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Our research · 2026-09-06
Boardy ran a campaign in which its AI commented on people's appearances. Its chief executive apologised publicly afterwards.
A voice AI that phones you, learns what you need, and makes introductions
Boardy is an AI agent you reach on Voice. To start, phone call. It calls you rather than waiting to be asked.
Boardy is a superconnector rather than an assistant: you tell it what you are building and who you need, it matches you against what other people have told it, and once both sides opt in it makes the introduction and books the call. It is the only listing here you reach by phone first.
The numbers it publishes are the largest of any listing in this directory: 202,250 introductions made, 226,227 people spoken with, $82 billion of capital introduced and a seventeen hour average time to match. All of them are its own figures. What is unusual is that it also publishes its audience, 36,300 on X and 98,000 on LinkedIn and 126,000 on Substack, which is a rare thing for a product to treat as a statistic about itself.
Boardy Pro is where the calendar comes in. The stated way to get access is to ask Boardy to connect your Google Calendar, which makes it the only paid-sounding tier here gated on a permission rather than a price. From there it will find times, reply on an email thread it is copied into, and join a Google Meet, Zoom or Teams call where it can listen and speak when brought in.
There is no readable privacy policy. Every path we tried, including the one this listing carried before, returns the marketing page. For a product whose entire function is holding what thousands of people have told it about themselves and deciding who should hear it, that is the row that matters most and it is empty.
| Channels | Voice |
|---|---|
| How you start | Phone call |
| Who starts it | Calls you first |
| Is there an app | Optional app An app exists but is not how you start |
| Categories | Social and introductions |
| Can do | Introductions,Calendar and scheduling,Phone calls,Email |
| Connects to | Google Calendar, Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Gmail |
| Pricing | Not published. Boardy Pro exists and the stated way to get it is to ask Boardy to connect your calendar, so access is gated on a permission rather than on a payment. |
| Number type | Not stated on its own pages |
| Contact number | None published |
| Documentation | None linked |
| First message, pre-written | None published |
| Runs on | Not disclosed |
| Browses with | Not disclosed |
| Number carrier | No number to look up |
| Status | Live |
| Trains on your conversations | No policy published |
|---|---|
| Data of people who never signed up | Addressed“Boardy makes introductions to people in contacts who receive introduction requests without having signed up.” |
| What it holds when you connect an account | A scoped token OAuth only, revocable from the provider's side“Google Calendar connects in a couple of taps, and from then on I know when you're free” |
| If you cancel | No policy published |
| Model providers named | No policy published |
| Jurisdiction | No policy published |
| Security document | None published |
| Asks before acting | Nothing published |
| Prompt injection | Not mentioned anywhere public |
| Bug bounty | None published |
| Who is on the line | The agent |
| Calls from its own number | Yes, stated |
| Says it is software on the call | Not stated on its pages |
| Records the call | Not stated on its pages |
| A user in crisis | No protocol page found. |
| Availability | Not stated |
Boardy’s own pages answer 2 of the 9 questions this site asks of every listing. Not answered: publishes a price, has a privacy policy, says whether it trains on you, says what happens if you cancel, names who carries the messages, names its model providers, says where to report a bug. About the middle of its kind: 9th of 14 social and introductions.
Nothing published that a reader can check, looked for on 2026-09-10.
| Company | Boardy |
|---|---|
| Founders | Andrew D'Souza, Matt Stein, Shen Sivananthan, Ankur Boyed, Abhinav Boyed |
| Based in | Not published |
| Funding | $3M pre-seed announced October 2024, then an $8M seed raised through the product itself, with investors vetting it by talking to the bot. Source: TechCrunch |
| Investors | HF0, 8VC, Precursor Ventures, Afore Capital, FJ Labs, NextView Ventures, Creandum |
| Traction | States 202,250+ introductions made, 226,227+ people spoken with, $82B+ capital introduced and a 17 hour average time to match. Also publishes its own following: 36.3k on X, 98k on LinkedIn, 126k on Substack. |
From Boardy’s own pages at boardy.ai, last read 2026-09-10.
Our research
Our research · 2026-09-06
Boardy ran a campaign in which its AI commented on people's appearances. Its chief executive apologised publicly afterwards.