KaiCalls / why I built it
Kai picks up when you can't.
KaiCalls is a phone secretary for small businesses. He answers the call, gets the name and the reason for it, and texts you what happened. That's it. My dad runs a tent company and kept missing calls while he was out on a lawn putting up a tent, so I built the thing that answers them.
The product lives at kaicalls.com. This page is the story behind it.
01 / The problem
You're going to miss calls. You're one person.
That's not you being bad at business. You're on a job with your hands full and the phone is in your pocket.
Most people don't leave a voicemail. They call the next guy, and the next guy, until somebody picks up. So the question isn't whether your voicemail greeting is any good. It's who's answering your phone on a Saturday.
You already know the lecture. Keep the phone on you. Turn the ringer up. Check it between jobs. Most owners already do all of that, and the calls still get missed.
Every time you miss a call, that's money walking out the door.
02 / What he does
One job, four steps.
Kai is there to pick up when you can't. He's not there to do anything else.
- 01
He picks up
The phone rings and somebody answers. The caller talks to Kai instead of reaching voicemail.
- 02
He finds out what they need
Name, what they're calling about, and whether the business can actually help them.
- 03
He texts you what happened
Who called, why, and the next step. You call back the ones that matter instead of all of them.
- 04
You can play it back
The recording, the notes and what got sent are saved, so you can check the result yourself.
03 / What the line says
The numbers, and where they come from.
These are company records, not a benchmark video. The figures I can't source, I leave out.
- 9,434
- calls Kai answered through September 1, 2026
- 657 of 690
- August 2026 calls that ran to completion
Source: KaiCalls' month-one ledger, September 2026
04 / What it costs
Every plan comes with a phone number.
You use the KaiCalls number directly, or you keep the number your customers already have and forward it. Billing is per answered call, with no per-minute overage.
Kai Backup
$10/mo
about 20 answered calls a month
Your cell rings first. Kai gets the ones you miss.
Kai Answering
$79/mo
about 150 answered calls a month
One business line, answered.
Kai Office
$349/mo
about 600 answered calls a month
Three office lines for a team that runs on the phone.
Extra AI lines $15/mo, extra office lines $29/mo. Prices read off kaicalls.com on September 17, 2026. Check the live pricing.
05 / Where it stops
If you can pick up the phone, pick it up.
Everyone loves it when a human picks up. There's no lying about that. The problem is you can't every time, and Kai is there for the times you can't. Some calls you should take yourself no matter what else could answer, and knowing which ones is most of what makes this safe to put on a phone line.
And there's a lot you can fix before you pay anybody for anything. Most of the calls you get are the same three questions. Are you open, what does it cost, can I book. That isn't phone call work. The free fixes are in the book, ahead of the part where the product comes in.