AI Answering Machine
An answering machine that actually talks to the caller, screens out the junk, and hands you a written summary of what they wanted. In development.
What it does
A real back-and-forth, not a menu tree.
Works out what the call is about before it wastes any of your time.
What they wanted, and what you should do about it, in text.
People you name ring straight through without being screened.
Built on Twilio rather than a speakerphone hack, so it answers reliably even when the handset is busy or asleep.
The full conversation kept alongside the summary.
Voicemail is a relic. Half the calls you miss are spam, and the useful ones leave you thirty seconds of “call me back” with no context — so you ring them back not knowing what the conversation is about.
This answers instead, holds a real conversation, works out what the caller wants, and sends you a written summary with a recommended action. We evaluated three ways to build it — cloud call handling through Twilio, an on-device speakerphone workaround, and voicemail-only screening — and the Twilio route won on reliability, so that is the architecture it is being built on. It is in active development; registering now gets you the beta and the released version.
Specifications
| Platform | Android, with call handling through Twilio |
|---|---|
| Status | In development |
| Architecture | Cloud call handling — chosen over on-device and voicemail-only approaches for reliability |
| Availability | Beta access included with registration |
Questions about this product
When does it ship?
No firm date yet. Registering gets you the beta as soon as there is one.
Why not run it entirely on the phone?
We tried that design. Android will not reliably let an app answer and hold a call, so the cloud route is the one that actually works.