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A real phone number you can call from a police station after you're arrested. An AI answers every time, asks only your name and what you're charged with, then finds local defense lawyers and sends them your case.

JailCall · 2nd out of 91 teams · Call My Agent Hackathon · May 2026

JailCall

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2nd out of 91 teams · Call My Agent Hackathon · May 2026

A real phone number you can call from a police station after you're arrested. An AI answers every time, asks only your name and what you're charged with, then finds local defense lawyers and sends them your case.

Why it won: About 10 million people are booked into US jails every year, and the one phone call they are allowed usually reaches no one. In a California pilot, people who got a lawyer right after arrest spent 6 days in jail instead of 29; this makes that first call always connect. One person built it in under 12 hours at Y Combinator's office, and it remembers you: call back and it greets you by name with your lawyers' replies.

Built by Souvik Banerjee

Project page ↗Watch on YouTube ↗View the code on GitHub ↗

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