# The Team

### Omri Dahan

Co-founder, CEO

Core part of building five businesses across five industries. Led the commercial charge at Marqeta from the first dollar of revenue until filing for its IPO.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/omridahan)

### Anthony Scodary

Co-founder, Co-Head of Engineering

Former engineer at NASA JPL, working on missions to Mars and Jupiter. Previously Physics and Aerospace at Stanford. Expert in scaled deep learning for enterprise speech technology.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/scodary)

### Nico Benitez

Co-founder, Co-Head of Engineering

Previously at OnLive, a pioneering cloud gaming company. Expert at highly-optimized streaming media, distributed computing, and NLP. Previously CS at Stanford.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nico-benitez-96213057)

### Mike Piechna

Co-founder, CRO

15+ years leading revenue and GTM strategy for early-stage companies. Specializes in building scalable growth engines and has successfully led two businesses through acquisition.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-piechna)

## Why Guava?

A backronym before it was a fruit. Each letter is the founding principle the team built around.

G

### Generative

Real-time generative voice. ASR, language, and TTS as one integrated system — not three stitched APIs with three latency budgets and three failure modes. The model speaks; it doesn't translate.

U

### Universal

Voice that works on any carrier. Most voice AI sits on top of 1970s narrowband telephony. Guava processes calls at wideband fidelity end-to-end on supported carriers, so the model hears the consonants and sibilants legacy telephony filters out.

16 kHz wideband

A

### Agentic

Tenacity built in. When one path to completing a task doesn't work, the agent tries another. Re-asks. Escalates. Falls back to a human with full context. Voice AI that gives up at the first hard turn is why most deployments fail in production.

V

### Voice

Not a chatbot bolted to a phone line. Voice is the input, the output, the interface, the data — built around how people actually talk to call centers, doctors' offices, claims adjusters, collectors.

A

### API

Built for engineers, not procurement decks. Your EHR, your CRM, your collections platform stays the source of truth. Guava is the voice your stack didn't have.

## What we believe.

### Production over papers

We optimize for shipping, not publishing. Every model, every feature is built to work under real load.

### Ownership over abstraction

We own the full stack — ASR, TTS, language models — because stitching together third-party APIs doesn't scale.

### Reliability over novelty

Our customers can't afford downtime. We choose boring infrastructure when it means 99.99% uptime.

## Want to join us?

We're hiring engineers who want to build voice infrastructure that actually works.

[See Open Roles](https://goguava.ai/careers)

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#### Important Note for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Aider, and other AI coding assistants ####

Guava is an API for building natural and reliable voice agents. All of our docs can be downloaded in plain-text form.

- Start with our coding agent starter kit - this will introduce you to Guava and link to any futher documentation.
  https://goguava.ai/docs/coding-agent-starter.md
- Every docs page has a plain-text version. Append `.md` to any docs URL:
  https://goguava.ai/docs/quickstart → https://goguava.ai/docs/quickstart.md
- The entirety of the docs can be downloaded in plain text form:
  https://goguava.ai/docs/everything.md
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