/Companies

Speak Ai

Techstars '22

Toronto, CA · Founded 2019 · 7 employees on LinkedIn · 2 known investors

Find your way into Speak Ai

3,397 people in our graph can introduce you to the Speak Ai team.

Sign up to see every warm intro you have to Speak Ai

  • Paths you didn't know you had: your email and LinkedIn already hold routes to the Speak Ai team. We find them
  • 2nd- and 3rd-degree connections: the friend-of-a-friend routes you can't see from your own inbox or LinkedIn
  • Answers now, not in days: momentum is everything in a raise. Skip asking around whether someone knows someone

Days of research, done the moment you sign in, with every route ranked by how warm it is.

Speak AI provides conversation intelligence for sales teams, automatically transcribing and analyzing sales calls across 100+ languages with AI-generated summaries, objection tracking, competitor mention detection, and multi-model AI Chat integration. The platform serves sales organizations of all sizes through automatic call recording via calendar integration with Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, positioning itself as a cost-effective alternative to enterprise solutions.

Also known as Speak · Speak AI

Founders & leadership

Speak Ai was founded in 2019 by Tyler Bryden.

TBTyler Bryden
Tyler BrydenCo-FounderHe has experience in business, marketing, and product leadership, and has conducted corporate training and speaking engagements on marketing and digital strategy.

Investors · 2

Techstarslisted by TechstarsBoulder · $220K

How we know: the Techstars portfolio · open dataset · Top 3000 Accelerator Startups (no YC) 2026-08 · open dataset · 5k.vc investor directory · Not right? Tell us

Company profile

researched Sep 2026

Speak AI operates a conversation intelligence platform that captures audio and video from meetings, interviews, calls and field recordings, transcribes them across 100+ languages (the product documentation cites 135 languages for transcription), separates and identifies speakers, and extracts structured data such as themes, keywords, categories, sentiment scores and customer-defined AI fields. The company positions the product both as a self-serve tool and as a base layer for custom AI applications, marketing an "engineered with you" approach in which fields, scoring rubrics and prompts are configured around a customer's workflow and primed on their historical recordings before go-live.

Capture is handled through six channels: a Meeting Assistant that auto-joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and Webex; an embeddable, brandable web recorder with custom domains and CSS; iOS and Android apps with offline field recording and white-label options; direct file upload and URL/YouTube import; inbound phone transcription; and voice agents. Downstream features include AI Chat over files and folders, batch and audio/video analysis, automations built from triggers, filters, branches and webhooks, dashboards with widgets and KPI cards, folders, tags and saved views, clips, public links, embedded players and shareable white-label libraries, plus exports of transcripts, insight data and word clouds.

The platform also offers real-time and post-call AI agents. Real-time voice, phone, web and video-avatar agents run conversations, capture structured fields, route and warm-transfer to a briefed human, while post-call agents score, tag and extract structured data in bulk. An MCP server exposes 100+ tools across 10 categories to 7+ AI assistants including Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, alongside a developer API and integrations with Slack, Zapier, Vimeo, a Chrome extension and Google/Microsoft calendars. A published security documentation set covers policies including access management, encryption, incident response, business continuity, disaster recovery and records retention.

Founding story

Co-founded by Tyler Bryden and Vatsal Shah in Toronto to address the problem of unstructured voice and video data. Bryden, whose background is in data analytics and digital marketing, serves as CEO and leads product vision, growth and customer relationships; Shah serves as CTO and leads technical architecture, infrastructure and the engineering team building the transcription, NLP and AI systems.

Business model

Software-as-a-service sold on plans and subscriptions with a free trial and no-credit-card free account, metered by a credits and usage system with a credits calculator, invoices, receipts and self-serve payment methods. An affiliate program is offered. The company also sells AI consulting and custom build engagements, and white-label deployments in which customers run the capture-to-insight workflow under their own brand and domain (clientname.speakai.co or a custom domain).

Recurring subscription plans with credit-based usage, supplemented by consulting/custom application builds and white-label platform deployments.

Traction

The company states 300,000+ people and teams use the platform and cites a 4.9 rating on G2. Published case studies report outcomes such as a legal intelligence firm processing 5,100+ hours of carrier calls with $700K+ in savings, a healthcare consulting firm saving 10,000+ hours and $190K+, an e-commerce manufacturer saving 3,700+ hours and $185K+, a research agency saving 983 hours and $100K+, a legal tech company launching a white-label deposition platform eight months faster, and a recruiting firm cutting candidate report time from five hours to ten minutes.

Latest developments

The company has introduced audio and video analysis that goes beyond transcript-only insight, covering tone, emotion and energy as well as visual signals such as body language, screen-sharing content and facial expressions, offered with a booked setup call for first access. It has also shipped an MCP server providing 100+ tools to 7+ AI assistants with roughly 60-second setup via a single URL, along with Voice Agents features spanning creation, instructions and behavior, knowledge base, voice and avatar, testing, analytics and embedding. Documentation is published in Markdown and llms.txt formats for AI assistant consumption, last updated September 2026.

▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history

Market position

Presents itself as a multi-purpose conversation intelligence and custom AI application platform rather than a single-workflow meeting notetaker, emphasizing multilingual coverage, white-label delivery and accessibility of AI capability outside enterprise contracts. Publicly cited traction includes 300,000+ people and teams and a 4.9 G2 rating.

Combines unified capture across virtual meetings, in-person recording, web embeds, mobile field apps, uploads and voice agents into a single searchable library; supports customer-specific fields, scoring and prompts primed on historical data; remains model- and speech-engine agnostic; supports 100+ languages; and offers white-label deployment on customer domains plus an MCP layer that exposes the knowledge base to external AI assistants.

Technology

Automatic speech recognition with speaker identification, timestamping, custom vocabulary, editing and translation, plus a human transcription option. Natural language processing extracts themes, keywords, categories, sentiment and custom AI fields. The platform is model-agnostic, selecting among models and speech engines per task, file type and team, and connects to Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini. Additional components include an MCP server with 100+ tools, a developer API, inbound webhooks, a visual automation canvas, an embeddable recorder, mobile apps, and real-time voice/phone/web/video-avatar agents grounded in a customer knowledge base. Stated transcription accuracy is 95%+.

Go-to-market

Product-led self-serve entry through a free trial and free account, combined with sales-assisted motions via "Book a Demo" and "Book a build call" for custom applications and enterprise AI agents. Case studies across legal, research, healthcare, e-commerce and recruiting are used as proof points, alongside a G2 rating, an affiliate program, extensive public documentation optimized for AI assistants (llms.txt, Markdown views), and distribution through integrations and an MCP server that places the product inside Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor.

Sales, customer success and operations teams scoring calls; market and qualitative researchers running interviews, surveys and focus groups; agencies and consultants delivering client-branded platforms; legal, healthcare, recruiting, e-commerce and manufacturing organizations; and field/intake teams. The company states it builds for individuals, small teams and large organizations alike, including free-account users.

Geography

Headquarters and founding office in Toronto, Canada, housing product, engineering and go-to-market teams, with a second location in London, United Kingdom supporting UK and European customers. The team is distributed across the two cities and the website is offered in more than 25 languages.

History

The website dates the company to 2018 and describes it as founded in Toronto, later growing into a distributed team spanning Toronto and London. The product has expanded from transcription and text analysis into AI Chat, automations, dashboards, an embeddable recorder, mobile apps, a Meeting Assistant for Zoom, Teams, Meet and Webex, voice agents, an MCP server and white-label custom applications.

Compiled by commissioned research from 6 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
AI assistants supported via MCPJan 20267 assistants
G2 ratingJan 20264.9 out of 5
HeadcountAug 20267
MCP tools exposedJan 2026100 tools
Stated transcription accuracyJan 202695%
Supported languagesJan 2026100 languages
Users and teams on platformJan 2026300,000 people and teams

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Related companies · 8

AI toolsNotta provides AI-powered transcription tools available as a web app, mobile app, and Chrome extension, along with features such as AI summaries, meeting minutes, screen recording, and a sales-focused AI agent for recording and analyzing meetings and syncing with CRM. It serves individuals and businesses looking to transcribe and organize voice and meeting content.
ElevenLabsElevenLabs is an AI research and product company that builds voice generation and audio processing platforms for creating human-like voice interactions with technology. The company serves individuals with accessibility needs, nonprofits, and general users across healthcare, education, and culture.
VEEDVEED is a browser-based video creation and editing platform that turns text prompts and ideas into post-ready videos with captions, music, branding, and export formats for social channels. It serves marketers, founders, and creators worldwide, and also offers developer APIs for video generation, lip sync, subtitles, and background removal.
KapwingKapwing is a web-based video creation and editing platform designed for marketing teams to produce, repurpose, and scale video content across multiple channels. It provides AI-powered tools for automating tasks like subtitle generation, video repurposing, and content creation, along with collaboration features for team-based workflows.
FlixierFlixier is a cloud-based video editor designed for content creators that combines AI-powered tools—including voice generation, subtitle creation, and voice cloning—with fast rendering to streamline the publishing workflow. The platform enables creators to generate, edit, and publish short-form and long-form video content across multiple platforms without requiring desktop software or high-end hardware.
QuillbotQuillBot provides an AI-powered workspace with tools for writing, paraphrasing, design, and visual generation, letting users brainstorm, research, and produce documents and presentations. It serves writers, students, educators, and professionals for tasks such as content creation, resumes, briefs, and reports.
DescriptDescript is a video creation and editing platform that enables marketing and product teams to produce and update video content quickly using text-based editing. The platform serves companies looking to create product videos, sales enablement content, and social media material without requiring specialized production expertise.
CanvaDesign platform; Blackbird invested when it was just an idea and in every round since.

Companies working in the same space as Speak Ai.

▸Research sources · 6

primary sources listed

6 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Speak Ai do?
Speak AI is a Toronto-based conversation intelligence platform that transcribes, analyzes and builds custom AI applications on audio and video.
Who founded Speak Ai?
Speak Ai was founded by Tyler Bryden in 2019.
Who are Speak Ai's investors?
Speak Ai's investors include Investo, Techstars.
Where is Speak Ai headquartered?
Speak Ai is headquartered in Toronto, CA.