# Dasha

> Dasha is a voice AI platform that lets developers build, test, and deploy human-like conversational voice agents to automate phone-based business processes such as sales calls, customer support, and lead qualification. Founded by Vladislav Chernyshov and Ilya Stupakov, the company built its own low-latency speech recognition and text-to-speech stack, and exposes conversation design through a purpose-built scripting language (DashaScript) and a JavaScript/Node.js SDK. It positions itself as infrastructure for developers who want production-grade, real-time voice AI at scale.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Vladislav Chernyshov (Co-founder & CEO), Ilya Stupakov (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~30 employees (LinkedIn lists 11-50)
- **Products:** Dasha Platform, DashaScript, Dasha Studio, Dasha SDK
- **Notable:** Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Conversational AI Platforms (2020), Built proprietary low-latency speech recognition and text-to-speech stack in-house, Reported to have powered 500M+ calls across the platform

## Products & services

- **Dasha Platform** — Cloud voice AI backend for building and running conversational agents at scale, with in-house speech recognition and text-to-speech, real-time voice activity detection, and REST API access. LLM-agnostic (works with GPT, Claude, Gemini). Supports 30+ languages with mid-call switching.
- **DashaScript** — An event-driven, declarative domain-specific language used to design conversation flows and dialogue logic for Dasha voice apps.
- **Dasha Studio** — A Visual Studio Code extension for building, debugging, visualizing, and deploying Dasha applications, including conversation graph editing and syntax highlighting.
- **Dasha SDK** — A Node.js/JavaScript SDK that abstracts a gRPC layer to connect local applications to Dasha Cloud, letting developers integrate voice AI into their own systems.

## Achievements

- Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Conversational AI Platforms (2020)
- Built proprietary low-latency speech recognition and text-to-speech stack in-house
- Reported to have powered 500M+ calls across the platform
- Featured by NVIDIA for GPU-accelerated conversational AI
- Covered by TechCrunch, Sifted, and VentureBeat during its early growth

## Latest updates

- **2024-08** — Published guidance on voice AI for end-to-end sales call automation, reflecting a sharper focus on outbound/inbound sales use cases.
- **2025-09** — Continued product and content push around outbound call reliability, sub-second response latency, and LLM-agnostic voice agents on the current platform.

## Links

- Website: https://dasha.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dashaai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/DashaAI_
- GitHub: https://github.com/dasha-ai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6WJdc09Cw17IQvI_kIQ7XTpUJfa4975y
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/DashaArtificialIntelligence

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Last updated: 2026-07-21