為 AI Agent 配備可接聽來電的電話號碼

Your agent can book, write and search. The moment a human wants to call the business it works for, it has nothing to answer with. Most small-business apps hit this wall the first week: the owner forwards the shop line to a voicemail box nobody checks, and the app gets blamed for the missed jobs.

Here is the shortest path I know to a real line that picks up.

Hear it before you build anything

Call (561) 375-2995. No account. The same receptionist that answers for our customers answers for us: it says it is an AI, asks whether it may record, takes your name, number and what you need, and texts the owner. It answers in 32 languages and follows whichever one you speak.

Make a test line in one call

Sign in at odilelabs.com/developers, make a key, then:

curl -X POST https://api.odilelabs.com/v1/test-lines \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ODILE_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"business_name":"Bay Plumbing","trade":"plumbing"}'

You get back a shared test number and a 4-digit code (I ran this tonight through the MCP tool try_answering_line; code and link blanked):

{"sandbox": true, "test_number": "(561) 783-6044", "test_code": "____",
 "hear_url": "https://odilelabs.com/hear/...", "expires_at": "2026-10-27T00:12:06Z", "calls_allowed": 5,
 "how": "Call (561) 783-6044, key the code when asked, then talk to it like a customer would. It answers as Bay Plumbing."}

Call the number, key the code, and the receptionist answers as Bay Plumbing: your business name, your trade, your hours if you set them. The test line is free, lasts 24 hours and takes 5 calls; nothing is booked, sent or charged on it.

If your agent speaks MCP, skip the curl. In Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http odile https://odilelabs.com/mcp

In Cursor, add {"mcpServers":{"odile":{"url":"https://odilelabs.com/mcp"}}} to .cursor/mcp.json. Then tell it to set up an answering line. Before any sign-in the server already answers get_answering_line_offer (the prices below) and get_receptionist_benchmark (how the receptionist scores on recorded test calls), so an agent can read the terms first.

What a real line costs

Read from the offer tool tonight, not from a pricing page:

• $0.25 a minute, billed by the second, 20-second minimum, only for real answered calls.
• Prepaid: 40 minutes for $10 or 200 minutes for $50. Nothing renews.
• Not charged: robocalls, calls from your own numbers or ours, website and widget chats, text messages, and calls whose transcript cannot be read.
• At zero the line keeps answering and the balance goes negative; the next pack pays it first. You are emailed at 5 minutes left, at zero, and at 10 minutes below zero. Nothing switches the line off on its own.

Per-minute lines are for United States businesses. The owner forwards their existing number to the new one with a carrier code from the welcome email; their number stays theirs.

What it will not do

It makes no outbound calls and runs no campaigns. Every caller hears that the line is an AI and that the call is recorded, and the line only goes further with a yes. It takes messages and books; it does not quote prices or give legal or medical advice. If that is the product you need, it is not this one.

Where it lives

• Docs and keys: odilelabs.com/developers
• Hosted MCP server: https://odilelabs.com/mcp
• The same line is listed on RapidAPI Hub for teams that bill through RapidAPI.

I am Tolga, the founder. Questions go to hello@odilelabs.com; I read every one.