{"id":42062,"date":"2025-07-06T00:36:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T00:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/42062\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T00:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T00:36:21","slug":"cluelys-arr-doubled-in-a-week-to-7m-founder-roy-lee-says-but-rivals-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/42062\/","title":{"rendered":"Cluely\u2019s ARR doubled in a week to $7M, founder Roy Lee says. But rivals are coming."},"content":{"rendered":"

Cluely\u2019s revenue has skyrocketed to about $7 million in ARR since it launched its new enterprise product<\/a> a week ago, founder Roy Lee told TechCrunch. \u201cEvery single person who has a meeting or an interview is testing this out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cluely<\/a>, one of Silicon Valley\u2019s most-talked-about startups, offers products that use AI to analyze online conversations, deliver real-time notes, provide context, and suggest questions to ask. This information appeared discreetly on the user\u2019s screen, invisible to others.<\/p>\n

For weeks leading up to the product reveal, Lee boasted that the company\u2019s annual recurring revenue (ARR) exceeded $3 million and that the startup was profitable.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The increase in interest is coming from consumers and businesses alike, he said.<\/p>\n

Cluely is a startup born of controversy after Lee posted<\/a> in a viral X thread saying he was suspended by Columbia University because he and a co-founder developed a tool to cheat on job interviews for software engineers.<\/p>\n

He turned around and created a product and startup out of the tech, originally using the marketing tagline that it helps you \u201ccheat on everything.\u201d Now that it is backed by big-league VCs like Andreessen Horowitz<\/a>, Abstract Ventures, and Susa Ventures, it has toned down its marketing to \u201cEverything You Need. Before You Ask. \u2026 This feels like cheating.\u201d<\/p>\n

It has turned into a Silicon Valley sensation<\/a> from its rage-bait marketing.<\/a><\/p>\n

But the startup\u2019s controversial history hasn\u2019t stopped businesses from showing interest in Cluely\u2019s product, Lee insists, telling us that it has signed a public company that just this week doubled its annual contract with Cluely to $2.5 million. Lee declined to name the company.<\/p>\n

The enterprise version of the product is similar to the consumer offering, but it comes with some extra features such as team management and additional security settings, Lee said. Business use cases include sales calls, customer support, and remote tutoring.<\/p>\n

Which Cluely features are the most interesting to customers? According to Lee, it\u2019s Cluely\u2019s ability to take real-time notes.<\/p>\n

\u201cMeeting notes have been a proven very sticky, very interesting AI use case. The only problem with them is they\u2019re all post-call,\u201d Lee said of competitors\u2019 products. \u201cYou want to look back at them in the middle of a meeting, and that is what we offer.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Cluely\u2019s real-time notetaker may be easy to replicate. On Thursday, Pickle, a company that describes itself as a digital clone factory, claimed on X that it built Glass<\/a>, an open source, free product with very similar functionality to Cluely. By mid-day it had already garnered over 850 stars and been forked nearly 150 times \u2014 indicating that the open source developer community is giving this free version a try.<\/p>\n

Time will tell if Cluely\u2019s meteoric rise can withstand competition from free copycat products like Glass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cluely\u2019s revenue has skyrocketed to about $7 million in ARR since it launched its new enterprise product a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[33104,512,64,5702,607,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-42062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-ai-notetaker","9":"tag-andreessen-horowitz","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-cluely","12":"tag-entrepreneurship","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114803493015469015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}