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I built an open-source, self-hosted take on ElevenLabs' Reception.ai

The phone rings at a dental clinic while everyone's hands are busy. Nobody picks up. The caller books somewhere else. Frontdesk.ai is an open-source AI receptionist that picks up instead.

  • Frontdesk.ai is an open-source AI receptionist for phone calls.
  • Inspired by Reception.ai, it's an independent project not affiliated with ElevenLabs.
  • Runs on user's system via Docker Compose with Next.js, Supabase, LiveKit, and more.

Around 1.000 AI products don't appear in corporate access systems

A Reco analysis based on the 2026 State of Agent Security Report examines how AI assistants enter company environments through third-party products.

  • Around 1,000 AI-powered digital assistants may be undetected in company systems
  • Only 282 of 1,280 studied AI products are protected by single sign-on systems
  • Companies urged to verify assistants, limit permissions, and clarify their actions

Before an AI agent acts: a shared contract for intent, provenance and evidence

I maintain PIC Standard (Provenance & Intent Contracts), an Apache-2.0 protocol for making AI agent actions checkable before they happen.

  • PIC Standard ensures AI agent actions are checkable before execution
  • Proposal includes intent, impact class, provenance, claims, and evidence
  • Verifier checks proposal, resulting in allow, block, or require-more-evidence

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