Pick a line. Twenty-one calls on the board — a final-round interviewer, a salary negotiation, a guilt-tripping relative, a murder mystery for the whole table. Each briefing tells you the mission before you dial.
The phone rings. An AI character answers — synthetic voice, live and unscripted, improvising against you in real time. Not an actor, not a recording, never the same call twice. It interrupts, goes quiet on purpose, and pushes back like the real thing.
Get judged. When you hang up, the switchboard scores the call — what you did well, where you caved or hedged, and the exact moment that decided it, quoted back to you. Win stars, build XP, and watch your OPR — your Operator Rating — move from your very first rated call (it wears a CALIBRATING tag until five calls settle it).
Solo lines train you for conversations that count. Game night lines run on speakerphone — phone flat in the middle of the table, the Operator hosts the whole room.
| The Handler campaign | FREE | The whole persistent spy game — run your network, give orders, run ops, text your agents. No card, no account, no limit. |
| 5 call credits | $4.99 | Never expire. One credit per solo call. |
| 12 call credits | $9.99 | Never expire. Game night lines cost 2 — they run the whole table. |
| Game Night Pass | $7.99 | 24 hours, up to 10 calls — plenty for a big night. One phone covers everyone at the table. |
| Operator Plus | $9.99/mo | Up to 5 calls a day, every day — the training habit. Cancel anytime. |
Payment is one tap with Google Pay or Apple Pay, handled by Stripe. Purchases attach to your Caller File — a random operator number, no email or password — so your credits follow you to any device. The Operator can also dial your real phone (US & Canada), now, scheduled up to an hour ahead, or on a standing order — arm a daily window ("weekdays, 8:10–8:40") and once a day, somewhere inside it, the line calls you unannounced. Real-phone calls cost the same credits as web calls and are capped per day to keep the lines open for everyone.
Calls are short on purpose. Solo lines run about three minutes, game night lines up to ten. Three minutes of real pressure beats twenty minutes of chat — and it's why a credit stays cheap.
Why calls cost money: every line is a real voice call — live AI voices, no scripts, no recordings — and those minutes cost us real money whether you win or lose. So we don't pretend they're free. Instead: THE HANDLER — the persistent spy campaign — is free to play, forever. Run your network, give orders, run ops beat-by-beat, text your agents, watch the world move while you're gone. When something breaks and you want the agent's actual voice on the line, that's when a credit is spent. Arming the real line (so the network can call your phone unannounced) is free — you control the hours, the daily cap, and can disarm anytime; the calls it places use credits.
Characters also escalate as you improve — the switchboard deals surprise wrinkles into most calls, so a line you've beaten stays dangerous.
No — every character is an AI with a synthetic voice, improvising live. Nothing is pre-recorded and no human is on the line. That's the point: you can push, argue, and fail with zero social consequences.
No email, no password, ever. Your progress lives in your browser. If you want it to follow you across devices — or you buy credits — the switchboard opens a Caller File: a random operator number like OP-XXXX-XXXX that you can enter on any device. Tap FILE ▸ at the top of the board.
We don't store recordings of your calls, and by default transcripts exist only long enough to run the call and score it. If you flip on TAPES in your Caller File, transcripts of your debriefed calls are saved to your file instead — yours to reread or delete anytime; turning tapes off deletes them all immediately. Your microphone streams only during a live call. Full details in the privacy policy.
If you added a backup email to your file (FILE ▸), write to operatorcalls@proton.me from that address and we'll restore your file. No backup email and no saved number means there's no way back in — that's the flip side of no accounts, so add the email.
A recurring ambush window. On any solo line's briefing, tap ARM A DAILY WINDOW, set the days and times — "weekdays, 8:10–8:40, that's my commute" — and once a day, at a random moment inside your window, that line calls your phone unannounced. One credit is spent when the call fires; no credits means no call. Every call announces itself first, and you can disarm anytime from the briefing or your FILE ▸.
Yes — US and Canada. On any line's briefing, choose CALL MY REAL PHONE, enter your number, and pick now or up to an hour out. The call opens by confirming you expected it. Only use your own number; calls placed to prank someone who didn't consent are against the rules.
Allow the microphone when your browser asks (look for the mic icon in the address bar if you missed it). Use an up-to-date Chrome or Safari. On solo calls, headphones prevent echo; on speakerphone game nights, a quiet-ish room helps the Operator hear the table.
On rated lines the judge scores six dials — silence tolerance, concession resistance, frame control, consistency, recovery, and hedging — and must quote your actual words as evidence. Your Operator Rating (OPR) moves like a chess rating from your very first rated call — it wears a CALIBRATING tag until five calls settle it. Beat lines above your level and it climbs.
Difficulty. ●○○ is a warm-up, ●●○ pushes back hard, ●●● is full heat. The ~minutes shown next to them is a typical call length.
Email operatorcalls@proton.me with your operator number (tap FILE ▸ to see it) and what happened — we'll make it right. Stripe emails your receipt at purchase.
Use the link in your Stripe receipt email, or email operatorcalls@proton.me with your operator number and we'll cancel it — no retention script, we promise.
No. The Operator is practice and entertainment — a sparring ring, not a licensed professional. The characters are fiction. If a call touches something heavy, the lines we don't cross explain how characters step out of the fiction.
The switchboard answers at operatorcalls@proton.me — support, billing, deletion requests, press, or team pilots. Or call the hotline and tell the Operator yourself: (689) 488-9041.
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