Rob Carpenter founded Valyant in 2017 with a specific focus on developing a voice assistant drive-through solution for fast food restaurants. While Carpenter insists Valyant is building a platform that can support other use cases in the future, he also is clearly focused on mastering the drive-through use case and goes into depth about the hardware, software, and workflow Valyant has built.

We discuss the key technical and business process challenges that Valyant had to overcome and what their customers set as key solution requirements. In addition, Carpenter breaks down Valyant's tech stack and the competitive environment.