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Vermilion Cliffs Notes: Why Clarify’s Founders Are Betting Big on the Autonomous CRM

Raising an A in a tough market: Why Clarify Is Betting on Ambient Intelligence to Fix CRM In this episode of Founder Clip Notes, Ashley Smith (Vermilion Cliffs Ventures) sits down with Austin Hay and Patrick Thompson, Co-CEOs and Co-founders of Clarify, the autonomous CRM built to keep itself up to date and help revenue teams actually trust their customer data. Clarify just announced their Series A and is building a new kind of CRM—one that teams want to use because it works like they do. We get into: Why working at a startup isn’t the same as starting one How Clarify’s founders built trust through years of working together What makes the co-CEO model actually work Fundraising lessons from getting preempted on their A Why dogfooding your own product is a forcing function for quality The future of ambient intelligence in sales tech 📌 Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:00 How Patrick and Austin first met through customer/vendor roles 3:17 Why Austin finally decided to found a company 6:47 How co-CEO responsibilities are divided at Clarify 11:31 Lessons from Atlassian’s dual-CEO model 13:35 Clarify’s Series A announcement and what’s next 15:04 Fundraising tips and why metrics matter more than vision decks 19:42 When investors become power users 22:09 Rapid fire: stacks, habits, metrics, hobbies, and startup myths 30:58 Overrated vs underrated advice for founders 32:40 First concert, analog hobbies, and favorite seasons 📬 Get more founder interviews at https://vermilioncliffs.substack.com/ Keywords: Clarify CRM, ambient intelligence, AI CRM, Ashley Smith VC, Vermilion Cliffs Ventures, startup co-founders, co-CEOs, Series A fundraising, early-stage startups, autonomous CRM, startup advice, customer data tools, go-to-market stack, AI sales tools, CRM innovation, fundraising tips, founder interviews