iMessage agents for your business in 30s. Send a link and Bland learns your business, plugs into your APIs, and creates a branded agent for you automatically. The agent can do things like Tapbacks (❤️,👍,❗), send embedded components, and even accept payments within a chat. It's live now. Text +1 (415) 481-7537.

This week our CIO Juan, ex-CIO at Twilio, sat down with Unite.AI to talk self-hosting for regulated calls, what it takes to become the first voice AI company to get FedRAMPed, and how to get voice agents into banks, hospitals and government agencies. Verdict? Most buyers just want to know where their data lives and who controls it. As the only full-stack provider available, we agree. Read the full interview: unite.ai/juan-e-riojas-chief…

Officially launching our new phone car: Phonester Production starts in 2028. Taking pre-orders in the comments.

Introducing Business Agents, a new way to reach your customers through iMessage. Bland gives your business its own contact in your customers' phones, with your name and logo, access to your company's APIs, and the tools to act on them. Set one up in under 30 seconds, and it handles customer conversations so your team can focus on everything else.

Want to learn more? Visit bland.ai/blog/bland-imessage…?

It’s officially time to kill the phone tree. From day 1, we bet that our models would one day be good enough to lead the conversation. Today, they can. So we’ve reimagined how you build agents, putting the model at the center. Pathways no longer orchestrate the whole conversation. They’re one resource your agent draws on, alongside tools and knowledge. We didn’t stop there: • Build agents straight from your favorite coding agent • Deploy across phone, messaging, web, and API • Test changes with A/B experimentation and reimagined evals The result is agents that are more flexible, easier to maintain, and built to improve with every model upgrade. The new dashboard is live today. Customers have until November 15th to migrate their agents. Self-serve customers can do so using one of our migration tools. Enterprise customers will be migrated by your implementation partner. Learn more: bland.ai/blog/introducing-da…

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Phone trees cost you money. Idaho Housing & Finance Association takes over 4,000 calls a day. Each one used to start with a push-button menu and a minute of ID checks at about $1 a minute. Now Bland answers every line, verifies callers, and routes them to the right team: - $750,000 saved per year - 20% shorter calls - 100% routed correctly on the first transfer Give Bland a try. bland.ai. Enjoyed the story? Read more about it at: bland.ai/customers/ihfa

Bland 🤝 @pipecat_ai Pipecat put Bland Speech v3 through a live demo, take a look. We wrote an article on how our research team taught it to laugh and sigh on cue. xitter.cf/usebland/status/210826…

Our research team developed NVAlign, a new training method that uses a second model to listen for sounds like laughter and feed that feedback into speech-generation training. Here’s how it works. 👇

A telematics company was dropping 80% of its after-hours calls. With Bland answering, that fell to 5%, and $30K in sales came in within 2.5 weeks. Put the calls you miss in the ROI math.

Got AWS commit left to spend before end of year? Spend it on voice AI agents that answer your phones. Bland is now on AWS Marketplace, and eligible purchases can count toward your AWS commitment. Learn more: aws.amazon.com/marketplace/p…

Every voice AI vendor looks good running your easiest call. @zaygranet's advice: start by automating simple calls like status checks, but test the vendor on your hardest one before you sign. A platform that handles FAQs well can still fail when a customer needs something complicated. @KIN spent over six months getting another AI vendor to production quality. Bland got them there in less than one.

Bland and Twilio are now official partners. Bland is purpose-built to handle the highest-stakes calls in regulated industries. So of course we partnered with the company that's spent 20 years making the phone network dependable. Bland handles the conversation. Twilio handles the connection. Learn more: bland.ai/blog/bland-twilio-p…