Bird
Bird provides a unified communications platform that lets developers integrate email, SMS, WhatsApp, Apple Messages, Voice, RCS, push notifications, and realtime messaging through a single set of APIs, SDKs, and webhooks. The platform handles message routing, delivery, and management at scale, processing approximately 95,000 messages per second on average. Bird's Agentic Harness extends its infrastructure to AI agents, allowing them to send messages, manage mailboxes, and handle conversations across channels.
- Developer Tools
- AI Agents
- Software Only
- Artificial Intelligence
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Developers building software that needs to communicate with users face significant complexity integrating multiple messaging channels like email, SMS, WhatsApp, and voice. Each channel has its own API, delivery quirks, and reliability concerns, forcing teams to build and maintain custom integrations that are time-consuming and error-prone.
Solution
Bird provides a unified communications platform that lets developers integrate email, SMS, WhatsApp, Apple Messages, Voice, RCS, push notifications, and realtime messaging through a single set of APIs, SDKs, and webhooks. The platform handles message routing, delivery, and management at scale, with an MCP server that enables AI agents to operate Bird directly. Bird's Agentic Harness extends its infrastructure to AI agents, allowing them to send messages, manage mailboxes, and handle conversations across channels. The platform is trusted by teams building world-class software to handle high-volume messaging, processing approximately 95,000 messages per second on average.
Target Audience
Primary customers are software development teams building applications that need reliable, scalable messaging across multiple channels, as well as AI agent developers who need communications infrastructure for agent-driven interactions.
Features
- Unified API for email, SMS, WhatsApp, Apple Messages, Voice, RCS, push, and realtime messaging
- MCP server and CLI for AI agents to send and manage communications directly
- Mailbox API that lets AI agents claim and answer email inboxes autonomously
- Verify API for OTP delivery with check-by-target functionality, eliminating the need to store verification IDs
- Lookup API to validate phone numbers and email addresses before sending
- SIP trunking and voice API with call records and events for contact center integration
- Webhooks and SDKs for streamlined integration into existing applications
- eSIM API for mobile data connectivity for customers and employees