Kangaroo AI

My co-founder Samarth Singh and I built Kangaroo AI at Antler VC, a founder residency program in Austin, Texas.

Kangaroo was an AI agent that connected to your computer through an MCP and let you control it by texting an iMessage number from your iPhone. It managed your Google Calendar, read and sent emails, searched the web, and ran tasks on your machine.

Because it had access to your location, Kangaroo was about 7x faster at local recommendations than ChatGPT or Claude at the time. It would proactively reach out throughout your day to help before you asked.

We built this about six months before OpenAI shipped Operator. We were very early.