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Certus AI

Certus AI is replacing the restaurant phone line with Voice AI. Restaurants lose up to $100,000 per year per location from missed calls, lost orders, and abandoned hold lines. Staff are overwhelmed. IVRs frustrate customers. Call centers are expensive and impersonal. It’s 2025. Guests don’t leave voicemails or wait on hold. They just move on. Certus is an AI voice agent built for restaurants. It answers every call, 24/7 — taking orders, processing deliveries, booking reservations, upselling, and

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Certus AI is replacing the restaurant phone line with Voice AI. Restaurants lose up to $100,000 per year per location from missed calls, lost orders, and abandoned hold lines. Staff are overwhelmed. IVRs frustrate customers. Call centers are expensive and impersonal. It’s 2025. Guests don’t leave voicemails or wait on hold. They just move on. Certus is an AI voice agent built for restaurants. It answers every call, 24/7 — taking orders, processing deliveries, booking reservations, upselling, and

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Certus AI is classified as AI agents from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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GuestsVoice AIIVRscustomersrestaurantsCall centersStaffCertus AIAI
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Companies similar to Certus AI

AI agents · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Elyra

match 112

Elyra is an AI reservation system for restaurants. Instead of missing 40% of incoming phone calls and taking days to reply to emails, leaving over $100,000 in bookings on the table every year, restaurants get AI agents that answer every call and email instantly, 24/7, connected to a reservation system that optimizes table placements in real time so empty seats get filled with the right guests. Felix and Alan met in primary school in Stockholm and have been building things together ever since. We

shared extracted concepts: restaurants; shared product terms: restaurant, phone, 100, 000; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Riviera

match 97

Riviera builds AI Employees for Hotels. Our first agent is a hotel phone receptionist that lets hotels spend less time answering phone calls and more time helping customers. Our system handles front-desk inquiries, in-room dining orders, and reservations. It answers every question instantly and in any language, 24/7. We are solving a problem that older phone systems and IVRs can't: customers hate not being able to talk to someone immediately, but most travel businesses can’t dedicate additional

shared extracted concepts: ivrs, customers; shared product terms: phone, call, order, ivrs; shared product theme: sales and marketing; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

StrideQ

match 94

StrideQ (formerly SliceQ) is the automated phone ordering system for restaurants which ensures no missed calls and no missed orders. Surprisingly, 33% of restaurant customers still prefer ordering via phone calls, but front desk staff is often busy and revenue is lost. After enabling StrideQ our customers have increased their sales by over 10%, even while dealing with staff shortages in covid times. Phone ordering is our wedge to become the point of sale system for all restaurants. StrideQ also

shared extracted concepts: customers, restaurants; shared product terms: restaurant, phone, miss, call; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

ShortLoop

match 93

Dealerships leave significant revenue every year because they are unable to effectively answer calls or run campaigns due to staffing issues. ShortLoop fixes this with human-like AI phone agents that answer calls instantly, book appointments and test drives, and also help run outbound campaigns. It ensures that our customers never miss a revenue opportunity, inbound or outbound. Our AI is integrated with CDK, Reynolds, Tekion, Xtime, Auto/Mate, DealerFX, VinSolutions, myKaarma and other popular

shared extracted concepts: customers; shared product terms: phone, year, miss, call; shared product theme: sales and marketing; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Cactus

match 86

HVAC, plumbing, roofing, and electrical companies spend $3K–$25K every month making the phone ring - then lose 10–20% of those leads to slow response times, missed calls, and zero follow-up. The revenue was already there. It just walked out the back door. Cactus closes that gap on both sides. Inbound: Every call answered in under 60 seconds, 24/7 qualified and booked directly into Housecall Pro, Jobber, FieldEdge, or ServiceTitan. No voicemails. No missed jobs. Outbound: Warm leads, dormant cust

shared product terms: phone, lose, miss, call; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

OfOne

match 85

OfOne is building software to automate order taking at fast-food drive-thrus. Using conversational AI, we help restaurant chains operate more efficiently and level-up their customer experience. OfOne can answer questions, intelligently upsell - like suggesting ice cream on a hot day - and always says please and thank you. There are 200,000 drive-thrus in the US and they are the industry's largest order channel. Our mission is to deliver human centric experiences that help restaurant operators pr

shared extracted concept terms: restaurant; shared product terms: restaurant, up, 000, order; shared product theme: workflow automation, sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator