> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://techessentials.in/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # My AI Agent Called 45 iPhone Resellers in Delhi. - URL: https://techessentials.in/my-ai-agent-called-45-iphone-resellers-in-delhi/ - Published: 2026-10-22T10:40:55.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-22T10:40:55.000Z - Author: Sanidhay Kumar - Tags: AI I needed a particular iPhone model. So I opened my AI agent, Cue, and linked a phone number to it. Then I gave it one instruction. Call all the resellers in Delhi and find out who has this model. It called 45 resellers. Two of them realised they were talking to a bot. One handed the call to a senior, saying, "It sounds like a robot." The senior answered the question anyway. Fifteen minutes later, it came back with a table of the two stores that had the phone: their location links, their phone numbers, and the name of the person who confirmed it was in stock. I got my phone. Waiting for the apple.com delivery date: fifteen days. Calling by hand: hours. The agent: fifteen minutes. ## The phone gave us access. The effort stayed with us. When the mobile phone came, the whole world fit in your pocket. Any knowledge. Any product. Any hotel, any ticket, any table. At least everything that was online. But here is the thing. Access was never the hard part. Using it was. Do they even have a website? Is the number on Google still correct? Whom do I call? How many do I call? Will they say "check karke batata hoon" and never call back? Each one is a small question mark. Together they eat your afternoon. An agent carries those question marks for you. That is why I think personal AI assistants are the next (current) big thing. ## They are arriving all at once Cue comes from Manus, an AI agent company. Each agent on it gets [its own phone number to make calls, take calls and send messages](https://www.cue.im/?ref=techessentials.in). OpenAI has [dots](https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/?ref=techessentials.in). The makers of Grok have [Grok Bot](https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/overview?ref=techessentials.in). Anthropic has just opened a preview of [Claude Duet](https://claude.com/resources/articles/claude-duet?ref=techessentials.in), which it says it built "for professionals and small business owners with more on their plates than they can track." ## From both sides of the counter Finding the right vendor is the same hunt as my iPhone. Ten suppliers, ten calls, ten answers on price and delivery. One instruction, and the answers come back to you. The same goes for home. The plumber who can come tomorrow. The hotel with three rooms free for the family function. None of these are hard. They are just many, and they all land on the same tired person at the end of the day. Now look at it from the other side of the counter. Forty-five shops got a call that day. Two made my list. They got there by picking up the phone, knowing their stock and giving a clear answer. For years, being found meant being on Google. Now it also means being clear to an agent on a phone call. Answer the phone. Know your stock. Say a number. And here is the uncomfortable half. The agent does not know you have been in this market for twenty years. It does not know the customer's father bought from your father. It heard an answer. There is a catch for the agent too. If every buyer's agent calls every reseller, one shop in Nehru Place could get hundreds of calls in a morning. I expect shops will start screening agent calls or have their own agents answer the calls. ## The price To do my errand, the agent knew what I wanted to buy and which city I was in, and it spoke for me on 45 phone calls. On Cue, an agent can also have [its own email and a wallet that pays, with permissions you set](https://www.cue.im/?ref=techessentials.in). Every call it makes reaches a real shopkeeper, whose answers now sit inside the server of a foreign AI company. We will have to talk about privacy sooner rather than later. So start with errands that need only what you would tell a shopkeeper anyway. Keep the wallet off until you trust it. I will write the longer post on this, and on why I prefer open-source agents where I can. ## This week 1. Write down every call you make this week only to find something out: a price, stock, a free slot. 2. On Friday, count them. 3. Reply and tell me the one call you would most like to hand over. I will use your answers in a future post. ## For the record - **Availability is limited.** dots: [Pro, Business Premium and Enterprise plans in eligible markets](https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/?ref=techessentials.in). Grok Bot: [paid Cursor plans, or a linked SuperGrok subscription](https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/overview?ref=techessentials.in). Claude Duet: [waitlist research preview for Pro and Max plans](https://claude.com/resources/articles/claude-duet?ref=techessentials.in). - **The Agent got one wrong.** One of the outputs it gave was wrong. Because the human on the other end gave wrong information.