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The problem

Voice AI broke faster than the rules could catch up.
Now the rules caught up.

Four failures kill voice AI deployments. Two regulatory. One financial. One legal. All preventable.

Regulatory

Compliance is a billing event

Article 50 takes effect August 2, 2026. Every undisclosed AI call, missing consent record, or unverifiable transcript becomes a per-incident fine — assessed against global revenue. Post-call QA does not qualify as compliance.

€7.5MArticle 50 max fine, or 1.5% of global revenue (stackable on GDPR 4%)
Commercial

Your agent is a brand liability

Voice agents quote prices, promise discounts, and confirm transactions in real time. When the LLM hallucinates a 40% discount, it is not a bug — it is a binding offer. Your CFO will hear about it. So will the plaintiff.

€200–500Lost per missed booking when the agent gets pricing wrong
Financial

Your $0.07/min platform costs $0.25

Retell advertises $0.07/min. Add STT, LLM, TTS, telephony, concurrency slots, and knowledge bases — your real cost is $0.25–0.33/min. We call it the Stack Tax: the hidden markup between the price on the landing page and what actually hits your invoice.

3–6×Actual cost vs. advertised price on Retell and Vapi
Liability

When AI promises wrong, who pays?

Your voice agent confirms a 40% discount that doesn't exist. Air Canada already lost this case — the chatbot's promise was ruled a binding offer. Retell's ToS includes a class-action waiver. Vapi disclaims all liability. Neither protects you. The agency is the weakest link.

$0Amount Retell or Vapi will cover when your agent misprices
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Paste a call transcript. Get an Article 50 gap report with a compliance score from 0 to 100. White-label ready. Free. No signup required. Powered by the same engine that runs on every Audact call.

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Compliance score
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EU regulations checked
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The first voice AI platform that stands behind what it says.

If a governed agent within scope speaks an unauthorized price, discount, or commitment — we own it. Service credits for design partners. Capped financial coverage at scale.

Unauthorized pricing

Blocked and covered

Missing disclosure

Article 50 enforced and provable

Unapproved discounts

Governance engine catches it

Off-script commitments

Brand rules enforced pre-TTS

Coverage applies to governed conversations with approved policy packs. Phase 1 available for design partners.

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Market map

Where Audact fits in the voice AI market

Four tiers. Different buyers, different deals, different fights. Here's the honest map.

Tier 1 · Enterprise

Not our market, but compliance bar reference

  • Parloa$3B valuation, ~$50M ARR, DORA + ISO 27001:2022 + SOC 2 Type II
  • Cognigy€819M NICE exit (Sept 2025)

Sell €300K+/year deals directly. Never cross paths with Audact.

Tier 2 · Mid-market funded

Dangerous if they add EU features

  • RetellCapital-efficient US scale-up, no EU footprint
  • Vapi$25M, developer-first
  • Synthflow$30M, Berlin, 200+ integrations, agency plan
  • ElevenLabs Conv AI 2.0$330M ARR, $11B val, AIUC-1 insurance
  • Bland$65M, self-hosted GPU
  • GetVocal$26M Series A (Paris). Explicit 'Governed AI' positioning, Deutsche Telekom pilot. Narrative clash for EU AI Act claims.

Every DACH agency evaluated them. US-first or compliance-shallow. Can catch up in 6-12 months IF they pivot to EU-native depth.

Tier 3 · Direct competitors

This is where Audact fights

  • FamulorGerman + compliance claim + dental focus + 0 named customers
  • fonio.ai4K customers, €3M angel, Austria, Nürnberg servers
  • YOUNEA / LuxAIaaSChannel-first (reseller-of-resellers), 30+ partners

Positioning overlap. Traction but no patents, no evidence chain, no per-country depth.

Tier 4 · Periphery

Feature benchmarks

  • Leaping AISelf-improving agents (€1M ARR in 10 weeks) — inspiration for our P1
  • voiceOne€29/mo SMB tier

Interesting differentiators to watch. Rarely compete on same deals.

Audact doesn't compete by being cheaper, faster, or more integrated. Audact competes by being the only Governed Voice AI platform with:

  • 44 patent-pending families
  • Synchronous pre-TTS brand governance
  • Cryptographic evidence per call
  • Per-country policy engine (5 day-1: DE/NL/FR/AT/BE; 27 EU on v1.1 roadmap)
  • EU-native architecture (not EU-optional)
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