CaretA Meta Muse alternative built for teams
Short answer: Muse is a polished personal agent for errands: email, calendar, travel, shopping. It's one agent per person and runs on Meta's own model. If you want bots that do your company's work alongside your team, Caret is built for that.
Side by side
| Meta Muse | Caret | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Consumers; small-business connectors added 29 Sep 2026 | Small teams (2 to 15 people) |
| Agents | One per user | Many, each with its own job |
| Computer | A cloud VM per user | Each bot has its own computer |
| Models | Muse Spark (Meta) | Claude Code or Codex, model picked per bot |
| Approvals | Sentinel agent: allow, deny or ask | Sending, paying, posting and deleting wait for a yes from your team |
| Slack | A connector it can use | Bots work in your Slack channels and in Caret threads |
| Your data | Trains on chats by default (can be turned off) | Bots run on your own Claude or ChatGPT plan |
| Price | Free, $20/mo, $100/mo | $40 a bot a month, people free |
| Availability | US (reports differ on Canada) | Mac app and any browser |
Where Muse is the better pick
- Personal errands, on your phone, in WhatsApp or on Meta glasses.
- The price: $20 a month is hard to beat for one person.
Where Caret is the better pick
- Work shared by a team. Bots sit in the same threads as your people, so anyone can hand one a task or approve its work.
- Several jobs at once. A marketer bot, an engineer bot and a research bot, each with its own computer.
- Model choice. Claude or Codex, on a plan you already control.
FAQ
Which Muse is this? Meta Muse (muse.ai), the personal agent from Meta Superintelligence Labs that launched on 8 Sep 2026.
Does Caret work for one person? Yes, but it's built for teams of 2 to 15.
Sources (checked 25 Oct 2026): Muse on Wikipedia, PPC Land on business connectors, caretbot.com.