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What is Beside?

Discover how Beside transforms the way professionals communicate, combining AI-powered phone features and meeting intelligence across mobile and desktop.

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Written by Beside Team
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🎉 Meet Beside: Your AI-powered communication assistant

Beside is an always-on, AI-powered assistant designed for busy professionals. It's more than just a communication tool, it harnesses the full power of Artificial Intelligence to turn every conversation into action.

Whether you're on your phone or your desktop, Beside can answer your calls, reply to texts, draft emails, and capture both phone calls and online meetings (Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, and more).

Beside remembers key information, tasks, and context so you never lose track of important details. By automating the repetitive parts of communication, it gives you back time to focus on what truly matters to your business.

If you work with a team, Beside supports seamless collaboration through shared inboxes and multiple phone lines, enabling better coordination across client calls, messages, and meeting recaps.

🎥 New to Beside? Watch a quick demo

  • We've put together a short demo video that shows how Beside works and how professionals use it day to day.

  • Watch: Meet Beside (YouTube)


👥 Who is Beside for?

Beside is designed for professionals who need a smarter way to manage calls, meetings, and follow-ups:

  • Freelancers and solopreneurs managing client calls

  • Salespeople and consultants handling daily meetings

  • Busy professionals who want better context, faster follow-ups, and fewer missed details

  • Teams collaborating across shared inboxes, phone lines, and meeting notes

Whether you’re tired of spam calls, voicemail chaos, or scrambling to remember who said what, Beside is built for you.


📱 Beside on mobile (iOS & Android)

With Beside on mobile, you get a new phone number (or the option to forward or port your current one), plus powerful AI features to stay on top of calls, texts, and follow-ups.

Key features include

  • Phone features:

    • Beside U.S. or Canadian phone number

    • Unlimited calls and texts (US & Canada)

  • AI Receptionist:

    • Answers calls and texts instantly on your behalf

    • Provides multilingual support

    • Answers FAQs about your products or services

    • Collects information from callers & leads

    • Books appointments with your callers

    • Transfers calls to another number

    • Auto-drafts email replies

  • AI features:

    • Call summaries with key details & full call transcripts

    • Daily recaps with a list of action items

    • Fully searchable memory to ask your Beside assistant anything about past conversations

  • And more:

    • In-person call recorder for your live meetings

    • Support for team collaboration via shared inboxes and multiple lines (Business plan)

    • Connected integrations (ZoHo, Salesforce, HubSpot, Follow Up Boss, Zapier, and more coming soon)

🗺️ Available on:

  • iOS (U.S. & Canada)

  • Android (U.S. & Canada)


💻 Beside on Desktop (macOS)

Beside for macOS is built for meeting intelligence.

💻 What Beside for macOS offers

🔄 What is synced between platforms

  • Capture and summarize online meetings (Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, FaceTime, and Slack calls)

  • Smart talking points and reminders

  • AI-powered notes and post-meeting summaries

  • Searchable memory across past conversations

  • Calls made on mobile appear on desktop

  • Meetings recorded on Desktop appear on mobile

  • Ask Besides chat history is shared

  • Unified searchable memory across devices

🗺️ Available worldwide

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