Your own AI personal assistant — $20 a month

A dedicated number that answers in your name, handles the sales calls and the spam so they never reach you, and rings you with a one-line summary of who is on the line before it puts anyone through. Same voice engine as our business agents — 94% of people in a 1,000-participant double-blind study could not tell it from a human.

A dedicated number that answers in your name, screens the calls you didn't want, and rings you with a summary before it puts anyone through. Most people can't tell it isn't a person.

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$20/month after the trial. Unlimited calls, no setup fee, cancel any time.

94% couldn't tell it from a human $20/month, unlimited calls
The math nobody runs

Not answering your phone was never the free option

You still pay for it — in interruptions you took for nothing, callbacks you owe, and the ones you meant to return and didn't.

$60k–$100k

is the going rate for a full-time executive assistant in the US, before benefits and payroll tax.

128 hrs

a week that a nine-to-five assistant is not working. Your phone rings in most of them.

Every one

of the calls you didn't take is still sitting there, waiting to become something you have to do.

$20

a month, answered 24/7, unlimited calls. Screened, handled, and summarised before your phone ever rings.

Why it happens

Your phone is the one thing that gets to interrupt you

Everything else waits its turn. Email waits, messages wait, the door waits. The phone rings and demands an answer before you have any way of knowing whether it deserves one.

01

You can't tell which calls matter until you've taken them

The only way to find out whether an unknown number is a client, a courier or an extended-warranty pitch is to stop what you're doing and find out. By then the interruption has already happened, whichever it was.

02

Voicemail is a promise you make to yourself

You'll call back later. Sometimes you do. The ones you don't tend to be the ones you were quietly avoiding — which are, reliably, the ones that mattered.

03

Nobody is going to answer it for you

Hiring a person to sit on your personal line is absurd at any individual scale. So the phone stays yours, and it stays on, and it keeps winning.

In practice

What actually happens when someone calls you

This is the part worth reading properly, because it is the whole difference between an answering machine and an assistant.

  1. 1

    It lets the phone ring three times first

    That pause is deliberate. While the phone is ringing the assistant is looking the number up — so by the time it says hello it already knows whether it has spoken to this person before, and what about.

  2. 2

    It answers in your name

    “Brandon's office, how can I help?” — or whatever you want it to say. You write the greeting; it delivers the same one at 2pm and at 2am.

  3. 3

    It works out whether the call is worth your attention

    Sales calls, cold outreach and spam are handled and never reach you. For most people this alone is the majority of the value, and you never hear about any of it.

  4. 4

    If it can finish the call itself, it does

    Someone asking a question you gave it an answer to gets the answer. Someone who wants time with you gets offered a slot and gets it booked — into your calendar, with the invite and the video link sent while they're still on the line.

  5. 5

    If they want you, it calls you first and tells you who it is

    Your phone rings and the assistant tells you, out loud, who is on the line and what they want. You say put them through, or you say take a message. The same summary lands in your email either way. You never pick up blind again.

  6. 6

    If you don't answer, nobody is left hanging

    The caller goes back to the assistant, is told you aren't available, and gets a proper message taken — not a beep and forty seconds of dead air.

The point isn't that your calls get answered. It's that you stop carrying your phone like it's on fire. You're not screening, you're not checking, you're not deciding in the middle of something whether an unknown number is worth it. By the time your phone rings, that decision has already been made.

The rule that actually matters

It cannot invent things about you. That's architecture, not instruction.

Everyone asks a version of this, and it's the right question. Something is answering your phone in your name — what stops it saying something you would never say?

How the guardrail works

Most voice AI is a language model that generates an answer and is instructed to stay in bounds. Instructions can be argued with. A persistent caller can talk a generative model into committing to something on your behalf.

Futuro works the other way around. MasterMind retrieves; it doesn't generate. The assistant can only say things you gave it — and where you gave it nothing, it says so and hands the question to you. There's no opinion behind it to leak, because it was never given one.

Every call is then audited: a separate model returns pass or fail, with a written reason, on whether anything outside your instructions was said.

What that sounds like

Caller Is he free Thursday afternoon? And what does he charge for something like this?

Assistant He has Thursday open after two. I don't have pricing in front of me, so I won't guess at it — I'll flag it and he'll come back to you on this number. Shall I hold two o'clock in the meantime?

It didn't invent a number. It booked the half it could and handed you the half it couldn't.

What's running underneath

Four systems, and one hard rule about timing

It's the same stack our business clients run, at a fraction of the scope. This is the part that decides whether a voice agent gets found out inside thirty seconds.

01 — The voice

VoiceAlive

Engineered around human imperfection, not against it.

Breathing. Micro-pauses. The filler word that surfaces while someone is still deciding. The stretched syllable that signals thinking. The industry chased flawless diction — and flawless is exactly what gives AI away.

53 languages100+ accents94% indistinguishable
02 — The knowledge

MasterMind

It retrieves. It does not generate.

Every question is passed through what you gave it first, which returns the legitimate directions the conversation can go and where each answer came from. The assistant picks a path instead of guessing at one — which is why it cannot invent a price, a commitment, or an opinion you never wrote down.

Source-cited answersNo invented commitmentsYou own the script
03 — The recall

The Memory System

It recognises a returning caller in three rings — and remembers itself.

Every caller has a record, and the last ten conversations with them come forward into the next one, so nobody repeats themselves to your phone. It works on you too: after every call a separate model scores the assistant's own performance, and that scoring feeds back into how it handles the next one.

Caller ID in 3–4 ringsLast 10 conversationsSelf-scoring
04 — The tone

The Tone Engine

Tone is assigned, then enforced.

Someone calling because something has gone wrong does not get the same register as someone calling to sell you solar panels. The assistant matches what the moment calls for, and every call is graded pass or fail on whether it held the tone you picked — warm, brisk, formal, or exactly as clipped as you'd be yourself.

Per-call tone gradingReads the roomYour register, not ours
05 — The timing

Sub-500ms, audited every call

Perceived latency is what breaks the illusion — not raw speed.

Our pipeline overlaps its stages instead of running them in sequence, and every call is audited against a hard threshold: did the assistant ever take longer than 500 milliseconds to begin responding? The one permitted exception is when it's genuinely doing something — checking your calendar, sending an email — and in those moments you hear keyboard sounds, because that's what you'd hear from a person.

<500ms to first wordOverlapped pipelineAudited per call
Beyond the phone

You can also just give it work

The phone is the job it was built for. These are the four things people end up using more than they expected to.

The email channel

Send it work the way you'd send a person work

The assistant gets its own email address. Forward it something, ask it to deal with something, and it goes into exactly the same memory as the phone calls — tagged by where it arrived from — then it replies when it's done. Ask it on Monday's call and follow up by email on Tuesday and it is one continuous thread to the assistant.

$10/month add-onShared memoryReplies when done
The memory, in your hands

Read it, edit it, delete it, export it

You get the same interface our business clients use, and the memory is genuinely yours rather than a black box. Write something in and it takes effect on the next call. Pull up recent entries with timestamps and full contents. Remove anything it learned that you'd rather it forgot. Export the lot if you want a copy.

Store & retrieveEdit or deleteFull export
Scheduling

It books the thing while the caller is still on the line

Meetings go straight into your calendar with the Zoom or Meet link generated and the invite sent, in the same call that arranged them. It works around what's already in there rather than double-booking you, and it confirms the detail back to the caller before it hangs up.

Calendar-awareInvites sentVideo links generated
After the call

You read the record, not our word for it

Every call is transcribed, summarised to five key points, scored for how the caller felt at the start and at the end, and graded on the assistant's own conduct — did it stay under 500ms, did it hold the tone, did it say anything outside your instructions. Anything you've marked as urgent arrives as an email the moment the call ends, which is short enough to read on a watch face.

Full transcript & audioSentiment scoringUrgent alerts by email

Outbound calling is not in the $20 tier. The assistant answers your calls; it does not yet place them on your behalf. That capability exists and is being priced separately — we'd rather tell you here than at checkout. The email channel above is a $10/month add-on for the same reason: it is real work happening off your line.

Pricing

What it costs

$20 per month, flat
  • Unlimited calls
  • Your own number
  • No per-minute charge
  • No setup fee
  • 14-day free trial
  • Cancel any time

Card required to start the trial — that's how the price stays at $20 rather than pricing in abuse. The email channel is $10/month on top; outbound calling isn't included at this tier. For comparison: the assistant costs about what one hour of a temp receptionist's time costs, per month.

94% could not tell

The one claim on this page that isn't ours to make

In a 1,000-participant double-blind study, 94% said there was no chance they'd been speaking with AI. Participants believed they were rating a customer-service experience rather than testing AI, which removed expectation bias. Of the 6% who suspected, most cited the agent being unusually helpful — not anything they heard in the voice.

The people who call your phone are no easier to fool than the people in that study. Read the full methodology and results →

Setup

Answering your phone by this evening

There's no implementation project and no onboarding call. Your own line keeps ringing first, every time — the assistant only ever gets the calls you didn't pick up.

Step 1 — 10 minutes

A short form

Who you are, what you do, how you want it to answer, who should always get straight through, and anything you want it to be able to answer on your behalf.

Step 2 — same day

We build it

Voice and personality selected, memory loaded, and a number assigned to it. You get the login to the same interface our business clients use.

Step 3 — two minutes

You flip one setting

Turn on conditional call forwarding on your mobile so unanswered calls route to it. It's a two-minute change in your phone settings, and it's reversible in the same two minutes.

Stated plainly

What this is not

It is scoped deliberately. This handles your calls, your calendar and the errands that come out of them. At $20 a month it does a narrow job properly rather than a wide one badly, and we'd rather sell you that than the other thing.

It will not replace a human assistant on complex work. It is very good at screening, scheduling, messages and follow-through. It is not managing your inbox strategy, your priorities or your relationships, and it will not read a room it wasn't in.

It only answers what you forward to it. If you answer your phone to everyone anyway, there is nothing here for you to buy.

People generally cannot tell it's AI. Whether you disclose that is your call — and in some professions and some jurisdictions it is not optional. That decision is yours, not ours, and we're not going to make it feel like it isn't.

Fourteen days is enough to know

If it hasn't earned its keep inside a fortnight, it never will — and you'll have found that out for nothing.

$20/month after. Unlimited calls. No setup fee. Cancel any time.

Questions people ask before they buy

Including the two we'd rather answer here than after you've paid.

The Futuro Personal Assistant is a dedicated phone number and AI assistant for one person rather than a business. It answers in your name, works out who is calling and why, filters sales and spam calls, answers the questions you gave it answers to, books meetings straight into your calendar, and rings you with a one-line summary of who is on the line before it puts anyone through. It costs $20 per month after a 14-day free trial, with unlimited calls and no setup fee, and it runs on the same VoiceAlive engine as Futuro's business agents.

No. This tier exists specifically because Futuro's other products assume you are running something. This one assumes only that you have a phone and get calls you would rather not take.

Usually not. The voice engine is the same one used by Futuro's business agents, which 94% of participants in a 1,000-person double-blind study could not distinguish from a human. Whether you disclose it is your decision, and in some professions and jurisdictions it is not optional.

You are charged $20 per month. You enter a card at the start, which is how the price stays at $20. Cancel any time during the trial and you are not charged.

No. Only calls it judges worth your time reach you at all, and the ones that do arrive as a short summary rather than a blind ring: who is calling and what they want. You say connect them or say take a message. Sales and spam calls are handled and never surface.

Yes. You give it a list of contacts and numbers and it treats them differently from unknown callers, including putting specific people straight through. It also remembers callers it has spoken to before and carries the last ten conversations with them into the next one.

53 at production standard, drawn from 71 the engine speaks. It detects the language a caller is speaking and answers in it, without being told to switch.

Not in the $20 tier. Outbound calling is being priced separately and is not included today. What is included is everything that happens on an inbound call, plus scheduling and messages. We would rather say that here than have you find out after you have paid.

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