Velt

Velt is a comprehensive, AI-powered collaboration SDK designed for developers and product teams. It provides a suite of pre-built, customizable components that allow you to add rich, multiplayer experiences to your web application with remarkable speed. Instead of spending months building complex features like real-time co-editing or contextual commenting from scratch, Velt enables you to integrate them in minutes. This allows your team to focus on your core product while still delivering the engaging, collaborative features that modern users expect, ultimately boosting user engagement, retention, and overall product growth.

How to use Velt

Integrating Velt into your application is a straightforward, three-step process designed for developer efficiency:

1. Setup Velt SDK: Begin by installing the Velt SDK into your project using your preferred package manager, such as NPM or Yarn. You'll get a free API key from the Velt website to initialize the service.
2. Add Components: Velt works with all major JavaScript frameworks. You can import pre-built components like VeltProvider, VeltComments, and VeltCommentTool directly into your application's code. Place these components where you want the collaboration features to appear in your UI.
3. Customize Components: Tailor the look and feel of Velt's components to seamlessly match your brand's design. Velt offers extensive customization options via CSS, allowing you to control colors, layout, variants, and even enable a dark mode to ensure a cohesive user experience.

Core Features of Velt

• Asynchronous Collaboration: Enable users to leave feedback and communicate on their own time with features like Figma-style contextual comments on any element, text, or chart; Loom-style screen, audio, and video recordings with AI-generated transcripts; @mentions to tag colleagues; and annotation tools like arrows.
• Real-time Collaboration: Create a live, shared workspace with features like Miro-style live cursors and presence indicators to see who is active; Google Docs-style live co-editing on text fields; Slack Huddle-like audio/video discussions; and live state synchronization across all users.
• AI-Powered Co-pilot: Leverage AI to enhance collaboration. This includes automatic transcription for video and audio comments, making feedback searchable and more accessible.
• Engagement Analytics: Track user interaction with built-in analytics that show who has viewed a document or feature and when, providing valuable insights into user engagement.
• Developer-Friendly Infrastructure: Velt provides a robust backend, including real-time servers, databases, file storage, REST APIs, and webhooks. It's built to be scalable and secure.

Use Cases for Velt

Velt's versatility makes it suitable for a wide range of applications:

• SaaS Products: Add in-app commenting for user feedback, task management, and support.
• Analytics Dashboards: Allow teams to discuss specific charts and data points directly on the dashboard.
• Design & Video Editing Tools: Implement Frame.io-style video commenting or Figma-style design feedback.
• No-Code & Low-Code Platforms: Enable users to collaborate on the applications they are building.
• CRMs & Project Management Tools: Facilitate team communication by allowing comments on customer records, tasks, and projects.
• E-learning & Documentation: Allow students or team members to ask questions and collaborate directly on course materials or documents.

Advantages of Velt

Velt offers significant advantages over building collaboration features in-house:

• Accelerated Time-to-Market: Reduce development time from months or quarters to just days or weeks, allowing you to ship features up to 5x faster.
• Reduced Development Costs: Save the cost of hiring and managing multiple full-time engineers dedicated to building and maintaining a complex collaboration stack.
• Increased User Engagement & Retention: By adding powerful in-app collaboration, Velt helps increase key metrics like weekly active users and time-on-page, leading to higher retention.
• Focus on Core Competencies: Free up your engineering resources to focus on your product's unique value proposition.
• Enterprise-Grade Security & Scalability: Velt is SOC 2 compliant and offers enterprise features like self-hosting, dedicated infrastructure, multi-region hosting, and GDPR APIs.

Pricing and Plans

Velt offers a tiered pricing structure to suit different needs:

• Hacker Plan (Free): Ideal for hackathons, side projects, and non-production use. Includes up to 100 Monthly Active Collaborators (MACs) and access to all 15+ features.
• Growth Plan (Custom): Designed for growing companies and production applications. It offers contract-based MACs, full customization, pre-built components, premium support, and access to backend infrastructure like webhooks and REST APIs. A 14-day free trial is available.
• Enterprise Plan (Custom): Tailored for large organizations with advanced needs. Includes everything in the Growth plan plus enterprise-grade security (SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA), options for self-hosting data, isolated servers, dedicated support, and implementation services.

A 'Monthly Active Collaborator' (MAC) is defined as a user who actively uses one of Velt's collaboration features in a given month.