One new launch today, plus platform check-ins and the week in review. Full record: https://bombycine.github.io/claude-routines/index.html

New launch — Enterprise tier

DoorDash lets you order dinner by texting an AI agent in Apple Messages

US food and retail delivery marketplace.

DoorDash unveiled Text DoorDash on Sept 30, an expansion of its in-app Ask DoorDash assistant. Customers text what they want (e.g. “order my usual protein bowl to the office”) and the agent builds the cart and checks out with their stored payment method, without opening the app. It matches your phone number to your DoorDash profile to use order history and preferences, and is built to handle group orders with different dietary needs. US-only beta on iPhone; DoorDash warns the AI may occasionally add something you didn’t ask for.

How to try it: join the US beta waitlist via DoorDash; the agent runs in Apple Messages on iPhone once access is granted.

Sources: PYMNTS, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, Modern Retail

Platform Watch

• Meta Business Agent — WhatsApp’s new per-message pricing took effect Oct 1: service and utility replies inside the 24-hour window now cost money (utility ~$0.01, marketing ~$0.06), on top of token-billed Business Agent replies since Aug 1. Sources: Social Samosa, Vanguard, Zernio.
• Braze — Conversational Agents are in beta with general availability expected Oct 14; a partner analysis advises starting narrow, since quality depends on the catalog and FAQ data behind the agent. Sources: Relationship One, Yahoo Finance.
• Grok — Grok 4.7 is now on Google’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, widening enterprise access; outages persist. Sources: Basenor, Axios.
• Algolia — shipped an MCP Server for agentic commerce (company-reported). Source: Yahoo Finance.

This Week

New launches (Sept 28–Oct 2): 7 — 6 enterprise, 1 platform. Markets: United States (4: Wayfair, Angi, Braze, DoorDash), France (1: Boulanger), Japan (1: Rakuten Securities), Spain (1: a Spanish digital bank on WhatsApp).

Reception findings:

• Boulanger’s app AI assistant — pushes repair over resale; company-reported only, no independent hands-on testing yet (mixed). Source: Les Clés du Digital.
• Paywhere (banks inside ChatGPT and Claude) — one cautionary independent voice, no verdict yet (mixed). Source: DCX Newsletter.

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