The $2T telecom industry was built for humans. @AgentPhoneHQ is rebuilding it for agents. One API gives every AI agent its own phone number and a trusted identity to reach the real world. Congrats on the launch, @themeetmodi & @manav2modi! https://ycombinator.com/launches/QNE-agentphone-phone-numbers-for-ai-agents…

Launch YC: AgentPhone - Phone Numbers for AI Agents | Y Combinator

Source: https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QNE-agentphone-phone-numbers-for-ai-agents Give AI agents their own phone numbers and identity to call and message across every channel.

AI agents are becoming incredibly capable online, but the moment you need one to make a phone call or send a text, everything falls apart. You end up stitching together telecom providers, voice infrastructure, compliance, routing, and your own memory layer. Giving an agent a phone number should be simple. It wasn’t.

TL;DR:

• One API to give any AI agent its own phone number
• iMessage, WhatsApp, RCS, SMS, Calling, and more soon
• A trusted identity so agents can reach people and businesses in the real world

Who’s Using It

Teams at Google’s Agent Development Kit, Replit, Y Combinator, Sim AI, LangChain, and Alchemy are already building with AgentPhone.

The Problem

The $2T global telecom industry was built for humans. AI agents today can browse the web, write code, and manage entire workflows. But they still can’t pick up the phone. A lot of business still runs on calls and texts, channels that existed before the internet and email. If agents are going to do real work, they need to work on the channels people already use.

How It Works

AgentPhone gives developers a single API to provision phone numbers for their agents with voice and messaging built in and no compliance headaches. Just plug in and your agent can talk and text to the world.

Things already built on AgentPhone:

• An AI talent recruiter that messages and screens candidates
• AI employees with their own phone numbers that handle workflows end to end
• Our own company brain that Manav and Meet use internally to run AgentPhone

About Us

We’reMeetandManav. We met 21 years ago when our mom gave birth to Meet. We’ve been building together ever since.

Meet previously built AI agent infrastructure on WhatsApp serving 280+ million businesses at Meta. Manav helped drive the Vogue app revamp and grew it from ~100K to over 1M users. We saw firsthand that the biggest gap in the agent stack isn’t intelligence. It’s connectivity.

Our Ask

If you’re building agents that need voice and messaging, try AgentPhone and tell us what breaks. We’ll provide free credits to anyone willing to test and share feedback.

Sign up athttps://www.agentphone.ai