Your own phone number, and an assistant that answers it
Lease a phone number from inside the product, forward your line to it, and an assistant answers what you miss — captures the work, texts back a caller who hung up, and queues it for you.
From your settings, search for and lease a phone number — see what it costs, read how to forward your existing line, give it back when you like. Calls to it that you do not pick up are answered by an assistant that says straight away that it is one, asks what the caller needs and where, and writes it down. A caller who hangs up first gets a text that catches what the call missed.
Everything the assistant captures lands in a triage queue: one list, in order, where a machine’s notes become a person’s decision — a job, a callback, or nothing. The assistant is an add-on with its own monthly price, and a plan change cannot switch it off underneath you. Texts sent and received are now counted, which nothing had done before.