Orvera AI named a Core Performer in the CMP Research Prism 2026 for Voicebot and Conversational IVR
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About Orvera AI

Built by the operators who ran the floor.

Orvera AI is an agentic AI platform for enterprise customer experience. It was founded by leaders who spent their careers running high-volume contact centers, and we build, deploy, and run it the same way we ran those floors.

Where we come from

What experience is Orvera AI built on?

Orvera AI was started by leaders with more than eighteen years of experience operating enterprise contact centers. Running them, on the floor. They owned the SLAs, staffed and coached the floor, took the 2 a.m. escalations, and sat through the QA reviews. Orvera now builds, deploys and runs the platform for its customers the same way, on the stack those customers already have.

That is an unusual place to start an AI company, and it is the reason this one works the way it does.

Running those floors is also where we kept hitting the same three problems. At every single enterprise.

  1. Deflection dressed up as resolution

    Vendors counted a conversation as a win when it left the queue. On the floor we knew the truth. If the customer calls back tomorrow, nothing was solved.

  2. Quality judged on a rounding error

    Teams reviewed a sliver of their conversations and made real decisions from it. We were coaching people on evidence we knew was thin.

  3. Software handed over with a manual

    The tool arrived, the six to nine month project started, and the operator was left to make it work. Nobody who sold it had ever run a floor.

Ali Merchant, Chief Executive Officer of Orvera AI
Ali MerchantChief Executive Officer
So we built it

Why was Orvera AI built?

Orvera AI exists because a conversation should end in an answer. The company started in 2024, when the tooling of that moment stopped at deflection. Orvera AI, headquartered in San Francisco, was built for genuine containment and resolution across voice, chat and digital channels.

Then the models caught up. Once AI could plan, decide and act across the steps of a whole conversation, the thing Orvera had been building became possible.

We build it, we deploy it, and we run it on the stack you already have, because the people who ship it should answer for it.

Vision & mission

Customer experience that keeps its word.

Our vision

A world where every customer is heard, every promise is kept, and every conversation ends in an answer.

Our mission

To deliver governed, omnichannel AI agents that resolve conversations end to end at enterprise scale, backed by QA on 100% of interactions, human and AI, and built, deployed and run by Orvera.

What we believe

Three things we hold to.

Resolution is the only score

A conversation counts when it ends in an answer, whatever it did to the queue. We measure whether the customer's problem is actually finished.

You stay free to move

We orchestrate the best third-party models inside a layer we govern. When a better one arrives, you move to it without re-engineering anything.

If we build it, we answer for it

We stay after go-live. We run the operation and we own what happens when it meets real customers.

Advisory board

Who is on Orvera AI's advisory board?

Orvera AI's advisory board is eight operators who have run enterprise contact centers at scale. They hold the company to what it promises, and they pressure-test how Orvera deploys into a live floor, how it audits every interaction, and how it runs the operation afterward. Every one of them has answered for a queue, a headcount and a service level of their own.

  • Annie Alexander, Orvera AI advisory board
  • Erin Carter, Orvera AI advisory board
  • Julie Rosenthal, Orvera AI advisory board
  • Kraig Olson, Orvera AI advisory board
  • Patrick Spangler, Orvera AI advisory board
  • Rachael Becker, Orvera AI advisory board
  • Raymond Gerber, Orvera AI advisory board
  • Ryan Goldsberry, Orvera AI advisory board
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Join us

Come build it, or come put it to work.

We are hiring operators, engineers, and CX leaders who have carried the queue. And if you run an enterprise contact center, we would like to show you what we built.

See open roles

or email sales@orvera.ai