{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"START","title":"START pod: Manav Modi, CEO & Cofounder, AgentPhone “Phone numbers for AI Agents”  ","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/3cb2872c\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":755,"description":"AI agents can write code, analyze data, and pass the bar exam\nThey can't order you a pizza because they don't have a phone number\nThink about how much of the real world still runs on phone numbers\nSMS verificationDelivery coordinationAccount creationCalling a business...\nWithout one, an agent is stuck behind glass\nManav Modi & cofounder Meet Modi built AgentPhone to fix that\nGive your agent a phone number and it can suddenly act\nHe told his agent to order DoorDash\nIt created an account, talked to the delivery driver, made the payment\nPizza showed up at his door. \nY Combinator is a customer. After An engineer tried Twilio and got buried in compliance, AgentPhone had him live in a day\nEvery person will soon have hundreds, maybe thousands of agents working for them\nThe hard part isn't making them smart\nIt's giving them the tools to touch the real world ‍🎙️ Manav Modi, CEO & Co-Founder, AgentPhone on Fondo START pod‍00:57 Why AI agents need phone numbers to interact with the real world01:24 The tools that move agents closer to human-level autonomy01:50 The emerging infrastructure stack powering AI agents02:18 Why payments may become a critical layer for autonomous agents02:42 An AI agent ordering DoorDash end-to-end without human involvement03:08 What happened when 100+ developers built on AgentPhone03:26 Processing 4,000+ calls and 5,000+ messages in a single day03:43 Unexpected real-world use cases discovered during the hackathon04:24 How phone numbers unlock authentication and action05:37 The vision of every person having hundreds or thousands of agents06:16 Building identity and authentication systems for AI agents07:31 The startup pivot that led to AgentPhone and ultimately YC‍Check out agentphone.ai","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/q-E1hh7K6IS4AfZiNy2p4MYVGcUOO8lQP92h8QbOEOA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NzVj/MDEzNjkxNjU1N2Uy/NDFhMDQ3M2ZhNWI3/NWY0MS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}