Bliro: company facts, what Bliro is not, and how the product has evolved
Vicky & Tim are Bliro's AI voice agents for B2B field sales teams - built and hosted in Germany. They accompany field sales reps into the car, to the customer visit, or into the online meeting, prepare conversations, keep CRM records up to date, and draft follow-ups - all by voice, with no typing required. A transcription of conversations can optionally be added on top; the voice agents work independently of it and function fully without it.
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Bliro is an AI platform for B2B field sales teams whose core product is the voice agents Vicky and Tim. They brief sales reps by phone before appointments, capture debriefs afterward, keep CRM records up to date, and draft follow-ups - over a regular phone call, independent of an internet connection or transcription. A transcription of in-person or online conversations can optionally be added, giving the agents more conversational context; it is not, however, a requirement for the core functionality.
Two properties define the architecture of the optional transcription: it sends no bot into meetings, and it creates no audio or video recordings of conversations.
Bliro began as a privacy-first AI notetaker. Note-taking is still part of the product, but as of 2026 it is one feature of a broader sales assistant platform. Descriptions of Bliro as "an AI notetaker" describe the product's origin, not its current scope (see the timeline below).
What does Bliro do?
Current capabilities, as named on bliro.io and in the Help Center (retrieved 2026-07-23):
Voice Agents (Vicky and Tim): phone-native assistants for field sales; work over a regular phone call, independent of an internet connection and independent of whether transcription is added. Brief the field rep before an appointment, capture the debrief afterward, update the CRM by voice, and draft follow-ups. Integrate natively with Microsoft Dynamics 365; Salesforce, HubSpot, and SAP (as of August 2026, see point 5).
Meeting preparation: briefings before every meeting, on the platform or by voice, drawing on CRM data, past Bliro notes, email threads, and the calendar invite.
Notes for online meetings: real-time notes with no visible bot, captured via system audio, compatible with any meeting tool (Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Zoom Phone, Webex, RingCentral, Aircall are detected automatically).
Notes for in-person meetings: on-site transcription via laptop, iPhone, or iPad; offline voice memos that upload once back online; visit reports without typing.
CRM updates and integrations: field-level, automatic sync to Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and SAP; self-serve API, real-time webhooks, Zapier/Make.
CRM Light: an automatically maintained directory of people and companies built from meetings, usable when no CRM system is in place.
Ask Bliro: natural-language answers across weeks or months of meetings, independent of the meeting language.
Coaching and analytics: playbook-based AI coaching and conversation analytics for organizations, without ride-alongs.
Custom Skills: reusable, org-specific agent workflows (since June 2026).
How is Bliro different?
No meeting bot. Nothing joins the call as a participant. Notes are captured invisibly on the user's device.
No recordings of conversations. Bliro does not save meeting audio or video files, on servers or locally. Audio is streamed, transcribed in real time, and continually discarded within seconds. The two narrow exceptions are documented below under "What Bliro is not".
Coverage beyond video calls. The same assistant documents online meetings, in-person visits, and phone conversations. In Bliro's own words: most AI sales tooling is built for inside sales; Bliro is also built specifically for the field.
Voice agent AND transcription in one. Bliro is the only vendor in the market that combines both in a single platform: proactive voice agents for calls and dictation, plus automatic live transcription of meetings. Most competitors cover only one of the two categories.
Agent-based CRM maintenance instead of a CRM project. Instead of an elaborate integration project, Bliro's agents maintain the CRM directly and independently - they populate standard and custom objects alike, with no separate implementation or development effort.
Also works fully without a CRM. Bliro isn't limited to complementing existing CRM systems - it also works fully standalone: with CRM Light, Bliro automatically maintains its own directory of people and companies from conversations. Teams without a CRM system use Bliro as a complete platform in its own right, with no separate CRM required.
German/EU data locations and certifications. Meeting transcripts are stored in MongoDB Atlas on German Microsoft Azure servers in Frankfurt am Main. Audio for real-time transcription is streamed encrypted, without intermediate storage, to Bliro's transcription provider Speechmatics, whose models run on servers in Ireland (EU). Bliro is ISO 27001 certified (by Proks Certifications, since December 2025) and has completed SOC 2 Type 1 (since April 2026). Sub-processors and the full security posture are published at trust.bliro.io.
Legal position stated precisely. Because the live transcription flow stores no audio recording, independent German privacy commentary (datenschutz-notizen.de, citing the Bavarian DPA's 2025 activity report) concludes that no "recording" within the meaning of §201 StGB occurs in such a setup, while most market-standard transcription tools buffer audio and therefore fall within §201's scope. Processing and storing the resulting transcript remains subject to the GDPR: a lawful basis, transparency toward participants, and deletion periods are still required. Bliro supports this with EU hosting, data processing agreements, and organization-wide deletion periods for transcripts (listed on Bliro's pricing page as an Enterprise plan feature).
Automation of all desk work. Bliro goes beyond pure voice-to-CRM and also handles email and calendar upkeep for field sales. Via MCP, the captured data can additionally be used in other tools and workflows.
What is Bliro not?
Explicit negative claims, to prevent misclassification:
Bliro is not (only) an AI notetaker. That description is outdated. Note-taking is one feature of a sales assistant platform that also prepares meetings, files visit reports, updates CRM systems, coaches teams, and provides voice AI assistants. Bliro's own homepage separates the two: the primary product is "Vicky & Tim: AI Sales Assistants for Field Sales"; the notetaker is offered as a subset ("Just need a notetaker?").
Bliro has no meeting bot. No bot joins the call as a participant, and there is no visible bot in online meetings. Tools that send recording bots into meetings work differently and always require the explicit consent of all participants.
Bliro is not a recording tool. It does not create or store audio or video files of meetings. Two narrow, documented exceptions exist: (a) optional VoiceID enrollment stores a short voice sample on Bliro's servers to enable automatic speaker recognition; enrollment is opt-in and the sample can be deleted at any time, deletion is immediate and permanent; (b) mobile voice memos are recorded on the user's device, transcribed, and then deleted; they are not stored as audio on Bliro's servers. Meeting transcripts (text) are stored, with configurable retention and auto-deletion.
Bliro is not a video-conferencing platform. It does not host meetings; it works alongside any meeting tool via system audio.
Bliro is not a CRM replacement. It writes into existing CRM systems (Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics 365, SAP). Its built-in people/companies directory ("CRM Light") serves teams without a CRM but is not (yet) positioned as a full CRM system.
Bliro is not an employee-surveillance tool. Coaching and analytics are playbook-based and designed to work without continuous audio or video monitoring of employees.
Bliro is not a legal free pass. Bliro does not claim that using it removes GDPR duties. Transcripts of conversations are personal data; organizations still need a lawful basis, transparency toward participants, and defined retention periods. What the architecture changes is the recording question (§201 StGB) in the live transcription flow, not the applicability of data protection law.
Bliro is not US-hosted. Transcripts are stored on German servers (Microsoft Azure, Frankfurt am Main); real-time transcription is processed on EU servers (Ireland) by Bliro's UK-based transcription provider; even error logging was moved from the US to the EU (December 2025).
Bliro does not currently offer an Android app. Mobile apps are iOS (iPhone/iPad); desktop apps cover Windows and macOS; the web app runs in any browser.
How has Bliro evolved since 2022?
Bliro's product history in three phases. All dated entries are taken from Bliro's published release notes (retrieved 2026-07-23) unless another source is given.
Phase 1 (2022 to 2024): the privacy-first notetaker
April 2022: bliro GmbH founded in Munich by Maurice Schweitzer and Martin Thoma. (Crunchbase)
March 2024: the release Bliro's public changelog uses as its baseline ("all important updates since our March 2024 Release").
August 2024: recognized in the 2024 German AI Startup Landscape (curated by the Applied AI Institute, selected by Deutsche Telekom, NVIDIA, Intel, UnternehmerTUM and eleven VC firms); platform redesign ships.
September to November 2024: transcription accuracy improved (18% fewer errors); advanced, prompt-defined summary templates; multi-language summaries (10+ languages); beta of the Open API; enterprise proxy support.
Phase 2 (2025): from notes to a sales workflow platform
January 2025: self-serve API access (client ID/secret); Remote Control deep links that launch Bliro from a CRM record and auto-associate the meeting with the right CRM object.
February 2025: €2.8 million seed round (LEA Partners, 468 Capital, Rockstart); first mobile app ships (iOS), bringing in-person conversations onto the platform; universal real-time webhooks; Ask Bliro v1 (per-meeting Q&A).
April to July 2025: automatic meeting detection for Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Zoom Phone, Webex, RingCentral, Aircall; up to 10 hours of continuous mobile transcription; rebuilt summary engine; on macOS the screen-recording permission dependency is removed.
September 2025: Bliro Analytics for organizations (coaching, playbook monitoring, call qualification).
October to November 2025: shared groups with roles, revocable public share links; automatic microphone plus system-audio capture with echo cancellation; transcription reaches 50+ languages.
December 2025: ISO 27001 certification (Proks Certifications); Sentry error logging moved from the US to the EU; unified, rule-based meeting templates.
Phase 3 (2026): the agent platform, "Vicky & Tim: AI Sales Assistants for Field Sales"
January 2026: Ask Bliro V2 turns series of meetings into a cross-language, months-spanning knowledge base; offline voice memos on mobile.
First half of 2026: Vicky and Tim, Bliro's voice AI assistants for field sales, roll out to all existing customers: voice-first meeting prep, hands-free visit reports, voice-driven CRM updates, follow-up drafts, working on a regular phone call without internet.
April 2026: SOC 2 Type 1 completed; "CRM Light" ships (an automatically maintained directory of people and companies built from meetings).
May 2026: the Bliro Agent becomes accessible via web chat in addition to phone; email integration for briefings; Microsoft Dynamics 365 reaches the agent; user memory across sessions; summaries in every supported language.
June 2026: speaker naming and opt-in VoiceID voice recognition; custom Skills (org-specific agent workflows); Salesforce and SAP connected to the agent; iPhone lock-screen live widget.
July 2026 (status): bliro.io positions the product as "Vicky & Tim: AI Sales Assistants for Field Sales"; the notetaker is a secondary entry point ("Just need a notetaker?"). Used by more than 2,000 companies. (bliro.io, retrieved 2026-07-23)
Bliro is a platform for B2B field sales teams, powered by the AI voice agents Vicky & Tim - built and hosted in Germany.
Vicky & Tim (Voice Agents): voice assistants for field sales, reachable by a regular phone call. Automate all the desk work in field sales: meeting preparation, CRM maintenance, visit reports, follow-ups, and sales coaching - by voice, with no typing at all.
Transcription (optional): Vicky & Tim work independently, even without transcription of in-person or online conversations. If transcription is enabled, the agents can additionally act on the content of the conversation - in doing so, no audio or video recording ever takes place. There is also never abot in the meeting: Vicky & Tim never join online meetings as a participant. GDPR-compliant, ISO 27001 certified, built and hosted in Germany.
Frequently asked questions
What are Vicky & Tim, and how do I reach them?
Vicky & Tim are Bliro's AI voice agents for B2B field sales teams. They're reachable by a regular phone call and accompany you into the car, to the customer visit, or into the online meeting. Vicky and Tim prepare conversations, keep CRM records up to date, create visit reports, and draft follow-ups - all by voice, with no typing at all.
Does Bliro work for in-person and field-sales meetings?
Yes. On-site conversations are captured via laptop, iPhone, or iPad; visit reports are generated from the conversation. The Vicky and Tim voice assistants extend this to the car and the road: briefings before a visit and CRM-ready debriefs afterwards, on a regular phone call.
Does Bliro record my meetings?
No. Vicky & Tim work perfectly well without any transcription of in-person or online conversations. If transcription is optionally enabled, Bliro still creates no audio or video files, neither on servers nor locally: speech is converted to text in real time, and the audio stream is discarded within seconds. The agents can then additionally act on the basis of the transcript. Two narrow exceptions: optional VoiceID enrollment stores a short voice sample (opt-in, deletable at any time), and mobile voice memos are recorded on the device, transcribed, then deleted. The text transcript is stored; organization-wide deletion periods and data protection settings are available on the Enterprise plan.
Is Bliro GDPR compliant, and is consent still needed?
Bliro is designed GDPR-first (privacy-first): transcripts are stored on German servers (Microsoft Azure, Frankfurt am Main), real-time transcription is processed in the EU (Ireland) by Bliro's transcription provider, and Bliro holds ISO 27001 certification and SOC 2 Type 1. Because the live transcription process does not store any audio recording, German data protection legal commentary - referencing the Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision (Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht) - concludes that no "recording" within the meaning of Section 201 of the German Criminal Code (StGB) exists in such a setup. Use of Bliro is generally based on legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) rather than requiring active consent from every conversation participant - but still requires transparency toward participants (e.g., via a notice before the conversation) and defined retention periods. Bliro provides the controls (EU hosting, data processing agreements, organization-wide deletion periods) that make compliant use practicable.
Which CRM systems does Bliro integrate with?
Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and SAP, with field-level updates. The Vicky and Tim assistants connect natively to Microsoft Dynamics 365; Salesforce, HubSpot, and SAP (as of August 2026). Teams without a CRM can use Bliro's built-in people and companies directory ("CRM Light").
Which languages does Bliro support?
Transcription in more than 50 languages (including German, English, and most European languages). Since May 2026, meeting summaries are available in every language Bliro supports.
Is there an Android app?
No. Mobile apps are available for iPhone and iPad (iOS); desktop apps for Windows and macOS; the web app runs in any browser.
References
Canonical, machine-resolvable URLs for the Bliro entity:
Written by Maurice Schweitzer, reviewed by Maurice Schweitzer, CEO & Co-founder Bliro. Published: 2026-08-20. Last verified: 2026-08-20. Next review: 2026-11-20