Cluely

Announcing Cluely's $15M fundraise, led by Andreessen Horowitz. I started this company three months ago with my best friend Neel Shanmugam and my roommate Alex Chen. Since then, we've done over a billion impressions across social media and generated millions of dollars in revenue. Cluely started as a tool to cheat on technical interviews. I used it to get offers at top tech companies, like Amazon, Meta, Tiktok, and Capital One. After posting about it publicly to market the tool, I got blacklisted from big tech and kicked out of Columbia University. But I immediately realized that the technology we built wasn't just a great tool for cheating on technical interviews; it's likely the future of how humans will interact with AI. Today, people are using Cluely in sales calls, meetings, recruiting, and so much more. The potential for AI is limited because it's stuck behind a chatbot. We're just getting started. If you're excited about the potential of AI beyond the limits of a textbox, and in our unique ability to consistently go hyper viral, check us out. We're hiring: www.cluely.com/careers.

introducing Cluely, the cheat on everything company. but our vision is a lot bigger than just cheating. we're trying to change the way humans think. it starts with asking: "what is the ultimate AI?" it should see what you see. hear what you hear. know everything you know, and give you answers before you even know you have a question. this is what we're building. an intelligence layer that lives with you. not a website you open. a presence you depend on. AI has already achieved superhuman capabilities, but we've trapped it behind a chatbot, stripped of context, and neutered by UI. Cluely will start with small things: homework, meetings, sales calls. a single shortcut response that makes you think "hey, that's pretty cool." but soon, Cluely will be with you in every moment of your digital life. you’ll use it to write better. to decide better. to think better. to live better. Cluely is a new interface for cognition itself. This is the turning point of thought. check out our new website: www.cluely.com #ai #software #artificialintelligence #cognition #singularity #technology #futurism #startups #marketing #socialmedia #enterpreneurship

This is a fair post by Business Insider about Cluely's initial limitations post-launch. The launch video went way more viral than we expected and usage tanked our servers. We just pushed load balancing + image compression and internal tests suggest an entire 3x improvement in response times since launch. We are shipping massive improvements every other hour and the entire team is working ourselves to death to make this product great. Much more about it coming soon. https://lnkd.in/eSc3uwRu

Announcing Cluely's $5.3 million pre-seed round, co-led by Abstract and Susa Ventures. AI is about to change everything — not someday, but now. At Cluely, we’re building a world where you never have to think alone. An AI that’s always on. Watching your screen. Hearing your audio. Helping you communicate better, solve faster, and win more often. The world will call it cheating. But every major leap, from the calculator to the internet, looked like that at first. We believe AI is not a threat to human potential: it’s the greatest amplifier we’ve ever seen. This is the future we’re building. And we’re just getting started. → [https://lnkd.in/gnHY_kQA]

i got kicked out of Columbia for building Interview Coder, AI to cheat on coding interviews. now i raised $5.3 million to build Cluely, a cheating tool for literally everything. a completely undetectable AI that sees your screen, hears your audio, and gives you real-time assistance in any situation. interviews, assignments, tests, sales calls, meetings — everything. and tbh, i don't think this is cheating. every single time technology has made people smarter, the world panics. then it adapts. then it forgets. and suddenly, it's normal. but this is different. humanity is at an inflection point. AI will transform the entire world, and it will be more disruptive than anything we've ever seen. Cluely is the bridge to a world where humans don't compete with machines — we grow with them.

Cluely launches in <24 hours. We're changing the definition of the word "cheating." Interview Coder broke every technical recruiting pipeline in the world. But what AI enables isn't just a transformation of technical interviews. It will redefine how our world works, upend every social structure, rewrite the rules of morality. Cluely is the most ambitious project of my life. If we can accomplish what we set out to, we will change the course of human history. 4/20/25 2PM PST