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About
OfOne built conversational AI software that automates end-to-end ordering at fast-food drive-thrus for restaurant operators and national chains, including questions, upselling, and point-of-sale processing. Its differentiation was restaurant-specific, human-centric voice automation designed to work with existing drive-thru systems, improve ordering performance, and reduce labor; following its 2026 acquisition, the team anchors Deepgram for Restaurants.
Market
OfOne competes in the restaurant voice-AI and quick-service drive-thru automation market; Deepgram announced its acquisition of OfOne in January 2026, positioning the product as a specialized restaurant application within a broader voice-AI platform. OfOne differentiates through end-to-end automation—from greeting and conversational ordering to POS execution—combined with contextual upselling, loyalty support, and compatibility with existing drive-thru audio and restaurant systems.
OfOne targets quick-service and fast-food restaurant chains, especially major national chains, franchisees, and multi-unit operators seeking to automate drive-thru ordering. The likely buyers are restaurant operations, technology, and corporate-brand leaders focused on labor efficiency, order accuracy, throughput, upselling, and customer experience.
At a Glance
Problem
OfOne addresses the labor and service bottlenecks involved in taking orders at fast-food drive-thrus, the largest restaurant order channel in the United States, with roughly 200,000 locations. The core pain is expensive, repetitive labor: OfOne states that a typical restaurant owner could save about $60,000 in labor costs by automating order taking. The primary use case is an AI agent handling the drive-thru conversation from greeting a customer through order completion, especially during busy periods or when staffing is constrained.
Product / Service
OfOne is conversational-AI software for restaurant chains that automates the end-to-end drive-thru ordering process. Using large language models, it greets customers, answers questions, processes orders through the point-of-sale system, and works with existing drive-thru audio equipment rather than requiring a new physical infrastructure layer.
Beyond reducing labor expense, the product is designed to improve the customer experience and increase revenue per order. It can intelligently upsell—for example, suggesting ice cream on a hot day—and is programmed to respond courteously, consistently saying please and thank you.
Market
OfOne competes in generative-AI restaurant technology, specifically automated conversational ordering for quick-service restaurant drive-thrus. The available company materials do not identify named competitors, so the most defensible positioning is as an AI drive-thru order-taking and restaurant-operations solution rather than against a specific vendor set.
The company was founded in 2022, entered Y Combinator’s Winter 2023 batch, and had raised $500,000 according to the available profile data. It reported signed and deployed pilots at major national-chain stores, indicating commercial testing and deployment rather than a purely pre-product stage. However, the available evidence does not disclose revenue or customer counts, and it records that OfOne was acquired on January 13, 2026; therefore, its standalone post-acquisition operating status is not clear as of August 1, 2026.
Founders & Leadership
Funding History
Y Combinator, SignalFire
Recent News
Michigan State University reported that Deepgram acquired OfOne, the enterprise voice AI company co-founded by Adam Proschek. OfOne’s restaurant application expertise will be combined with Deepgram’s speech-AI research and infrastructure in a new business unit.
Built In reported Deepgram’s $130 million Series C funding round and its acquisition of OfOne. OfOne’s technology serves restaurants and quick-service drive-thrus and is being integrated into Deepgram for Restaurants to improve customer experience and order accuracy.
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OfOne used an enterprise B2B sales model, selling or deploying AI order-automation software to restaurant chains and operators. Its website used a book-a-demo motion rather than publishing pricing, while YC described signed and deployed pilots with major national chains; no specific pricing structure was disclosed.