Comparison
Orion vs Martin AI
Side by side
Everything in the Martin AI column is taken from their own public pages as of September 2026. Products change; check theirs before you decide. Where they publish nothing about something, this says so rather than guessing.
| Orion | Martin AI | |
|---|---|---|
| One daily brief across every source | Yes — one page at 6am, synthesized from email, calendar, finance, health, code and notes | Not published — check their site |
| Two-way SMS (text it, it answers and acts) | Yes — US numbers, opt-in, verified by code, reply STOP to end | Not published — check their site |
| Personal wiki with unified memory | Yes — pages for people, projects and topics, auto-updated and woven into every brief | Not published — check their site |
| Semantic search over your own history | Yes — across every past brief, wiki page and message, by meaning | Not published — check their site |
| Health and fitness data in the brief | Yes — Oura, Garmin, Withings, Strava: sleep, readiness, HRV, activity | Not published — check their site |
| Finance in the brief | Yes — Plaid, YNAB, Splitwise: balances, budget, unusual activity | Not published — check their site |
| Developer sources | Yes — GitHub and Linear: what moved, what is blocked on you | Not published — check their site |
| Pricing | $20 a month, or $192 a year — one plan, everything included, with a 14-day free trial | Not published — check their site |
| Compliance certifications | None yet, stated plainly on the security page. AES-256-GCM encrypted tokens, TLS, per-user isolation in the database | Not published — check their site |
When Martin AI is the better choice
Martin AI is a direct competitor in this category and its feature set is not fully documented here. Before choosing, read their site: if what you want is a voice-and-messaging assistant rather than a daily synthesized brief over finance, health and code, they may be the closer fit.
What Orion is for
One person's whole life in one place: email, calendar, finances, health, side projects and notes, read overnight and synthesized into a single morning brief. You can text it a question and it answers from your actual data — and it acts, drafting the reply, booking the event, closing the task. It is not a team workspace, and it is not trying to become one.
The details are on the homepage, and how it handles your data is on the security page. Orion is in private beta; join the waitlist and you are let in roughly in order.