BiVelio is part of the ElevenLabs Grants Program
ElevenLabs, one of the leading names in voice AI, opens its platform to early-stage startups through its grants program. BiVelio is part of it. For us, voice is not a gimmick: it is the most natural interface there is, and that is why, when it comes to BiVelio, it has to come governed.
What the ElevenLabs Grants Program is
According to ElevenLabs, the program exists so that early-stage startups can build the future of voice with the best tools, without cost holding them back. It provides twelve months of access to the full ElevenLabs platform —conversational AI, text to speech, speech to text and more— to build, test and launch product, and opens the door to its community of founders. [Source]
What the program brings to the table
What ElevenLabs publishes about its startup program.
The complete voice platform
Real-time conversational agents, text to speech, speech to text, voice design and cloning, sound effects and more, all through a single API.
Time to build for real
A twelve-month period designed for building, testing and launching a product, not for a one-day demo.
Community
Access to exclusive founder events, in person and online, and startup support.
Built for long-term product
ElevenLabs reserves it for small companies with a product and a business model they intend to take to market for the long term, not for one-off projects.
How it fits into BiVelio
What the program enables for us, told with caution: voice is not part of the available product today.
Researching and prototyping voice, without shortcuts
The program gives us access to the voice platform to research and prototype at our own pace. BiVelio's voice agents are not available today, and we won't announce them until they meet the same rules as the rest of the product.
Voice, inside governed AI
In BiVelio, no agent lives in isolation: it works within an organization, a project and a case, with its policy, its channel and its audit trail. A voice conversation cannot be the exception, and that is how we are designing it.
Privacy before the model
Personal data is detected and protected before it reaches an AI model. That rule, which already applies to text and documents, is the starting condition for any voice channel.
Velio, ever closer to how people work
Velio's roadmap includes speaking and listening, not just writing: explaining a case, dictating an instruction or reviewing a result out loud, always with human approval wherever policy requires it. No dates: we'll share it when it's ready.
Voice will come to BiVelio governed, or not at all.
Being part of the ElevenLabs Grants Program gives us access to the voice platform to build that experience. When and how it reaches production will be decided by the same yardstick as always: control, privacy and traceability.