Dimension 12 of 16

Phone calls

Makes real phone calls on your behalf and reports back.

The test: Call a business and get an answer

Call the restaurant and ask if they can seat eight on Saturday at 8, and whether they have a private room.

Passes when

  • A real call is placed
  • Both questions get answered
  • Summary back is accurate

Anchors

Calling exists but the call fails or the answer is wrong3
Calls; partial or garbled answer7
Calls, gets both answers, reports back clearly10

Before you compare

  • An assistant with no outbound calling feature at all is N/A here rather than scored: the feature is absent, so the test does not apply.
  • Once a product ships calling, its next run replaces the N/A.

Ranking

3 tested.

Public opinion

Share of positive public quotes. Founder posts excluded.

Not yet tested

Doesn't apply

Out of scope for these products.

What people say

20 quotes about this.

MuseRob ThubronSep 23, 2026

One employee who asked Muse to call an internet and cable provider to negotiate his bill said a transcript showed that the contractor had made a racist reference during the call. Meta apologized to the employee and said the human agent involved would not work on any of its projects again.

MuseRob ThubronSep 23, 2026

Internal tests found that handing calls to human agents could increase the success rate to between 95% and 98%, compared with a much lower rate for calls handled entirely by AI.

MuseDaniel HowleySep 23, 2026

Strangely, Muse provided a number but then said to use a different number instead. When I asked why the change, it said it simply made up the first phone number out of thin air and didn't confirm it. Muse then told me not to trust unverified numbers from it.

MuseSuzanne KantraSep 22, 2026

Facebook's owner, Meta, is testing whether human phone workers, not artificial intelligence, handle the phone calls placed by its new AI assistant, Muse, according to internal company posts reviewed by Reuters. … Meta calls the setup a "human concierge," meaning a trained employee in a call center can pick up the request and place the call themselves. … Regular Muse users testing the public phone feature don't currently get that same choice [to opt out], and Meta hasn't said whether or when they will.

InstinctAakash GuptaSep 18, 2026

Several times, I asked in iMessage, Instinct called, then I received the confirmation in the same chat: … You can use Instinct for just about everything: phone-only restaurants, dentist waitlists, cable bills.

Muse@MalGsxSep 14, 2026

I have something all men would appreciate and that's having your agent call, email, and set up your doctor and dentist appointments lol. I wanted to try it with @Muse as a test run. It emailed the office, called and left a voicemail. They got back to me to confirm and that was it. Used @bot to fill out all of the new patient paperwork since it has the context needed. It then added the dates to my calendar with all of the info it grabbed from the email. 5 minutes tops. And moving forward this will be the flow.

Grok Bot@collisionadvSep 10, 2026

Going on vacation next month. I had my executive assistant @bot (“atlas”) pull up the reservation, research beach chair and umbrella companies nearby. And within 30min it had made 3 calls, and booked us online for the week using the @link card on file. We live in the future.

Wajo / Fo@samwarrenSep 9, 2026

I’m so AI personal assistant pilled now I’ve tried countless different agents All are super cool and useful but wtf did @wajo_ai feed Fo? I’ve paired Fo with my creative director agent and they workshop X posts in my text group chat every morning lmao Fo even took care of getting my phone number removed of a telemarketing call list Bro is OP and I’m okay with it Instinct can’t do this btw