever the channel can carry one — web chat, email, and text threads — or as a link, with Pepper saying so, where it can't. See Other lookups.
• Write, speak, or import a note. Notes live on their own board — type one, talk one into Voice, keep a page a day in Journal, or bring in documents from Google Docs, Asana, email, or a file upload. See Artifacts.
• Save things to come back to. Reports, recipes, files, or links — keep them as labeled artifacts and find them later by description. See Artifacts.
• Answer the calls you miss. Forward a missed call to Pepper's number and it picks up as an assistant, takes a message, and sends you a summary of who called and why — never a callback, and never anything of yours revealed to the caller. Set rules for how different callers are handled in the Answering app on iPhone. See Answering.
• Let people book you. Make a booking page, write your availability as sentences rather than dropdowns, and share the link — whoever you send it to picks a time you're genuinely free, with no Pepper account needed. It can be a standing link or one that closes after a single booking, and you can get one without leaving your inbox by CC'ing Pepper on the thread. Name two or more people and the link collects everyone's availability first, then books the earliest time they can all make. See Booking pages.
• Plan with a room. Loop a few people into an email thread or a group text and Pepper coordinates a time — it checks who's free and sends everyone a link whose times are already clear for everyone whose calendar it could read, with the rest picking a time that suits them. It books directly only when the room tells it to pick. See Rooms.
• Keep up with your code. If you've connected GitHub: your repositories, what's assigned to you or waiting on your review, whether a PR landed, what shipped this week, and filing an issue from a passing thought. There's a GitHub app that keeps that queue in front of you without being asked, plus an optional once-a-day nudge about reviews that have gone stale. See GitHub.
• Bring your own tools. Connect the services you use elsewhere — Linear, Notion, GitHub and more from the gallery, or any MCP server with a public https address (Readwise, Home Assistant, …) — and use them through skills, including scheduled ones. See Connectors.
• Run and save playbooks ("skills"). Built-in routines like meal planning, find todos, and sports — plus you can save your own. In web chat each one is a / command. See Skills.
• Plan the week's meals. "Help me plan dinners this week" — Pepper plans around the room your calendar actually leaves, builds the shopping list, and keeps track of what's in your kitchen (send it a photo of a shelf). See Meals.
• Train to a plan. "Help me get training" — Pepper writes a week around your goals and the places you actually train, you argue with it in plain language, and it walks you through a session one set at a time while you're doing it. Or skip the plan entirely and just keep a log. See Workouts.
• Open a screen instead of reading a paragraph. Your calendar, to-do list, booking pages, meals, workouts, following, morning briefs, saved artifacts, pictures, skills, profile and help each have a small app in the web chat — tap the grid button next to the message box. They open inside the conversation, so you can keep asking about what you're looking at. See Apps.

Where Pepper lives

You can reach the same Pepper from any of these — it's the same assistant with the same memory everywhere:

• Text message (SMS) — text the Pepper number, the Pepper number shown in Settings.
• WhatsApp — message Pepper's WhatsApp number and it replies there. Scheduled briefs and tasks aren't sent on WhatsApp.
• Email — email Pepper's address, the Pepper address shown in Settings; it replies in the same thread.
• Web chat — one ongoing conversation at pepper.vycari.ai.
• Phone call — ask Pepper to call you, or have a brief or a scheduled task ring you instead of messaging.
• Command line — the pepper CLI for terminal users.

See Ways to reach Pepper for the details of each.

Telling Pepper when a reply was good or bad

Every reply from Pepper carries a 👍 / 👎 under it — in web chat, in the iOS
app, and as a link at the foot of an email reply. Tapping one records how that
answer landed; a thumbs-down can carry a short note about what went wrong. It's
the most direct way to shape what Pepper gets better at. A note can run to
about two thousand characters, wherever you write it — past that Pepper asks
you to shorten it and keeps what you typed, rather than saving a version with
the end cut off.

Nothing is final. In web chat and the app, tapping the thumb that's already
filled takes the vote back, and tapping the other one changes it. A vote you
cast in email can be changed the same way — the thank-you page links you into
the conversation in web chat. Your vote is yours: in a room,
other members see their own.

Reacting with an emoji

Any message in a conversation you can see takes an emoji reaction — yours or anyone else's, and Pepper's replies too. On the web, hovering a message shows three quick reactions — the ones you use most, so they settle into your own habits over a couple of weeks — and a small face button that opens the full picker. The picker is the same in chat and in rooms: Frequently used first, then every emoji by category, with a search that matches what an emoji is called and the words people use for it ("lol", "party", "tada"), forgives a typo, or takes a pasted emoji straight in. The iPhone app has the same picker; there, long-pressing a message shows six quick reactions, again led by the ones you use most. You aren't limited to a list; almost any emoji works. Press the same one again to take it back, and the chip under a message shows how many people used it and who.

Pepper reacts too, and it means something specific: when a reply would only have been "got it" or "nice", it puts an emoji on your message instead of writing a sentence. That's not Pepper ignoring you — it's the acknowledgement, without a notification and without another message in the thread. It won't react to something that asked a question, requested an action, or deserves words.

Reactions aren't the same as the 👍 / 👎 above. Those rate how good an answer was and feed what Pepper gets better at; a reaction is just a reaction.

What Pepper won't do (today)

A few honest boundaries, so you're never surprised:

• It can read and change your calendar, and accept or decline invitations for you (it confirms with you first, and asks whether you mean one occurrence or the whole series on a repeating event). The Calendar app's event panel has the same Yes/Maybe/No buttons.
• It can send email — but it always confirms the recipient and message first, and won't send from your Gmail in a background/scheduled task (it drafts instead, so an unintended send can't slip out).
• It doesn't handle money, payments, or changing who can access your files.
• Rooms work over email, group text (the latter in the US and Canada, up to eight people including you, all of them with Pepper accounts), and directly in the web app.

When you ask for something out of bounds, Pepper will say so and offer the closest thing it can do.