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Odile Labs launches AI agent service for business phone interactions

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Odile Labs has launched Odile Direct, a service that enables AI agents to interact with businesses via their phone numbers. This platform allows agents to look up businesses, determine their service offerings, and then leave messages or book appointments. The system uses an agent card to define accepted actions, ensuring agents only perform tasks the business explicitly supports. Businesses can claim their phone numbers for free to receive messages via email or text, and optionally integrate calendar bookings. AI

IMPACT Enables AI agents to interact with businesses lacking traditional APIs, expanding automation possibilities.

RANK_REASON Product launch for a specific AI-powered service.

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Odile Labs launches AI agent service for business phone interactions

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Tolga Coskun ·

    How an AI agent reaches a real business by its phone number

    <p>Your agent can search the web, write code and fill forms. Ask it to leave a message for the plumber down the road and it stops: most small businesses have no API. What they all have is a phone number.</p> <p>Odile Direct makes that number addressable. An agent looks a business…

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