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Cekura

Voice AI and Chat AI agents: Testing and Observability

Cekura helps Conversational AI companies with automated QA. From pre-production simulation and evaluations to production call monitoring, to assisting customers in setting up the CI/CD pipeline, we help in QA across the agent lifecycle. We are working with 75+ customers across healthcare, BFSI, logistics, recruitment, and retail. Some of the largest CCAS players and enterprises use Cekura to ship AI voice and chat agents reliably
Active Founders
Tarush Agarwal
Tarush Agarwal
Founder
Tarush is the Co-founder and CEO @ Cekura. Before this, Tarush spent 3 years in quant finance where he developed ultra low latency systems (think nanoseconds) and helped transform a loss making trading strategy into a successful desk doing millions in MRR in 3 months. He studied computer science and statistics at IIT Bombay.
Shashij Gupta
Shashij Gupta
Founder
Shashij is the Co-Founder & CTO @ Cekura. Previously Shashij worked as a quantitative researcher in a trading firm searching for complex alphas. Shashij has also researched in NLP at Google Research and has a first author paper on testing transformers with 50+ citations from his work at ETH Zurich. He has also studied computer science at IIT Bombay.
Sidhant Kabra
Sidhant Kabra
Founder
Sidhant is the Co-Founder & President @ Cekura. Sidhant comes from a consulting background, advising CEOs at Fortune 500 companies in FMCG and medical devices. He also led a 100+ member team handling customer experience. Recently, he drove product and growth at an edtech startup scaling from 0 to 200K+ users in 6 months. Sidhant completed his bachelor’s from IIT Bombay. During university, he raised $500K in sponsorship deals for Asia’s largest student-led festival.
Company Launches
Cekura: Automated Testing & Monitoring for Voice and Chat AI Agents
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Hi Everyone! We’re Sidhant, Shashij, and Tarush, co-founders of Cekura👋

TL;DR Cekura helps companies ship and scale reliable voice & chat AI agents by providing end-to-end testing and observability

Watch our demo video here

Problem: Making Conversational AI agents reliable is hard. Manually calling your agents or listening through thousands of calls is slow, error-prone and does not provide the required coverage.

Our Solution: At Cekura, we work closely with you at each step of the agent-building journey and help you improve and scale your agents 10 times faster

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Key Features:

Testing:

  • Scenario Generation: Create varied test cases from agent descriptions automatically for comprehensive coverage.
  • Evaluation Metrics: Track custom and AI-generated metrics. Check for instruction following, tool calls, and conversational metrics (Interruptions, Latency, etc).
  • Prompt Recommendation: Get actionable insights to improve each of the metrics.
  • Custom Personas: Emulate diverse user types with varied accents, background noise, and conversational styles.
  • Production Call Simulation: Simulate production calls to ensure all the fixes have been incorporated.

Observability:

  • Conversational Analytics: Provides customer sentiment, interruptions, latency and call analytics: ringing duration, success rate, call volume trends, etc
  • Instruction Following: Identify instances where agents fail to follow instructions.
  • Drop-off Tracking: Analyzes when and why users abandon calls, highlighting areas of improvement.
  • Custom Metrics: Define unique metrics for personalized call analysis.
  • Alerting: Proactively notifies users of critical issues like latency spikes or missed functions.

Ready to make your Voice & Chat Agents Reliable?

The Team:

We met over eight years ago during our undergraduate at IIT Bombay.

Tarush comes from quantitative finance, where he worked on simulations for ultra-low latency trading strategies (think nanoseconds!).

Shashij has previously researched NLP at Google Research and is the first author of a paper on testing AI systems reliably, which has 50+ citations from his work at ETH Zurich.

Sidhant comes from a consulting background advising CXOs at Fortune 500 companies in FMCG and medical devices. He managed P&L in a leading contact centre.

Previous Launches
Launch reliable voice agents in minutes not weeks.
Jobs at Cekura
San Francisco, CA, US
$100K - $180K
0.20% - 0.70%
1+ years
Bengaluru, KA, IN / Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN
₹1.5M - ₹3M INR
1+ years
San Francisco, CA, US
$100K - $180K
0.20% - 0.60%
1+ years
Cekura
Founded:2024
Batch:Fall 2024
Team Size:5
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Nicolas Dessaigne