Claude can't make phone calls. Ella can.
Ask Claude to make a phone call and it can't. Add Ella as a Claude connector and it can hand her the calls: she phones the businesses from your own Ella number, and Claude tells you what each one said.
From $29 a month for 10 calls. Nothing is charged until a person approves your account.
Ella connectedClaude asks. Ella makes the phone call.
She calls each business from your own Ella number, between 8 AM and 8 PM where they are. She asks your questions, answers theirs from what you said she may share, leaves a voicemail when nobody picks up, and takes the callbacks. Claude gets the summary and transcript of every call.
Every call opens the same way, played by code, not left to the model:
Hi, this is Ella, an AI assistant calling for your name at your company. This call is recorded.”
Connect Ella to Claude in two steps
Sign up for Ella
Tell us who you are and pick a plan. A person reviews every new account; Ella calls nobody and nothing is charged until it's approved.
Add Ella to Claude
- In claude.ai or the desktop app, open Settings, then Connectors, and choose "Add custom connector".
- Name it Ella and paste the server URL below, then choose Connect.
- Sign in to your Ella account with the emailed link, then press Allow. In a chat, turn the Ella connector on.
Server URL
https://www.sethserver.com/hire-ella/mcp
No API key to paste: you sign in to your Ella account. In Claude Code, the Ella plugin does both, and the Ella skill teaches Claude to read an errand back to you before anyone is contacted. More detail, other MCP clients and the REST API: how to connect.
What Claude can do with Ella
Everything goes through your Ella account, so you can also follow every errand on your dashboard.
Start an errand
A brief and the businesses to call. Ella checks every errand before she contacts anyone.
See how it's going
Who she reached, what each said, the summary and transcript of every call.
Answer her questions
When a business asks something only you know, you answer in the chat and she calls back.
Decide between quotes
The quotes side by side with her pick and why. A decision is previewed before it's applied.
Pause, resume or cancel
An errand, or add and remove contacts on it.
Check your plan
Calls used this month and what's left.
Pricing
Monthly, per conversation: a call that reached a person or voicemail, a call to your number, or one email or text thread with one contact. No answer, busy and failed dials are free. Calls don't roll over.
- Your number, one per account: toll-free $2.00 a month or local $2.50 a month, on the same bill.
- Extra calls past your plan: $3.50 each, billed at the end of the month. You set a ceiling on them (25 to start, 0 to 1,000, or none); at the ceiling she stops starting new calls and tells you, and calls to your number are still answered.
- Texts need your number registered with the mobile carriers; any carrier or Twilio fee for it is passed on at cost.
- Change plans in your settings: upgrades right away, downgrades at renewal. Cancel any time.
Questions
More on Ella's main page.
Can Claude make phone calls?
Not by itself: Claude can't dial a business for you. Connect Ella and it can hand her the calls. She phones the businesses from your Ella number, says she's an AI assistant calling for you, and Claude reads you what each one said.
How do I connect Ella to Claude?
In claude.ai or the desktop app, open Settings, then Connectors, choose "Add custom connector", name it Ella with the URL https://www.sethserver.com/hire-ella/mcp, then sign in to your Ella account and press Allow. In Claude Code, install the Ella plugin. No API key to paste.
What can Claude do with Ella?
What your Ella account can: start an errand, add or remove contacts, see how it's going, read each call, answer the questions contacts asked, and decide between quotes. Ella checks every errand before she contacts anyone, and a decision is previewed before it's applied.
Do I need an Ella account?
Yes. Sign up, pick a plan, and sign in to that account when Claude connects. A person reviews every new account; Ella calls nobody and nothing is charged until it's approved.
Whom will she call?
Businesses, between 8 AM and 8 PM where they are, in English and in the US. People at their own phones only if each one agreed to be contacted by an AI assistant for you. She never makes sales or marketing calls to individuals.
Give Claude a phone
Sign up, connect, and ask. Ella starts calling once a person has approved your account.