Cluely has exploded to nearly $7 million ARR just one week after launching its enterprise product, founder Roy Lee told TechCrunch. The startup’s AI-powered meeting tool delivers real-time notes, context, and question prompts invisibly during calls.
Lee says users across industries—sales, support, remote tutoring—are scrambling to try it. Cluely quietly doubled a major public company’s contract to $2.5 million this week. The enterprise product builds on the consumer offering with enhanced team management and security.
Lee previously revealed Cluely had topped $3 million ARR and was profitable before this surge. The startup rode a storm of controversy after Lee tweeted his Columbia University suspension for developing a cheating tool for coding interviews. Early marketing leaned into that edgy angle: “cheat on everything.” Now the tagline is toned down to “Everything you Need. Before you ask. … This feels like cheating.” 
“Every single person who has a meeting or an interview is testing this out.”
“Meeting notes have been a proven very sticky, very interesting AI use case. The only problem with them is they’re all post-call. You want to look back at them in the middle of a meeting, and that is what we offer.”
Competition is heating up fast. On Thursday, Pickle announced it built Glass, a free, open-source tool mimicking Cluely’s real-time note-taking. Glass already pulled in more than 850 stars and nearly 150 forks on GitHub by midday—showing the developer community’s eager interest.
Time will tell if Cluely can keep its momentum against free clones like Glass.
