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Cal AI has generated over $10 million in revenue this year
“So I was backtracking on the revenue, revenue calculations, probably closer to like a little over 10 right now.”
Cal AI recruits the majority of its talent directly from X
“I'd say most of our talent came straight from X.”
Cal AI receives between 20,000 and 30,000 new downloads daily
“Every day we get 20 to 30,000 new downloads.”
Over 20% of new Cal AI downloads convert to trial or paid
“20 to 25 will convert either to paying right away or into a trial.”
Yadegari projects Cal AI's annual subscription renewal rate at 25% to 50%
“However, we expect that it's going to be between 25 to 50% renew, which is very broad, but that's the window we expect it to be.”
Yadegari: AI wingman apps monetize repeat resubscriptions on weekly models
“I have many friends who have built the apps like RizGPT and other of these AI wingman response apps. And what I've learned from them is that, first of all, they're on the weekly pricing model, and two, they're mostly capitalizing on the repeat users.”
Yadegari: Most Cal AI clones rely on basic inaccurate prompts
“A lot of people will make GPT wrappers for things like Cal AI. We have so many clones right now, and most of them have done nothing to make the app more accurate. They just put a basic prompt in and have GPT estimate the calories, whatever that means from the …”
Cal AI reached $1 million in sales within five months
“Yeah, that was like five months into the company.”
Adding reassurance screens to the onboarding flow boosted Cal AI's conversion rate
“And then we add the idea to, okay, let's add a screen that says, thank you for trusting us.
Let's add a screen that says, you're going to lose weight faster with Cal AI.
And that was cool.
That increased the conversion rate.
So how do we take this one step fur…”