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SMS-Approved Retell Numbers are live. Your agent can now send SMS during a call without going through A2P verification. → Capture details that are error-prone over voice → Send to the caller or any other number → Receive photos, documents, and screenshots back in real time Skip the A2P approval process. Start sending SMS mid-call instantly.

☎️ Me having 47 calls waiting on the line

Our ranking, with Wing Venture Capital, is in! We worked with Wing to survey top venture capitalists about what startups they think are the most promising right now. This year, Mintlify, Serval, ElevenLabs, and Anthropic took first in their respective categories. Read the full list, as well as reasoning for which companies made it (or didn't), in Newcomer, at the link in comments.

Agent Handbooks are live on Retell AI One-click behavior presets that make any voice agent production-ready. → Professional tone and pacing → Accurate data readback and confirmation → Built-in trust and safety guardrails The prompting best practices your team keeps rewriting, now built in, one click away.

Subagent Nodes are live on Retell AI Use subagents when a step in your flow needs both conversation and tool use. → Better prompt UX: space for context, rules, etc, all in one node → Node functions built in: agent transfer, MCP tools, custom functions, SMS, and more → The node runs the conversation AND takes action, then transitions when it's done Try Subagents today with your Retell Conversation Flow Agents

Your Retell AI voice agents can now text during a call. Send an SMS. Receive a reply. See images. Keep talking. All in the same conversation. → Send links, forms, and payment URLs from your Retell Twilio number during the call → Collect structured info like email, address, order ID without the back-and-forth → Receive images mid-call so your AI agent sees and understands them in real time → Text any number, not just the caller on the line Hand it to the millennials… some things are just better over text.

Code Nodes are Live on Retell AI Run JavaScript directly inside your conversation flow. Use it for things like calculations, data formatting, simple API calls, and logic that previously required an external server. → Extract a first name from a full name returned by an API for natural greetings → Calculate a quote in realtime based on caller inputs → Track a retry counter for authentication attempts before escalating or ending the call → …and anything else you’d use JavaScript for Build agents that can do more than talk with Retell AI

We've been building the #1 AI Voice Agent platform. But voice was never the end state. Introducing Telepathy. 💭 Don't say it. Think it. Available today. No waitlist. No mic. No words. Just thoughts.

Retell AI just made the 2026 Enterprise Tech 30 list, alongside Anthropic, Stripe, Databricks, and SpaceX. Voice AI agents are quickly becoming the first way enterprises put AI to work. We're the platform behind it. Small team. $1.5M+ revenue per employee. No bloat, just impact. We're hiring across eng, PM, design, and GTM. If you want to do the best work of your career with a team that punches 20x above its weight: retellai.com/careers #ET30