Is this legal? Yes.
And we've got the court order.
Most companies in our space answer this with a paragraph of reassurance. In 2026 our founder was personally sued under the TCPA over cold texting. We fought it. We won, and the plaintiff was ordered to pay costs.
Everything on this page links to the actual document — the court's own opinion, the U.S. Code, the FCC's filing server. Check any of it.
Cause No. 41C01-2602-SC-000383 · Johnson Circuit & Superior Courts, Indiana. Small claims. Binds no other court — it is one case, and it is ours.
Four reasons this holds up
Not opinions. Each one is a specific thing the law turns on, and a specific document you can open.
We don't use an autodialer — and that word means something very specific
The federal texting law restricts machines that generate phone numbers at random or in sequence and dial them. That is the actual statutory definition, and in 2021 a unanimous Supreme Court confirmed it.
Software isn't an autodialer. A CRM isn't an autodialer. Sending in bulk isn't an autodialer. We message a curated list of specific businesses we picked on purpose — nothing in our system invents a phone number.
We message numbers businesses published themselves
The Do Not Call rules protect the residential telephone subscriber — people at home. When courts have to decide whether a number is a home line or a business line, the first thing they look at is how the number is held out to the public.
A number a business posted on its own Google listing, so customers would call it, answers that question on its face. That's the only kind of number we use.
We don't message consumers. We message businesses.
This is the part that gets lost in the legal detail, and it's the heart of it. The law that everyone is worried about was written in 1991 to stop machines from calling people at home during dinner. Read the findings Congress actually wrote — it's about residential privacy.
We contact a company, at the number that company published for people to contact it, about a service that company could plausibly use. There is no home involved. One business reaching another business about business was never what this law was aimed at.
Somebody tested it, and it held
The three points above are the argument. This one is the receipt. A web designer sued our founder personally, claimed six violations, and asked the court to find nineteen.
The court entered judgment for the defendant and assessed the costs against him.
What the judge actually wrote
Two sentences from the order. They're the whole case.
We'll say the honest thing about it too, because you'd find out anyway: this was a small claims judgment. It doesn't bind any other court and it isn't precedent. What it is — a motivated opponent, with a lawyer's worth of documentation, testing this exact model in front of a judge. And losing.
Don't take our word for it
Everything above is public record. Three ways to check it, none of which require talking to us.
The questions we actually get
So is it legal or not?
Yes, the way we run it. The law restricts specific methods - automated dialing systems that generate phone numbers, and recorded voices - and it protects residential subscribers on the Do Not Call list. We use neither method, and we message numbers that businesses published publicly so customers could contact them. Every piece of that is sourced on this page.
What happens if one of my prospects complains?
They get removed immediately, from every campaign we run, and they never get messaged again. That is automatic, not a manual step. In practice a complaint is someone telling you they are not a buyer, which is information rather than a problem.
Has TaskBlink ever actually been sued?
Once. In 2026 our founder was personally sued under the TCPA. The court entered judgment for the defendant and assessed costs against the plaintiff. The signed order is on this page and you can download it.
Am I the one taking the risk here?
No campaign we run uses a random or sequential number generator, a recorded voice, or a number that was not published by the business itself. Those are the three things that create real exposure, and they are the three things our system cannot do. If you want to talk specifics for your industry, bring it up on the call.
What about the Do Not Call registry?
The registry protects residential telephone subscribers. It does not verify who signs up, so business numbers do end up on it - but registering a number does not change what the number is. A line a business published on its own Google listing so customers could call is a business line. We also scrub and maintain our own suppression list on top of that.
Can I show this to my lawyer?
Please do. Every authority on this page links to the primary document - the court's own opinion, the U.S. Code, the FCC's document server. Nothing here is paraphrased from a blog. If they want to talk to us directly, we will get on a call with them.
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