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Harish Kumar

Founder & AI Architect, CrawlQ.ai · 1 appearance on the record.

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Based in Amsterdam, Harish Kumar is the founder of CrawlQ.ai, an AI-driven platform for brand intelligence, audience targeting, and content governance. Prior to bootstrapping CrawlQ, he worked in quantitative finance and enterprise data architecture at organizations including ING and Philips.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 11 not checkable as stated how the 12 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

12 assertions · 5 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 12 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 11 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Harish argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
CrawlQ uses a proprietary AI layer to route prompts to GPT-3
“We have our own proprietary AI layer. It's called Athena. Athena is a smart AI assistant, which communicate between user and all kinds of models like GPT three or AI. You name it. We have created a layer, which got it agnostic to the models.”
Harish Kumar Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 2:40 Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Harish Kumar on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Harish Kumar said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
CrawlQ netted only $110k from $650k in gross AppSumo sales
“So a 110 K is a net net that came to us after all the commissions from Epsom.”
Harish Kumar Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 5:28 Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Under 4% of CrawlQ's AppSumo buyers convert to monthly subscriptions
“That percent is quite low at this moment. It's not more than three or four percent to be honest with you.”
Harish Kumar Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 6:19 Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kumar claims CrawlQ generates $80k in monthly net profit on $88k MRR
“Oh yes. Yes. That's, that will be true number. What I was saying, whatever I have invested, I was also trying to take away from the profit and get the breakeven.”
Harish Kumar Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 14:06 Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice
Disclosure
Kumar pays his CrawlQ team members under $600 per month
“I get everyone which is under 600 dollars per month, which who are working with me.”
Harish Kumar Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 15:24 Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kumar sold his house twice to bootstrap CrawlQ
“It's completely bootstrap from my own on funding. I have already put from last two years. I have sold my house two times moved to a lower, a smaller house.”
Harish Kumar Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 7:41 Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice
Assertion Not checkable as stated
CrawlQ operates on just $7,500 in total monthly expenses
“Everything, everything, including my AWS or other type of infrastructure cost GPT, counting together, 7500 is the total run rate.”
Harish Kumar Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 11:15 Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice
Disclosure
Kumar targets a $10M+ valuation for CrawlQ's next funding round
“The valuation I have in mind around ten million. That's my valuation. And the numbers of course is difficult to arrive at this stage, but ten million and above is the valuation at this stage.”
Harish Kumar Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 17:30 Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice
Assertion Supported
CrawlQ uses a proprietary AI layer to route prompts to GPT-3
“We have our own proprietary AI layer. It's called Athena. Athena is a smart AI assistant, which communicate between user and all kinds of models like GPT three or AI. You name it. We have created a layer, which got it agnostic to the models.”
Harish Kumar Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 2:40 Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice
Assertion Not checkable as stated
CrawlQ customers pay $250 monthly on average, agencies start at $1,000
“On average, our customer pays 250 dollars per month. And of course for agency package, it starts around thousand dollars per month.”
Harish Kumar Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 3:04 Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice
Assertion Not checkable as stated
CrawlQ has around 350 active monthly recurring customers
“Apart from the monthly sort of customers that are on our platform is around 350 customers.”
Harish Kumar Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 3:44 Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice
Assertion Not checkable as stated
CrawlQ generated $650,000 in gross revenue from its AppSumo deal
“We sold total revenue of 650 K on AppSumo.”
Harish Kumar Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 5:12 Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice
Assertion Not checkable as stated
CrawlQ sold its AppSumo lifetime deal to 3,500 customers
“Right now I have 3500 customers who purchased AppSumo deal.”
Harish Kumar Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 6:08 Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice
Disclosure
Harish Kumar discloses owning 100% equity in CrawlQ
“Yes, I own the hundred percent of the company.”
Harish Kumar Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 8:05 Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice
Disclosure
Kumar plans to raise up to $2M for CrawlQ
“At this stage we wanted to raise around one and a half million to two million. That's what we're currently our current calculations are.”
Harish Kumar Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 16:43 Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kumar: CrawlQ added around $2,500 in recurring revenue last month
“The last month on the recurring revenue, it was I have to keep all these numbers in my head, but it was almost around 2500 was the revenue that we ate.”
Harish Kumar Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 9:28 Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Harish Kumar: CrawlQ operates with a 10-person team
“We are 10 people on the team.”
Harish Kumar Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 10:34 Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice
Disclosure
Six of CrawlQ's eight core team members are based in India
“Out of eight people, my six people from India.”
Harish Kumar Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 14:50 Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice Dec 6, 2021 10m
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