Prelude operates an SMS and OTP verification infrastructure layer for developer-first onboarding and authentication. The company is sales-led—14 of 24 open roles are sales-focused—while simultaneously building out anti-fraud detection and a distributed system on AWS. The pain-point pattern (spam/fraud vulnerability, unreliable SMS delivery, cost management) suggests Prelude is competing on reliability and price rather than feature breadth, and the project list shows concurrent investment in GTM enablement and the next API version.
Prelude provides SMS and OTP verification infrastructure via unified APIs aimed at developers building authentication and mobile onboarding flows. The product competes on price, reliability, and API ergonomics for companies needing fraud detection alongside verification. The company is based in Paris with 11–50 employees and is actively hiring in France and the United States. Tech stack centers on AWS services (DynamoDB, SQS, Lambda, Redshift) with Go and Next.js for application development, and integrations into HubSpot and Sales Navigator for sales operations.
Go, Node.js (Next.js), AWS services (DynamoDB, SQS, Lambda, Redshift), gRPC, Vercel, HubSpot. Also integrates with Apollo and Sales Navigator for sales workflows.
Paris, France. Currently hiring in France and the United States.
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