Meet the Roster: Our Agents Were Already Named

AI agents are getting a registry. Ours already had one.

A new open-source project surfaced this week: a registry meant to help people verify AI agents by name before they trust one with a conversation. It's an early, small project — worth watching, not yet an industry standard. But the instinct behind it is the right one: if an AI is going to answer your phone, your chat, or your inbox, you should be able to know exactly which one, and hold it accountable.

First Signal has worked this way since we launched. Every agent on our team has a name and one job. Dash handles site chat — you can talk to him right now on this page. Callie answers the phone. Everett is our Founder Agent, working email as the first line for new business. Reed handles the rest of email. Piper covers SMS. Francis manages appointment scheduling. Reva reaches back out to leads who went cold. Morgan runs sales operations behind the scenes. None of them pretend to be a person. Every one of them says, upfront, on the first message, that they're AI — on every channel, with no exceptions, for every client. That's not a setting someone can turn off.

Why it matters more than it sounds: the businesses we work with lose leads not because customers stop caring, but because the first response is too slow. Published research puts the average business response time at around 47 hours. Reply within 5 minutes instead, and a lead is up to 100 times more likely to be reached and 21 times more likely to qualify. Speed is trust. Speed is revenue. A named, disclosed agent that answers immediately is how you get there without adding headcount.

You don't need a registry to check our agents — ask, and we'll tell you exactly who answered. Or see it yourself: talk to Dash on this site, then start 30 days free with your own phone or chat agent. It's a one-business-day install, and the 30 days count from go-live. The trial needs a card up front, charges nothing until day 31, and continues at $99/mo unless you cancel.

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