Town launched out of stealth in June 2025 with $55 million from Andreessen Horowitz. Its product is an AI assistant called a Townie that connects to your calendar and email, briefs you on your day, and builds a self-updating wiki about you: your communication style, work patterns, priorities, and key relationships. Within minutes of onboarding, it identified that Platformer's Casey Newton was launching a new company and flagged specific priorities including finding studio space and securing a network deal.
The real news is what comes next. CEO Jean-Denis Greze, formerly CTO at Plaid and engineering lead at Dropbox, says a team-wide version of the self-writing wiki is coming soon. Every employee's Townie contributes to a shared company knowledge base that assembles itself automatically. Greze acknowledges the privacy risk directly: misconfigured pooling could expose salaries or confidential files. His solution is model-level policy enforcement, not manual controls. He predicts small, high-trust companies adopt this first, enterprises last. Town costs $49 to $59 per month per user, and Greze is unapologetic about the price.
Read the full piece for Greze's precise framing on AI agency and limits. He rejects autonomous AI economic actors entirely, bans employer access to worker Townie conversations in enterprise contracts, and deletes session data after 15 days. His line on AI intimacy versus AI rights is direct and worth reading in his own words. The conversation surfaces a real tension that most productivity AI companies are quietly avoiding.
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