Your personal agent for dealing with businesses — it lives in your email

It handles the back-and-forth for you.

Tell your StandIn what you need from a business — offers on a car, quotes for a move, an insurance claim that has gone quiet. It writes to the right people for you, keeps the conversation going for as long as it takes, pushes for a better price or a straight answer, and brings it all back to you: the offers, the answers, and a decision that's yours to make.

Try it for freemyagent@standinfor.me see how it works

You don't need to install an app or sign up. Your StandIn works over email. Write to it from the inbox you already use, and the first email you send is the first thing it takes on.

Example · Sam asked for a used RAV4 Done in 2 days

What Sam got back — three cars, each with the price StandIn negotiated:

2022 RAV4 XLE, 31,000 miles · Capitol Toyota, 12 miles awayDealer first quoted $26,400 · negotiated to $24,750
2021 RAV4 LE, 38,000 miles · Stevens Creek Auto, 8 miles awayDealer first quoted $23,900 · negotiated to $22,600
2020 RAV4 XLE Premium, 44,000 miles · Fremont Motors, 27 miles awayDealer first quoted $24,200 · negotiated to $23,100

9 dealers contacted · 6 replied · 3 shortlisted see how it got there ↓

One job, start to finish

What happened after Sam sent one email.

Every message in this job, in order. Sam wrote once at the start and decided once at the end; StandIn did everything in between.

Different businesses usually ask the same questions — how much you want to spend, which dates work for you, and so on. Your StandIn doesn't forward each one to you. The first time a business asks something your StandIn doesn't already know, it asks you, once. After you've answered, it gives that same answer to every other business that asks. However many businesses are in the conversation, you answer each question one time.

Dealers contacted9
Dealers that replied6
Cars considered11
Cars shortlisted3
Days2
Emails Sam wrote1

Example job · Sam's used RAV4 May 2 – May 4

Sam → StandInMay 2

"I want a used Toyota RAV4, 2020 or newer, under $25,000, within 50 miles of me. It has to have adaptive cruise control."

StandIn → SamMay 2

Here's my plan: there are 9 Toyota dealers within 50 miles of you. I'll ask each one what matching cars they have, the total price including fees, and whether the car has adaptive cruise. I'll email them from an address set up just for this: sam-rav4@standinfor.me.

StandIn → 9 dealersMay 2

Sent the same inquiry to all 9 dealers on Sam's behalf.

6 dealers → StandInMay 2 – 3

6 dealers wrote back with 11 cars between them, prices, and a few questions ("When can you come in?"). StandIn answered the questions. 3 dealers didn't reply.

StandIn → the 3 dealers who hadn't repliedMay 3

Sent each of them a polite reminder.

StandIn → the 6 dealers who had repliedMay 3

Ruled out 2 cars with no adaptive cruise and 3 over $25,000. For each remaining car, told the dealer the best price another dealer had offered and asked them to beat it.

StandIn → SamMay 4

Three cars are worth your time. Prices below are the final, negotiated totals:

2022 RAV4 XLE, 31,000 miles · Capitol Toyota, 12 miles awayDealer first quoted $26,400 · negotiated to $24,750
2021 RAV4 LE, 38,000 miles · Stevens Creek Auto, 8 miles awayDealer first quoted $23,900 · negotiated to $22,600
2020 RAV4 XLE Premium, 44,000 miles · Fremont Motors, 27 miles awayDealer first quoted $24,200 · negotiated to $23,100

Sam → StandInMay 4

"The 2021 LE at Stevens Creek. Tell them I'll come in Saturday morning."

Sam's part: one email at the start, one decision at the end.

What you can hand it

Any conversation with a business that takes more than one email.

Getting offers from several places at once. Chasing one place that won't answer. Either way, your StandIn does the writing, the waiting, and the following up.

Cars Tell it the car you want and your budget. It asks every dealer near you what they have and what it costs with all fees included, then gets them to compete on price.
Insurance — quotes and claims Describe what you need covered and it gets quotes lined up side by side. Or hand it a claim that's stuck: it sends the documents, quotes your policy back, and keeps asking until there's a decision.
Moving Give it your dates, both addresses, and what's moving. It collects written estimates from movers that serve your route and presses the vague ones for a firm number.
Apartment rentals Say where, when, and your budget. It asks buildings what's available, what moving in really costs, and the lease terms — before you spend a weekend on tours.
Home repairs & renovation Describe the job — a roof, a furnace, a bathroom. It gets written estimates from contractors nearby, with exactly what's included spelled out.
The conversations you keep putting off A bill that's wrong, a deposit that hasn't come back, a subscription that takes three emails to cancel. It writes all three, and the fourth.
…and anything else that needs a patient reply.

How it works

Say what you need. It does the writing. You decide.

Tell it what you need, in an email — three ways in.

Write to myagent@standinfor.me from your own email account. Say what you want in plain words, and give it whatever you already have:

Just describe what you want "I want a used RAV4, 2020 or newer, under $25,000, near Oakland."

You don't need to know who to ask. Your StandIn finds the dealers, contractors, or insurers near you and contacts them itself.

Give it the contact "Get me a quote from Bay Movers, quotes@baymovers.example, for June 12."

Already know who you want to deal with? Give it the email address and it takes the conversation from there.

Forward a thread "Take this over. Don't accept less than the full replacement cost."

Stuck in a back-and-forth already? Forward the whole thread with one line on top, and your StandIn picks it up mid-conversation.

Each new email thread is a new job for your StandIn. Replying in that thread continues the same job. There is nothing else to set up.

It tells you its plan, asks what only you know, then gets to work.

Before it contacts anyone, your StandIn writes back with its plan: who it will write to, what it will ask, and anything it still needs from you — your dates, your budget, the claim number. Then it works on its own: it sends the emails, answers the replies, reminds whoever goes quiet, and pushes on price, terms, or a decision.

It brings you the result. You decide.

For a purchase, that's two or three offers worth your time, each with the negotiated price and what the seller promised in writing. For a claim or a dispute, it's the answer, and how it got there. You take it from here, directly with the business: the deal itself is between you and them.

You can see everything it did at any point: every email it sends you has a link to a page with the complete correspondence for that job, every message sent and received.

What's different

It works for you, not for the businesses.

On a comparison site, you fill in a form, your phone number is sold to several businesses, and they call you. Here it's the other way around.

Nobody gets your details.

Your StandIn writes to businesses from an email address made for this one job. Businesses reply to that address, not to you. Your own email and phone number stay out of it unless you choose to share them.

It negotiates, and it pushes back.

When there's a price, it asks sellers to beat each other and drops any offer that doesn't match what you asked for. When there's a claim, it quotes the policy back and asks for a decision by a date.

It keeps going until it's done.

Whoever doesn't answer gets a reminder. Questions get answered. The job stays open for as long as it takes — an afternoon or three weeks.

The next "just following up" doesn't have to come from you.

Try it for free — it opens an email to myagent@standinfor.me. Say what you need, hit send, and it's already working on it.

You don't need to install an app or sign up to start. Any email you send to that address is a task it takes on, and you can write to it straight from your inbox from then on.