How it's different

An assistant that lives at a phone number, not in an app.

Most things that call themselves assistants wait inside an app for you to open them. Conductor has a phone number of its own. You text it or call it from the phone you already have, it picks up when other people call, and it can reach the people in your life by text. Here is how that compares with what you use today.

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Compared with what you use today

Three things it replaces, and the one thing it isn't.

Voicemail waits for you. A chat assistant waits for you too. A human assistant costs more than most of us can justify. Conductor sits in the middle: reachable like a person, priced like software.

Instead of

Voicemail and answering services

TodayVoicemail records whatever the caller decides to say and leaves the rest to you. An answering service hands you a message slip for a few hundred dollars a month.

With ConductorIt answers the call, has a real conversation, greets the people you know by name and finds out what the caller needs. The moment the call ends you get a text with who called and why. Then it keeps working: text it back and it books the follow-up or passes a message to the caller.

Costs: a few hundred a month for a service, nothing for voicemail, and your time either way.

Instead of

Chat assistants like Siri and ChatGPT

TodayThey live inside an app and wait for you to open it. They have no phone number, so nobody can call them, they can't pick up your phone, and they can't text your mom for you.

With ConductorIt is reachable like a person: text it, call it, give its number out. It keeps your calendar, your reminders and the things you've told it, and it reaches out when something needs you: a message that came back, a call you missed, your morning briefing if you want one.

Costs: free, or a subscription, and they still can't answer a phone.

Instead of

A human assistant

TodayA person can read a room and show up in person, and Conductor can't. A person also costs a salary, works business hours, and forgets the detail you mentioned in passing.

With ConductorIt costs $12 or $30 a month, answers at 2 AM, remembers what you tell it, and sets up the call with Jordan while you're still in the meeting. It never pretends to be a person, never makes promises on your behalf, and never gives out your information.

Costs: a salary or an hourly rate, and only during the hours they work.

Side by side

What each one can do for you.

It can	Conductor	Voicemail	Chat assistant	Human assistant
Have a phone number of its own	✓Yes, in your area code	Your line's mailbox	No	✓Yes
Answer calls for you	✓A real conversation, callers you know greeted by name	Records a message	No	✓Yes
Be texted like a person	✓From your messages app	No	✓Inside its app	✓Yes
Text you first	✓Who called, a reply that came back, your morning briefing	No	No	✓Yes
Book and move things on your calendar	✓Google Calendar or Apple iCloud	No	Some, inside the app	✓Yes
Reach people for you	✓By text, with their reply brought back	No	No	✓Yes
Remember what you tell it	✓Yes, and you can see and correct it	No	Some	✓Yes
Work at 2 AM	✓Yes	✓Yes	✓Yes	No
What it costs	$12 or $30 a month, first week free	Included with your line	Free, or a subscription	A salary or an hourly rate

Calendar, to-dos and contacts need a connected Google or Apple account. Connecting one is optional, and you can disconnect it at any time.

In plain words

Here's the whole thing, without the jargon.

You sign up and Conductor gets a phone number. It is a normal phone number, in your area code, and it belongs to your assistant. Save it in your contacts like you would a person's.

You text that number whatever you'd ask an assistant. "Remind me to call Mom at 5." "Move my dentist to Thursday." "Set up a call with Jordan tomorrow at 10." "Remember that Ellie's shoe size is 3." It answers in the same thread, and you can call it to talk instead.

When you can't pick up, it can. Give the number out, or forward your own phone to it when you're busy. It answers like a person would, finds out what the caller needs, and texts you the short version. Each morning, if you want, it sends one text with your day.

Things it won't do

Honest about the edges.

Pretend to be a person

It introduces itself as your assistant and says it's an AI when anyone asks, to you and to the people who call.

Give out your information

Callers get a message taken. Where you are, what's on your calendar and who else called stay with you.

Commit you to things

It sets up exactly what you asked for, and when something is unclear it asks you one question instead of guessing.

Fill your phone with noise

It texts you when something happened: a call it took, a reply that came back, and your morning briefing if you turned it on. Nothing else.

Questions, answered

The practical details.

Do I need a new phone or a new number?

No. Conductor gets a phone number of its own and works with the phone you already have. Give that number out, forward your own line to it when you're busy, or just text it. Your number stays yours.

Is Conductor an app?

There is nothing to install. Conductor lives at a phone number, so you text it or call it from the messages app you already use. A web dashboard holds your settings, your call history and the transcripts.

Is it a real person?

No, and it never pretends to be. Conductor is an AI assistant: it says so when someone asks, takes a message rather than making promises for you, and keeps your details to itself.

What does it cost?

Your first week is free. After that it is $12 a month as an Early Tester or $30 a month as an Early Adopter, one flat price for everything, cancel anytime.

Your own assistant, on its own number.

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