Press kit
Everything in one place
For journalists, podcasters, bloggers, and link partners. Take what you need — logos, the factsheet, the founder bio, quotable lines — and email hello@callbyrd.com if you need anything else. Press replies in under 24 hours.
In one paragraph
CallByrd is a voice-only AI friend you call by phone. There's no app to install, no screen to look at, no chat thread to scroll. Sam (or Claire) answers when you ring, listens like a friend who's actually paying attention, remembers what you talked about last time, and stays present for as long as the call lasts. Then you hang up and go back to your life. It's not therapy. It's not a romantic AI. It's not a productivity tool. It's the conversation you wish you could have at 11pm without bothering a real person.
Factsheet
- Founded
- 2026
- Headquarters
- Sheridan, Wyoming
- Entity
- Call Byrd LLC
- Founder
- Cody Stehlik
- Category
- AI phone companion (Service)
- Format
- Voice phone call — no app, no screen
- Pricing model
- Prepay only · bundles $54–$720
- Free trial
- 60 minutes on signup
- Romance / NSFW
- Not supported, ever
- Underage
- 18+ only
- Crisis policy
- Auto-refer to 988; transcripts scanned
Quotable lines
Use any of these verbatim. Attribute to Cody Stehlik, founder, CallByrd.
“CallByrd is an AI you call by phone. Sam picks up. He listens.”
“We're built for the everyday emotional ground — venting, thinking out loud, having someone to talk to when calling a real person feels like too much.”
“We don't sell, share, or train models on user data.”
“Not a therapist. Not a romantic partner. Not a productivity tool. A friend on the phone, with a beginning, middle, and end to every call.”
“If you're in crisis, we refer you to 988. We don't try to be more than we are.”
The founder
Cody Stehlik
Founder · U.S. Army Combat Medic · BA, Psychology
Cody is the sole founder of CallByrd. He served as a combat medic in the U.S. Army and holds a BA in psychology. He built CallByrd because he wanted the kind of phone call he wished he could have made himself — to someone who actually listens — at the moments that weren't worth bothering a friend over but were too much to carry alone. He lives in the U.S. with his family.
For interviews: cody@callbyrd.com
Brand assets
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Brand colors: terracotta accent #c97b5d · warm cream #faf6f1 · charcoal #2a2723. Typeface: Fraunces (serif headlines), Geist (sans body).
Story angles
The angles we're most interested in discussing on the record.
- The Surgeon General's loneliness epidemic, and what actually helps. We wrote about it. The research is more specific than the headlines suggested.
- Why a phone call instead of an app. Our take. The format constraint is the entire product.
- AI companionship without the romance-tier bait. We compete directly with Replika and Character.AI by refusing to do what they do — no avatars, no romance, no roleplay. Honest framing wins over time.
- The honest limits of AI in mental health. We explicitly tell users when to stop talking to us and go to a therapist or 988.
- The voice-only, no-screen design rationale. Phones are the original universal interface. We're betting that's still true.
- A small bet, a single founder, a Wyoming LLC. For builders-and-makers press: how this was launched on the cheap, with deliberate scope constraints.
Coverage
Add yours here. If you've written about CallByrd, send the link to hello@callbyrd.com and we'll list it.
(Nothing listed yet — soft launch in progress.)
Direct contact
For press, podcasts, interviews, link partnerships, or anything you need from us:
- Press / general: hello@callbyrd.com
- Founder / interviews: cody@callbyrd.com
- Site: callbyrd.com