It started as a phone number on my desk.
CallMyDesk is built in London by DT Global Ventures Ltd, a small venture studio, for people who work on the road in the US. This page is who is behind it, why it is a phone call rather than an app, and what it will and will not do.
Why it is a phone call
I run a small venture studio in London. We build and run a handful of online businesses, which means my week is a mix of writing, reviewing, deciding and, more than I would like, driving and walking between things. The screen work was fine. The hours away from the screen were dead, and the inbox did not care.
So I gave my coding assistant a phone number. A number from a telephony provider, a small computer on a shelf in my office (a Raspberry Pi), and enough code to let me call it from the car, hear what it had done since I left and tell it what to do next. There was a PIN, because a phone line is a door, and that was about it.
That line turned out to be the whole product. Within a few weeks I wanted the same line for everything else I handle on the phone: what came in while I was in that meeting, reply to the accountant and say yes, move the three o'clock to four, chase the invoice politely, remind me what I promised people this week. The assistants on my phone could tell me things. None of them would send anything on my say-so without my taking my eyes off the road to tap a button. Where I live that is the one thing you are not allowed to do at the wheel, and in 33 US states it is the same.
- “Reply to the accountant: yes, approve, and ask for the final figure by Friday.”
- “To Mark Ellis at Ellis and Co: approved, and could he send the final figure by Friday. Shall I send it?”
- “Go ahead.”
- “Sent.”
CallMyDesk is that line, rebuilt as a product for other people, and built first for the people who spend the most time on the road: the territory rep between accounts, the owner on the way to a job, the advisor driving between client meetings. A number of your own, protected by a PIN. Your inbox and calendar on Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, your CRM if you have one, and the web. Replies in about a second. It sends the email, books the meeting and logs the note in the CRM while you are still on the call, and keeps a log of every action, with the words that asked for it. US-hosted, with every company that handles your data named on a published list.
It is early. I am setting people up a few at a time, in the order they joined, and building the integrations in the order people ask for them. If you want to hear it before you decide anything, see the demo. The demo line opens with early access, and it is the same system with a sample inbox. Ask it what came in this morning and have it draft a reply. That moment is the product.
Daniil, founder of CallMyDesk. London.
Three things it is built on
Not a manifesto. Three decisions that every part of the product has to agree with.
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The phone is the one device everyone already has.
Every assistant worth having lives behind a screen, an app and a login. A phone number needs none of those. It works from a ten-year-old cell phone, the car's Bluetooth, a hotel room, the office line, and it works for the owner who has never installed an app and never will. Set-up happens once, in a browser. After that it is a phone call.
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It does the work, not just the talking.
The assistants on your phone can tell you things and then stop at the screen. CallMyDesk is connected to your inbox, calendar and CRM, so on the call it sends the reply, moves the meeting and logs the note, and you get a text summary afterward. Every action is written to your audit log, and you can revoke access in one click. How a call goes.
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Honest about limits.
It is a one-to-one call between you and your assistant. It never joins or records your meetings, and it never calls your prospects. It is not a person, and it says it's an AI on every call it makes on your behalf. The only calls it makes to you are the ones you scheduled, like the morning brief, and "stop" ends them. It does not know your voice; access is by PIN, with a one-time code for anything risky. Where a promise has a limit, the limit is written next to the promise, on this site and in the product.
Who is building it
One person, for now. There is no team page because there is no team yet, and we would rather say so than invent one.
CallMyDesk is in early access. That means the person who built it is the person who sets up your seat, reads your messages and takes your call when something is wrong. It also means the product is still being shaped by the people using it: integrations are built in the order they are asked for, and the first few hundred callers will decide what the morning brief sounds like.
What you can count on during early access:
- A reply from the founder within one business day when you send us a message.
- Seats set up in small groups, in the order people joined, with founding seats first.
- A two-week free trial when your seat opens, an email before anything is charged, and the $49 founding-seat deposit refunded in full at any time before your first invoice, no reason needed.
Where it is made
Built in London, for people who work on the road in the United States. The founder is in London; the service is not.
US-hosted. The service and your data run in the United States with the named companies on our published sub-processor list, and our data processing agreement is published too, so you can see exactly who handles what. UK customers get a UK GDPR annex.
Your data is never used to train models, ours or anyone's. Call audio is deleted after 30 days and transcripts after 90, or sooner if you ask. The security page lists the practices in detail, what each connector reads and writes, and the sub-processors we use.
DT Global Ventures Ltd · Company registration (CRN) 16042336 · VAT GB480044905 · Registered office: 3rd Floor, 86-90 Paul Street, London, England, EC2A 4NE. Contact: send us a message
DT Global Ventures Ltd is a venture studio: it builds and operates a small number of online businesses, of which CallMyDesk is one. It sells to US customers as a UK company, which is why the block above shows a UK registration; US customers pay in US dollars and see sales tax, where their state charges it, at checkout. The registered office is a registered office, not a place to visit; please send us a message.
Get in touch
Questions about the product, pricing for a team, data protection or press: send us a message and a person replies within one business day. Security reports and privacy requests, under your state's privacy law or under UK GDPR, go through the same form: choose "Security or data protection".
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