How to stop taking calls with the wrong people.

You build a link once. When someone clicks it, they have a real conversation in your voice. When it ends, a brief lands in your dashboard: who they are, how they fit, and what to say next. Here is exactly how that works, in four steps.

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Step one

Create your link. Your way.

Start from a pre-built template designed for your use case, or have a conversation with Thayne's link creation AI. Tell it what you do, who you are talking to, and what you want to know. It builds your configuration from that conversation. Either path has you live in under ten minutes.

Start from a template

Pick a template built for your use case: recruiter intake, consultant qualification, coaching discovery, and more. Each arrives pre-configured with sensible probe questions, fit tiers, and an opening message. Edit what you want, delete what you don't, go live.

Or design from scratch with AI

Have a conversation with the link creation assistant. Tell it what you do, what a good prospect looks like, and what you would want to know. It builds the whole configuration from that conversation. You review, tweak, and publish.

30 templates in the library

Every template is built around a real use case, from filtering inbound enquiries to replacing a discovery call to screening applicants. Pick one, make it yours, go live.

Test it before anyone sees it

Every link has a built-in test tab. Run as many conversations as you want before sharing it. You will know exactly how it behaves, because you built it. Nothing goes live until you are comfortable.

Where your link lives

Your link is just a URL, so share it anywhere someone might reach out: your LinkedIn bio, your email signature, a cold message, your website. Wherever someone reaches out, your link can be there first.

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Have a conversation with AI about your context. It asks the right questions, then builds and deploys your link.
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Turn every inbound enquiry into a qualified lead
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Filter serious project enquiries from tyre-kickers
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Qualify before the calendar link gets clicked
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Step two

Configure it. Make it yours.

The link editor is where you write exactly what your link says and does: the opening message, the probe questions, the fit tiers, how it closes. Every field is yours to write. On Pro, an AI assistant sits alongside you, reviewing your configuration and suggesting improvements as you build.

James, Hiring intake link
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Opening message
The exact first thing your AI says, word for word, every time.
Opening message
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Hey, I'm James's intake assistant. James works with founders and scale-up leaders who want to fix their hiring process. Tell me what's going on with your hiring right now, and I'll work out whether James is the right person to help and how he'd approach it.

The opening message

Written by you, word for word. The first thing anyone sees when they click. Your voice, from the very first line.

Probe questions

The exact things you would want to know before deciding if someone is worth your time. Asked naturally, followed up on, every time. The questions you always forget to ask, asked for you.

Fit tiers

Your labels, your criteria. Every conversation gets placed, so you open the dashboard and know instantly what you are looking at. No interpretation required.

AI assistant in the editor (Pro)

On Pro, an AI panel reads your configuration as you write, flagging weak questions and sharpening your phrasing. A second pair of eyes before you go live.

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Step three

Your link has the conversation. Every time, to your standard.

Someone clicks your link and a real conversation starts immediately. Your link listens to what they say, follows up on it, asks your probe questions in the right place, and builds a genuine picture of who this person is and whether they fit. Not a bot running a script. A conversation built entirely around what you wrote.

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Hey, I'm James's intake assistant. James works with founders and scale-up leaders who want to fix their hiring process. Tell me what's going on with your hiring right now and I'll work out if James can help.
You
We're about 40 people, Series A. Been trying to hire a Head of Product for four months. Three offers fallen through, mostly comp expectations.
James's assistant
Four months and three fallen offers is significant. When the offers fall through at comp, is that because your ranges are misaligned with the market, or are candidates getting counter-offered once they are deep in your process?
You
Bit of both honestly. But we're also losing them at the final stage, something's happening in the process too.
James's assistant
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It opens with your words

The first message is exactly what you wrote. Your framing, your angle, your voice. The person feels like they are talking to you, because in every meaningful sense they are.

It listens and follows up

Your link does not run through a checklist. It listens to what someone says and responds to what they actually mean, probing in the right direction at the right moment. Not a form. A conversation.

It applies your criteria

Throughout, your link is assessing against what you defined as a strong fit. By the end it has a clear read, not a guess.

It runs without you

Your link has no office hours. Whether someone reaches out at 9am Tuesday or 11pm Sunday, they get the same quality of first conversation.

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Step four

Read the brief. Walk in already knowing.

Every conversation lands in your dashboard as a brief: an AI-written read of what just happened. Not a raw transcript. A real assessment of who they are, how well they fit, what came up that matters, and the one thing worth knowing before you reach out. Two minutes to read. Everything you need to follow up with confidence.

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Sarah R.9:14 am
Hiring Head of Product, 4 months, 3 fallen offers...
Marcus T.7:42 am
Early-stage, pre-A, first senior hire, no urgency...
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Priya K.Yesterday
Bootstrapped, 8 people, no budget for consultant...
Tom W.Mon
Series B, 120 people, three open engineering roles...
Sarah R.Strong fit9 exchanges · Today 9:14 am · Hiring intake link
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Series A SaaS founder, 40 people, four months into a Head of Product search with three fallen offers. The problem is late-stage: candidates are losing conviction in the final phase, not at the top of the funnel.
Both comp misalignment and something in the final-stage process are at play. She acknowledges both but suspects the process is the more fixable problem. She has not worked with an external hiring consultant before, so James would be the first outside perspective on her process.
The board wants this resolved before their Series B conversation in Q4, so there is a hard deadline rather than an open-ended search. High urgency, clear brief, motivated buyer. Lead with the timeline when you reach out.
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I've read the full conversation. What do you want to know about Sarah?
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A tier verdict, immediately

Every conversation is placed against your criteria the moment it ends. Open the dashboard and see instantly. Your labels, your language, no interpretation needed.

An AI-written brief

Not a summary of what was said, a read of what it means. Written fresh for every conversation. It varies because conversations vary.

Intelligence Chat (Pro)

Ask questions across all your conversations: patterns, what your strongest fits have in common. Understanding across your whole pipeline.

Not a form. Not a chatbot. A real first conversation.

A form collects fields. A chatbot runs a script. Line them up against the one thing that actually matters, and only one of them is doing the job.

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The one that hands you a brief
A contact formCollects fields
A chatbotRuns a script
A Thayne linkHas the conversation
A real back-and-forth, not a fixed set of fields
Listens and follows up on what they actually say
Speaks in your voice and asks your questions
Judges fit against your standards, not a generic score
The same quality every time, around the clock
Hands you a brief you can act on

A form and a chatbot can take a message. Only one of them has the conversation and hands you the brief. That is the whole difference.

See it for yourself. Talk to Thayne.

The link below is a live Thayne link configured to talk about the product. Ask it anything: how it works, whether it fits your situation, what it costs. You will understand in one conversation what this page took four steps to explain.

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