PressW

11 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 12, 2026 by Tarun Thummala · said 7 times in 1 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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Jan 12, 2026
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Thummala: 90% of PressW's business comes from post-launch relationships
“Actually, no, I would say only like less than 10% of this business, less than, yeah, less than 10%, let's call it, let's just make it be generous with it. Less than 10% came from like old relationships. I'd say 90% were people that I've met and interacted with…”
Tarun Thummala Jan 12, 2026 ▶ 9:05 #2293 $2 million / year AI engineering firm
Jan 12, 2026 neutral
Insight
Clients buy business outcomes, not custom code or Zapier, says Thummala
“Who really cares about what it's made in or if it's custom or if it's Zapier, like the thing that you're, should be buying is the outcome for the business.”
Tarun Thummala Jan 12, 2026 ▶ 24:52 #2293 $2 million / year AI engineering firm
Jan 12, 2026
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Thummala: Strategy is under 10% of PressW business; 80% are engineers
“I used to say consultancy, and people then thought that we were mostly doing advising work and strategy work, which is actually, like, less than 10% of our business. Like, a majority of our, almost 80% of my team are engineers.”
Tarun Thummala Jan 12, 2026 ▶ 23:09 #2293 $2 million / year AI engineering firm
Jan 12, 2026 neutral
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Internal AI coding workflows will eventually commoditize across all firms, says Thummala
“Eventually everyone's going to have the same sort of, like, technical architecture behind it.”
Tarun Thummala Jan 12, 2026 ▶ 32:48 #2293 $2 million / year AI engineering firm
Jan 12, 2026 bullish
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AI will soon run PressW projects from sales to completion autonomously
“Technically speaking, I think we are approaching the point where our business could go from one sales call to a finished project. With very, very little human in the loop, basically just prompting a nudge.”
Tarun Thummala Jan 12, 2026 ▶ 39:34 #2293 $2 million / year AI engineering firm
Jan 12, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Thummala: PressW generated over $2 million in revenue last year
“Yeah, we did we did over two million dollars last year.”
Tarun Thummala Jan 12, 2026 ▶ 0:38 #2293 $2 million / year AI engineering firm
Jan 12, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Thummala: PressW automated 90% to 95%+ of court document processing for a client
“We were able to, like, build a little system that you know, can automate up to, like, 90, 95% plus of those types of documents.”
Tarun Thummala Jan 12, 2026 ▶ 1:53 #2293 $2 million / year AI engineering firm
Jan 12, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Thummala: PressW chose services to generate cash and learnings before SaaS
“Services make sense, we can get cash now, we can watch the world, and we can stay on the forefront of what's possible today, and ideally take those learnings, like, just maximize surface area of information and then from that, you know, start to build somethin…”
Tarun Thummala Jan 12, 2026 ▶ 5:48 #2293 $2 million / year AI engineering firm
Jan 12, 2026 bullish
Insight
Thummala: AI flipped coding to 80% review and cut raw time 10x
“The time spent on coding was probably 80% generation, 20% review. It's flipped that into 80% review, 20% generation. But the key is, is that the actual amount of like the raw time has dropped by like 10 X when you make that kind of switch.”
Tarun Thummala Jan 12, 2026 ▶ 31:44 #2293 $2 million / year AI engineering firm
Jan 12, 2026 positive
Disclosure
PressW runs its internal agent orchestration system on Anthropic's Claude
“Then we orchestrated all in our own little application that is largely built on top of Claude and Claude code both together.”
Tarun Thummala Jan 12, 2026 ▶ 40:18 #2293 $2 million / year AI engineering firm
Jan 12, 2026 neutral
Insight
Thummala: AI enterprise buyers now demand specific workflows and ROI
“In the last year, people are now sharpening up their budgets. They're sharpening their pencils, and they're like, okay, we know AI is effective. We know it's a hundred percent going to be transformative. How? Like, what are the specific workflows, outcomes, RO…”
Tarun Thummala Jan 12, 2026 ▶ 27:08 #2293 $2 million / year AI engineering firm
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