Brody Networks

AI that runs your small business. The phone answered, the inbox handled, the follow ups done, and a human approving what matters. Raleigh, NC.

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Brody Networks builds AI that answers phones and runs back-office work for small businesses, plus network automation for people who run real networks.
Running software you can poke at yourself, not a mockup.
Call [phone]. The thing that answers is the product.

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Full episode (with chapters): https://t.co/iUQGF5Ovxi
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In 1918 over seven thousand women applied to run Army switchboards at the front. A few hundred made the cut, and they never lost the line. The math is in the video, then meet Riley, the AI that answers your phone any hour you need her.

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Full episode (with chapters): https://t.co/qH8Wu2AAKX
Site: https://t.co/PtakTJS86U

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The Pony Express crossed the country in about ten days, then the wire beat it, and two days later the Pony Express was done. Whoever answers first still gets the job. The math is in the video, then meet Riley, the AI that picks up on the first ring.

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Full episode (1 min 49 s, with chapters): https://t.co/zhBc9LPSqG
Site: https://t.co/PtakTJS86U

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In 1949 Wisconsin, Joseph Zimmerman and George Danner built an answering machine people could actually buy. People hated it then. People still hang up on one now. The math is in the video, then meet Riley, the AI that actually talks back.

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Full episode (1 min 54 s, with chapters): https://t.co/dUGflwwLKA
Site: https://t.co/PtakTJRAhm

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Rural party lines put twenty houses on one wire. If a neighbor was talking, your line was busy too, no matter how urgent your call was. Your voicemail does the same thing to you today. The math is in the video, then meet Riley, the AI that answers your phone.

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Two in the morning, someone texts the demo line. It still answers in seconds: a real greeting, reply TALK any time to reach a person. They reply TALK. Brody asks for the best number, and what to tell Brad.

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Standing in the customer's kitchen, building the quote right there, on the spot. Tap the parts and labor from your own catalog, prices you set, never a guess. Markup on materials, labor by the hour, tax on top, all totalled right on the screen.

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Quick question before booking: are you open Sundays? We're closed Sunday and Monday, open Tuesday through Saturday, nine to six Eastern. One more: do you do balayage? We don't, sorry, but we offer haircut, color, beard trim, and blowout.

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A caller asks for Brad by name. Riley can't put the call through, but offers to take a message and get it to him today. No mailbox to check later, no tape to dial into. One text goes out to the owner instead.

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Two in the morning. This caller is not calling about an appointment. There's water coming up through the floor. Riley gets the name and the best callback number, then reaches our on call person right then, not with the morning flush.

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Both hands full on a job, and the phone rings anyway. Thanks for calling Brody Demo Salon, this is Riley. A caller wants a color this week. Riley checks the calendar on the call, Thursday has ten, eleven thirty, or one. Eleven thirty works. Booked.

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Full episode (2 min 47 s, with chapters): https://t.co/nIh9owcqlW
Site: https://t.co/PtakTJRAhm

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1888: an undertaker kept losing funerals because the switchboard operator was married to his rival. So he invented the dial phone. Your voicemail is that operator today. The math is in the video, then meet Riley, the AI that answers your phone. Full episode below.

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Your vendor says the box has AI in it, so ask three questions. The word covers everything from a threshold somebody tuned to a model making calls on its own, all under one sticker, and most of the data sheets never say which.

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Ask your network a question in plain English. Which switch is that printer plugged into costs somebody twenty minutes and a ladder, and the answer is not missing: the switch keeps a table of what it has heard on each port, although it forgets after a few minutes.

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Four hundred alerts a day and nobody reads any of them. There is a rule filing all of them into a folder nobody opens, which means you do not have monitoring, you have a bill and a folder.

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The first question in an outage is what changed, and most offices cannot answer it. Nobody wrote it down, the person who did it is off today, and the answer you get is that nothing changed.