Alarie: Blue J approaches 3,400 firm subscribers, adding 10 daily
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Ben Alarie is the founder and CEO of Blue J, an AI tax research platform. He shares customer growth milestones after launching their generative AI product.
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“We've gone from fewer than a hundred firms subscribing at the end of 20, 23 to like 1200 ish at the end of 20, 24. Now we're closing in on 3400 firms who are signed up to Bluejay and every day it's like we're adding about another 10 Firms, new logos every single day and it's wild.”
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