Guides
Guides to working by phone
Plain answers to the questions people ask before they let an assistant near their inbox, their calendar and their CRM: what the law allows in the car, what a person costs, how to log a meeting without typing, and what an assistant you can phone should be able to do. Every figure is attributed to its source by name, and wherever a guide describes another product, the line carries the date we checked it.
Working on the road
Three guides for the hours between meetings.
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Working on the road
Hands-free work calls and the driving law
In 33 states and DC any hand-held phone use while driving is illegal, and texting is banned in every state but one. What a Bluetooth call lets you do lawfully, the distraction caveat, practical rules for working calls, and the UK's hand-held rule in its own section.
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Working on the road
How to deal with email while driving, without touching the phone
What the car's own assistant can and cannot do with your inbox today, a triage routine you can say out loud, and how a reply gets sent by voice.
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Working on the road
The morning-brief call
What a 7:30 am call should contain (the route, the meetings, anything urgent), how long it takes, and why a call you can talk back to beats a list.
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Assistants and costs
What the category is, and what the alternatives cost.
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Assistants and costs
An AI assistant you can phone: what it is, what it is not, and what to look for
A normal phone number, authorized access to your systems, and the work done on the call. What exists today, and an eight-question checklist to judge any of them by.
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Assistants and costs
What an executive assistant costs
What a US executive assistant earns, what virtual-assistant plans charge by the hour, the UK figures in their own section, and how to compare the cost of a person with the cost of a tool without fooling yourself.
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CRM and follow-up
The note that gets written the same day is the one that is worth something.
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CRM and follow-up
How to log CRM notes by voice, from the car
What a good spoken debrief contains, why the same-day note is worth more than the Friday one, and how the note gets into HubSpot, Pipedrive or Salesforce without a keyboard.
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Comparisons
Three side-by-side pages. Sources listed, claims dated, re-checked monthly.
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Comparisons
Compared with ChatGPT Voice, Gemini, Copilot and Siri
What the big assistants do in the car today, what they will not do by voice, and where a phone call differs.
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Comparisons
Compared with a virtual assistant
A person for ten hours a month or an assistant on a flat monthly seat: what each is good at, what each costs, and why it is not either-or.
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Compared with voice-to-CRM apps
An app in your hand against a phone call, and a CRM-only tool against one that also sends the follow-up and holds the calendar.
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If you would rather see the thing than read about it, the how-it-works page is one working day as phone calls: what you said, and what got done.
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