James McDonough

Founder & CEO, FAT FINGER · 1 appearance on the record.

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James McDonough is the founder and CEO of SEE Forge, the company behind FAT FINGER, a no-code mobile workflow platform used across heavy industries like oil & gas and manufacturing. He brings a management consulting background into enterprise mobility solutions after going through Houston's SURGE Accelerator.

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The record, in short

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Fatfinger competitor iAuditor has raised nearly $100 million

“We have some competitors that have raised, you know, a hundred million dollars. [819] Nathan Latka: Name one. [821] James McDonough: like iAuditor's almost there, and yeah, and there's, yeah, a number of ones that have raised big venture dollars”

James McDonough Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 13:36 1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

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What they said10 Episodes1

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Disclosure

Fatfinger sells bottom-up to frontline workers, skipping the CIO

“Instead of selling to the CIO or the executive, we sell from the bottoms up and allow them to bubble up the usage and the, I guess the initiation of change.”

James McDonough Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 6:53 1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Assertion Supported

Fatfinger competitor iAuditor has raised nearly $100 million

James McDonough Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 13:36 1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Disclosure

Fatfinger relies entirely on digital marketing without using any SDRs

“We only do digital marketing. So really the only time we get in flipping the enterprise side we don't have any, I guess it's not like the SDR.”

James McDonough Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 17:24 1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Fatfinger acquires enterprise customer logos for approximately $1,000

“And then you can acquire you know, an enterprise logo for around a thousand.”

James McDonough Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 21:02 1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Assertion Not publicly verifiable

Fatfinger counts Exxon and Fortune 100 companies as customers

“We have from Exxon to other you know, Fortune, 100 companies using the platform”

James McDonough Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 7:12 1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Insight

Fatfinger's bottom-up adoption expands from 10-person teams to full sites

“Well, it starts in the kind of the 10, cause it starts in a kind of department or team just naturally. And then that kind of site has in the, you know, in the tens or 50 or et cetera. And then maybe that site has a hundred or whatever. And then that's where we…”

James McDonough Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 16:17 1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Fatfinger acquires trial users for just over $20 via digital marketing

“Doing our different testing from online marketing, we can acquire a trial for about just over 20 bucks.”

James McDonough Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 20:52 1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Disclosure

Fatfinger charges $9 to $15 per user monthly for Pro plan

“We have a kind of standard pro plan ranging from nine to 15 bucks a month per user, unlimited apps.”

James McDonough Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 9:16 1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Fatfinger has approximately 50 paying customer accounts

“So I guess we're around maybe 50 accounts.”

James McDonough Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 12:26 1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Disclosure

Fatfinger has raised approximately $1.5 million to date

“About 1.1, basically 1.5.”

James McDonough Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 13:08 1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool	Jan 21, 2019	12m

James McDonough

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