PlaceCall (YC W26) Launches Agentic API That Calls Businesses and Gets Things Done
ymarkov · hn · 2026-09-24
- Two ex-Google Maps/Search engineers launched PlaceCall (YC W26), an agentic API that lets AI agents phone businesses and complete real-world tasks.
- Born from a pain point: venue hours in Google Maps are unreliable and AI assistants can't make calls. Their API called 15 Thai/sushi places in parallel and confirmed which were open.
- Give it a plain-English task and a US phone number: it navigates phone menus, waits on hold, and returns structured output with outcome, recording, and transcript; without a number, it recommends options from the task description.
- Hackathon use cases included checking doctor availability, getting car-service quotes, and running surveys; it works via Claude Code and Codex, with examples on GitHub.
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