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Free to let her answer. Founding customers keep early pricing for good.
23 general seats at $6.99 a month, locked for life — for as long as your account stays active, on this plan — with the first month free and no card at signup. 52 student seats at $4.99 with three months free, on a verified school address. The two pools are separate: a student taking a seat never uses up a general one. . Refer a friend and you each earn 250 rays the day their line goes live — four referrals is a free month. If pricing ever changes, founders get twelve months' notice.
Plans
Your own phone line, answered. From $0.
Plans for individuals
No card to start. Your free month runs without one — we ask for payment details only when it ends, and never charge without you saying so. Cancel any time from the app, in two taps; it stops at the end of the period you have already paid for, with no fee and nothing to phone anyone about.
If you are a student
Most of the founding seats are student seats, and they are kept in their own pool — a student taking one never uses up a general seat.
Your business line, and your booking website. From $39 a month.
See eight example businesses →Plans for businesses
14 days free. Prices before GST and QST. Pay yearly and get two months free. Founding offer: the portal setup ($490) is waived for the first 20 businesses, and the price is locked. Business plans don't use rays.
Custom
Something we haven't listed? Tell us what your work actually needs. We scope it, build the integration, and run it — this is the part we do by hand.
founding pricing is locked for life — for as long as your account stays active, on your plan. Tandem is priced separately when it lands, and never as a share of your savings.
The more concretely you describe the work, the more useful our first reply will be. We answer every one ourselves.
Rays
Rays are the only thing thea rewards you with, and they buy exactly one thing: months. 1,000 rays is one free month — no tiers, no points shop, nothing that expires. The count only ever goes up, and the month is applied automatically the moment you cross. Rays are for personal lines only (thea · you and thea · student); the business plans don't earn or spend them.
Both of you get 250 rays — you and them — the day their line actually goes live. Not when they sign up: when she starts answering. A referral that never switches on pays nobody.
Post about thea, send us the link, and we award rays for it by hand once we have read it. Real posts by real people — there is no bot to farm.
A guided twelve-minute session: 150 rays for finishing it, 40 a step if you stop early, +100 if your accent is one we're short of, +100 for the switch. One paid session per 90 days — a second is welcome, and unpaid. How the Lab works →
That is the whole list. If a fourth way appears it will be written here first.
The count is drawn as an eclipse because that is what the mark is. Each threshold is a real phase of a total eclipse, in the order they happen:
The logo is third contact — the moment the sun returns. The cycle repeating is not a gamification trick; it is what the mark depicts.
The Voice Lab
Speech models are trained mostly on France French and on careful, read-aloud speech. That is not how anyone here actually talks on the phone. The Voice Lab is how we close the gap — with volunteers who agreed, never with strangers on live calls.
Signed-in members only, phone proven by SMS. You opt in with a separate box that starts unchecked — accepting the terms is not agreeing to this.
A guided session of about twelve minutes, in the app over the speaker or as a real call to your own verified number. She leads; you talk normally.
Your track, her track, the transcript and the accent region you chose. Not your contacts, not your calls, nothing from the rest of your account.
Up to 350 rays — 150 for finishing, 40 a step if you stop early, +100 for a needed accent, +100 for the switch. 1,000 rays is a free month.
A refusal is remembered. Anything that is not a clear yes is treated as a no.
You do not need an account and you do not need the service. Volunteer here, we arrange a session, and you are paid in a promo code instead of rays — rays only mean something to someone with an account to spend them on.
New voices, the iPhone and Android apps, what she learns to do next. One or two emails a month, unsubscribe in one click.
thea is open. Sign up free — no card, five minutes, and she's answering your phone.
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