Built in Toronto. Accountable 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 receptionist that answers them, the desk behind it, and the app that carries it. We publish where every call is handled.
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.
Phone numbers and the connection to the telephone network come from carriers; we run the media servers and SIP bridges that answer each call and connect it to the AI ourselves. Your data is stored in the region you choose: Canada, the United States, Europe or Singapore. Live calls are answered in Montréal, Frankfurt and Singapore 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 nine projects, each on its own page, and everything we run on are gathered in one place.
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 registered with the CRTC as a reseller of telecommunications services 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: $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.