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Brooklyn Eye Center Williamsburg: a same day visit for a painful red eye
Three parallel calls to Williamsburg and Greenpoint eye practices on one Friday morning. Brooklyn Eye Center on Grand Street offered 10:00 or 11:30 AM, Greenpoint Eye Care offered 10:00 or 10:30, and Greenpoint Vision Care was full until Monday.
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
Lincoln Urgent Care, Lincoln CA: the self-pay price for a visit
A real call asked the front desk what an uninsured existing patient pays out of pocket for a standard visit, and what that price covers.
OCT 16 / Nick Khami
Costco eye exam cost: let your AI agent get local quotes
Let your existing AI assistant call nearby Costco optometrists and bring back a price comparison. Hear the real call that returned a $99 glasses exam quote.
OCT 6 / Nick Khami
Veterinary behavior consultation: questions your assistant can ask
A real callback gathered availability, a $600 consultation quote and attendance requirements. No appointment was booked or paid for.
OCT 6 / Nick Khami
Grok Bot vs Meta Muse: tested calling setups and results
How our Grok restaurant call and Muse library call connected, returned results and left questions unanswered.
OCT 5 / Nick Khami
How much is an eye exam without insurance? Two real quotes, recorded
Two recorded Katy calls returned routine exam quotes of $143 and $99. Compare the stated prices, see which inclusions remain unconfirmed, and ask for the total before booking.
OCT 1 / Nick Khami
Spectrum retention: what to say, and $85 cut to $55
A call4me user's Spectrum internet bill had climbed to $85 a month. Their AI phone assistant called Spectrum, said "cancel" to get routed to retention, sat through the hold, and got the user patched in. Spectrum offered $55 a month for a year. Here's the phone tree, the recording, both offers, and the free technician tip the rep gave.
OCT 1 / Nick Khami
Costco customer service number: how to talk to a real person
We called Costco's membership and warehouse line with general questions and no member number. Here is the touch-tone menu, how long it took to reach a person, what the representative said about prices, refunds, non-members and scams, where Costco's own website says something different, and the full 19 minute recording.
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
Dog teeth cleaning cost: we had an AI call three vet clinics for quotes
An AI assistant called three Houston area clinics about dental cleaning prices, included services and extra charges. Hear the calls, then have your own assistant compare clinics near you.
OCT 7 / Nick Khami
Make phone calls from T3 Code with MCP
Connect the calling tool to the provider behind your T3 thread. We checked a real Codex thread, retrieved a saved schedule, and tested the dialing workflow.
OCT 4 / Nick Khami
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