Trusted Person is an Instinct feature designed for coordination between people through their assistants.
Recent reporting describes it as a network where one person's Instinct can communicate or coordinate with another person's agent for shared plans and responsibilities.
What is Instinct Trusted Person?
TechCrunch reported that Instinct added a trusted person network so one user's agent could coordinate plans with friends' agents.
Business Insider separately reported on couples using the feature to coordinate logistics and shared responsibilities.
That gives the feature two forms of evidence:
- broad product reporting;
- real-world user examples.
What can Trusted Person help with?
Reported examples center on shared coordination, including:
- planning events;
- managing shared to-do items;
- reminders;
- coordinating schedules;
- reducing repeated back-and-forth between partners.
The feature is best understood as agent-to-agent coordination, not merely sharing a static calendar.
Does my Instinct talk directly to someone else's Instinct?
That is how current reporting describes the feature.
The goal is to let the assistants handle some coordination without requiring both people to manually relay every detail.
The exact technical protocol and permission model are not fully documented in the public sources we verified.
Why is this useful?
Many personal tasks are not individual.
Examples include:
- deciding when two people are free;
- coordinating a dinner;
- assigning household tasks;
- remembering shared obligations;
- planning travel or events.
An agent with permission to coordinate can reduce message overhead.
What are the privacy tradeoffs?
Coordination requires deciding what information one agent is allowed to use or disclose.
Potentially sensitive context includes:
- calendar availability;
- location;
- plans;
- relationships;
- household responsibilities;
- private messages.
Instinct's Privacy Policy describes broad connected-service access depending on user permissions.
A Trusted Person relationship therefore should not be treated as automatic permission to share everything one agent knows.
Could the feature create mistakes between people?
Yes.
Business Insider's reporting highlights both convenience and chaos in relationship use cases.
Problems can arise when an agent:
- misunderstands responsibility;
- shares too much context;
- gives an incorrect reminder;
- makes a plan one person did not intend;
- turns an ambiguous request into an action.
For important shared decisions, humans should still confirm the final plan.
Trusted Person and reminders
The feature is especially relevant to proactive follow-up.
See Instinct AI Reminders for the broader evidence around follow-ups, proactive calls/texts, and shared reminder behavior.
Is Trusted Person available to every account?
Public reporting confirms the feature exists, but we do not have a reliable universal rollout statement.
Because Instinct remains invite-gated and ships features quickly, availability may vary.
Frequently asked questions
What is Instinct Trusted Person?
It is a reported agent-to-agent coordination feature for people who trust each other enough to let their assistants coordinate certain tasks.
Can couples use it?
Business Insider reported couples using Trusted Person for shared logistics, reminders, and task management.
Does it share my whole calendar?
The public evidence does not establish a blanket rule that every data source is shared. Permissions and product behavior should be checked directly.
Is Trusted Person the same as a group chat?
No. The reported idea is that the agents coordinate on behalf of users rather than only placing both people in a message thread.
Should I verify shared plans?
Yes. Agent coordination can reduce manual work, but important commitments should still be confirmed by the people involved.