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Tigranian: Standard Google SEO directly drives visibility in LLMs like ChatGPT
“We actually optimizing for Google and whatever we do, same impact is happening also in LLMs. So not much specific for ChartGPT. You actually doing exactly for SEO, it have a lot of impact on ChartGPT.”
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Tigranian: 95% of Buildern's $2M ARR is generated from SEO
“I would say 95 most likely.”
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Tigranian: Construction software must be all-in-one because users cannot manage integrations
“With construction management software, it's a little different. You need to have many different modules to work on because in construction, there are specific things. So whenever you're looking over legacy softwares, you need to bring so many different new mod…”
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Tigranian: Buildern generates around $40k monthly profit on $160k revenue
“Around 40.”
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Buildern runs zero outbound sales and spends nothing on paid ads
“So we don't do any outbound. Everything, whatever we have is just inbound. We don't spend any marketing money on any paid ads or et cetera.”
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Tigranian: Buildern serves around 300 customers and 3,000 to 4,000 users
“So right now we're serving around 300 customers. Usually as users, they are more like three, 4000.”
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Tigranian: Buildern raised around $500k to reach profitability
“So we raised around half million from them. So with that money, we came profitable.”
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Buildern hires R&D in Armenia and customer-facing roles globally
“So customer facing roles we usually hire in US, Australia, or abroad. Engineering, QA, product, we hire in Armenia.”
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Tigranian: Buildern operated without dedicated sales or support for three years
“I've been selling for over three years. There was no salesperson. There was no support. There was no customer success. We built customer facing teams last, last six months.”
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Tigranian: Buildern's ACV is between $7.5K and $8K
“So our ACV is a little bit higher than 6000 something. So it's becoming like more close to seven and half and eight.”
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Tigranian: Buildern sets $1M annualized quota for account executives
“Annualized around one million.”
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Tigranian: Buildern targets $80K–$100K base and $150K OTE for AEs
“Targeting to have for them as days around like ATK maybe hundred OT will be like 150 somewhere.”
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Tigranian: Buildern was bootstrapped using dev shop capital and team
“And that was the reason, like when I started building, I already had a team with me. So it was not like starting from scratch. I had team and also I have money to bootstrap.”
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Buildern employs around 35 full-time staff across multiple countries
“So full-time we are around 35. They are not, everyone is in U.S., but across different countries.”
