Mohit Bhakuni

Founder and CEO, Contify · 1 appearance on the record.

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Mohit Bhakuni is the founder and CEO of Contify, an AI-powered market and competitive intelligence platform established in 2009. An alumnus of IIT Delhi and INSEAD, he previously worked at Deloitte Consulting and held operational roles at The Indian Express Group and Hindustan Times.

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Insight

Contify uses a hybrid human-AI model because humans grasp context better

“Technology can do certain things really well, which is processing large amount of data and a human mind can very easily can get the context much easier than an algorithm can do. So we have built in hybrid system, and that's why we call it a curated market inte…”

Mohit Bhakuni Mar 7, 2018 ▶ 12:58 956 How Does He Find Sharp People At $900/mo For BI Tool Doing $75k in MRR?

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Contify customers pay an average of $1,000 per month

“Thousand is a good average.”

Mohit Bhakuni Mar 7, 2018 ▶ 3:34 956 How Does He Find Sharp People At $900/mo For BI Tool Doing $75k in MRR?

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Mohit Bhakuni bootstrapped Contify with an initial investment of just $1,500

“So we put it 1500 dollar to start the company.”

Mohit Bhakuni Mar 7, 2018 ▶ 4:11 956 How Does He Find Sharp People At $900/mo For BI Tool Doing $75k in MRR?

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Contify generates $75,000 in monthly recurring revenue

“It's around 70. It's 75 grand a month we are doing. So I think the mean is is around a thousand dollars, but we are doing 75 grand a month.”

Mohit Bhakuni Mar 7, 2018 ▶ 4:30 956 How Does He Find Sharp People At $900/mo For BI Tool Doing $75k in MRR?

Disclosure

Contify acquires customers through referrals and former users changing jobs

“We have been getting customers, mostly from our references, people who have used them, used us and moved to the next company”

Mohit Bhakuni Mar 7, 2018 ▶ 5:44 956 How Does He Find Sharp People At $900/mo For BI Tool Doing $75k in MRR?

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Contify has maintained 95% annual customer retention over eight years

“We have overall is eight years 95% retention of our customers.”

Mohit Bhakuni Mar 7, 2018 ▶ 9:21 956 How Does He Find Sharp People At $900/mo For BI Tool Doing $75k in MRR?

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Contify's customers stay for more than four years on average

“We have seen customers for more than four years on average.”

Mohit Bhakuni Mar 7, 2018 ▶ 10:37 956 How Does He Find Sharp People At $900/mo For BI Tool Doing $75k in MRR?

Disclosure

Contify hires graduates in a smaller Indian town to lower labor costs

“So we have two offices. New Delhi is expensive. We have another office, which is in a smaller town in India, and we are getting graduates in, in, in that town.”

Mohit Bhakuni Mar 7, 2018 ▶ 12:47 956 How Does He Find Sharp People At $900/mo For BI Tool Doing $75k in MRR?

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Contify's platform customers pay between $300 and $2,000 per month

“Now on average, our platform customers are paying in the range of 300 dollars a month to 2000 dollars a month. So it ranges from that depending upon what all they need to track.”

Mohit Bhakuni Mar 7, 2018 ▶ 3:04 956 How Does He Find Sharp People At $900/mo For BI Tool Doing $75k in MRR?

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Contify's API and data feed customers pay $2,000 to $5,000 monthly

“And the data feeds, which are our API customers are paying between 2000 to 5000 dollar a month.”

Mohit Bhakuni Mar 7, 2018 ▶ 3:18 956 How Does He Find Sharp People At $900/mo For BI Tool Doing $75k in MRR?

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Contify has a team of 95 people based in New Delhi

“We are based in India, New Delhi, and we are 95 people.”

Mohit Bhakuni Mar 7, 2018 ▶ 3:51 956 How Does He Find Sharp People At $900/mo For BI Tool Doing $75k in MRR?

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Bhakuni: Contify has 45 to 50 paying customers

“We have approximately four 50 customers, 45 to 50 customers.”

Mohit Bhakuni Mar 7, 2018 ▶ 4:20 956 How Does He Find Sharp People At $900/mo For BI Tool Doing $75k in MRR?

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
956 How Does He Find Sharp People At $900/mo For BI Tool Doing $75k in MRR?	Mar 7, 2018	6m

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