March 12, 2026
Happy Thursday Photon Community,
This week at Photon: we shipped three new iMessage capabilities: webhook support for our SDKs, an iMessage adapter for the Vercel Chat SDK, and a new agent skill that connects AI agents to iMessage in under 60 seconds. We also hosted a builder dinner in San Francisco, launched our $100k Ambassador Program, and opened a role for an Objective-C engineer.
Feature Updates
Webhook Support for Photon iMessage SDKs
Photon iMessage SDKs now support webhooks — no persistent socket connections needed.
Deploy on Vercel, Cloudfare, or any edge runtime
Your agent receives messages via HTTP POST
Feature Updates
iMessage Adapter for the Vercel Chat SDK
We shipped an iMessage adapter for the Vercel Chat SDK — now featured on the Vercel Chat SDK Adapters page.
Our open-source adapter lets agents land natively in iMessage:
Serverless-ready
Supports iOS 26 polls via modal
BYO or Photon-managed
Feature Updates
iMessage Agent Skill
Teach your Claude, Codex, OpenClaw, or any agent, to connect directly to iMessage in under 60 seconds. This is our biggest unlock yet.
Uses Apple's public APIs or our managed services
No heavy setup
This is the fastest way yet to hand off agents into real conversations.
Community Highlights
Photon × Ditto Dinner in SF
Last Saturday, we co-hosted an exclusive SF dinner with our client Ditto, one of the hottest match making startups, bringing together 15 top agentic builders from OpenAI, Meta, Tesla, TikTok, Scale AI, and an a16z New Media Fellow.
We'll be hosting more events like this, follow us to stay in the loop.
Community Highlights
Ambassador Program Launch
We launched our Ambassador Program with a $100,000 rewards pool, inviting builders to help make agents reachable to everyone.
If you're a vibe coder, indie hacker, or AI developer who loves building and sharing - we want you.
Upcoming Event
We're hosting a workshop in SF during GTC at Frontier Tower, walking through how to integrate OpenClaw directly into iMessage. If you're attending GTC and want a spot, reply to this email and we'll add you to the list.
We're Hiring
Objective-C Engineer — San Francisco
We're a small team doing big things —
and we need someone who can go deep on the Mac stack.
Strong background in Objective-C
Deep experience building for macOS
Skilled in reverse engineering
Ships clean, high-quality code only
Uses AI agents to 10x their productivity
That's all for this week.
We believe agents should reach everyone —
and we're building every day to make it happen.
Want to learn more about Photon?
Reply this email or grab time with us for a quick chat.
