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Composio has been one of the fastest growing developer tooling companies.
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So since the start of this year we have 7X in our revenue, particularly we had AWS, Doom, Glean, all building product on top of Composio.
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The enterprises will want to own the context, own their learnings, but host their own models so that they own into and stack.
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Composio is essentially trying to build that worldview, avoiding the lock-ins to the big labs.
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The model is very parallel to 11 laps.
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We have a consumer player where anybody can use this with their clot codes could exist.
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And then there is a developer player.
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The idea is developer products inherently are somewhat slow moving, specifically because the more open weights and open source model get popular, the more you get popular, right?
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Yeah, exactly.
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That's that's where we are doing a lot of work with.
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Karan, welcome to the New Hans Show.
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Excited to be here.
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You know, recording from your office in Bay Area.
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Uh same year.
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Thanks for having me.
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Yeah, would uh you know before we dive in into the Composio journey, would love to learn like how timing worked in your journey at Composio.
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As soon as you started, MCP really became hot, right?
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And today MCP has been taken over by CLI because they became too expensive.
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Yeah.
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Uh also.
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So can you share the AI journey?
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Uh right, how did MCP became popular and how did now the CLI has become more kind of the idea behind both MCP and CLI is giving agents sort of hands so that they can take action, uh, get data uh from uh the sources and the apps that we day-to-day work with.
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Um, yeah, I think like uh in my opinion, both of them are like sort of protocols.
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Uh and MCP has its own advantages.
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In some places, CLI has its own advantages.
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Now I think the third one, which is getting very popular, we have been doing this for a while, which is like code mod, uh, which is like uh set aside all these things, let just agent write the code and work with these apps.
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So, in my opinion, kind of like all of them have advantages and needs like need to be used in different places in the right way.
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Uh obviously, like with agents, kind of like last two years it was all about like coding getting automated with AI.
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Yeah, uh, specifically this year after Opus 4.6, uh, which came like in December, uh, knowledge work uh has become uh the the sought-after thing for agents, like agents automating the knowledge work.
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And to be able to do that, you need connectivity to different apps, and that's where all of these come in.
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And MCPs are obviously really good in enterprise settings where you need pretty good authorization, authentication, like M CLIs are great for like personal productivity, where okay, I've been using like kind of uh like also you can describe the full form for both, right?
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Yeah, sorry.
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So MCP is like model context protocol, it's uh a protocol that Enthropic announced and the whole industry picked up uh because obviously Enthropic is pretty good at setting the standards across the industry, and since then I think uh kind of almost all the lab providers have integrations with the MCP and CLI has been there for uh forever, I guess.
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Command line interface, which we have been using uh as developers for a very long time, and that's where I think like the the advantage of CLI also shines because uh, for example, GitHub CLI the developers have been using forever, and it's so much ingrained in the pre-training data that uh the the LLMs don't even need to look at the documentation, and the the other advantage that CLI gives is like progressive disclosure because you can start with some things, you don't need to expose all your tools at once.
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Yeah, you can just start with like a few commands and then hierarchically uh like resolve more commands, the agents can do that essentially.
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Got it, got it.
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So in in when you were starting to build a right UN from home, uh how was the AI wave taking up?
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How did you view OpenAI Anthropic back then and how has they evolved with time?
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Yeah, so we started in 2023.
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You quit your job in 2023?
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Yes, yes.
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Uh and uh back then uh we were building somewhat different product.
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We were essentially building Devin for integrations, so essentially coding agents which can uh automate the integration work that engineers were doing in different companies.
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I had seen in my previous company.
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Uh Soham has had seen the same kind of thing in his previous company.
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In my case, I was leading a team that was uh building telematics uh service provider integrations because I was into commercial auto insurance.
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At rubric?
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In nirvana, okay, so nirvana insurance, uh which is where uh we wanted to integrate with a lot of TSP providers like Keep Truck in Samsara, etc.
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And it was a core.
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Like uh the first integration obviously has its own creativity, but after that, like engineers start hating doing that extra uh integration, and uh I could see, I mean, like AI automating that whole process.
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Uh, we were pretty early, we had access to obviously the early GPT-2, GPT-3 APIs, which made us feel okay, this is a step change in how we see the world.
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Uh, and uh yeah, that's where we started with this problem statement.
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Um, over time, kind of like while building that, we realized that S uh thing is not working out because the models were still very early back then, but we realized we are building agents, which is gonna be uh the way a lot of people will write software in the future.
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So we are just building one type of agent, but there will be like uh n number of agents, different types of agents that will kind of like come, people will build companies around it.
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And the problem that we are facing while building this agent will be applicable to so many others.
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And one of the problems that we were facing was okay, to build and make this agent useful, we had to connect these agents with different apps uh with GitHub so that it can create a PR linear for issue tracking, etc.
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And that made us very clear, okay.
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Like basically, if the same problem statement is applicable to so many uh other agents and it will be applicable, then that's kind of like like uh the problem statement that we should uh build towards.
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Got it.
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And and how did the first round happen at Composio?
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Uh so the first round uh we were essentially building, me and uh Soham were essentially building with our day job.
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Uh we were just tinkering around.
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Then you were in SF or India?
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No, we were in Bangalore, India.
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And yeah, I think we like uh as I mentioned, we had early access to GPT23 APIs.
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Uh then kind of came I think DaWinchi uh coding models, uh the early coding models uh from OpenAI.
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And it kind of while doing those tinkering, we realized okay, the problem statement that we want to build is like kind of the integration one that I just mentioned, and like we had some prototypes, we did some chats with like obviously Bangalore is also a tight-knit community of people builders, so we did some chat and we had some early design partners, and like uh, like obviously, we have some friends and VCs uh via via the news spread, and uh we got some inbound to chat, uh and yeah, I think it was like like uh we decided okay, it's it's fine to chat, and like like I think in first meeting itself, like uh I think we met with Together Fund and Garish really liked the vision and like like was pretty positive, and that's how it all started.
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We raised first round four at 16 post money, right?
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Uh four and uh I think twenty.
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So, how did Together happen to lead and how did you bring in two leads in the round?
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Yeah, so it was uh interesting.
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So obviously, kind of uh I have huge respect for Garish.
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Yeah, so I think we first had a chat with uh Garish, and he really loved us uh the product and everything, and then like kind of like I think uh we had some chats lined up already because uh we have friends across the ecosystem uh in different VCs, and so we didn't want to uh not do those chats, and that's where we did some other chats, and like it kind of came along that like these two or Elevation and Together were the most excited uh team for us because of like we chatted with the team and the way they were thinking about uh uh stuff, and more than that, the I think uh like kind of like founder first mindset that attracted us uh very much with these two teams, and we were decided to do a non-traditional setup.
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And then you could quit your job, supposed that?
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Uh yes.
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So to 2023, and I believe you would have quit your job.
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Uh in like July.
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July.
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Yeah.
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So so uh till the light speed round happened, what was the progress in the company?
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So yeah, I mean uh I think early we were obviously building uh the the the initial product that I mentioned.
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Uh there also we had uh design partners like Glean, for example.
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So that was like uh going good.
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We had some kind of like good uh uh like like uh demand, but uh over time we realized okay, this is definitely not working.
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We the models are still not there in terms of like coding.
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So, in like I think somewhere 2024, March, etc., we decided that we'll pivot to uh kind of like what we are doing right now, and yeah, I think uh like basically we like started building uh and uh kind of like sharing what we are building in different communities, and I'm talking about 2024.
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Uh, there were these like Langchain, uh, like Lama Index, a lot of like agent tech frameworks, and their communities were pretty
active because I think it was still very early in the AgenTech era, and people were still exploring, and like the best part about exploring is you film like build these good communities where people share and kind of like cross-communicate, like transfer knowledge, and that's where I think those communities uh had a clear clear problem statement where people wanted to build these uh agents and wanted to connect their agents with different apps.
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And when we posted, I think we got an immense love from the community, people started adopting, etc.
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And then it was clear that we have some level of product market fiddle, and then it was all about like kind of like iterating on the product with the the love that so what was the problem statement that you got the first PMF on?
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I think it was essentially connecting AI with uh different apps, like basically like in the interaction layer for AI.
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So basically, you for anybody who is building agents, right?
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Uh you are building connectors for them.
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Yes, like building like uh kind of initially it was uh uh building the auth authorization, the tools, the quality of the tools.
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Uh, we had like a very early benchmark on like how quality of tools matters.
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I'm talking about 2024 when the models were still not there.
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I think things have evolved.
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Uh, but like uh we had like one of the first benchmarks of uh uh showing uh that like the quality of tools can improve accuracy.
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Uh it's not just the models, it's like like I think you can get like a uh 20% to 80% jump just by changing the quality of tools, which is like pretty important.
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And I think then we also did some like work on the software engineering benchmark side.
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We were actually fourth on the Suibench leaderboard, and we kind of like I think just like the idea was to show that the quality of tools matter.
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Uh, it's not just the model.
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Understood.
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And how did the light speed round happen?
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I believe you were at 100,000 monthly active developers before the round happened.
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Yes, approximately.
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I don't know the exact numbers back then, but yeah, I think probably around that number.
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And uh uh I think we had some some kind of like a pretty good mix of startups and like some early enterprise uh traction.
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Uh and it was clear that like like people were loving us.
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There were a lot of like great startups in SF that uh kind of like
were loving us, uh, and and we were building out of Bangalore, so it was pretty good pull out here.
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Uh, we used to travel between me and Soham kind of like once in a while to SF to meet the folks, to meet the users, and kind of like have those uh discussions on the product, and yeah, I think it like like uh when we saw that we have like a pretty good pull and we wanted some more kind of like capital to uh grow the business faster, that's when we decided okay, it's kind of like time to probably uh raise the next round to get a much better team.
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And how did how did you meet light speed?
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Uh so uh I mean I was before like like basically I if I kind of like uh kind of see my career, I've mostly been in light speed funded companies very I don't know uh coincidentally uh that like I started my journey with Rubrik, uh which is also like like Lightspeed, Bipple, like the CEO was uh like a light speed partner himself before that.
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Uh a lot of my friends uh ended up becoming a light speed partner after Rubrik because Rubrik and Lightspeed had a pretty good tie-up.
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Uh after that, nirvana actually uh was also led by Lightspeed, and uh basically Raviraj, our investor, was actually the first investor in Nirvana.
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And while I was interviewing Nirvana, I had a chat with Raveraj as well because I was second employee, so um kind of like that helps.
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Uh and yeah, I think that kind of uh like build the relationships and like the relationship like early on in my nirvana journey and which helped kind of like to bootstrap uh got and when did you start monetization?
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Uh we started monetization, uh the first trench of monetization uh we started was just before our series A, uh which was I think kind of like early last year.
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Sure.
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But like yeah, I think we didn't uh like like uh we started like very like nominal tier based pricing, but the major monetization we started was with enterprises early this year.
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So when enterprise decides to to become a paid customer, what do you solve for that enterprise?
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Uh you know, versus the free users?
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Um so I think uh obviously, like uh there are uh different things, like so like we have like two types of users segments.
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One is like a consumer using us directly with like clot code codexes, etc.
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Where you don't need to do much, you go to Composio and uh like you either use CLI, so it's a prompt that you need to put it in your clot code or codex, and or use MCB.
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So like uh that's pretty much the setup.
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Uh that's free of cost right now.
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Uh then we have like a developer segment, which is okay, people building their own agents can use Composio to connect their user-facing agents with the users' apps.
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Uh, and I think that's kind of like like where the actual monetization happens, where okay, if you're building your own product on top of Composio, that's like where you kind of like uh uh decide uh to kind of like like pay on a like like usage basis, and for enterprise, we have like different offerings.
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Uh we kind of like like I think some enterprises want uh that like their tokens stay with them, their own like KMSs of the world.
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So like many kind of like security-based settings which kind of are the label for uh paying more.
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Got it.
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And and which is the most popular product with enterprise today, with majority of the monetization came to come through.
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Yeah, uh so essentially uh the product is the same all across in some sense, uh, but uh uh to give you an abstract of what the product is, uh we have we basically are the connectivity tissue between agents and knowledge work apps where we provide the catalog of different apps, or uh you can bring your own apps on top of composition.
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Uh example.
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Uh so, like for example, Slack, Gmail, Salesforce, like different apps that people use in day-to-day.
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Uh, and where we basically provide like kind of like the tool execution side of the harness, which you can connect with any of your harnesses.
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Uh, if you're using a cloud code, cloud agent SDK, Pi, etc.
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Uh, where uh uh we essentially give those agents uh like capabilities, like essentially it's all five tools which uh give the agents like manage authentication, governance, authorization, uh like like context management.
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So like you can't have like we have 50,000 tools, yeah.
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So you can't put in all to the agent, so like just in time, tool discovery, uh like code mod uh where the agent can write code instead of doing actual tool calling.
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Uh, in the background, we uh essentially all our integrations are built by agents.
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Uh, we have like an agentic pipeline that builds and maintains these integrations.
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So our integrations are essentially self-healing, where uh anytime any tool fails uh because of whatever reason, a mistach case uh can be a reason, or some version update on the background which we were not aware of, uh, and it happened very recently.
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Uh dot dot dot.
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Like even uh the schema is not well understood by the agent, and like it's
trying again and again.
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So we have some a lot of like cases where uh we detect all of these and uh the agentic pipeline gets triggered and a new version of the tool gets created, uh, which happens all in real time, so real-time uh kind of like improvements.
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Uh, then we also do things like skill distillation where we just we have the end-to-end agentic trajectories, we distill them to skills so that uh like like it's kind of like learning.
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So, first time the agent, a bigger model, uh did something complex, it took a zigzag path to reach the outcome.
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The next time we have that learning baked in into the product, so uh something similar if it comes, we'll like like automatically get that skill to the agent, it will be like a straight line.
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Uh and we kind of like are like like distilling those learnings and kind of like to the model level itself itself now so that it's even better.
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Understood.
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I think Composio has been one of the fastest growing developer tooling companies.
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Is that right?
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Yeah, I guess I think specifically in the agentec space, uh kind of like we have been growing pretty much.
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So, what has been the reason reason for such a fast growth and what has the GTM that resulted in such a fast growth?
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So, yeah, I think uh that's a strategy uh kind of we started with like pretty early on, like sort of we decided early this year that we are gonna grow, like like so.
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I think the model that I would describe is very parallel to 11 labs.
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So in 11 laps, you have this kind of buy uh like like two product approach where okay, you have a creator product where anybody and everybody can create voice clones, etc.
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And then you have a developer product uh which both run in parallel and are somewhat like synergetic, and that's what we are like trying to do, where we have a consumer play where anybody can use us with their clawed codes, codexes, open clause of the world, and then there is a developer play, and the idea is developer products inherently are uh somewhat slow moving, specifically because uh when I see like a uh a product, it's not the same time I'll start building because my use case of building might come like later in the journey, like while like if I'm kind of like operating, uh I'm not like right now building something that requires the developer product, uh but the activation, and that's why the activation developer product is somewhat low.
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Uh, while for consumer product it's very high, right?
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Like I can start today uh using the product that I saw.
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So that was the strategy where okay, uh you get the activation from the consumer product, and when that consumer wants to build, uh there is like a transition where okay, they remember because they're using day-to-day things.
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Can you give examples?
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For consumer product where it resulted in such a life cycle.
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Uh like 11 laps is one example that I can kind of think of.
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I'm not like I might have to think more for others, but like, yeah, that's that's where I think like for example, ChatGPT is also one, right?
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Like where you have a Chat GPT where everybody is using ChatGPT and they move to the like Open AI developer platform.
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Yeah.
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Same with Claude.
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And like like a lot of this is happening now more and more, uh, where you see that like okay, like the developer platform is using their APIs to kind of build the consumer offering, and consumer offering is resulting, it's like a growth acquisition channel, which is resulting at like like whenever they want to build to the developer platform.
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Platform.
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Very cool.
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And if you can share the monetization journey in approximate numbers, you'd mentioned last year you started monetization.
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What has it resulted in today?
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Yeah, so last year we started monetization, but after our series A, we focused more on growth because like we could see that we are just starting on the verge of like knowledge work getting automated.
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But we started enterprise monetization again early this year, where we had some amazing enterprises, AWS, Zoom, Glean, all building on top of like uh product uh agent to product on top of Composio.
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So since the start of this year, we have like 7x in our revenue.
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Uh and like yeah, continuously growing.
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I think the goal is like ending this year 20x from the start of this year.
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Ending and end of this year, what what's the target?
00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:51.680
Uh the end of the year target is around 20.
00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:52.960
20 million AR.
00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:53.279
Yeah.
00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:53.680
Yeah.
00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:56.640
You must be adding what like one or two million ARR every month.
00:22:56.880 --> 00:23:00.640
Uh yeah, I mean, like I don't want to go into numbers, but yeah, it's going good.
00:23:01.599 --> 00:23:08.880
And and these are enterprises uh who are coming inbound to you, or how uh how you are doing going to these enterprises?
00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:16.799
Uh so yeah, like basically we have like a pretty good PLG, uh,
which I was describing the whole consumer then developer play.
00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:31.039
And via that, like we have a pretty good solid inbound where people just start building and like like they come to us when these enterprises need contracts, they need like some security offering, which is like like kind of uh not available in the PLG.
00:23:31.359 --> 00:23:34.559
Got what have been some of the challenges during the journey?
00:23:34.880 --> 00:24:12.799
Um I think I would say it like right now, uh one of the biggest challenges I think most of the startups building in the space is facing are facing is basically around like the uncertainty, kind of like around this like space where okay, you have like the the pace of progress is so fast sometimes that kind of like we have been on the luckier side till now, but I think you have to be always on the constant lookout for okay, are you building for the future or are you getting gonna are you gonna get crushed in the future?
00:24:13.039 --> 00:24:17.359
So that's like a constant like battle that you have to fight in your head, okay.
00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:23.839
Uh like three months on the line when a newer model release, or six months down the line when even better model release.
00:24:24.240 --> 00:24:34.400
Uh, kind of how can I maintain my relevance and how can I like like be more uh actually like more suitable for that world?
00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:38.880
So yeah, I think that's kind of like one of the biggest things that you have to keep on evolving.
00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:39.759
Got it.
00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:49.759
And uh uh let's say uh from India, I think three companies emerged at the same time in your space, right?
00:24:50.079 --> 00:24:57.759
You were there, Port Key was there, I think True Foundry also is in the same space today, right?
00:24:57.920 --> 00:25:02.319
But uh but on the US side, which were the companies which would be in your space?
00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:06.480
Like uh, I mean there are a bunch, right?
00:25:06.559 --> 00:25:27.680
Like there is there are all these agentics framework companies like Langchains of the World, Lama Index, uh then obviously uh I think uh I think now some of them are customers, but like uh the background agent like that emerged like early this year, OpenClaw, uh Hermes uh agent, etc.
00:25:28.400 --> 00:25:46.480
Um I think like these all are in like like I think what I consider like the space in which we are operating is essentially uh like knowledge work agents, where obviously like last two years we saw like humongous companies uh being built around coding agents.
00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:52.079
You had a cursor, you had like like a lovable replet, etc.
00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:54.319
Those all are in like coding space.
00:25:54.559 --> 00:26:17.039
I think uh like this year, next year, I think it's all about like knowledge work, and we have like a lot of these companies, like background agents, clean, which is also another customer, like
all of like these companies are essentially in parallel where we're trying to bring that level of agent tech capabilities uh which were available for software engineering to knowledge work.
00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:25.839
And uh you don't have a thread that you know like all startups have that open AI and anthropic can become competition.
00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:27.680
I mean, yeah, that's what I was saying, right?
00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:36.559
Like that's the constant, like it's not about the comp like competition from them directly, but it's also uh I mean, uh being relevant with what they do.
00:26:36.799 --> 00:26:43.680
Obviously, there is some, like for example, Enthropic have their own integrations in plot code codexes of the world.
00:26:43.920 --> 00:26:46.720
But I think there, I think it's very clear.
00:26:46.960 --> 00:27:16.880
Uh, because it's not a single model world, it's multimodal world that people want a unified layer to own what we own, uh, which is like things around the model, which is like context, the authorization governance piece, uh, the learning piece, like which is like I think Satya had a really nice blog around like every company is essentially in like its own like learning sandbox where you have to own the learning and context.
00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:20.079
So, like essentially, if you think about it, like that's Composio.
00:27:20.400 --> 00:27:23.759
Uh, we are that sandbox, we provide that sandbox around the model.
00:27:24.079 --> 00:27:34.799
And given uh there is for every uh opus, there is a chemical setting out there, uh, we are in a pretty good spot that way.
00:27:35.039 --> 00:27:42.559
Yeah, I think the more open weights and open source model uh get popular, the more you get popular, right?
00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:43.440
Yeah, exactly.
00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:48.319
So kind of like like I think uh that's that's where we are doing a lot of work.
00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:56.319
We have like uh some amazing benchmarks uh that are going pretty viral as well, but like more than that, like uh on Twitter.
00:27:56.400 --> 00:28:06.319
Uh but more than that, I think it's kind of like like uh the audience is moving towards using a mixed mix of models, not relying on one provider.
00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:15.440
Yeah, and that's where I think kind of it's our duty to kind of take tell them uh which model is suitable or for what.
00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:28.640
And that's where we have some kind of like like products which are okay, like like given the use case, we'll tell you which model is the best for that use case, given our older uh set of like like PLG data that we have.
00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:40.880
So so would would you be going for another round of fundraise this year or uh uh yes, that's kind of like the plan, like uh like we are uh like gonna go like probably this quarter.
00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:41.920
It's understood.
00:28:43.759 --> 00:28:49.119
And uh let's say one year down the line, you know what you do you
imagine Composia would look like?
00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:53.119
Um yeah, I think uh that's a good question.
00:28:53.279 --> 00:29:24.400
Uh basically, like I think one year down the line, I would first kind of give my worldview, which is I think a lot of these enterprises will have a lot of self-improving, self-learning loops around how they operate, which is the the whole Satya's blog around like kind of the like self-learning, self-improving agents in uh different enterprises.
00:29:25.119 --> 00:29:49.839
And the idea is you would like the enterprises will want to own the context, will want to own their learnings, and will want to in some cases own the weights, which is like kind of like like not use the the uh open AI's entropic of the world, but host their own models so that they own end-to-end stack.
00:29:51.680 --> 00:30:04.319
Like I think the and the the kind of like the reason for that is like avoiding lock-in, avoiding the data flowing through the the edge that they have flowing through different of these like labs.
00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:37.039
I think Composio is essentially trying to avoid uh like like build that worldview without like with avoiding the lock-ins to the the big labs where okay, if you have uh the rest of the stack on Composio, today you are using OpenAI, like with kind of like all the apps that you have, uh all the authors in Composio, all the context sets in Composio, all the learnings that you have because of the whole agency traces set in composure.
00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:51.680
Tomorrow you can move from like all your skills are in Composio, you can move from like open AI to a Kimi very easily because the the things around it, the learnings have been distilled, which Kimmy gets out of box directly.
00:30:55.680 --> 00:31:01.119
So your one worldview is that you are saying is enterprises would be more sovereign.
00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:04.400
Yes, they would be using their own models, uh right.
00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:08.559
But do enterprises have capabilities to to build that?
00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:18.160
So that's where I think like like we have like a pretty good like forward-deployed uh team which helps these enterprises to kind of like get those capabilities via us.
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:20.720
But that's like a services arm of Composio?
00:31:21.119 --> 00:31:38.720
So I won't say it's like fully services arm, it's more around I think like initial setup or bootstrapping of the whole setup uh for the bigger enterprises to make sure that they are kind of like AI first, uh like like uh like whatever like learning loops that we have to set up, we can help them set up.
00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:45.039
But let's say the current customers that you shared, like AWS, Glean, and Room, they're all all AI first.
00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:46.160
Yes.
00:31:46.960 --> 00:31:56.000
Uh yeah, I mean, but still kind of like they are I think there is still like some uh information or submit tree and you still need help.
00:31:56.319 --> 00:31:59.759
Okay, so you are uh providing these companies also FDs.
00:31:59.920 --> 00:32:00.880
Yes, yes, yes, we do.
00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:03.839
Today, how many paid customers would you have approximately?
00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:08.799
I think overall we might have like around somewhere between 500 to 1000.
00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:15.359
And these include startups, paid startups to large enterprises or how many Fortune 500 you would have today?
00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:20.400
Uh I think that will mean like kind of like somewhere uh double digit thing.
00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:23.759
So your goal would be to to go it make it triple digit.
00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:24.960
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:32:25.119 --> 00:32:28.960
I think over like end of this year, next year types.
00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:29.839
Understood.
00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:38.720
And um let's say uh the priority for next 12 months or 24 months, is it revenue, is it growth?
00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:39.680
What is the priority?
00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:48.799
I think it's mostly like like growth because we are still in that phase of like knowledge work agents have just like gotten the inflection point.
00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:57.119
I think uh the the the market there is like much, much, much bigger than coding market.
00:32:57.680 --> 00:33:01.680
And we could all see from the coding market outcomes, right?
00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:10.720
Like kind of I think the initial set has to be like just getting the people to use you and get hooked onto your product.
00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:14.079
I think the revenue is very easy to tap in after that.
00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:19.119
So what would your estimate uh put a number on size of the market?
00:33:19.680 --> 00:33:29.839
Uh I mean it's like kind of I would just say it's like probably, if not more, at least like 20 to 50x of the coding market.
00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:30.640
Why?
00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:35.920
Like, like I think at the end, like coding market, even like though it looks really huge, right?
00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:40.960
It's almost like what today, 100 billion in revenue combined everything?
00:33:41.279 --> 00:33:42.319
Probably more, I guess.
00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:45.039
I'm like, yeah, I'm not very good with these numbers.
00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:47.200
Uh like VCs are better there.
00:33:47.599 --> 00:33:52.079
Uh but yeah, I think coding is still like enabling the knowledge workers, right?
00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:54.880
Like most of the companies are enabling the knowledge workers.
00:33:55.119 --> 00:34:18.320
So I think knowledge worker knowledge work revenue like market includes like a finance re like market in New York to insurance market in like like uh like uh like the whole of US to like legal market to like like the whole kind of like economy is like probably like software is a big part of it, but it's still like minuscule compared to rest of it.
00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:19.679
Yeah, understood.
00:34:20.000 -->
00:34:25.599
And uh today, you know, uh as you are growing, how have you built the team?
00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:27.920
Like what is the team size today and how are you adding?
00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:34.400
Yeah, we are around like I think 30, 30, 35 homes overall.
00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:39.519
Yeah, I think majority still like engineering in product.
00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:42.800
And how have you between you and Soham split responsibilities?
00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:50.000
So I'm focusing more on the product and tech side of things while Soma's focused, like he's the CEO, so he's focused a lot on like sales, growth, etc.
00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:50.559
as well.
00:34:50.639 --> 00:34:52.960
Obviously, like deeply involved in product as well.
00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:57.119
And are you seeing people from Compodio start their own companies?
00:34:57.440 --> 00:35:10.639
Yes, uh, we are, and that's kind of like really, really kind of good to see, specifically kind of like I think in India where we built our initial team, like like kind of like a like a couple of folks have given.
00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:11.840
Can you give examples?
00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:31.519
Like who are uh so for example, I think there's like this uh person called Pratik, yeah, who was building uh kind of like uh inside the company was building uh this thing called Agent Orchestrator, and like uh kind of that got pretty good adoption inside the company, and he got pretty excited, and we were like very supportive there that if you are interested, I think love to support you.
00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:34.639
I think uh he started his own company around that product.
00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:35.280
Got it.
00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:41.199
So, but Agent Orchestrator was a product inside Composio, it has 9,000 GitHub stars.
00:35:41.440 --> 00:35:42.079
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
00:35:42.159 --> 00:35:43.920
It was for internal productivity mostly.
00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:52.639
Okay, and it got like insane uh adoption uh in the team and outside, and like kind of like that was what he wanted to kind of like perceive around.
00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:53.679
So understood.
00:35:53.840 --> 00:35:55.440
Understood, got it.
00:35:56.239 --> 00:36:00.159
And you you are seeing more and more of people kind of now start up.
00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:02.159
Uh yeah, I mean it's a mix.
00:36:02.239 --> 00:36:07.039
Obviously, people want to stay and kind of like get like see the growth journey completely.
00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:15.199
But uh obviously, when you get so passionate, like pretty, obviously, we are kind of very supportive and like uh like in whatever you want to do.
00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:19.119
But you could have also like the agent orchestrator could have become one of the product line.
00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:20.000
So, how did you decide?
00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:28.960
I mean, it was more around like I think as a startup you have limited resources, you have to be focused on what you're doing and like doing really well at that.
00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:34.400
God, you're careful about the kind of battles that you have everything.
00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:35.440
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:36.719
Uh you have to be, right?
00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:40.400
Like as a startup, you always are kind of uh fighting against the odds.
00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:45.760
So who are the best external folks besides the founders that you brainstorm with?
00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:46.320
Sorry?
00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:49.039
Who are the best external folks that you brainstorm with?
00:36:49.199 --> 00:36:56.320
Uh I think it's a lot of like like great advisors that we have, obviously, that helps uh in addition to the investors.
00:36:56.480 --> 00:36:56.719
Yeah.
00:36:56.960 --> 00:37:04.480
Um I mean Example uh like like Glean founder, uh like Arwin is an advisor and like mentor.
00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:04.800
Okay.
00:37:05.119 --> 00:37:09.119
More so from my rubric times, he was founder of rubric as well.
00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:11.199
So he's really helpful.
00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:18.400
Uh kind of like I think uh like Zoom is a customer, Zoom CEO Eric is really helpful as well.
00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:22.960
Uh kind of like helping us on advising.
00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:29.199
Um kind of like uh one of my senior is like founder of Turing, who is uh like Vijay.
00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:31.920
Uh Vijay is uh also an angel in the company.
00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:40.159
Uh he like I think I met him very late when our rounds were not kind of growing, but I think I'm gonna get him to the like next round.
00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:45.920
Uh and there are like a lot like Soham Azumdar, like kind of founder of Rubrik again.
00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:51.920
Like I think all these like kind of like founder uh relationships from past, I think are definitely very helpful.
00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:55.199
So these are the folks that are helping you on the growth path.
00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:55.920
Yes, yes.
00:37:56.000 --> 00:38:03.199
Yeah, I think I might be missing so many more names, like Guilermo, uh founder of Vercel, is like again, like uh one of the angels, and like he's also really helpful.
00:38:03.360 --> 00:38:08.079
Dharmesh is well, founder of pot, uh Manish.
00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:11.119
Yeah, Manish, obviously, like the like one of the first angels.
00:38:11.199 --> 00:38:13.760
Now he's kind of working on building the company as well.
00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:14.239
But yeah.
00:38:16.559 --> 00:38:18.639
And and where do you see the market headed?
00:38:18.880 --> 00:38:21.840
So AI gateways are a lot popular with large companies.
00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:28.960
They have their strategies to to tuck in these products, like Port Key got acquired by Paulo Alto.
00:38:29.119 --> 00:38:29.599
Right, right, right.
00:38:29.760 --> 00:38:32.320
Galileo got acquired by Cisco for 400 million.
00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:33.679
Oh, yeah, makes sense.
00:38:33.840 --> 00:38:34.639
I
think so.
00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:40.400
I think kind of like AI gateway is a very broad term, in my opinion.
00:38:40.639 --> 00:38:48.159
So, for example, what Port Key was doing was somewhat different from what we are doing, and same with Galileo was different from both of us.
00:38:48.480 --> 00:39:11.039
Uh I think like like kind of what I would say we are doing is more around like infra for AI agents to build on top of these, like knowledge work agents specifically, uh, to build on top of these different apps and uh whatever it takes around it, like like improvements, self-learning, uh kind of like like model routing, etc.
00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:27.599
Like, but the idea is kind of like the focus is on that like knowledge work agents need to kind of like operate on these apps and like like kind of like have that like improvements on top of it.
00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:29.039
So that's kind of the idea.
00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:45.440
Like I think obviously, like as I mentioned, like uh AI gateway can be just like a routing layer, it can be uh like like Galileo is more around like uh the eval side of things, so it's like anything and everything, while we are more focused on like developer infra, particularly more.
00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:46.159
Understood.
00:39:46.239 --> 00:39:50.880
Which are the other developer infra companies in agent space that you respect?
00:39:51.199 --> 00:39:56.719
I would say uh I think it's not exactly agent space, but like turbopuffer is like in which conflict?
00:39:56.960 --> 00:39:57.920
Turbo puffer, yeah.
00:39:58.079 --> 00:40:00.800
It's in like embedding space, which I deeply respect.
00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:20.320
Obviously, in the uh like like agents, like again, somewhat uh uh like like not exactly agent space, but used by agents, like there are a lot of like DB companies like Superbase, uh Neon, which kind of like are uh like pretty good DX around agents.
00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:22.800
If you have to redesign MCP, how would you do it?
00:40:23.039 --> 00:40:26.000
So obviously every protocol has its own gaps.
00:40:26.239 --> 00:40:42.000
Uh kind of like I think MCP, for example, uh because of being remote, kind of like like doesn't natively have some of the capabilities uh like code execution.
00:40:42.079 --> 00:40:44.400
Uh we have to kind of build around it.
00:40:44.639 --> 00:40:48.880
Uh the file like sharing uh is not the best.
00:40:49.039 --> 00:40:55.360
Uh like like we have kind of like I think uh Composer natively has some better primitives than directly using MCPs.
00:40:55.760 --> 00:41:02.400
I think like it's more around like obviously when you start something, you kind of like don't prioritize everything as a protocol.
00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:18.400
So like that's just like limitation, it's not like uh uh I think uh per se like like a kind of like I think over iteration, over the next few iterations, I think we are seeing a lot more things coming up in MCP uh that will make it better.
00:41:18.559 --> 00:41:25.679
And yeah, I think like some of the progressive disclosure stuff like that CLI has uh is difficult to build on top of MCP.
00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:32.719
So so how in in a month now, what or uh on also in a day, how many active developers would be using Composio?
00:41:33.519 --> 00:41:46.000
Um I mean uh kind of like I I don't yeah, I think I have to recall the exact numbers, but it will be somewhere in like uh I think right now we are having 100k plus active.
00:41:46.159 --> 00:41:59.039
Uh like probably I think like the overall developer segment we have is around 800k, 900k, out of which I would say like like somewhere 150k to 250k will be active on a monthly basis?
00:41:59.280 --> 00:42:04.239
Uh yeah, I I yeah, I guess like I think uh like we have like 100k plus daily.
00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:04.960
Okay, wow.
00:42:05.119 --> 00:42:07.679
Uh so over monthly it will be somewhat higher.
00:42:09.039 --> 00:42:11.599
What are the technical bits that you are taking right now?
00:42:11.840 --> 00:42:36.719
So yeah, I think um like the a few important technical bits are one of the things is like we have this agent tech pipeline that auto-builds and maintains all the integrations, uh which has access to uh because we have like thousand plus apps, we are gonna get to like 10,000 with this pipeline in next month, is the plan.
00:42:36.960 --> 00:42:58.079
Uh and the idea is like like kind of we have like test sandboxes for all these apps and different edge cases, use cases, kind of like that we have seen in real-world usage on these apps covered in our testing harness, which essentially kind of like like like as soon as we see an error, we need to fix it, is the goal.
00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:17.440
So that like agent loop is uh kind of like one of the important technical bets for the company because that's where our PLG uh like advantage shines compared to one company because we have so many companies building on top of us, we'll see any and every type of error faster and collectively solve it for our users.
00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:43.599
Uh, then the other one is like around kind of like we have so many agent tech trajectories across different companies, uh, which is another like data fly wheel that we have, kind of using that maximally to improve agent tech reliability, where okay, distill the learnings from those trajectories into skills, uh, distill the issues that agents are running into, like common pitfalls that we can kind of surface to the agent beforehand.
00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:59.440
Uh, because again, like like we have so much, like we have at this point approximately uh 20 million tool executions happening a day uh on our cloud product, which we can leverage to kind of create those learnings.
00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:21.440
So I think those are like basically uh that is the second important bet that we are doing, and the third important bet is where okay, we distill all these learnings directly into the weights
uh where uh we use things like load adapters or like RL to improve the post-training of the uh model itself on top of these uh skills, knowledge work skills in our apps.
00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:22.480
Got it.
00:44:24.559 --> 00:44:28.400
And and how are you let's say context has become really popular word?
00:44:28.800 --> 00:44:33.199
How are you capturing millions of contexts across an organization?
00:44:33.840 --> 00:44:41.360
Essentially, it's around I think if you think about it, context is mainly a mix of two things.
00:44:41.599 --> 00:44:56.159
Uh I like to kind of like call it like nouns and verbs, where nouns it's the actual thing around okay, this is the customer name, like kind of like uh the value of the customer, dot dot dot.
00:44:56.559 --> 00:45:02.159
And then the verb is essentially how are things done in that particular company.
00:45:02.239 --> 00:45:03.840
Uh, what are the processes?
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Uh like like you have to maintain these particular fields for a particular customer uh in the CRM.
00:45:10.800 --> 00:45:17.599
So I think the the nouns is captured in memory, yeah, while the verb is captured in skills.
00:45:17.760 --> 00:45:27.119
Uh so kind of like the the agentic trajectories converting to skills is where we have like that distillation happening at different levels.
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One is across the globe, like for all our users, where we distill like the common generalized skills on particular like apps like Salesforce or across different apps into common pattern skills across the like user segment.
00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:55.840
Then there are like org-specific segments which kind of capture the verbs of a particular company on okay, when uh sale is done, these are the steps that the sales agent should take.
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So, this is a skill for the sales agent.
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It's particular for your company because another company will operate it differently.
00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:08.239
Uh, so this is how like the skill destination helps in kind of capturing those learnings at a particular company level.
00:46:08.559 --> 00:46:20.000
And and right now, you know, as as Composio is evolving right now, uh what does your leadership team look like and what are the new additions to your leadership team in the next six months to one year?
00:46:20.239 --> 00:46:36.320
Yeah, I mean uh we have some kind of like pretty like uh uh seasoned folks on like the GTM side, like I think uh kind of just mentioned like money issuers or First Angel joined us recently kind of to lead that.
00:46:36.480 --> 00:46:46.320
Uh we have uh uh folks, ex folks from like Samsung, Cred, etc., on the product side uh that are leading the charters.
00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:58.639
Uh and on the engineering, we have folks from Shopify, uh to kind of like like people from like Google, like AI mode, uh that are leading uh the charters of the engineering.
00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:02.400
And we have like like many more on the research side that are opening up.
00:47:02.559 --> 00:47:09.119
I think we are looking for someone to lead our research engineering division, talking to quite a few folks there.
00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:12.800
And then as we come towards the conclusion of the podcast, right?
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Uh, can you share?
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You know, obviously, I would love to know yours and so on's background.
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Where do you come from in India?
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Right, right.
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Growing up, uh which college did you guys go to the companies that you worked in?
00:47:24.559 --> 00:47:26.239
Obviously, you've shared some of those same things.
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And uh uh in your journey of of building Composio, what have been the biggest resources that has helped you to grow as founders, be it books, be it blogs, be it podcaster videos?
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Right.
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Yeah, so I I I come from Jaipur, uh and Shoham comes from like Amdabad, so like like northwest part of India, both of us.
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Um kind of uh we met at uh like Physics Olympiad camp, uh, where like I think 30-35 folks from all over India come to kind of prepare for the internationals.
00:48:02.239 --> 00:48:12.559
Um and yeah, I think after that we were college batchmates and even wingmates in IIT Bombay, uh, which is where we connected the most.
00:48:12.639 --> 00:48:20.719
We did a bunch of things together and kind of like like a lot of projects and formed that level of like camaraderie on like building stuff.
00:48:21.039 --> 00:48:30.000
Um yeah, I think post that I joined this company called Rubrik and then like kind of joined this company called Nirvana Insurance as second employee.
00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:33.280
Um yeah, I think what was the second question?
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And and uh where did for which companies did for whom joined?
00:48:36.639 --> 00:48:38.639
Yeah, I think he started on his own.
00:48:38.719 --> 00:48:43.519
Uh kind of he started the entrepreneurship uh like just out of college.
00:48:43.679 --> 00:48:47.679
Uh he built this company that got exit uh to exotel.
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Uh and then uh I think we both started in between uh something in uh like finance space, uh kind of like medium frequency trading, yeah.
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Um and like back in like 2018-19, but uh that didn't pan out.
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Uh kind of we quit, and then I joined uh this company called Nirvana Insurance and Soham joined uh Bureau, which is another kind of like fraud detection company based out of India.
00:49:18.559 --> 00:49:19.519
Got it, very cool.
00:49:19.679 --> 00:49:22.559
And what are the resources that has helped you grow as founder?
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Uh I think it's like a lot of things.
00:49:28.239 --> 00:49:34.079
Uh honestly, it's obviously like like the great set of advisors, uh, kind of past relationships there.
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It's books as well, obviously.
00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:48.639
Like I'm kind of like I think uh zero to one to like hard things about hard things, a lot of like great books that like founders have written, like uh specifically built like as a founder.
00:49:49.519 --> 00:49:58.559
Uh and I think at the end it's everybody's own journey that is different and that teaches the most.
00:49:58.719 --> 00:50:05.119
So, kind of like I think we have a great team, and every day I learn a ton from the team itself, yeah.
00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:08.639
Which is like like the most touch point that you have is with your team, right?
00:50:08.719 --> 00:50:12.639
If you have like really great folks surrounding you, you just learn a lot from them.
00:50:12.880 --> 00:50:16.880
So, for Soham and you, what does a week on a usual week look like?
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Uh, I think it's like for me, it's a lot of like kind of meeting uh with the tech team, thinking like building um like at this point.
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I think my like Claude is always on.
00:50:29.840 --> 00:50:38.159
I think one of the companies that I kind of really like right now is exc.dev, for example, uh, which provides really good DX around like machine for agents.
00:50:38.320 --> 00:50:41.679
So my like Claude is codex is always on on that machine.
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Like I'm just kind of like chatting uh with it.
00:50:44.400 --> 00:51:02.639
So it's like a lot of like like building new stuff, thinking through that, um, chatting with the team, showing how we can move faster, uh, kind of like what are the blockers that are affecting everybody's thing speed, and then thinking through like like having like product discussions and like what is next.
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So I think those are the things on my plate.
00:51:05.280 --> 00:51:20.960
I think uh on Sohoms, it's kind of like a mix of uh obviously product discussions with like a lot of GTM stuff, planning on how like that looks like, and kind of obviously uh going forward it will be some like uh chats with BCs, etc.
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as well.
00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:31.360
And uh uh can you name any top three founders that haven't raised funding that you really respect from your circles?
00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:45.519
I'm just thinking, I think I mentioned like Praty, for example, uh kind of like uh from X Compucio segment um who haven't received funding.
00:51:46.320 --> 00:51:47.760
That's a good one.
00:51:48.719 --> 00:51:56.639
Yeah, most of the like names that come to my mind uh kind of have already received funding or early in their journey, yeah, they have received funding.
00:51:56.719 --> 00:52:07.519
Uh kind of like uh uh I think another like like person ex uh composure like like Wenki started out recently.
00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:09.039
I think that might be one.
00:52:09.840 --> 00:52:12.239
Uh yeah, I I think those are the ones that are.
00:52:12.400 --> 00:52:19.760
Yeah, yeah, because any founders or investors uh sorry listening to this podcast that can uh reach out and benefit them.
00:52:20.079 --> 00:52:21.039
Yes, yes, for sure.
00:52:21.199 --> 00:52:25.440
Um yeah, I I think those are the two that comes to my mind that come to my mind right now.
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Yeah.
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Thank you so much, Kerani.
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It's been such a pleasure hosting on the podcast.
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Yeah, thank you.
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Thanks for having me.
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I enjoyed the conversation and loved it coming from you.
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Yeah, thank you.