Builders of Voice AI #2: On-Prem Voice Agents. Why Enterprises Own Their Stack?

​In this episode of Builders of Voice AI, Mai Medhat, CEO of Tuner sits down with Pritesh Kumar, CEO, and Abhishek Kumar, CTO of Dograh; the open-source, self-hostable alternative to Vapi and Retell.

​Pritesh and Abhishek built Dograh around a bet enterprises keep confirming: most customers don't want to rent their voice AI stack, they want to own it. This conversation gets into why.

​What we'll cover:

​→ Why enterprises are choosing to own their voice AI stack
→ What's actually driving the decision: data residency, PII, HIPAA/GDPR, procurement risk
→ On-prem and self-hosting: when it's worth the operational burden, and when it isn't
→ Open source vs. closed
→ Building voice agents programmatically via MCP vs. a visual UI
→ Where to draw the line between what to own and what to rent from a vendor

​Who it's for: Voice AI engineers, founders, and PMs building or scaling production voice agents, and enterprise teams evaluating on-prem or self-hosted deployment.

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