Driverless: What Waymo Can Teach Voice AI About Going to Production | Founder Dinner with Coval & Rho

Rho and Coval are hosting an intimate dinner for founders building voice and agentic AI. A small group around one table — no panels, no pitches, no name tags. Just a few hours with people shipping agents into production, and the kind of conversation that only happens when the room is small enough to hear everyone. The self-driving industry spent a decade learning what it takes to go from an impressive demo to something you'd put a stranger in. Simulation at scale, the long tail of edge cases, knowing when "it mostly works" isn't good enough. Voice AI is running the same playbook now — and most teams are rediscovering those lessons the hard way. We'll get into what actually separates a demo from a deployment: testing the calls you hope never happen, catching quality drift after every prompt and model change, where human review still earns its keep, and how to know when an agent is genuinely ready. Good food, small group, no agenda beyond the conversation. #sf About the hosts Rho is the all-in-one banking platform for startups and the accountants supporting them. With banking setup in minutes, cashback cards, and powerful tools for managing spend, paying bills, and closing the books, Rho helps high-growth startups move fast and stay focused — backed by support that goes to the end of the earth to help you win. Coval is the evaluation platform for enterprise voice AI, built by former Waymo engineers applying autonomous vehicle testing standards to the way companies deploy and scale conversational agents. The platform gives engineering, product, QA, and operations teams the infrastructure to stress-test agents across millions of realistic scenarios before launch, monitor every live conversation in production, and continuously sharpen performance through human-in-the-loop review. Trusted by more than 60 enterprises, including Fortune 500s and Zoom, Coval is the platform organizations are turning to as voice AI becomes a non-negotiable part of how they operate. Rho is a f