Writing · August 2026

AI that answers the phone

Local businesses still live and die by the phone. A barber who is cutting hair cannot pick up. A restaurant on a Friday night lets the line ring. A med spa misses the consult that would have paid for the month. That missed call is not a messaging problem. It is a person who was not there.

I build the person who is there. Not a chatbot in a corner of a website — a voice on the actual phone line, that can book, take an order, or answer the question the caller actually asked.

That work split into three things because the audience split. Restaurants needed a hostess who already knew the menu and the POS. That is Jenna. People who sell AI receptionists to other kinds of shops needed a way to ship an agent without becoming an integration engineer. That is Tendo AI. People who wanted the business itself — how to build it, price it, and land the first client — needed a room with me in it. That is Anthony’s AI Circle.

I did not come from software. I came from selling, from restaurants, from trying things in public until they worked. The YouTube videos are the same motion: build the thing live, then hand someone else the path. If you want the products, they are linked above. If you want me, this site is the home page.

Anthony Shoosh