For early startups
On the deck, in Stripe, on the incorporation papers, in every investor’s contacts.
One line for the business, answered from the phones the founders already carry.
No seat minimum, no onboarding call, no phone system to administer. Answer on it today.
They start answering the same afternoon, with the last few months of calls already there.
The cost
A founder’s cell cannot be transferred, split between two people, or taken back.
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phone number the company has, and it belongs to a founder
The product
At two or three people there is no switchboard, and there does not need to be one.
One number for the business, answered from the phones you already have
Adding the first hire is a permission, not a handover of a SIM
Outside hours it ends with the caller’s reason written down rather than a beep
Early sales is calls that each end with something promised: a price, a doc, an intro, a date.
Drafted from the actual conversation, not from a template
Sent in the customer’s own thread, from the number they called
The commitment comes out as a task with an owner and a date
At this stage the calls are the product research, and right now they are in one founder’s head.
One thread per customer instead of a founder’s personal message app
Voicemail transcribed, so a pattern across calls is something you can search for
The person who joins in March can read what happened in January
Your week
The line rings both founders, so the one who is not presenting takes it.
You add them to the line and they answer. No number changes, nobody updates the deck.
It reaches the company, not whichever founder happened to own that SIM.
Everyone said something slightly different about pricing, and the pattern is what you need.
Any size
The product is the same in all three. What changes is how many phones the line rings, and who is expected to pick up.
The company has a number that is not either of yours, from before it matters.
Sales and support join the same line, and every customer conversation is already there to read.
Separate numbers for sales and support, and one customer history across all of it.
The fine print
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Switching
Porting is free and the line keeps working, so the number in your deck stays.
If it is a business line, yes — porting is free and it keeps working throughout. A personal cell you want to keep using personally is the other case: leave it where it is, take a company number, and let the old one go quiet as customers learn the new one.
No. You add and remove people as the team actually changes, and everything those people handled stays with the company. There is no seat minimum to plan around and no annual commitment to guess at.
Then this has to work in the first sitting or it never gets used. Pick a number, add the people who exist today, answer on the phone you already have. Routing and hours are there when you need them and can stay untouched until then.
They get added to the line and inherit the record. Numbers can split by function later — sales here, support there — without the company’s main number changing or the earlier conversations going anywhere.
Yes. HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio and Close take them directly, and so does Google Sheets — which covers it whether your CRM is a real one or a spreadsheet with an automation on it. Anything else goes through Zapier, Make or a webhook with the fields mapped to what your system expects.
Waitlist
One line the business owns, working in an afternoon, joined rather than inherited.
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