Agents that make phone calls

Nine agents in this directory place or receive phone calls rather than only exchanging text. Voice is the most consequential thing one of these products does on your behalf, because a call cannot be unsent and the person on the other end usually does not know they are talking to software.

9 agents that state this

Agents compared by channel, how you start using them and pricing. Status is shown only where it is not live.
Agent	Channels	How you start	Pricing
ArloReads your work tools and asks approval before anything consequential goes outText it, opens with hey Arlo	iMessageSMS	Text a number	Unknown
BoardyA voice AI that phones you, learns what you need, and makes introductions	Voice	Phone call	Unknown
CatchEmail, scheduling, travel and outbound phone calls, proactive by default	SMSEmailVoice	Create an account	$99/month
DuckbillThe model plans, background-checked humans execute	SMSEmailWeb	Create an account	Unknown
HomerTexts you back on iMessage or SMS, and will phone a business for youText it, opens with Hey Homer	iMessageSMS	Text a number	Free tier; Pro $9.99/month; Business $29.99/month
InstinctA general agent that acts before asking, and is criticised for exactly that	iMessage	Invite only	Unknown
MartinCharges for proactivity rather than capacity, at $35 or $49 a month	iMessageSMS	Unknown	$35/month limited proactive actions, $49/month unlimited
VellumAn agent with its own identity and filesystem, across text, desktop and voice	TelegramSlackEmailVoiceWeb	Create an account	Unknown
WajoA group agent that places its own calls and pays with its own card	iMessageSMSVoice	Create an account	Free tier available

Recorded only where the product’s own public pages state it. An agent missing here may still do this and simply not say so.

What the claim actually covers

The approaches split three ways. Boardy is voice-first: it phones you, learns what you are looking for, and makes introductions, which is the only product here where the call is the product rather than a feature. Wajo's agent calls businesses from its own number and pays with its own card. Duckbill routes the call to a human.

Several assistants add outbound calling to an otherwise text-based product, usually for the errands people least want to do: chasing a refund, sitting in a hold queue, booking a table that has no online option.

Worth checking before you enable it: whether the agent identifies itself as software, whether calls are recorded, and in which jurisdictions that recording is lawful. None of the product pages we read address this clearly.

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