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Cold calling frustrated Milan. Now his AI makes the calls.

What started at 42 Berlin as a fix for cold outreach is now Cora Intelligence, a company building AI voice agents.

  • Milan
  • Cora Intelligence
  • Founded Cora Intelligence, now with paying customers
  • March 3, 2026
Milan in a 42 hoodie beside the Cora Intelligence website

Some of the most interesting projects at 42 start with a very specific frustration. For Milan, a 42 Berlin graduate, it was cold calling.

the first version.

That frustration became Cora Intelligence, an AI sales outreach assistant that adapts its message to how each client communicates, whether someone responds better to rational arguments, emotional framing or something in between. The aim was to sharpen instinct, not replace it.

where 42 comes in.

At 42 Berlin he found the space, the community and the collaboration that helped the idea take shape.

now a company.

By March 2026 Cora Intelligence was a company Milan builds full-time: a C-Corp, moving its operations to New York, already working with paying customers and preparing for its next funding phase.

the calls nobody gets to.

Since then Cora has moved into AI voice agents. In the company's own words: "Cora Intelligence builds AI voice agents that make the calls a business never gets to." Cora Money Recovery calls the customers behind failed payments and overdue invoices. Cora Outreach researches new leads, calls and emails them and books meetings. Cora Operations answers incoming calls. There is a public API and an MCP server, so other AI tools can plug into it.

See what Cora does.

Milan

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