Comparison · updated October 2026
AskProxy vs. TwinCafe
TwinCafe (a Viven company, led by Eightfold co-founder Ashutosh Garg) builds digital twins: you give it your résumé, your LinkedIn and the stories you'd tell in an interview, and people talk to your twin by text or face to face. Its own pitch is a twin that answers "like you would." Fortune's October 2026 feature describes recruiters interviewing candidates' twins before meeting them.
A proxy starts from the opposite premise. It never pretends to be you. It's an openly-AI representative that answers about you, grounded in what you provided, and it works for you, not for a screening platform.
| AskProxy | TwinCafe | |
|---|---|---|
| The agent | Answers about you. Openly AI, never speaks as you | A digital twin that answers "like you would" |
| Built from | Your uploads and links, plus a voice interview that goes broader than any document | Résumé, LinkedIn and the stories you'd tell in an interview |
| What visitors see | Your projects and media, with a live conversation alongside | A twin conversation, by text or face-to-face avatar |
| Hiring moment | Paste a job listing → fit analysis against the real background, gaps included | Recruiters question the twin |
| Leads | Visitor contact + the full conversation, emailed to you | Owners can step in and add answers |
| Inside other AIs | Ask it from inside Claude, ChatGPT or any other MCP client | Lives on TwinCafe |
| Price (Oct 2026) | Free · Pro $8/mo · Team $249/mo | Not listed on its homepage |
Why "about you" beats "as you"
A twin is designed to be taken for you. Even when every answer is accurate, the person on the other side has to wonder who's really talking, and in a hiring or client decision that doubt costs trust. A representative that's openly an assistant can be questioned hard, because nobody is being fooled. The longer argument: the digital twin wave has a trust problem.
Whose side is your agent on?
A twin built inside a hiring ecosystem ultimately serves that ecosystem. A proxy is yours: it lives at your own link, sends you the leads, and answers wherever people already work, including inside their own AI assistants, through an open protocol rather than a walled garden.
The honest take
If you want a face-to-face avatar that answers the way you would, TwinCafe is built for that. If you want an AI that represents you honestly, converts serious visitors into leads, and goes everywhere AI goes, that's a proxy.
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Questions people ask
What is the difference between AskProxy and TwinCafe?
TwinCafe (a Viven company led by Ashutosh Garg) builds digital twins that answer the way you would, including face-to-face avatar conversations. AskProxy builds a proxy: an openly-AI representative that answers about you, never as you, grounded in material you provided plus a voice interview. Proxies also work inside other AI assistants through MCP and send you leads with the conversation attached.
Why does 'about you' versus 'as you' matter?
A twin is designed to be taken for you, so even accurate answers raise the question of who is speaking. A proxy is openly an assistant, so a recruiter or client can question it hard with no trust tax. For hiring and client decisions, that honesty is the feature.
Can I use my AskProxy proxy from ChatGPT or Claude?
Yes. Every proxy has its own MCP address: connect https://askproxy.ai/<username>/mcp as a connector in Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client and ask about the person from inside your AI.