
Before AI could be useful to Indonesian businesses, it had to understand their language. Teguh Eko Budiarto helped build Prosa.ai around that problem - and learned that understanding customers was another job entirely.
In Indonesia, a familiar face can open a market that an app cannot reach alone. Evermos connects local brands to those faces - then teaches them how to sell.

He left Silicon Valley to build in Bandung. From property data to Evermos, Arip Tirta has kept returning to a practical question: what would help more Indonesians take part in business?
Prosa.ai is an Indonesian deep-tech company that builds natural language processing and speech technology for Bahasa Indonesia. Founded in 2018 by ITB academics and an industry veteran, it develops NLP APIs, speech-to-text and text-to-speech engines, voice biometrics, chatbots and analytics that let banks, insurers, government agencies and enterprises understand and act on Indonesian-language text and voice data - a market largely underserved by global AI providers.