call4me blog
notes on AI agents that make phone calls for you.
Superintelligence Calling Index: compare personal superintelligence phone calling tools, hear the evidence and download the dataset.
get new posts by email
124 posts matching "account number". clear
Get your Piedmont Natural Gas account number by phone for online login
A call4me customer's assistant called Piedmont Natural Gas to recover an account number for online registration. A representative answered 2 minutes 6 seconds in, the account holder joined, and a team lead read the number out after one more security question. The phone tree, what they asked for, and the full 15 minute recording.
OCT 16 / Nick Khami
Justworks customer service: how admins reach benefits support about COBRA
A call4me customer's assistant called Justworks benefits support with COBRA questions for a company that is closing its account. Press 2, then 1, and a person answered 1 minute 3 seconds in. Without the account admin on the line to read a verification code, the representative gave general answers only. Here they are, with the full 17 minute recording.
OCT 16 / Nick Khami
MetLife Pet Insurance phone number: how to change your email or address
A call4me customer's assistant called MetLife Pet Insurance to get back into a locked out online account and move a policy to a new address. Press 4, wait about 80 seconds, and a person answers. Here is the phone tree, what customer service and a licensed agent changed, the new premium, and the full 14 minute recording.
OCT 16 / Nick Khami
Bank of America customer service: how to reach a person without an account number
We called Bank of America's main number without a card or account number to see if a person would pick up. Here is the phone tree, the phrase that got us through, what the representative told us, and the full 5 minute recording.
OCT 16 / Nick Khami
Wells Fargo customer service: how to reach a person without an account number
We called Wells Fargo's general banking line without a card or account number to see if a person would pick up. Here is the phone tree, the words that got us through, what the representative told us, and the full 5 minute recording.
OCT 16 / Nick Khami
Amazon customer service number: get past the AI to a person
We called Amazon's customer service line with general questions and no account. Here is how we got past the AI assistant's verification texts to a live person, what she said about callbacks and refunds, and the full 7 minute recording.
OCT 13 / Nick Khami
Xfinity customer service number: how to reach a real person
We called 1-800-XFINITY with general questions and no account issue. Here is the exact menu route that got us to a live billing representative in 3 minutes 27 seconds, what the rep said about hours and callbacks, and the full 5 minute recording.
OCT 13 / Nick Khami
T-Mobile customer service number: how to reach a real person
We called T-Mobile customer service with general questions and no account. Here is the exact menu route that got us to a live representative in 1 minute 49 seconds with no hold music, what the rep said about hours and billing credits, and the full 3 minute recording. Plus three recorded T-Mobile Home Internet calls by a call4me customer's assistant: the no-PIN router code check that fixed a login.
OCT 13 / Nick Khami
Venmo customer service number: the path to a person
We called Venmo twice. The first call got stuck at a prompt for the phone number on your Venmo account. The second took the dispute branch, said yes to the calling number check, and reached a live representative 4 minutes 57 seconds in. Here are both recordings, every key we pressed, and what the representative told us.
OCT 9 / Nick Khami
Fifth Third Bank customer service: how to reach a person
We called Fifth Third's customer service line without an account number. Here is what the phone menu asked for, how we got to a live representative anyway, what they told us about fees and verification, and the full 4 minute recording.
OCT 8 / Nick Khami
DIRECTV customer service: how to reach a live person
We called DIRECTV customer service twice. The first time its AI agent answered and we never got past it. The second time we said "cancel service", said we had no account number, chose satellite, and a live representative picked up. The route, what each said, and both recordings.
OCT 8 / Nick Khami
How to reach a person at Windstream customer service (now Kinetic)
Windstream is now Kinetic. We called three times. Two calls stopped at an account number prompt. The third, on the sales line with option 1, reached a live rep in under a minute. Here are all three recordings, the menus, and what the rep said.
OCT 8 / Nick Khami
recommendations
- Anthropic engineering - how Claude Code and agent tools are built, from the people building them.
- Simon Willison's weblog - daily, careful notes on what LLM tooling actually does.
- Latent Space - the AI engineer newsletter and podcast.
- The Cloudflare blog - agent readiness, MCP, and the plumbing of the agentic web.
- Stripe blog - machine payments and how agents pay for things.
get new posts by email
no tracking, no spam; one email per post, unsubscribe in one click. or use the RSS feed. posts marked paid need a supporter subscription (monthly, cancel any time).