AI that picks up your phone when you can't

Reddit r/AI_Agents 08/25/26, 08:50 AM Tools

ai-answering-machine phone-handling vapi twilio interactive-ai custom-instructions

Summary

An AI tool built with Vapi and Twilio that provides an interactive answering machine to handle phone calls when you're unavailable.

Me and a friend built this tool, its an AI answering machine connected through Vapi and Twilio which can take custom instructions and handle the phone for you if you can't reach it. Our thought is that answering machines rarely get used because they are non-interactive, it feels wierd to take to an empty void, now you can chat about your connections! If you want to try it and critique it please do!

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