{"id":100959,"title":"Chert – iMessage infrastructure for trusted communication at scale","tagline":"Chert provides the infrastructure for teams to send, receive, and automate conversations over iMessage using APIs.","body":"# \\*\\*\\*\\*\n\n**TL;DR**: Chert provides the infrastructure for teams to send, receive, and automate conversations over iMessage using APIs. We’re already working with B2C startups, customer experience teams, and sales teams to reach end users through trusted and conversational messaging.\n\n**Ask**: If you’re interested in integrating iMessage into your customer conversations, or know someone who is, we’d love to talk: \u003chttps://cal.com/team/chert/chert-call\u003e \n\n\u003chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0BYKdbaNFo\u003e\n\n**The Problem**\n\niMessage is one of the most trusted and widely used messaging channels in the US. People use it every day to talk with friends, book appointments, coordinate plans, and have conversations. \n\nBut for businesses, iMessage is still very difficult to automate programmatically. \n\nIf a business wants to build on iMessage today, they would have to set up phone lines, manage devices, monitor line health, and connect everything back into their existing tools. \n\n**Our Solution**\n\nChert lets teams build agents that can send and receive iMessages directly through our API.\n\nUsing iMessage as the communication channel has a few major advantages:\n\n1. **Higher trust and visibility**: while green-bubble SMS and RCS messages get ignored, people open and read blue-bubble iMessages \n2. **More expressive conversations**: Typing indicators, reactions, stickers, attachments, images, and videos make conversations feel more human than standard SMS or email.\n3. **Better response loops**: Because iMessage is a channel users already check constantly, teams can create faster and more continuous conversations with prospects, customers, and users. \n\nWe can also integrate natively into calendars (Calendly, [Cal.com](http://Cal.com), etc), CRMs (Hubspot, Salesforce, etc), and internal tools to add logging and structure into conversations.\n\n**Our ask**: \n\n1. If you’re building a B2C startup, customer experience team, or AI agent that could benefit from iMessage as a communication channel, we’d love to talk: \u003chttps://cal.com/team/chert/chert-call\u003e \n2. If you have other use cases for iMessage that you think would be helpful, we’d love to hear them: \u003chttps://cal.com/team/chert/chert-call\u003e\n\nVisit us at \u003chttps://www.trychert.com/\u003e\n\nContact us at [contact@trychert.com](mailto:contact@trychert.com)","slug":"QGN-chert-imessage-infrastructure-for-trusted-communication-at-scale","created_at":"2026-05-07T22:21:41.432Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T01:52:53.854Z","total_vote_count":44,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QGN-chert-imessage-infrastructure-for-trusted-communication-at-scale","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":31364,"name":"Chert","slug":"chert","url":"https://www.trychert.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7dbcfda02066d2a118790619245d76bd15d26183.png","batch":"Spring 2026","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","SaaS","API","Customer Support","Conversational AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31364"}}