# RCS Business Messaging — SMS's better-looking sibling.

Rich cards, suggested replies, branded sender, read receipts. Fall back to SMS in one attribute. Same auth, same idempotency, same webhooks as every other Bird channel — because the same engineering team built them all.

## 5 minutes from npm install to first send

## Send a rich message from the language you already use.

SDKs in every major runtime. The first send goes to the sanctioned test number (+15005550006) and falls back to SMS automatically — so the CI check doesn't require an RCS-capable handset.

## Ten primitives between "text" and a real app surface.

RCS is a richer protocol than SMS. We expose the richness as primitives, not as a designer canvas.