Orai

What Orai does

Orai is an AI-powered speech coaching application developed by On Time Labs, LLC, a Delaware-incorporated company headquartered at 3230 Market Street, Philadelphia, and founded in 2017 by Danish Dhamani. The product is aimed at ambitious professionals, sales personnel (BDRs), and students/educators who want to improve public-speaking, presentation delivery, and on-the-job communication, addressing the pain point of glossophobia (fear of public speaking) through private, on-demand, AI-driven practice. Distribution is multi-surface: a native iOS app, a native Android app, and a web application at app.orai.com, with a separate enterprise tier sold directly to organizations.

Under the hood, Orai combines audio capture, cloud storage, speech-to-text, and natural language processing to transcribe user recordings and deliver instant, multi-dimensional feedback on filler words, pacing, conciseness, confidence, clarity, voice, and energy level. A personalized adaptive-lesson engine adjusts lesson difficulty and recommendations to each user's observed skill level, and progress is tracked over time across five dimensions (confidence, clarity, pace, voice, filler words). The company reports that more than 2 million speeches have been analyzed across 300,000+ users, providing a proprietary data corpus for personalization. Orai does not expose a public API, has no published patents, and integrates only Facebook and Google for social login.

On the commercial side, Orai operates a freemium / product-led growth motion: a 7-day free trial on the web app, paid subscriptions and in-app purchases distributed through the Apple App Store and Google Play Store (with billing handled by the stores), and an enterprise tier with GDPR-ready infrastructure, signable Data Processing Agreements, account-administrator controls, and custom data retention. Marketing is content-and-PR-led — an SEO-oriented blog, a YouTube channel, organic social media, and tier-1 earned coverage in TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Wired UK, Fast Company, NBC News, and The Guardian — amplified by the founder's viral TEDx talk (3M+ views). Disclosed funding totals approximately $2.42M across a 2017 MassChallenge accelerator placement, a 2018 Techstars investment of $120K, and a February 2019 seed round of $2.3M led by Comcast Ventures with participation from Ben Franklin Technology Partners, 1745 Ventures, Menlo Ventures, nvp capital, Prototype Capital, and Techstars. The team is reported at 1-10 employees.

Name

Orai

Legal name

On Time Labs, LLC

Website

https://orai.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Orai is an AI-powered speech coaching app that helps professionals, sales teams, and students improve public-speaking delivery through instant, multi-dimensional feedback on filler words, pacing, conciseness, and clarity, delivered via iOS, Android, and web.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Speech Coaching Software

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

AI-Powered Language Tutors, Chatbots & Speaking Practice Tools (EDAFAOAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Conversational AI Platforms (chat/voice bots, orchestration) (HDAAAFAC)

Keywords

• AI speech coaching
• Public speaking practice
• Speech analysis software
• Presentation training app
• Communication skills software

Headquarters

HQ city

Philadelphia

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Freemium / Free Trial: Users can sign up for free and start a 7-day free trial of Orai. This serves as the top-of-funnel acquisition model for both consumer mobile apps and the web app.
2. Mobile App Store Sales: Paid subscriptions and in-app purchases distributed through the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Billing is processed by the app stores rather than Orai directly.
3. Enterprise / B2B Sales: Enterprise tier with custom data-retention options, signable Data Protection Agreements (DPAs), and account-administrator management. Targets organizations deploying Orai at scale.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Orai is an AI-powered mobile and web application that records a user's spoken practice sessions, transcribes them, and returns instant, multi-dimensional feedback on filler words, pacing, conciseness, confidence, clarity, voice, and energy. It offers personalized, adaptive lessons and progress tracking so users can improve their public-speaking and presentation skills in roughly five-minute daily practice sessions, and it is sold as a subscription via the Apple App Store, Google Play, and a self-serve web app at app.orai.com, with a separately packaged enterprise tier for organizational deployments.

Product overview

Orai's offering is a single unified AI-powered speech-coaching product delivered through three surfaces — the Orai Mobile App (iOS and Android), the Orai Web App at app.orai.com, and a separate Enterprise tier — all built around the same core capability of recording a user's speech and returning instant AI-driven feedback. Within those surfaces, Orai packages distinct feature modules: the AI Speech Coach in-app experience that delivers interactive lessons and analysis, and the Progress Tracking and Personalized Lessons module that adapts to skill level and tracks improvement in confidence, clarity, pace, voice, and filler words. Together, the Orai mobile/web apps form the user-facing product, the AI Speech Coach and Progress Tracking modules are the differentiating AI features, and the Enterprise Offering wraps the same product with admin controls, DPAs, and custom data retention for business customers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Orai App (iOS, Android, and Web) Cross-platform AI-powered speech coaching product delivered as native iOS and Android apps plus a browser-based web app at app.orai.com, targeted at individual consumers who want to practice presentations and receive instant, multi-dimensional feedback on filler words, pacing, conciseness, confidence, clarity, voice, and energy.
• Orai Enterprise Offering

Quantifiable outcome

• 300K+ people have used Orai to address their fear of public speaking
• +3 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability7 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Yoodli: AI-powered speech and communication coach that provides real-time feedback on filler words, pacing, and clarity. Closest direct competitor to Orai, targeting similar professional and sales-persona segments with overlapping features.
• Poised: Real-time AI communication coach for video meetings that analyzes clarity, filler words, and confidence. Competes with Orai in the professional communication-coaching category with a desktop/meeting-centric rather than practice-recording approach.
• Speeko: AI speech-coaching app that provides voice analysis and feedback on tone, pace, and filler words. Direct competitor serving the same public-speaking-practice use case as Orai.
• VirtualSpeech: VR-based public-speaking training platform combining virtual reality simulations with feedback on presentation delivery. Competes with Orai for the same enterprise and individual public-speaking practice audience.
• LikeSo: Mobile speech-coaching app that helps users eliminate filler words through practice prompts. Early direct competitor to Orai in the consumer public-speaking app category.

Emerging players

• Ummo: AI-driven English speech and pronunciation coaching tool using speech recognition to provide accent and fluency feedback. Adjacent competitor focused on language-learner and accent-training segments overlapping with Orai's user base.
• RhetorAI: AI-powered conversation and feedback tool applying LLM-driven analysis to spoken communication. Emerging player in the AI speech-coaching space with overlapping capabilities for personalized feedback.

Broad incumbents

• LinkedIn Learning: Major professional development platform offering video courses on communication and public speaking. Broad incumbent competing for Orai's ambitious-professionals persona via course-based rather than AI-coaching methodology.
• Coursera: Large online learning marketplace with university-backed public-speaking and communication courses. Competes indirectly for the same career-advancement use case Orai targets, but via instructor-led content rather than AI feedback.
• Toastmasters International: Established global organization for in-person public-speaking practice and skill development. Indirect incumbent competing for the same end-user need via community-based peer feedback rather than AI.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/OraiApp
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@OraiApp
• Facebookfacebook.com/OraiApp
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/orai

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors8 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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