Built in Toronto. Answering everywhere.
Distronode Corporation is a federally incorporated Canadian telecommunications company. We provide business phone numbers, calls, and texts in Canada, the United States, and Europe, and we build District AI, the 24/7 receptionist that answers them.
Company facts
- Incorporated
- May 12, 2026
- Headquarters
- Toronto, Ontario
- Sectors
- Telecommunications, AI & cloud infrastructure
- Leadership
- Sean Dean, Founder & CEO
How it's built
Real-time voice infrastructure, run like a phone company.
We run our own phone infrastructure rather than renting someone else's. Your data is stored in the region you choose: Canada, the United States, Europe or Singapore. Live calls are answered in Montréal and Frankfurt as well as the United States, and we publish the exceptions. Engineering, infrastructure, and compliance are handled by one team, under the same leadership that designed the system.
We publish the details most vendors keep vague: our privacy commitments, our sub-processors, and a per-data-type map of where your information lives.
What we stand behind
Stripe Climate
As a member of Stripe Climate, Distronode automatically routes 1% of all revenue toward purchasing permanent carbon removal. It applies to every subscription and every call.
Open Source
District AI runs on open-source software, and we publish our own work the same way, under Apache-2.0. Our two projects and everything we run on are on one page.
What we believe
| Commitment | Detail |
|---|---|
| Honest metering | The lowest per-minute rate we can offer, published plainly, with spending caps you control. The meter should never be the scary part of owning a phone line. |
| Accountable like a phone company | We are registering with the CRTC as a telecommunications service provider in Canada, because a company that provides your phone number should answer to the same regulator your phone company does. Numbers, calls, and texts are the product, not a feature bolted on. |
| You control the opening line | Your receptionist opens every call with a greeting you write and approve, and nothing reaches your callers that you have not seen first. We recommend telling them plainly that they are speaking to an assistant, because your callers deserve to know who they are talking to. |
| Try it before you trust it | No gated sales call, no form. Our live demo answers in your browser right now, because the product should make the pitch. |
| Your data has an address | We publish where every kind of data lives and who handles it. Canadian customers' call records and transcripts are stored in Canada, a call on a Canadian number we issue is answered in Montréal, and a call on a European number is answered in Europe. Some calls are still handled in the United States, and the residency map says which. |
Built with support from
Distronode is accepted into the Google for Startups Cloud Program, gaining Google Cloud credits and Vertex AI support to scale its voice infrastructure.
Distronode joins the Cloudflare Startups program, gaining $10k in platform credits plus free security and performance coverage for District AI's web platform.
Distronode is accepted into the Deepgram Startup Program, powering real-time speech-to-text and voice AI for the District AI receptionist under a second.
Hear it answer for yourself.
The live demo picks up in your browser. No form, no sales call.