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We called Capital One's general customer service number with questions for this guide. Two spoken answers got us to a live representative 1 minute 22 seconds in. Here's the phone tree, what the representative said about hours, callbacks and disputes, and the full 6 minute recording.

We called The Home Depot twice with general questions for this guide. 1-800-HOME-DEPOT left us on hold until a survey picked up. The online orders line reached a live representative in 1 minute 34 seconds. Here are both recordings, the menus, and what the representative said, checked against homedepot.com.

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.

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.

We added call4me to Goose as a remote MCP extension, ran it headless with goose run, and had it call Amazon customer service. Here is the config.yaml that keeps the API key out of the file, the permission mode headless runs need, and what the call actually got.

We called Southwest's general questions line, 1-800-I-FLY-SWA, for this guide. Saying \"representative\" put us on hold, and a live reservations agent answered 4 minutes 10 seconds in. She wouldn't take general questions. Here is the route, the full recording, and where Southwest answers them in writing.

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.

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.

We called Hertz three times. On the past rentals line, a virtual assistant named Haley answers first. One call reached a live representative after six requests. One call ended when Haley hung up on us. Here are all three recordings, the exact prompts, and what the person told us.

We went back through every customer service call we've published, 68 calls to 42 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.

We called USAA's main number to ask who can join and what it takes. Here is the phone tree, the one word that got us through it, what the eligibility team said, and the full 8 minute recording.