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What is Phonely and what problem does it solve?

Phonely lets you "answer your phone with AI that talks exactly like a person." If you have a receptionist or use a call center, Will says Phonely can automate "about 80 or 90%" of those workflows and save you "about 70%" of what you'd be paying.

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Will Bodewes · Phonely (YC S24)
EP 28 · Co-founder and CEO, Phonely
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Phonely lets you "answer your phone with AI that talks exactly like a person." If you have a receptionist or use a call center, Will says Phonely can automate "about 80 or 90%" of those workflows and save you "about 70%" of what you'd be paying.

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Will describes Phonely in two sentences: "we allow you to answer your phone with AI that talks exactly like a person. So if you have a receptionist or use a call center, we can automate right now about 80 or 90% of those workflows using artificial intelligence and save you about 70% of what you would be paying." What it does best is reliability of voice agents at scale — when you have 10, 15, 20, 30,000 calls a day "and you want to make sure that every single call gets handled perfectly."