Handling voice in production is different than showing it in a demo. bolna now runs 500,000+ voice calls per day across India using Cartesia - supporting real-time conversations across multiple Indian languages, at scale. With Cartesia, Bolna has seen a ~40% reduction in

we need a new term for this growth. hockeystick is old.

this app is free

FULL INTERVIEW: Prateek Sachan (Prateek Sachan) | Founder, bolna (0:00) - Bolna: voice agents as API infrastructure (1:10) - Voice AI: foundational models to vertical apps (2:51) - Call-center disruption: automation vs humans (3:57) - Orchestration explained: STT, LLM, TTS

👋🏼 We’re heading to the India AI Impact Summit — come say hi! Experience our Voice AI in action with live demos built for Indian enterprises, enabling seamless, real-time conversations in customers’ native languages. Witness how multilingual intelligence can transform customer

Any single place where we’re consolidating all the Delhi AI summit and AQI jokes.

Day 2 AI Summit Updates : Reached my (bolna) booth🥳 The sheer number of attendees here make SFTechWeek and TechCrunch seem tiny. Event running seamlessly given the scale. Also, PSA : no issues in bringing laptops etc. don’t believe everything you read online 😂

what did ilya see?

Bengaluru airport is cute. Everytime I’m here the cabs and their arrangements get reshuffled becoming a real world Pokémon game arena. Hit my daily step goal just trying to figure out and find the cab.

Your 2% can be my 98%.

Yeah your ARR is cool. But how much time it takes you to reach inbox zero for your emails, WhatsApp, Slack, LinkedIn, etc.

Need to add a random age and LPA filter because how else will you go viral for hiring in India. Wow so kwel.

YC is the YC for India :)

Just realized I was still part of a WhatsApp group with Atlassian folks from my time there. A senior leadership guy uses it for his personal YouTube promotion - dropping a random video occasionally. No one engages or says anything. My 8-year-old nephew makes better videos.

No pain. No gain.

Didn’t realize it at the time, but my Replit ⠕ investment ended up doing over 6x. Still paper money though - the future will be the real judge. Still bullish on Amjad Masad 💪

Happy Ides of March to everyone except people named Julius who ignored very obvious calendar alerts.

source: trust me bro

Do your AI agent calls sound eerily silent? Well, your audience trusts only the ambience they recognise from real life. On bolna, you can now pick your agent's surroundings with our Ambient Noise feature and make them sound a whole lot more human. Almost like they're

Should have token consumption part of overall CTC.