We built Foner because we hated our phones too.

Here's the truth: this started as a personal problem.

I'm a builder. I work on hard things — software, systems, companies. When I'm in the middle of something, I'm really in it. And then my phone rings.

It's a question an AI could answer. It's a scheduling call I'll spend 4 minutes on. It's spam. It's a basic inquiry that I should have a process for but don't. It rings when I'm in a meeting. It rings when I'm driving. It rings when I'm in surgery and made it very clear I didn't want to be bothered.

The thing about phones is that they're designed to interrupt you. That's their whole job. Every call, every text, every notification is someone or something saying “stop what you're doing and pay attention to me right now.”

Foner is the answer to that.

It's an AI assistant that takes the call, handles what it can, and only creates work for you when it genuinely needs you. It's the thing I always wanted to hand my phone to.

We built it for people like me — and people like the plumber who misses four calls a day because he's under a sink. And the consultant who's billing $300/hour but spending 40 minutes of it on rescheduling calls. And anyone who has ever watched their phone ring, known they should answer it, and let it go to voicemail anyway because they just couldn't deal with it right now.

Those people — that's who we're building for. We're one of them.

— Peter Asp, Co-Founder