Vela
Also known as: Vela (tryvela.ai), try_vela_ai
AI scheduling assistant that coordinates, books, reminds, and reschedules meetings across email, SMS, WhatsApp, Slack, Teams, and phone at scale.
Vela is an AI scheduling assistant that works the way a great executive assistant does. Copy vela@yourdomain.com onto any email, SMS, or WhatsApp thread, or text Vela directly, and it takes over the coordination: it reads context, pulls availability from every participant, proposes real options in each person's time zone, follows up when people go quiet, books the meeting, sends reminders, and reschedules automatically when conflicts arise. Vela treats scheduling as a constraint satisfaction and human nuance problem rather than simple calendaring, so it prioritizes an investor over an internal sync, understands loose phrasing like early next week, and escalates to a human when there is no clear signal, learning preferences over time. It works across email, SMS, WhatsApp, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and phone at scale, making parallel calls to coordinate high volume workflows such as an enterprise recruiting team scheduling many candidate interviews across channels at once.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://tryvela.ai
Category
Enterprise operations agent
Funding status
Pre-Seed per the Crunchbase export, Y Combinator (W26 batch). Investor lists differ across sources: the Crunchbase export lists Y Combinator, CRV, and Rebel Fund, while Vela's own materials cite Y Combinator, Pareto Holdings, Z Fellows, and Cory Levy; the specific round amount was not retrieved this session. Based in San Francisco, founded by brothers Gobhanu and Saatvik Korisepati, with prior experience at Perplexity, AWS ML, and BCG AI.
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Primary use cases
Target customers
Deployment options
Integrations
Reads the user's calendar and pulls availability from all participants, connects to a team's system of record such as an ATS, and coordinates over email, SMS, WhatsApp, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and phone.
Sources & related URLs
Capability coverage
8.0 / 14 capabilities · 57%
| Integrations & Tool CallingVela reads the user's calendar and pulls availability from all participants, connects to a team's system of record such as an ATS, and updates calendar invites across email, SMS, WhatsApp, Slack, Teams, and phone per tryvela.ai and the YC tier list. | Full |
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| Workflow OrchestrationVela coordinates meetings end to end, reading context, negotiating times, proposing options, following up, booking, reminding, and rescheduling, and makes parallel calls to coordinate high volume multi party workflows per tryvela.ai and the Hacker News launch. | Full |
| Knowledge Grounding & RAGVela reads conversation context and calendar history to resolve loosely specified requests, a contextual grounding in the user's own data rather than a document knowledge base or retrieval system. | Partial |
| Human Oversight & GuardrailsWhen there is no clear evidence of a user's priorities, Vela escalates to a human until it learns preferences, an escalation based oversight, though it otherwise coordinates autonomously per the Product Hunt discussion. | Partial |
| Security, Identity & GovernanceVela publishes a privacy policy and terms and handles calendar and contact data, but third party analysis notes no publicly documented compliance program or named certification, and SMS compliance obligations are placed on the customer. | Partial |
| Observability & AuditabilityVela sends reminders and notifications and follows scheduling status across parties, giving visibility into coordination state, though formal dashboards or audit logs were not detailed this session. | Partial |
| Memory & State PersistenceVela looks at previous calendar history to decide priorities and, every interaction, deepens its understanding of a user's priorities and preferences until it learns them, a persistent and improving preference memory per Product Hunt and the YC tier list. | Full |
| Deployment & Data ResidencyDelivered as cloud SaaS; no self hosted or data residency option was retrieved this session. | Partial |
| Prebuilt Agents / Templates / PacksVela ships recruiting oriented coordination with industry and team nuances built in, a domain configured workflow rather than a broad prebuilt agent catalog per the YC tier list. | Partial |
| Triggers & Channel CoverageVela operates across email, SMS, WhatsApp, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and phone, is triggered by being CC'd or looped into a conversation, follows up automatically when participants go quiet, and reschedules when conflicts arise per tryvela.ai and VS News Network. | Full |
| Model Flexibility & RoutingVela runs its own AI agent, but no customer selectable model or model routing was documented this session. | Unable to verify |
| APIs / SDKs / MCP ExtensibilityVela connects to a team's system of record such as an ATS, implying an integration surface, but a public developer API, SDK, or MCP endpoint was not documented this session. | Partial |
| Testing, Debugging & OptimizationVela learns and improves with every interaction and uses escalation to a human as a feedback signal to refine its handling of a user's priorities, an improvement loop rather than a formal agent evaluation framework. | Partial |
| Browser / Computer-useNo browser driving or computer use capability; Vela operates through messaging channels, phone, and calendar rather than a browser or GUI. | Unable to verify |
Pricing
Custom (demo led; no public pricing)
Cost watchouts
Cost drivers would include seats and messaging or call volume across email, SMS, WhatsApp, and phone; the customer also carries SMS compliance obligations per the terms.
Variable cost rationale
Likely per seat plus messaging and call volume across channels; high volume interview scheduling would raise usage cost, though the unit was not retrieved this session.
Sales call required
Mixed (some tiers require a call)
Key ambiguities
No public pricing tiers were found; whether billing is per seat, per meeting, or usage based was not retrieved this session.
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