Connor Gallic//Founder, KaiCalls
I build companies that keep moving after I close the laptop.
KaiCalls is the one that works. He picks up when you can't, finds out what the caller needs, and texts you what happened. The rest is half built. I show those too, including the parts that broke.
The eight-hour test hasn't passed yet
- 9,434
- calls Kai answered through September 1, 2026
- 657 of 690
- August 2026 calls that ran to completion
- $10
- the entry plan, and it includes a phone number
Source: KaiCalls' month-one ledger, September 2026
01 / What I build
Six things. One of them pays for the rest.
KaiCalls makes the money. The others are all over the place. A couple work, one I don't sell yet, one sat dead for a year before I restarted it in September. Each card says where it is.
Live
KaiCalls
A phone secretary for small businesses. Kai picks up when you can't, gets the name and the reason for the call, and texts you what happened.
kaicalls.comOpen field test
Company Autopilot
Can a company keep running after I close the laptop? I run the test in public and publish it when it fails.
/autopilotLive
BuildWithKai
Turns a rough idea into a plan you can actually work through. Also the channel where I show the builds.
buildwithkai.comLive
VocalScribe
Records a lecture and gives you the transcript and the notes. For students who can't write and listen at the same time.
vocalscribe.xyzBuilding
Kai CMO
The marketing system I run on myself. Research, drafts, review, publishing, reporting. I don't sell it yet.
/kai-cmoBack in progress
KaiTheScribe
Transcription with an API for other agents. It sat dead for over a year. I restarted it in September 2026.
kaithescribe.com02 / The open field test
Can a company keep running after I close the laptop?
A company can look automated and still wait on one person. That person was me.
Every unusual call, broken workflow, client request and production decision climbed back up the company until it hit my laptop. I could hire more people or add more agents. I'd still be the one giving them context and checking whether the job actually finished.
So each company got its own lane. The work keeps moving, and I only get the calls that need a person. Then I set a timer and tried to stay away for eight hours.
It hasn't passed yet. I'm publishing it anyway.
03 / The book
What a missed call actually costs.
Connor Gallic
Money
Walking
Out the Door
New · 14 chapters · Free
Money Walking Out the Door
Fourteen chapters on the calls a small business misses and what they cost. What a missed call is worth, how fast you have to call back, and whether a secretary is even allowed to answer a business line.
Free. No email required. Every quote in it comes off my own recordings.
Contents
- 01What a Missed Call Costs You
- 02One Person, One Phone and a Full Day of Jobs
- 03Free Fixes Before You Buy Anything
- 04Calling Back Before They Call Someone Else
- 05After Hours, Weekends and the Busy Season
- 06When the Call Is Answered but the Order Never Changes
- 07Your Calls, Counted Every Week
- 08The Hours You Spend Doing Everything by Hand
- 09Why Automation Stalls in a Small Business
- 10Write the Steps Down Before You Automate Anything
- 11Where a Human Voice Still Wins the Job
- 12Ground Rules for AI on Your Phone Line
- 13Proof the Automation Paid for Itself
- 14What to Do This Week, in Order
04 / What I write and film
Notes from the work, including the parts that broke.
A real system, the part that failed, and what I changed after. No daily AI news. No pretend lessons from work I haven't done.
05 / Who I am
Connor Gallic
I'm Connor Gallic. I build KaiCalls, a phone secretary for small businesses.
It started with a phone call from my father. I grew up in a family of entrepreneurs who spent years saying they wished they had more time and a little more money, and the margins never left enough to hire anybody. My dad runs a tent company. He kept missing calls. One day he calls me and asks how to use those AI answering companies he kept seeing, because he wanted to test them. So I looked. They were pretty trash back then. I waited, and when they got better I started building.
Before the phone I spent my career on marketing and the systems behind it. I'm a college dropout. I got brought in to run marketing across all eighteen OpenRoad car dealerships in New Jersey. I took over the online telemedicine company my father started. I built the player-to-player marketplace for the video game Kompete. Now I run my own business mostly through systems I set up myself.
What I know about calls comes off the line itself. I've never run a tent or event rental business, and I'm not a lawyer or licensed in any trade you might work in. The rental examples come from my dad's company and one rental business I set the phones up for, told as what I saw.
Follow the build
One email when the test result changes.
Not a newsletter. I send one when something actually finished, or when something I said would work didn't.