Cluely’s ARR doubled in a week to $7 million, says founder Roy Lee. But rivals are coming.

Cluely’s revenue has since skyrocketed to around $7 million New Enterprise Products Released A week ago, founder Roy Lee told TechCrunch. “Everyone who has been in the meeting or interviews is testing this.”

For a whileone of the most talked about startups in Silicon Valley, uses AI to analyze online conversations, deliver real-time notes, provide context, and offer questions. This information is carefully displayed on the user’s screen and is invisible to others.

In the weeks leading up to the release of the product, Lee boasted that the company’s annual repeat revenue (ARR) exceeded $3 million, making the startup profitable.

The increase in interest comes from both consumers and businesses, he said.

Cluely is a startup that emerged from the controversy after Lee Posted In the X-thread of the virus, he says he was interrupted by Columbia University as he and his co-founder developed a tool to trick software engineer job interviews.

He looked back and created products and startups from technology. Originally, I use marketing catchphrases that help me “cheat everything.” Now it’s supported like a big league VCS Andreessen HorowitzAbstract Ventures, and Susa Ventures have made marketing “everything you need. Before you ask… this feels like cheating.”

have It has changed to the feeling of Silicon Valley from That anger bait marketing.

But the startup’s controversial history has not stopped companies from showing interest in Cluely’s products, Lee claims this week he signed a public company that doubled its annual contract with Cluely to $2.5 million. Lee refused the company’s name.

The enterprise version of the product is similar to consumer offerings, but comes with some additional features such as team management and additional security settings, Lee said. Business use cases include sales calls, customer support and remote tutoring.

What features are most interesting to customers? According to Lee, it can take real-time notes.

“The meeting notes have proven to be very sticky and very interesting AI use cases. The only problem with them is that they are all later,” Lee said of the competitors’ products. “You want to look back at them in the middle of a meeting, and that’s what we offer.”

However, Cluely’s real-time note taker may be easy to replicate. On Thursday, Pickles, a company that describes itself as a digital clone factory, claimed it in X It made glassopen source, free product with very similar features to Cluely. By the daytime, it had already achieved over 850 stars and had forked nearly 150 times. This shows that the open source developer community is trying out this free version.

Time will tell if Cluely’s meteor rise can withstand competition from free copycat products like Glass.