We built AntiHold for one specific Sunday afternoon.
It was March. Someone's mom-in-law was on hold with the IRS. By the time we sat down for dinner, she was 47 minutes in. The kids ate. She didn't. By 9pm she was on the couch crying — she still hadn't reached a human.
That Sunday wasn't unusual. That's the problem.
The cold dinner. The kid who didn't get tucked in. The grown adult crying on a couch over a billing error. We watched it happen and couldn't unsee it.
That night, one of us opened a laptop and started writing. A small program. It listened to the line, told elevator music apart from a real human voice, and waited. By Tuesday morning, it worked. We tried it on a Comcast call. Eleven minutes later, a real agent said hello.
Then the math hit us. Americans spend roughly 900 million hours a year on hold. That's 100,000 lifetimes — just waiting. And it isn't an accident. Every minute you're on hold is a minute the company doesn't have to pay an agent. Hold time is a budget line. They built the wait on purpose.
So we built the way out. AntiHold waits for you. The next mom-in-law eats her dinner.
and counting
Three rules we won't break.
No mission statement. No "values" deck. Three lines we promised each other.
Your time is worth more than $3.
If we charged $30, we'd be richer. We charge $3 because nobody should pay $30 to skip a Comcast hold. The price is the price.
Calls aren't recorded. Ever.
We hang up the moment a human says hello. No audio kept. No transcripts. No training data. Your conversation is yours.
No human, no charge.
Dropped call, busy tone, weird glitch — we eat it. The $3 only hits when a real agent is on the line with you.
Three people. One ruined Sunday.
Short bios. We're not the story.
Ninety days, start to finish.
No five-year plan. No pivot. One Sunday dinner that didn't happen.
No press yet.
When there is, you'll see it here. (TechCrunch — we're available.)
We're staying small on purpose.
No $99/month plan. No enterprise tier. No upsells. Just AntiHold, on your phone, the next time someone you love is stuck on hold at 7pm.
Got a call you've been putting off?
Send it to us instead. The first one's on us. No card. No app. Nothing to install. By tonight, the thing you've been dreading is just done.
Send my first call free