## Orbits goes beyond the assistant.

Town connects professional accounts to recurring knowledge work. Orbits connects family accounts, conversations, and records to the recurring work of running a home.

Town focuses on professional information. Orbits models the family and physical home directly, with shared membership and purpose-built workflows for everyday coordination and action.

## Why families choose Orbits

### Orbits is built for the home inbox. Town is built for the work inbox.

Orbits looks for school changes, appointments, bills, deliveries, childcare, and other household details in Apple Mail, Gmail, or Outlook. Town is oriented toward professional email, calendar, documents, and work context.

### Orbits treats the family as the team.

Invite household members with shared and personal visibility, add Bit to family messaging, and keep calendars, chores, meals, lists, and home records coordinated across the people who live there.

### Orbits understands the physical home lifecycle.

Properties, appliances, vehicles, pets, warranties, maintenance schedules, repair history, and service providers are durable native records. They give the assistant context that a work document system does not naturally model.

### Orbits closes consumer errands, not knowledge-work loops.

Bit can turn meal plans into groceries, call a restaurant, coordinate repair quotes, surface a morning family briefing, and create approved household actions. Town focuses on connected research, documents, code, tasks, and professional routines.

## See exactly where Orbits goes further

A direct comparison of what Orbits includes and what Town publicly offers today.

| Feature | ✅ Orbits | Town |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Primary focus | ✅Family and home operations | ✅Professional and knowledge work |
| Connected sources | ✅Household calendars, email, chat, and app data | ✅Email, calendar, documents, and web context |
| Multi-person model | ✅Household members with shared and private spaces | ❌Work-oriented user and connected accounts |
| Tasks, reminders, and routines | ✅Family tasks, chores, and daily briefing | ✅Tasks, Need to Know, and routines |
| Meals, recipes, and grocery ordering | ✅Dedicated connected workflow | ❌Not a core advertised workflow |
| Home, vehicle, pet, and warranty records | ✅Dedicated structured records | ❌Not a core advertised workflow |
| Service requests and reservation calls | ✅Built into household workflows | ❌Not a core advertised workflow |
| Document creation and code execution | ❌Not the focus | ✅Advertised assistant capabilities |

## Orbits is the better system for running a home

### Town is built for work

Town is oriented toward connected professional context and knowledge-work routines.

- ✓Your main inputs are work email, calendar, and documents
- ✓You want research, document creation, or code-assisted work
- ✓Professional tasks and routines are the problem to solve

### Orbits is built for the home

Orbits is organized around the people, schedules, belongings, and recurring jobs of family life.

- ✓Several household members need the same source of truth
- ✓You want family email and messages connected to shared action
- ✓Meals, chores, maintenance, pets, and providers belong in the system

## Frequently asked questions

### What is the main difference between Orbits and Town?+

Town is primarily a connected AI assistant for work and knowledge tasks. Orbits is a shared assistant and system of record for family coordination and the physical home.

### Do both Orbits and Town connect to email and calendars?+

Yes, both products use connected accounts to make assistance more contextual. Orbits organizes those connections around household events, school details, bills, deliveries, tasks, meals, and family coordination.

### Can Orbits create documents or run code like Town?+

That is not Orbits' focus. Town advertises broad knowledge-work capabilities such as creating documents and running code. Orbits instead provides purpose-built family and home workflows.

### Which is better for shared family organization?+

Orbits is better for shared family organization because it is purpose-built for household members, shared calendars and lists, chores, meals, pets, home records, permissions, and service workflows. Town is a work assistant.