What You’ll See
Twilio is a customer engagement platform (CPaaS) that lets businesses build messaging, voice, and email into their apps through APIs. In this episode, Asha Chakrabarty, VP of Product at Twilio, demos the redesigned Twilio Console — unveiled at Signal 2026 — which pulls product discovery, channel configuration, compliance, billing, debugging, and an AI troubleshooting assistant into a single “mission control.” It’s built for every Twilio builder, from an individual developer launching a first app to an enterprise scaling customer engagement globally.
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Key Takeaways
- The redesigned Twilio Console, introduced at Signal 2026, is a single “mission control” that unifies communications, compliance, data, billing, and AI-assisted support in one interface.
- A dynamic homepage and global search let builders find products and settings where they expect them, cutting the time lost switching between separate tools and dashboards.
- An Explore Products page offers frictionless built-in trials, so teams can test channels and capabilities like conversation memory, conversation orchestrator, and Flex before committing.
- A revamped compliance experience gives a consolidated view of numbers and senders and a guided flow for buying a phone number and meeting regulatory requirements, backed by Trust Hub.
- A built-in developer workbench puts logs, webhooks, API credentials, and the debugger in one shared space, so builders troubleshoot across products without escalating to support.
- An integrated AI assistant explains errors on demand — for example, decoding error 30008 — so builders can debug without filing a support ticket.
About Asha Chrabarty
Asha Chakrabarty is a seasoned product and technical leader, currently overseeing multiple product teams at Twilio across Compliance, Commerce, Console & API, Platform Experiences, and Design & UX. With a deep focus on customer empathy and intuitive design, Asha drives the creation of Twilio’s builder experiences that are not only seamless and scalable—but truly delightful. She began her career as a software engineer and has since built a multifaceted portfolio of applications and products across cloud computing, infrastructure, modern application architectures, and developer platforms. Prior to Twilio, Asha led product teams at GitHub, where she was responsible for key services including GitHub Actions, Codespaces, and Advanced Security. Her work there helped shape the future of secure and scalable cloud-based development. Asha also spent over nine years at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where she held a variety of technical and strategic roles, helping grow some of AWS’s most foundational services. With a unique blend of technical depth, product intuition, and user-centered thinking, Asha brings a thoughtful and forward-looking perspective to the intersection of technology, user experience, and platform strategy.
Asha Chakrabarty on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashachakrabarty/
FAQs
- What is the new Twilio Console? Introduced at Signal 2026, it’s a redesigned control center that unifies product discovery, channel setup, compliance, billing, debugging, and AI-assisted support in one place.
- What is Twilio used for? Twilio lets businesses add SMS, voice, email, and video to their apps via APIs, powering customer engagement like notifications, verification, and support.
- How do you troubleshoot errors in the Twilio Console? The Console has a built-in developer workbench for logs and debugging, plus an integrated AI assistant that explains error codes on demand, so you can resolve issues without filing a support ticket.
- What is Twilio Trust Hub? Trust Hub is where your Twilio compliance profiles, registrations, and addresses live; the new Console links to it through a guided flow so compliance doesn’t block launching your channels. =
- How do I access the new Twilio Console? Sign in at twilio.com; new users can sign up for the new Console experience directly.
Resources
Twilio: https://www.twilio.com
Transcript
Greg Kihlstrom (00:00)
Let’s face it, managing customer engagement can be complicated. With multiple products to manage all the communications, data, debugging, and troubleshooting required, that can be overwhelming. But what if there was a single mission control that gave you a unified view of all that and more?
Welcome to One Amazing Thing About Twilio. Today we’re talking with Ashra Chakrabarty, VP of Product at Twilio, and she’s going to be sharing one amazing thing about Twilio console with us today. Asha, welcome to the show.
Asha Chakrabarty (00:39)
Awesome. Thank you, Greg. Thank you for having me on on the podcast. Great to be here.
Greg Kihlstrom (00:43)
Yeah, looking forward to seeing this in action in a in a minute here. Before we do though, why don’t you start with giving a little background on yourself and your role at Twilio?
Asha Chakrabarty (00:51)
Yeah, absolutely. So I lead an org here at Twilio known as the Unified Builder Experiences org, which really means my team focuses on how developers and businesses actually experience the Twilio platform. from the first click in the console all the way to our APIs and SDKs, they build on every single day. And we also own the systems behind our compliance experiences commerce platform.
and just the overall product experience, including UX design and research. at a at a high level, my job really is to make Twilio feel intuitive, trustworthy, and scalable. And that really means balancing kind of the deep technical infrastructure with great product design and helping developers and builders who come to Twilio move faster, helping enterprises stay compliant, and just generally helping businesses grow through better platform experiences.
The the role is our our our org is really at the intersection of you know engineering design and strategy. And you know, on any given day we could be simplifying one developer workflow, we could be improving how customers navigate complex compliance regulations, or we could be building platform capabilities that would be serving you know millions of customer engagement interactions globally. But ultimately our job is really to remove friction for builders so they can focus on creating great products.
Greg Kihlstrom (02:14)
So yeah, yeah. That’s a that’s a pretty pretty wide domain, you know, to your to your point. So lots lots of things to to keep an eye on, which I guess is a a good segue to what we’re gonna look at today. So, you know, you’re gonna show a Trilio console. before we take a look, why don’t you share a little bit, you know, what is this? Who’s the audience? What does it help them do?
Asha Chakrabarty (02:18)
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely. So today I want to highlight the the new Twilio console, as you mentioned. and and that’s mainly because it really is the new front door to the entire Twilio platform. And at Signal 2026, that happened in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, we introduced this new console with a completely redesigned experience that really brings communications, compliance, data, billing, and our AI-assisted support into one unified experience.
And so now the console really acts as a single mission control center where builders can discover products, they can configure different communication channels, they can manage their compliance, monitor their usage, and even get AI powered troubleshooting guidance. So it’s all in one place. It keeps them in their context and in their flow. to your question around the audience, the audience is really every builder and every business that wants to operate on Twilio.
whether you’re an individual developer that you know you’re you’re you’re coming to Twilio to launch your first app, or whether you’re a large enterprise looking to scale, engaging with your customers globally, what’s really important today is that builders you you you lose a huge amount of time because many builders have to context switch between different tools, different dashboards, different support systems, and y you you tend to get overwhelmed by the operational complexity. And so what
Our aim was when we rebuilt this console is to remove all of that friction and just create a more connected and intelligent experience.
Greg Kihlstrom (04:10)
All right, that sounds great. Well why don’t we why don’t we take a look? Why don’t you share your screen and and and show us?
Asha Chakrabarty (04:16)
Awesome. Let’s do it.
So we are in the the Tulio, the new Tullio console. And so you can see as soon as you log in, you’ll find a new dynamic homepage as well as a global search that puts products that you need right where you expect them to be. We haven’t a really updated navigation.
where it makes things very easy for customers to see what Tullio offers, how how builders, all of the tools that builders need in one area, as well as, you know, you definitely want to understand your billing, your usage, and any settings that you want to make. So everything is really streamlined also from a navigation perspective. You can also, you know, easily see all of the kind of the the post-upgrade type of free units you have available to you.
right there at your fingertips. and then you know, when when you’re looking to really just understand you know, what what are all Twilio’s products and services? you know, for teams looking to really try out new products quickly, you can go straight to the Explore products page. it really offers a number of areas where you can start a frictionless built-in trial.
You can also test out new channels and some of our new capabilities and products like conversation memory, conversation orchestrator, you know, flex, and some of our compliance experiences as well. and so you can you can really kick the tires before you fully commit and and upgrade to Twilio. One thing I do want to call out here is.
in when you’re when you’re working with channels like messaging and voice, you you do have to go through a a set of compliance and and regulatory set of requirements. And so the compliance and regulatory management shouldn’t be a roadblock to launching your customer engagement. and so what we did was we we decided to really revamp the entire compliance experience.
To make it easy for you to understand what are all the different senders types that you have available. So you have a consolidated view of numbers and senders that you can utilize to actually communicate over your channels. And it provides a very guided flow to actually purchasing a phone number as well as complete any of the compliance requirements and reminding you what compliance requirements you have or where you are in the process to keep going. It’s also backed by
ensuring that you have the ability to go to trust hub, which is where all of your compliance profiles, registrations, and your addresses live. So it just makes it easy for for customers to understand where where you’re at, what you’re what you’re trying to achieve with compliance and you’re you’re kind of you’re you’re you’re essentially right where you need to be in terms of purchasing a phone number.
be and being able to send traffic over it. I think the the most you know i critical part is we want to make sure builders stay in their flow. And so if we think about what that means we don’t want to have builders have to go to different tools to be able to view their API credentials or their debugger or their alarms and so we’ve built
This one kind of developer workbench right here in the console. And you can see that you can either you can either view it from the bottom or you can view it from the side. And you can essentially just be able to view your logs, your webhooks, everything in just one shared space here. And you can troubleshoot across all of your products without having to escalate to internal experts or turn to support for help. Which, speaking of support, when you do need help,
We do have an integrated AI assistant that is on standby here. Let me minimize this. And so, for example, we you know we we wanna we wanna figure out what this error actually means here because we’re seeing that our deliverability score needs some attention. And so we can we can just type in here quickly. What does
Error three zero zero zero eight mean.
And the Toyo assistant is thinking and it will come back with exactly what the error is. So you don’t have to, you know, input a support ticket or figure things out yourself. It it it just works and it it helps you debug and keeps you in your flow. yeah, and I I think probably just although this is not the you know billing and you know just general
Greg Kihlstrom (09:05)
Yeah.
Nice.
Asha Chakrabarty (09:25)
Usage probably doesn’t make the headline right in terms of what most builders look at. But I think if you look at your finance and operations teams, they care deeply about it. And so we’ve introduced kind of a new organizational level billing experience so that it provides a single view of all your usage, your payment methods, as well as auto recharge controls and any statements so that it eliminates any of your, you know, surprises when it comes time to invoice time.
Greg Kihlstrom (09:53)
Yeah, right.
Great. Yeah. And I mean, so to to your other point, it seems like centralizing all this stuff, I mean it it it mitigates against having to jump between browser windows or, you know, trying to reconcile d you know, multiple numbers and and things like that, right? So I mean, it’s while it it may seem straightforward, it’s actually pulling in a a very, you know, a lot of a lot of information, right?
Asha Chakrabarty (10:19)
It does, it does. And I I think once, you know, if you’re when you when you go from having to use a hundred and different tool sets and having to constantly look at documentation, when when when builders come to the console or when they use their APIs and SDKs, they’re really looking to accomplish something. And we we want to get them over that hump as quickly as possible without them having without putting the cognitive load on them.
Greg Kihlstrom (10:44)
Yeah. great. Well, thanks for thanks for showing this today. For those that want to learn more, where’s what’s the best way for them to do that?
Asha Chakrabarty (10:52)
Yeah, so I you you can absolutely go to the the Twilio dot com website. you’ll be able to sign in. There’ll there’ll be a sign up button for a new console and you will be on you will get to experience the new Tullio console.
Greg Kihlstrom (11:08)
Well, thanks again for joining. again, I’d like to thank Asha Shakrabadi, VP of product at Twilio for joining the show. You can learn more about Asha and Twilio by following the links in the show notes.
