Chris Kelly

And there's just a lot of things that you can learn on there, as well as, particularly if you're in the higher ed vertical, being able to attend things like our advisory board meetings and getting backstage views into things that you might not otherwise have gotten.

Yeah, we often say Augment is the best coding assistant you've never heard of.

And that's both frustrating as someone that works there and it's like very proud of the work we've done, but also like inspiring.

Like we want to go and sort of punch above our weight because like we aren't anthropic and we aren't open AI.

And so the quality of the product itself, you know, with our context engine, once you do touch it, people are like just blown away by that.

And so like that keeps me going every day.

I think it's a lot of awareness, right?

Like Cursor got a lot of publicity early on for like fast revenue growth, which well deserved.

I think, you know, frankly, some of the media gets the story wrong and that like if I gave you $1.50 for every dollar you sent me, I'd be the fastest growing startup in the valley.

And so when you're selling discounted tokens online,

Yes, of course you're gonna grow very fast, but all that money plus more goes to the model providers.

So I think the real story is the story of Anthropic and being an API provider.

I think the market has just moved so fast and there's so many pieces of competition out there that it's just hard to get noticed.

Yeah, we often say Augment is the best coding assistant you've never heard of.

And that's both frustrating as someone that works there and is very proud of the work we've done, but also inspiring.

We want to go and sort of punch above our weight because we aren't anthropic and we aren't open AI.

And so the quality of the product itself, with our context engine,

Once you do touch it, people are like just blown away by that.

And so like that keeps me going every day.

I think it's a lot of awareness, right?