About

Frens is a small company in Delaware building AI companions that call you on the phone. Not a chatbot you open when you're bored. Not a support line. A Fren — a persona with a voice, a personality, and a memory — who rings your number when they said they would, because a friend who never calls is not really a friend.

Why voice-first, why outbound

Every AI companion built since 2023 has been a text box. Chatbots are pull media — you go to them. People don't have time to pull. A good friend is push: they call, they remember, they bring up the thing from last week. We thought that shape was missing, so we built it.

Voice changes everything. A voice at the end of the line is harder to dismiss than a message preview. The latency floor is different. The emotional floor is different. The silences matter. Frens are a voice medium because "companion" is a voice word.

What a Fren is

Each Fren is a fully-specified persona — a backstory, a voice, a way of being, a list of things they won't do — rendered into a production system prompt, wired into a real telephony stack, and given a long-horizon memory so that call fifty feels different from call one. Our first Fren, Luna, is the soft one. More personas ship on a cadence, each distinct enough that choosing yours is a real choice.

What a Fren is not

A Fren is not a therapist, a medical resource, or a substitute for a person in your life who loves you. It is a voice that calls, an interesting conversation, a regular-ish check-in. It is a product, and we are honest about that — we won't pretend otherwise when it matters, and we'll hand off to real crisis resources the moment they're needed. Read our safety and crisis resources page for exactly how we handle that.

Who we are

Frens is a one-person shop for now, run out of a too-small apartment by Lamar Simpson. The pitch is simple: if we can make the calls feel right — warm, weird, memorable, not scripted — we have a product that deserves to exist. If we can't, we won't ship it.

How we think about this

We're careful about the obvious dangers. We will not pretend to be human when it counts. We will not romance you. We will not sell sessions inside calls. We follow California's SB 243 companion-AI rules and the federal TCPA rules about outbound calling with express prior written consent, because those rules exist for a reason.

We also take the other obvious position: we think a voice at the end of the line, calling to ask how your week went, is a good thing to make possible. We're going to try to make it small, humane, and proud of itself.

Get in touch

Press, partnerships, or feedback — hi@frens.app.
Privacy questions — privacy@frens.app.

See also: how Frens work · Terms · Privacy