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Chert - Vapi for FaceTime: AI video agents in a few lines

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Chert is Vapi for FaceTime. Build and deploy interactive AI video agents that can answer and place FaceTime calls with just a few lines of code. Deploy agents for remote support, field service, telehealth intake, guided onboarding, or anything that's easier to show than explain. Try it live: FaceTime an agent right now and show it something.

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Hey everyone! I'm Gary, co-founder of Chert (YC P26).

Chert is launching Vapi for FaceTime. In a few lines of code, you can deploy an AI agent that answers and places FaceTime calls, sees what the user shows their camera, and responds in real time.

Here's why we're fired up about this: every voice agent shipping today is blind. It can only handle what a customer can describe, so the second a problem is visual (e.g. "which cable goes where?", "what's this error on my screen?"), a human has to jump in. The most natural fix is video.

Now any builder can put an agent on the single most trusted and already-installed video channel: FaceTime. Remote support that can actually see the problem. Telehealth intake that reads the room. Onboarding that walks you through it live. This is the interface AI has been missing.

Try it right now: FaceTime +1 310 279 2297 and check out

Would love any feedback or thoughts!

 This is a really compelling use of multimodal AI. Voice agents are useful, but letting the agent actually see the problem changes the game, especially for troubleshooting, telehealth, and onboarding. 👍

Maker

 Thank you!

Congrats on launch ✅

FaceTime is pretty US/Apple-centric, isn't WhatsApp the bigger market globally?

Maker

 Yes, we have plans to expand to WhatsApp messaging + video calling in the future!

Can this be used for KYC or identity verification on a video call? Feels like a pretty cool and interesting use case

Maker

 Yes, visual identity verification could actually be more robust than a lot of the current identity verification infrastructures over text, email, or calls today

How do you handle privacy and consent for the video stream, especially for regulated use cases?

Maker

 We encrypt user information so that it is never exposed

Congrats on the launch! The voice agents are blind framing instantly clicked for me.

Maker

 Thanks!!

What are the use cases of this?

Maker

 Use cases could be anything from remote support to field service, telehealth intake, or guided onboarding!

The latency on the live demo is better than I expected, really impressed!

Maker

 Thank you!

congrats on the launch!

Maker

 Thanks!

Impressive. Do you use TTS or STS model?

Maker

 Both. We have TTS and Realtime models available

 will test realtime endpoints first to check latency. docs and api keys directly in dashboard?

What's your end-to-end latency on the vision loop? That's usually the problem and killer for live video agents, especially when you put it on a conversational channel like FaceTime.
Maker

 Our latency is really good. Feel free to give it a try on our website here:

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