AI assistant
Zeme vs. Poke
Built for your inbox. When it looks for apartments it lands on the same sites, with the same dropdowns.
Where Poke falls short.
Nothing built for this problem
Poke is a general assistant for email and calendars. There's no apartment search underneath it — ask for a one-bedroom and it runs the same web search you would.
It borrows the same dropdowns
When it does find a listing site, it gets the same boxes Zillow gives everyone. It can't ask for your commute, your block, or what's around the corner, because the site can't either.
It can't actually send the inquiry
It'll hand you the link. You open it, fill in the form, and keep your own note of who you contacted.
Side by side.
Feature
Poke
What you can search on
Poke:Limited:A web search, then the same dropdowns on whichever site it lands on.
Zeme: Yes:Anything you'd say out loud — the commute, the block, what's around it.
Location precision
Poke:Limited:It borrows the same area picker as everyone else. It can't go finer.
Zeme: Yes:Streets are real boundaries. North of Grand means north of Grand.
Commute and what's nearby
Poke:Limited:General commute patterns. One listing at a time at best, never the whole search.
Zeme: Yes:Every listing timed door to door — over your limit, it's cut. What's nearby goes on the map.
Tracking and refreshing
Poke:Limited:The same web search tomorrow. You review all of it yourself, every day.
Zeme: Yes:New listings flagged immediately. Listings you've passed on are moved to your passed list.
Reaching the lister
Poke:Limited:It hands you the link. You open it and fill in the form yourself.
Zeme: Yes:Zeme writes it, emails the lister, and introduces you directly.
Monitoring
Poke:Limited:It can watch a web page. It has no stream of new listings to watch.
Zeme: Yes:Zeme searches for you 24/7 and texts you when something new fits.
What it looks like when you search.
Feature
Poke
“1BR in Williamsburg under $4,000”
Poke:Limited:It runs a web search and reads whatever the listing page happens to say.
Zeme: Yes:That's the floor. Stop thinking in dropdowns — say what you actually want, and Zeme goes after it.
“under 35 minutes to Midtown on the train”
Poke:Limited:It leans on general commute patterns — a decent guess, not your actual trip.
Zeme: Yes:Zeme times the real trip from every listing to your door. Over your limit, it never reaches you.
“walkable to a grocery store”
Poke:Limited:It can find grocery stores. Tying them to apartments is still your afternoon.
Zeme: Yes:You see every grocery store around every matching listing, on the map. You decide.
“north of Grand Street”
Poke:Limited:It has no set of listings to narrow down.
Zeme: Yes:North of Grand means north of Grand. Nothing on the other side.
“I've already looked at all of these”
Poke:Limited:The same web search tomorrow. You review all of it yourself, in detail, every day.
Zeme: Yes:New listings flagged immediately. Listings you've passed on are moved to your passed list — undo any time.
“did I already reach out about that one?”
Poke:Limited:Your inbox is the only record.
Zeme: Yes:Zeme keeps the list: which ones you asked about, and who it emailed.
“tell me when something new shows up”
Poke:Limited:It can watch a web page. It has no stream of new listings to watch.
Zeme: Yes:Zeme searches for you 24/7 and texts you when something new fits.
“email the agent for me”
Poke:Limited:It hands you the link. You open it and fill in the form yourself.
Zeme: Yes:Zeme writes it, emails the lister, and introduces you directly — a real introduction, not a form.
Let Zeme take it from here.
Free. In your Messages. Always hunting.