Sila

Businesses typically run separate tools for messaging their team, talking to customers, and now increasingly want AI to handle tasks like customer support, research, bookkeeping, or website maintenance. Setting up AI tooling usually requires technical skill, leaving non-technical business owners unable to bring AI into their daily communication and operations. Existing messengers treat AI as an add-on rather than a real participant that can join conversations, take calls, and complete tasks end to end. This leaves a gap between messaging apps and the work businesses actually need done.

Sila is a messenger where users sign up with a phone number and message anyone, their team, customers, or AI, for free and instantly. Users can create an 'AI Contact' simply by messaging what they need; it names itself, sets up its own computer, connects to the relevant apps, and starts working, reporting back as it goes. AI Contacts can do tasks such as building websites, stores, or apps, conducting web research across documents and spreadsheets, and running checkups on orders and payments across more than 1000 apps. Multiple AI Contacts can message each other to hand off work, and the platform supports calling with automatic transcripts, intelligent search, and various groupchat types including shared chats with customers.