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Bland AI

What Bland AI does

Bland AI is an enterprise “voice AI platform” for building, deploying, and operating AI phone agents that handle inbound and outbound calls. The company positions Bland as purpose-built for high-stakes, multi-turn conversations (including regulated industries), with emphasis on low latency, interruption handling, multilingual coverage, and enterprise control. Bland states it builds its own core voice and language stack in-house (voice, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and LLM components), rather than wrapping third-party model APIs. Customers use the platform to create conversational pathways (workflow-style call designs), connect tools and business systems, and manage real-world call execution and analytics at scale. Bland also describes the platform as self-hosted, with the goal of keeping customer data within the customer environment.

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Jun 16, 2026 · Reporting · PR NewswireBland Surpasses $100M Funding With New Series C to Advance Voice AI for Complex, High-Stakes Conversations

Bland announced a $50M Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from HubSpot Ventures, Archerman Capital, and Tribeca Venture Partners.

Jun 16, 2026 · Official · Bland AI blogSeries C Unlocked: What's Next for Bland

Bland shared a narrative update on its Series C and described handling millions of calls per week for customers across industries.

Apr 09, 2026 · Official · Bland AI blogIntroducing Fluent: Next-Generation Multilingual Transcription for Voice Agents

Bland announced Fluent, describing it as a multilingual transcription model now available on the Bland platform.

Feb 16, 2026 · Official · Bland AI changelogNorm, The Bland Console (changelog entry)

Bland published a changelog entry for “Norm, The Bland Console,” describing the console workflow for reviewing and applying updates.

Feb 03, 2025 · Official · Bland AI blogBland Raises a $40M Series B to Transform Enterprise Phone Communications

Bland announced the closing of its $40M Series B, led by Emergence Capital, and described its path from stealth to scaling.

Oct 17, 2024 · Official · Bland AI blogProduct Updates from Bland (Background noise, call logs, variable extraction improvements, tool showcase)

Bland listed several product updates, including background noise support, call log improvements, and variable extraction performance improvements.

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What it builds

Bland platform (AI phone agents + agent workflows)

Bland’s platform enables businesses to build and deploy AI-powered phone agents for inbound and outbound calling, including workflow-style conversational design via pathways and supporting integrations and call analytics.

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Norm (voice agent builder / console)

Norm is Bland’s assistant for building production-ready voice agents from prompts, and it also functions as a console for managing and updating voice agents.

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Bland Speech v3

Bland Speech v3 is Bland’s text-to-speech model offering for generating more human-like synthetic speech for voice agents.

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Fluent (multilingual transcription model)

Fluent is Bland’s multilingual speech-to-text model roll-out within the Bland platform, positioned as an upgrade for multilingual transcription in voice agents.

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Bland API

Bland exposes a REST API for programmatic call creation/configuration and operational control of voice agent calls.

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