# Telephonist.ai

> The switchboard for every business on earth. Your Telephonist answers your calls and makes them too: it answers calls, texts and WhatsApp 24/7 on local numbers in six countries, at one site or all of them, and makes calls for you from ChatGPT, each signed with Telephonist ID. Live in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. Operated by Benaiah AI Ltd.

One offer: your Telephonist. It answers your business calls, hired On-call, Part-time or Full-time, for a monthly or annual salary; Workforce is the same Telephonist rolled out across several sites, not a separate product. It also makes calls for you from ChatGPT, and Telephonist ID signs every call it makes.

Updated: 2026-10-16. The website shows prices in the visitor's chosen currency (GBP, USD, CAD, AUD, ZAR or NZD); the figures below are GBP.

## Pages

- [Home](https://telephonist.ai/): "Every call comes with proof." Every missed call is a customer who rings someone else: book a demo, call the Telephonist on a local number, or see salaries from £29 a month. Then Telephonist ID, the missed-call calculator (per year), the voice orb to create your own Telephonist and interview it straight away or get a callback (the 10-minute demo interview is free and needs no card), where we are live, calls made for you from ChatGPT, the proofs (Proof of Human, Proof of Payment, Proof of Name), Telephonist ID for businesses, developer resources and an "Ask our Telephonist" FAQ chat.
- [Pricing](https://telephonist.ai/pricing): Telephonist salaries (On-call, Part-time and Full-time), paid monthly or annually, with checkout on Revolut.
- [Workforce](https://telephonist.ai/workforce): one Telephonist per location for franchises, retail groups and multi-site operators, on contract and priced per site.
- [Telephonist ID](https://telephonist.ai/id): how every call we make for someone is signed, how businesses check calls and choose which AI calls reach them, how callers prove once that they're human (the Telephonist ID iPhone app, in beta, or World ID), and the three trust levels.
- [How to check a Telephonist call](https://telephonist.ai/developers): in plain English, our public key (it checks signatures but cannot make them; the private key never leaves our servers), the status list (one signed list saying whether each call is valid, under review or withdrawn), call receipts, machine lookup and this summary, each with the file software uses.
- [Check a call](https://telephonist.ai/check): a business enters the reference our AI gives and the number we called to see that the call is genuine, whether a verified person backs it, and who is accountable.
- [Privacy](https://telephonist.ai/privacy)

## Telephonist salaries (GBP)

- On-call: £29 a month or £290 a year. 75 minutes a month, 1 phone number, 1 call at a time, £0.45/min overage. For solo practitioners.
- Part-time: £79 a month or £790 a year. 275 minutes a month, 3 phone numbers, up to 3 calls at once, priority support, £0.38/min overage. For growing businesses.
- Full-time: £199 a month or £1,990 a year. 1,000 minutes a month, 5 phone numbers, up to 10 calls at once, multi-location support, priority support, £0.30/min overage. For busy offices.

Every salary includes human backup for callers around the clock, every day, at no extra cost. Included minutes cover both AI and human call time. Plans also include a website SMS widget, and custom integration options are scoped during onboarding. Annual billing saves two months. The phone line starts after setup; payment alone does not activate a line.

## Workforce

For multi-site businesses: each location gets a Telephonist with its own local number, approved knowledge, opening hours, call routing and calendar, while head office sets the shared brand standard. Includes estate-wide call reporting, head-office and site-manager access, consolidated billing and a dedicated account manager. Priced per site on contract; email hello@telephonist.ai to arrange an enterprise demonstration.

## Other ways to start

- Meet the Telephonist by telephone, WhatsApp or iMessage on +44 7938 458257.
- ChatGPT, for calls made for you: add Telephonist to ChatGPT (https://benaiah.ai/chatgpt; it is listed in ChatGPT as Benaiah) and tell it which business to ring and why. You approve each call; it calls UK and US businesses and tells you how it went. Your first call is free (up to 3 minutes, within 30 days of connecting, no card); later calls are paid. ChatGPT can make calls but can't take them; to have your own calls answered, recruit your own Telephonist (https://telephonist.ai/pricing).
- Claude: Benaiah is listed in Claude's plugin directory (https://claude.ai/customize/plugins/id/213ca49c-ac8e-4f6a-86f5-584b5c45fc6c%40anthropic-plugin-directory).

## Telephonist ID (proof of human)

- Every call Telephonist makes on someone’s behalf carries a signed statement (Ed25519 JWS, keys at https://telephonist.ai/.well-known/jwks.json) and a short reference the AI gives when asked. Benaiah AI Ltd is the accountable party.
- Telephonist ID is Telephonist’s identity layer: signed calls, trust levels and the Telephonist ID iPhone app, which reads a passport’s chip and matches the live face to its photo on the phone (the face and photo never leave the phone; in beta). Callers can also verify with World ID as an alternative. One person backs one account, and a ban follows the person.
- Each call also states the caller’s assurance level (account, paying customer, verified unique person) and what they approved: when, the purpose category, the limits, and a hash of the exact brief. Receipts are SD-JWT VCs (type https://telephonist.ai/credentials/call-receipt/v1; issuer metadata https://telephonist.ai/.well-known/jwt-vc-issuer) and can be revoked through a signed IETF status list (https://telephonist.ai/status/call-receipts/1).
- Businesses and platforms can check a call by machine: POST https://telephonist.ai/api/trust/receipts/lookup with {"reference","number"}; people use https://telephonist.ai/check.
- Website account holders verify at https://telephonist.ai/verify.
- Businesses choose which AI calls placed through Telephonist reach their number at https://telephonist.ai/front-desk: anyone, Proof of Payment and above (assurance L1 and above), Proof of Human only (L2 and above), or none. People see two levels: Proof of Payment (L1) and Proof of Human (L2–L4); L0 carries neither. Proof of Human is about provenance: agents can pay, hire and call on their own, so payment alone does not prove a person; Proof of Human shows a real, unique person stands behind the agent. At L4 the person verified with a passport through the Telephonist ID app, so a call can also carry Proof of Name (the name given matches their passport). They prove the number with a one-time code; calls below the bar are refused before we dial.

## Local numbers

- United Kingdom: +44 7938 458257
- United States: +1 929 244 4009
- Canada: +1 437 494 3939
- Australia: +61 495 106 090
- South Africa: +27 87 813 3548
- New Zealand: +64 9 873 6745

## Company

Telephonist.ai is operated by Benaiah AI Ltd (https://benaiah.ai/), registered in England and Wales, company number 17403584. Registered office: 167–169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London W1W 5PF, United Kingdom. Contact: hello@telephonist.ai