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Peloton customer service number, and the privacy line that reached a person in 22 seconds
A call4me customer's assistant called Peloton's privacy request line to stop catalogs and marketing mail. There was no menu, a member support representative answered 22 seconds in, and she offered to escalate the request. Here are both official numbers, what the call established, what it didn't, and the full recording.
OCT 16 / Nick Khami
Vitalant phone number: how to get off the Vitalant call list
A call4me customer's assistant called Vitalant's donor line to stop blood donation recruitment calls. A person took the number off the call list and said it takes 10 to 12 days to fully clear. Here is the path, what was said, and the full 7 minute recording.
OCT 16 / Nick Khami
Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch reservations: confirming three rooms and a crib by phone
A real call to the hotel checked three rooms booked for December. Staff would not search by name alone, then found all three rooms once they had a confirmation number, and added a crib note to the king room.
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
USPS phone number: how to talk to a real person at USPS
We called 1-800-ASK-USPS with general questions for this guide. Here is the voice menu that took 7 minutes to get through, the step that finally reached an agent, what the representative said about delivery times, missing mail, Hold Mail and scam texts, and the full 16 minute recording.
OCT 13 / Nick Khami
Hulu customer service number: reach a person, cancel Hulu
We called Hulu support to ask how cancelling works. Here is where Hulu lists its number, the phone menu, what a live representative said about cancelling, refunds and pausing, and the full 3 minute recording.
OCT 8 / 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
Etihad customer service: the US number and phone menu
A call4me user had their AI phone assistant call Etihad Airways in the US to chase a complaint about a business-class seat that wouldn't lie flat. Here's the number, every menu and key press, how long each step took, what the agent confirmed, and the whole recording.
OCT 1 / 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
UPS phone number: how we reached a person
Two recorded calls show what got us past the voice menu and what an agent quoted for delivery changes.
OCT 1 / Nick Khami
Experian phone number: what happens when you call
We called Experian’s freeze line 15 times in one afternoon. Here are the routes we tried and a 9 minute recording of the call that got furthest.
SEP 30 / Nick Khami
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