Bland

Phone calls suck. So, we bought a giant telephone car, raised $65,000,000, and now we're fixing them with AI. 🧵

All bland users now get a *free* phone number on signup!

@wadefoster @zapier Nice!

One of our engineers has Zapier making calls for him. Zapier SDK + Hermes Agent + Bland Now he just messages his bot in Telegram: "call the pharmacy, see if my script is ready" and it makes the call (pending human approval, of course) Just point your agent at the @Zapier SDK. Connect to 9,000+ apps with no extra setup. Next up: Zoom meetings? 👀

excited to announce our long held strategy of moving into an athleisure brand

Multiplayer editing is now live! Multiple teams of people can work on the same pathway at once.

We benchmarked our new transcription model (Fluent) across 250+ hours of real-world audio. 5.9% WER — vs 8.1% from the leading real-time voice AI provider and 6.5% from OpenAI's Whisper. That's a 27% reduction in transcription errors. For voice agents, fewer errors = fewer misunderstood requests = more calls that resolve on the first pass. Learn more: bland.ai/blogs/fluent-n… Give it a try at app.bland.ai

Agent < > Agent testing is live - Build from prompts - Build from past calls - CI / CD deployments - Norm can automatically and recursively fix broken unit tests

npm i bland-cli bland-dev use claude opus 4.6 to create ai agents, right from your terminal.

we built a dev terminal for bland. agentic repl — talks to claude, calls your tools, edits pathways, pushes to prod. all from the terminal. npm i -g bland-cli && bland dev

@SumEveryNothing Sounds super legit and real review!

@usebland The systems fail and stop mid conversation if it doesn't follow a call script . People who explain in detail end up having calls go silent and need to start again. It's a bad experience using it, would never recommend it

Are you still hiring humans?

@spankzilla85 Algorithm works in mysterious ways

@usebland Why is this dogshit on my feed? Who wants your garbage broken product?

@stuartdolan 🙏

@usebland Your company is a sign of a bleak dystopian future Most people dont want AI....

bland-cli 0.2.11: simulations show the full conversation now. run it, read the transcript, fix the pathway, push, repeat. bland pathway simulate run --wait

@zachmeyer @roshanchandna @naval @getairchat you will get neither.

@roshanchandna @naval @getairchat @usebland I’d rather Soulja boy than plain text so I guess it’s still a win

I think @naval’s @getairchat was a bit before it’s time. Turns out being Voice only is a great way to keep AI bots off the platform

@bygregorr agreed

@usebland Skipping the SDK and going straight to CLI-first is underrated for voice AI prototyping.

npmjs.com/package/bland-… - Build entire calls from our CLI - Let your model of choice (Claude, Chat, Grok, etc) self simulate and iterate - Publish live - Profit (??)

Things Norm does so you don't have to: - writes the prompt - builds the pathways - adds validation + extraction logic - wires up API calls mid-convo - stress tests with agent-on-agent simulations Your personal Forward Deployed Engineer for building voice agents in minutes. See what you can build → hubs.ly/Q048b_Hl0

You can outsource HR. You can’t outsource culture. At an early-stage startup, culture is what you tolerate and what you call out. In the latest episode of Build Mode, @zaygranet, co-founder of @usebland breaks down why founders have to own culture from day one: bit.ly/4aCcUNZ

@danentin @ycombinator for sure! You can make it in minutes for free at app.bland.ai

@usebland @ycombinator Can I use this to make a restaurant reservation making phone agent for myself?

Building robust phone agents used to require deep expertise in the nuances of Voice AI. Not anymore. Introducing Norm. Just tell Norm what kind of phone agent you want to build and it does it all for you. Sign up and try it → app.bland.ai/?utm_campaign=…