Tripo

Who else is sick of making phone calls? You need a dentist at 6pm on a Saturday, good luck. You want to compare AC repair quotes from five different companies? Get ready to be on hold for three hours. Tripo just said Nah, let's automate the entire thing.

Tripo is a free iOS app that puts an AI agent between you and every local business that won't answer their phone. Tell it you need a table for four tonight in Silver Lake, a quote on brake pads, or same-day flower delivery—and it calls up to five places at once, talks to actual human staff, compares the answers, and texts you back with the winners in minutes. No hold music. No awkward small talk. Justoptions. The AI handles the entire back-and-forth so you never have to make a call yourself.

This is basically a personal assistant that never sleeps, never gets impatient, and will call ten restaurants instead of one. The future of "support local businesses" might just be "let an AI annoy them for you until they give you a better deal."