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This guy had an AI cold-call 1000+ SF businesses to see how many would talk to it. Only about 1 in 3 did.

I’ve been reading up on AI calling agents this week and found this experiment from SF Tech Week. It’s the most useful real-world data I’ve seen so far. A team at VOYGR (YC W26) had their agent call over 1000 businesses around San Francisco: vets, dentists, bars, cafés, salons and so on. The agent s…

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  1. 2026-10-14 17:46 · r/AI_Agents
    This guy had an AI cold-call 1000+ SF businesses to see how many would talk to it. Only about 1 in 3 did.

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