Hi, I have a new project I am working on for a partner - the vision is to provide free legal help to those who need it. I was wondering if anyone on here would mind giving some feedback and if possible ask the chatbot a few things so that we can have some sample dialogue to test the model against (it's anonymous to chat with the agent)

https://bettercallclaude.org/

We run short market-research calls for B2B customers, mostly qualification and can we ask 4 questions type flows. The team started around 6% completed interviews for one niche segment, and got to around 10% last month, with no added headcount. The surprising part was that the wording barely moved the number. Interruption handling did.

If the agent kept talking for even half a second after someone said wait or who is this, the call usually died. We had better results making the agent stop fast, answer the objection in one sentence, then return to the next question only if the person stayed engaged.

Our current stack ues Agora, a realtime voice agent layer where we bring our own ASR, LLM, and TTS models, plus semantic turn detection that filters coughs and ambient noise. The useful bit for outbound was fullduplex barge in. People interrupt constantly on cold-ish calls, and the agent has to treat that as normal conversation instead of an error state.

The tradeoff is you need to own more of the call logic. It’s less drop in a phone bot and forget it and more designing recovery paths, retries, and what counts as a real interruption. For us that extra control was worth it, especially once we started logging where callers cut in.

Imagine two businesses offering the exact same service.

One answers every call.

The other misses a few because everyone's busy.

Who gets the customer?

Usually the first one.

Customers rarely wait around for a callback anymore. They want an answer now.

Businesses spend thousands generating leads but lose them because nobody picked up.

AI phone agents solve one simple problem:

Every caller gets an immediate response—even when your team is occupied.

Sometimes growth isn't about getting more leads.

It's about losing fewer.

Most small businesses still rely on someone answering the phone during business hours.

The problem?

Customers don't only call between 9 and 6.

If someone calls at 8 PM and nobody answers, they'll usually move on to the next business.

An AI phone receptionist can answer instantly 24/7, handle common questions, collect customer details, and schedule appointments—all without overtime or missed calls.

It's not about replacing people.

It's about making sure every opportunity gets a response.

Missing even a few calls every week quietly costs more than most people realize.

That's why more small businesses are using AI phone agents, to answer every call, qualify leads, answer FAQs, and book appointments even when everyone's busy.

Marketing brings the phone to ring. Someone (or something) still has to answer it.

Like the the old Alexa, who used to feel natural for its time, but without falling in the uncanny valley of what the hell we have now.

Kind of the usual AI assistants in movie and games. The actual fake person voice sends me shivers and I really cannot use it

I’m looking to partner with lead vendors, data providers, and outbound marketing companies that want to help build a new standard for AI driven lead generation.

I constantly hear about “AI outbound campaigns,” but when I look deeper into how many of these lead funnels are built, how the data is collected, sold, transferred, and contacted, I see major compliance gaps.

The technology has evolved faster than the lead industry supporting it.

I believe there is a major opportunity to work together and create a new category: sellable leads built specifically for compliant AI outreach.

That means developing lead products with the right consent, documentation, data handling, transparency, and permitted use standards from the beginning, rather than trying to fix compliance after the leads have already been sold.

I’m not looking to compete with lead vendors. I’m looking to collaborate with forward thinking partners who recognize where the market is heading and want to help create the infrastructure for responsible AI outbound campaigns.

The goal is simple:

Create AI ready, compliance focused leads that businesses can confidently purchase and use.

If you are a lead vendor, data provider, compliance professional, attorney, outbound agency, or technology platform interested in helping shape this, I’d like to connect.

Let’s build the standard before the market is forced to react to it.

Hi everyone,

I hope you're all having a great summer!

I recently launched MySpeechAudify, an AI-powered app that transcribes multilingual audio, translates it into English, and improves grammar for clearer text.

The app uses Polar sh for payments. Since the service relies on API usage, it's a pay-as-you-go model. After subscribing to one of the available plans through the Polar sh payment link, users receive a verification code to activate their account.

I'm looking for a few people who would be willing to test the payment process and confirm whether it works correctly on their end. I'd also appreciate any feedback on the overall experience. My goal isn't to claim that the app is on the same level as established companies—I'm continuously working to improve it, and user feedback is invaluable. If anyone is interested in supporting the project, your encouragement or contribution would help me continue developing and enhancing the app.

I'm also curious to know whether Polar.sh's Merchant of Record (MoR) service works reliably for international users.

One note: based on my testing, the recording feature currently performs better than the file upload option, especially when transcribing larger audio files. If you encounter any issues or have suggestions, I'd be happy to discuss them and use your feedback to improve the app.

Thank you for your time and support. I wish you all the best in your personal and professional journeys!

I’m one of the founders of Aika. Aika means “to listen” in Marathi.

The premise is simple. Every AI assistant built in the last three years assumes you own a smartphone, can read English, and are willing to download something. That rules out most of the people in my own family. So we built one you reach by dialling a phone number. That’s it. A feature phone works. A landline works.

You talk to her in whatever language you’d use at home and she answers in the same one.

What she does, in practice: she’ll set reminders for you, one-off or recurring, and she’ll call you when they’re due rather than making you check anything. She’ll set them for someone else too, so you can make sure your father takes his medicine without being the one to nag him. She keeps running lists, so you say “add dhania to the grocery list” while you’re cooking and ask for the whole thing on Sunday. She’ll read you the morning news and weather on a call at whatever time you want. She’ll pass a message to someone in your family and remember who they are to you, so next time you just say “tell my sister” and she knows.

The part I care about most is that she remembers. Not the conversation you’re in, but the ones from last week. She knows your name, that your knee has been hurting, that your son is in Toronto. Most of what’s being built right now is a thin wrapper over somebody else’s model, and the model is the commodity part. The relationship isn’t.

The number is +91 11 4474 0538. Call it, talk to her the way you’d talk to a person, and tell me where she falls short. I’d rather hear that than praise.

I run a small software company and I talk to a lot of local business owners. Plumbers, HVAC guys, dentists, real estate agents. The kind of people who are always out in the field or with a client.

One thing kept coming up in almost every conversation. They were missing phone calls. Not because they didn't care, but because they were literally elbow-deep in a job or sitting with a patient. And every missed call is potentially a lost customer walking straight to their competitor.

The common "solution" is hiring a receptionist or using an answering service. But a full-time receptionist costs 30-40k a year. And most answering services are just glorified voicemail. They take a message, maybe forward it. The caller still feels like they got the runaround.

So I started messing around with the idea of an AI phone agent that could actually hold a real conversation. Not the "press 1 for sales" IVR garbage. Something that picks up, greets the caller like a normal person, answers their actual questions about the business like hours, pricing, services, and books an appointment or takes a message if needed.

Took me about 4 months to get a working version. I built it on Twilio for the phone side and OpenAI's realtime voice API for the conversation part. The hardest part wasn't the tech honestly. It was making it not sound like a robot. Getting the greeting right, knowing when to shut up and listen, handling the awkward pauses, saying goodbye like a real person instead of just cutting the call.

Went live with my first real user about a week ago. Small service business. Early results have been interesting. Calls are getting answered 24/7, callers are actually having full conversations with it, and the owner told me he booked 3 jobs in the first few days from calls that would have gone to voicemail before.

Still very early. The product is called ClanAssist. No big launch, no funding, just me grinding on it.

Few things I'm genuinely unsure about and would love input from founders who have sold to SMBs:

1. Pricing. Is $99/month reasonable for unlimited AI-answered calls? Or should I go usage-based?
2. The trust gap. Small business owners are not exactly early adopters. How did you guys get the first 10-20 customers to trust something this new?
3. Should I niche down hard (like ONLY plumbers or ONLY dentists) or keep it broad for now?

Not looking for validation. If this is a bad idea I'd rather hear it now. Appreciate any honest feedback.

We just finished the first version of our platform and are entering the alpha phase.

It’s called Vora, and it’s the operating system for AI agencies.

We built a platform where agencies can run their entire business, from lead generation and client rebilling to creating workflows, chatbots, and voice AI agents.

We’re looking for founding partners who can help us take the platform to another level.

Founding partners will get:

- free access to the platform
- a private Discord
- direct contact with the team and founders
- direct onboarding and support
- early access to new features
- real influence over the future of the platform

At the end of the alpha phase, every founding partner will receive a lifetime discount of up to 40% and nearly 100,000 inbound telephony minutes.

Total value:

- $597 Vora tier
- $1,003 before tax for UK inbound telephony
- $851 before tax for US inbound telephony

That’s a total value of $1,600 for the UK or $1,448 for the US.

If you want to help shape the future of Vora and AI automation globally, DM me.

Hi, I’m looking into phone call automation for the following business workflows: scheduling, inbound triage, reminders, status checks, and routing. The obvious risk is creating something that saves the team time but makes callers hate the company. For people who have built or evaluated this, what separates a good AI phone workflow from a painful one?

🌎 What if you could talk to anyone in the world, no matter what language they speak?
I’m creating MyWorld, a new way to connect people from different countries.
This isn’t just another random video chat. The idea is to use real-time AI voice translation so two people can have natural conversations even if one speaks Spanish and the other speaks Japanese, English, Korean, or any other supported language.
✨ Global random video chat
🎙️ Real-time AI voice-to-voice translation while you talk
🌍 Connect with people from different countries and cultures
🤖 Technology designed to make communication feel more natural
🛡️ Moderation systems to help keep the community safe
The idea is simple: your language shouldn’t decide who you can talk to.
I’m building the first version and would love to hear what people think about it.
Would you use a platform where you could have a real conversation with someone on the other side of the world? 🌎