AI tool 'Cluely' that will destroy nine industries such as interviews and sales with cheats will be released



Cluely , the AI ​​tool touted to help you 'cheat on anything,' has finally been released. Cluely also announced that it has raised $15 million in Series A funding from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz .

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Chung-gin Lee, founder of AI startup Cluely, was expelled from college after using AI in coding tests at IT companies. Lee founded Cluely based on the AI ​​tool 'Interview Coder,' which was the reason he was expelled from Columbia University, and the company has successfully raised $5.3 million (about 760 million yen) from venture capital.

The details of how Lee was expelled from Columbia University and started Cluely are summarized in the following article.

A former college student who was expelled for using AI in job hunting starts an AI cheat tool company 'Cluely' and raises 740 million yen in funding - GIGAZINE



Cluely subsequently raised $15 million in Series A funding from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Brian Kim, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, used to say that 'creating a craftsmanship product with highly desirable features is the key to startup success.' But with the advent of generative AI, he's come to realize that just providing a great product isn't enough.

'If you make a great product, OpenAI or somebody builds a new AI to incorporate it into their product, and that's it,' Kim said. 'So in the AI ​​era, there may not be any products that are very thoughtful and developed over time. It has to be something that founders can act on very quickly.'

With this in mind, Kim believes that what is needed for startups to succeed in the AI ​​era, whether it be marketing or product building, is 'speed is the most important thing.' Kim said he had this idea even before meeting Cluely's founder, Lee.

But after meeting Lee and learning how Cluely had successfully converted name recognition into paying customers through Lee's clever strategy, Kim began to believe that Lee was the right startup founder for his ideas.

On the other hand, Lee said in the podcast that 'most people don't know how to create viral content,' and revealed that he has studied why some TikTok and Instagram posts become explosively popular. Based on this research, Lee mentioned that he has successfully promoted his own name and Cluely's name on X and LinkedIn.

Initially, Cluely had no actual working product. Therefore, there were some doubts on the Internet such as 'So where is the product?' However, Lee is confident that the announced product will have a big impact by conducting a large-scale promotion before releasing the actual product.

Cluely released its first AI tool, 'Cluely,' on June 27, 2025.




The following nine cheats are listed as possible in Cluely:

Cheat #1: Rogue meeting feature
Cluely can take notes in real time for you, think up questions, answer questions, and overlay them on video to keep your eyes from wandering.




Cheat #2: Sales call fraud feature
Cluely makes sales calls easy: you can let Cluely walk customers through the steps they need to take to win a deal, generate real-time responses to customer objections, generate follow-up emails to help you make the sale, and keep your eyes focused on a single spot on the screen during video calls.




Cheat #3: Customer support abuse
Cluely can also be useful for customer support, as it can provide a complete, instant, real-time output of your company's entire knowledge base.




Cheat #4: Cheating Feature
Cluely can also take real-time lecture notes, generate question sets, and output real-time lecture explanations.




Cheat #5 Interview Cheat Function
Cluely can take real-time notes on interviews and generate questions to use in interviews.




Cheat #6: Product design cheat feature
There is also a product design feature that can be used by people with no design experience, and AI provides constant feedback on the design.




Cheat #7: New software learning feature
Cluely can also be used to learn how to use new software. In fact, the Cluely feature introduction video that Lee posted on his X account was edited and created by Lee after he learned how to use Adobe Premiere Pro using Cluely.




Cheat #8: Unauthorized Interview Feature
Cluely allows you to generate questions that test deeper knowledge, spot implementation errors in real time, and evaluate every thought of candidates as they attend interviews.




Cheat #9: Taking notes during a call
Cluely can create a shareable, AI-generated summary of every conversation.




At the time of writing, Cluely is available as an app for macOS and Windows.

Cluely
https://cluely.com/



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