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Chase Sapphire Reserve benefits phone number: what an assistant can and can't get
A call4me customer's assistant called Chase Sapphire Reserve Card Benefit Services to check on a trip delay claim. It reached a person 3 minutes 12 seconds in, and learned the line won't discuss a claim without the primary cardholder. Here's the phone tree, what the representative said, and the full recording.
OCT 16 / Nick Khami
Justworks customer service: the number, the menu, and what benefits support said 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
Sabates Eye Center Leawood: booking a kids eye exam with TRICARE
Four recorded calls show what it took: the scheduling menu, a referral that has to name the doctor, the self-pay price without one, and the January appointment that finally got booked.
OCT 16 / Nick Khami
Moxy St. Petersburg Downtown: asking for connecting rooms
A real call asked the Moxy St. Pete front desk to make two booked queen rooms connecting. Staff said the hotel doesn't offer connecting rooms, and agreed to keep the two rooms close.
OCT 16 / Nick Khami
How to make phone calls from the Claude Agent SDK with MCP
We built a small agent with Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK, connected call4me as a remote MCP server, and had it call the Social Security Administration. Here are the query() options that keep the key in an environment variable, the permission settings a headless agent needs, the turn budget for a long hold, and what the call actually got.
OCT 16 / Nick Khami
Social Security phone number: how to talk to a real person at SSA
We called the Social Security Administration's national 800 number with general questions for this guide. The menu asked for a Social Security number; we didn't give one and still got an agent. Here is the menu, the 20 minute hold estimate, what the representative said, and the full 22 minute recording.
OCT 13 / Nick Khami
Walmart customer service number: get past the AI agent to a person
We called 1-800-WALMART with general questions for this guide. An AI agent answers first; asking twice for a representative got us a live person. Here's what the rep and the AI each said about hours and refunds, and the full 6 minute recording.
OCT 13 / Nick Khami
How long it takes to reach a human at 59 companies (we recorded every call)
We went back through 100 customer service calls we've published to 59 companies, and timed how long each one took to reach a live person. Here is what got through, what didn't, where AI assistants and account number prompts stopped us, and the full dataset as a CSV.
OCT 8 / Nick Khami
Phone calling MCP servers for Claude Code and Codex: which setup fits your agent?
Compare call4me, Vapi Agent Phone, Bland, ClawCall, Cocall, and Patter by account setup, calling workflow, and the evidence your agent gets back.
OCT 3 / Nick Khami
How to find a new primary care doctor with an out-of-state plan (15 recorded calls)
A call4me user in Baltimore needed a new primary care doctor and had an out-of-state Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO. Their AI phone assistant called 10 practices. Here's who was taking new patients, who took the plan, how far out the first opening was, a $2,121 surprise, and all 15 recordings.
OCT 1 / Nick Khami
United Airlines customer service: how to reach a person, and the change flight rules
We called United reservations to ask how changing a flight works and what it costs. Here is the phone tree, the three words that got us to a person, what the agent said about Economy, Basic Economy and same-day changes, where united.com says something different, and the recording.
OCT 1 / Nick Khami
UnitedHealthcare phone number: which one to call
Most people searching for a UnitedHealthcare phone number are members, and for members the right number is on the ID card. Here are UnitedHealthcare's other numbers by plan type, all from uhc.com, and a recorded call to the individual and family line, where pressing 1 got a licensed agent on the line about 25 seconds later.
OCT 1 / Nick Khami
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