AI assistant
Cluely
An AI that watches your screen and feeds you answers. Also: why this directory dates every number.
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What it is
Cluely is an invisible desktop overlay that sees your screen and your call and feeds you answers in real time. It started as Interview Coder, a Chrome extension that solved LeetCode problems during technical interviews, which got its founder suspended from Columbia and made him briefly famous.
It is in this directory for a second reason. In July 2025 Roy Lee publicly claimed $7M ARR. In March 2026 he retracted it, saying the real figure was around $5.2M and that he had inflated it by roughly 35% on a cold call. The number below is the corrected one, and it is why every figure on this site carries a source and a date instead of a screenshot.
Timeline
- 21 Apr 2025Suspended from Columbia; raises $5.3M seed.
- 20 Jun 2025$15M Series A led by a16z.
- 5 Mar 2026Retracts the $7M ARR claim. The real number was ~$5.2M.
Founder
How it broke out
Roy Lee was suspended from Columbia over Interview Coder and turned the suspension into the marketing. The launch film for Cluely — a staged date where the narrator is fed lines by an AI — was built to be argued about, and was.
Paid advertising
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