Musk: Grok Bot will be able to call businesses for you

What's new

Elon Musk wrote on X on October 25, 2026, that Grok Bot can call a person or a business. In his own words, the bot can "call someone or a business for you, make a request on your behalf, take notes on the response and send you a note summarizing the conversation." In other words, it is a kind of digital assistant that picks up the phone for you and then gives you a short note on what was said.

The feature has not yet been documented by SpaceXAI. Grok Bot's official changelog (the list of changes) ended at version 0.75.5 on October 23, and the documentation has no page on outbound calls. According to CellCog, the details on how it works come from two accounts on X, @blankspeaker and @alexmichaelio, which monitor Grok releases. They have seen the feature in prerelease builds, meaning early versions, of version 0.77. CellCog itself sells a competing assistant service, which should be taken into account.

What's smart about it

According to the two X accounts, the bot can wait on hold, press keypad buttons when an automated voice asks for it, and handle call transfers. Users are supposed to be able to follow along in a live transcript, where the conversation is written out as text while it is happening.

It is the kind of tedious errand many people would love to skip: sitting on hold with a utility, a repair shop or a clinic. According to Tesla North, the feature builds on earlier expansions of Grok Bot: voice calls in September, integration with the iPhone Action Button on October 19, and access to Calendar, Reminders and Contacts on October 22. Tesla North also links it to Musk's idea of a specialized "Hagglebot" that would make running a business more cost-efficient. That is an assessment, not a finished feature.

In August, a screenshot on X showed a headset button in Grok Bot with the text "Start a voice call." Runtime Wire interprets it as a test of voice control of the bot.

Cheaper or better?

The price of the calling feature has not been disclosed. It is also unclear which subscriptions or countries will get it, and whether it will come to Denmark and the EU. Musk's announcement does not suggest that it is open to all users yet.

The sources include no comparison with competitors. There are, however, open questions that matter to ordinary users and businesses: Does the bot tell the recipient it is an AI? Are calls recorded? Which number does the recipient see? SpaceXAI has not answered any of these.

For comparison, Grok Bot's other features in Tesla vehicles currently require the SuperGrok Heavy subscription. It is unknown whether that also applies to the calling feature. The subscription price is not given in the sources.

What it's good for

If the feature works as described, it is well suited to short errands: asking about opening hours, booking an appointment or inquiring about an order, and getting the answer as a summary afterward.

In Tesla vehicles, Grok Bot can already handle somewhat bigger tasks, such as ordering a usual coffee, booking a reservation or setting a time for an appointment. That requires the user to set up "Connectors," for example for Gmail and Google Calendar. According to Not a Tesla App, Tesla is also working on text messaging and on linking Grok with Full Self-Driving, but those are plans.

Note that third-party services such as Allo, Carly and Bland.ai, which give Grok a phone number, are not the same feature as the one Musk describes. Until SpaceXAI publishes its own documentation, the calling feature is an announcement from Musk, not a finished and tested service.