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The voice AI stack for emerging markets

End to end voice agents localized for your market

End to end voice agents localized for your market

Infrastructure. Models. Deployment. All built for your environment.

The Kora 1 Engine

The Kora 1 Engine

The Kora 1 Engine

The Kora 1 Engine

Proprietary models. Real speech. Localized to your market.

Proprietary models. Real speech. Localized to your market.

Introducing Kora 1 by Aethex: our production-grade model stack trained on real conversational speech with human-labeled data across emerging markets

Introducing Kora 1 by Aethex: our production-grade model stack trained on real conversational speech with human-labeled data across emerging markets

Ibou

Senegal

Native tool calling

<500ms turn-taking

Workflow-aware routing

Dedicated infrastructure

Dialect-aware

THE ENTERPRISE PLATFORM

From hello to resolution

From hello to resolution

Design, deploy, and manage dialect-aware agents that handle calls, messages, and workflows across support, sales, onboarding, and collections. Integrated with your systems.


Enterprise-grade by design. Customer data stays within AethexAI’s secure environment, with controlled access, privacy safeguards, and protection built for regulated industries.

Agent Studio

Design conversation flows, set guardrails, configure personas. Inbound and outbound. No code required.

Simulate

Test agents against real call scenarios before going live. Validate behavior, edge cases, and compliance rules in a safe environment.

Workflow Engine

Agents that act. Kora's workflow engine reads and writes data, triggers actions, and closes the loops inside your existing systems, not alongside them.

Analytics

Know what's working and what isn't. Every call is transcribed, scored, and searchable with resolution rates, sentiment tracking, and agent performance available at a glance.

Build on Kora

Build on Kora

Everything you need to build, deploy, and scale localized voice agents

Everything you need to build, deploy, and scale localized voice agents

End-to-End Agents

A single call to our Python SDK creates a dialect-aware voice agent with speech recognition, reasoning, voice output, and telephony.

Kora Speak TTS

Full Control

Connects to

the systems you already run

Connects to

the systems you already run

Design, deploy, and manage voice agents that handle calls, messages, and workflows across support, sales, onboarding, and collections. Integrated with your systems.

About us

The voice AI stack
for emerging markets.

The voice AI stack
for emerging markets.

The voice AI stack
for emerging markets.

Aethex is building the voice stack for emerging markets; from speech models to enterprise deployment. We design voice agent systems that work in real-world conditions of our markets.

Aethex is building the voice stack for emerging markets; from speech models to enterprise deployment. We design voice agent systems that work in real-world conditions of our markets.

100+

Voices across markets

<500ms

Streaming latency

75+

Concurrent calls

24/7

Always on, no staffing gaps

Always on, no staffing gaps

Backed by

Backed by

4DX Ventures

Enza Capital

26Fund

Dorm Room Fund

StartX

and more

    Backed by

  • 4DX Ventures

  • Enza Capital

  • 26Fund

  • Dorm Room Fund

  • StartX

  • and more

The voice AI stack for emerging markets.

See agents in production, configured for your use case, your market, your systems.

© 2026, AethexAI Inc.

The voice AI stack for emerging markets.

See agents in production, configured for your use case, your market, your systems.

© 2026, AethexAI Inc.

The voice AI stack for emerging markets.

See agents in production, configured for your use case, your market, your systems.

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