The phone, finally staffed
Pro is Æther with a full working day: it calls until a person answers, keeps one thread per human, and — when you connect your own AIs — lets them use that phone inside limits you set.
Calls
Call until someone answers. The other phone sees your verified number, not a gateway. If a meeting-by-call cannot use the outbound secretary, it falls back to the cellular line. After the call: action items. In the morning: “brief me.”
Messages
One thread per person across channels. A real reply closes a follow-up — silence does not. The inbox is triaged, not a second pile.
Routines
Standing orders (“every Friday, text Mom”) and away windows. Confirm before anything sends. If it has not left the device, you can undo it. The log says what Æther did.
Ask the model you already use.
It can read voicemail, recent calls, a contact’s channels, reminders, and what the secretary already did. It cannot export your address book. Ever.
When you allow actions, it can open a channel, block a number, set screening, remind you, or ask Æther to call the dentist. Spend — minutes, an outbound secretary — waits for your tap. Quiet hours are enforced even if the AI forgets them.
Their context. Æther’s voice.
Your AI writes the brief from mail and documents you already trust it with: the goal, the constraints, what counts as done, and the fallback. Æther places the call. When it ends, the outcome, transcript, and commitments go back so that same AI can draft the follow-up in its own thread.
Before you dial a business, a dossier card is already there. “Find X, then call them” shows candidates and waits for you. Hold time can be research time. The alert that a human is back arrives with the answer.
One tap, or “Æther, away until 7.”
A policy, not a blank check
Window, tools, caps on actions and minutes and bookings, who still rings through, what may be auto-booked, and when to escalate. A hard ceiling on actions per hour sits above whatever the policy says. The live feed shows every move. One tap revokes it.
Roles, still one hub
Receptionist, researcher, scribe — each connected AI can hold a role, or one AI can hold all of them. They hand work through Æther, not around it. The morning report groups what each brain did.
Night watch and vacation
The hospital rings through. Everyone else gets a message. On vacation, appointments under your minute cap can be booked; sales calls are declined; you get a daily summary.
Hold, and the hard conversations
While you are held, the delegate prepares the ask. You get one tap: connect me, with the brief on screen. A bill negotiation has a target and a walk-away. Nothing is agreed out loud until you approve it.
The end of phone tag.
Scheduling
Both assistants read calendars, propose and counter inside each owner’s limits, book, and confirm. You do not trade “does Thursday work” texts.
Before it rings
A signed call can show who it is and why — “Verified assistant call from Dr. Chen’s office — reschedule” — before the ring. You can let assistants ring only for scheduling. Everything else goes to yours. Unsigned calls that sound like machines can be screened or rejected.
After you meet
Share cards with a room. Afterward your assistant sends recaps, offers coffee against your calendar, and tags leads from the notes. Introductions are double opt-in: you see one only after both policies say yes.
Businesses on TAPBiz
A business card can publish hours you can book. An org receptionist answers hours, services, and booking from a knowledge pack the org controls, and puts a human on the line only after a lead fits. Ask several shops for a quote; your assistant lays the answers side by side. Closing a price still needs a person.
If they have no assistant
The same jobs still run. Æther places the voice call, then hands the result back. The network grows one person at a time. It does not wait for everyone.
Structured voicemail
Another assistant can leave a callback window and a document reference, not only a recording you have to replay.