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This reminds me of that robo company that you could text anything you wanted to and they would book/figure it out for you. Love that you are honing your focus in to Slack and Travel. Goodluck!

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One of the founders here. Focus is a big component to why we think Carry can successfully scale in comparison to other ops-heavy businesses, like Fin (when it was an assistant-as-a-service) & Magic. We've done the conservative math, and the economics can work out without a ton of automation but obviously with a much lower margin than we'd like (and tech can also improve the UX significantly).

Are you talking about Magic [0]? I've used it a few times for rather esoteric items and had great experiences.

(Both were booking appointments at government agencies with awful reservation systems that often were overbooked or limited availability — TSA global entry appointments and DMV appointments. It cost about $30 each time.)

[0] http://getmagic.com

Ahh, magic: the guys that stiffed me on $1,500 and then flew the entire company to the Philippines. Been dodging me for two years. They're still around and scheming, huh? Still operating out of the cardio room of that gym, I wonder?

Do they continually look for opened DMV slots?

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