Audience
GTM, sales, support, lifecycle, and product teams in search of a tool to automate trusted iMessage conversations and turn customer replies into actions
About Chert
Chert is iMessage infrastructure for reaching people at scale, providing the API and workflow layer for sending, receiving, routing, and observing real iMessage conversations. It lets teams build and deploy AI on iMessage while maintaining quality, trust, and personalized interaction, with blue-bubble threads from verified numbers delivered like native iMessage. Typing indicators, reactions, reply context, read receipts, and attachments stay intact for AI or human follow-up, while multi-recipient threads support named senders and clean handoffs. If a recipient is not on iMessage, conversations can fall back to SMS or RCS, with delivery status surfaced per message. Workflow primitives include phone number pools, reply routing, webhooks, and audit trails, and the same API can start a thread, interpret a reply, and move the workflow forward.
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