Chatbase:
the business behind the product
Provides customer-facing AI agents for business support and sales.
Research reviewed 2026-10-22. Financial disclosures below have not been independently audited by ToolJovia. AI's share of the reported result is not independently established.
Put the mechanism to work
Use your own prices, workload and evidence. This local workbench helps produce an inspectable pilot artifact.
Founder or operator
B · founder / official disclosure[chatbase-interview]First-party disclosure; not independently verified.
What the product does
B · founder / official disclosure[chatbase-interview] [chatbase-product]First-party disclosure; not independently verified.
Customer and job
B · founder / official disclosure[chatbase-product]First-party disclosure; not independently verified.
Why a buyer might pay
D · unverified / analysis As of 2026-10-22ToolJovia research proposal or inference, not a claim about achieved demand, revenue or replication outcomes.
What is sold
B · founder / official disclosure As of 2026-10-22[chatbase-pricing]- type
- Usage-tiered subscriptions and add-ons
- yearly Billed Effective Usd Per Month
- Hobby
- 32
- Standard
- 120
- Pro
- 400
- monthly Price
- Not established
Only explicitly labelled annual effective prices retained; yearly upfront commitment and credits apply.
Traceable timeline
B · founder / official disclosure As of 2026-03-16[chatbase-interview]First-party disclosure; not independently verified.
First customers
B · founder / official disclosure As of 2026-03-16[chatbase-interview]Retrospective account; not independently verified transaction evidence.
Acquisition evidence
B · founder / official disclosure As of 2026-03-16[chatbase-interview]Not a verified attribution model or forecast.
AI, API and software stack
B · founder / official disclosure As of 2026-03-16[chatbase-interview]Historical description, not current infrastructure.
Human work disclosed
B · founder / official disclosure As of 2026-03-16[chatbase-interview]First-party disclosure; not independently verified.
Financial evidence, kept separate
ARR and MRR are recurring run-rate metrics. Revenue is not net profit; financing and valuation are separate from customer earnings. Missing values are unknown, not zero.
| Metric | Reported value / period | Evidence and limitation |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue | Not established | D · unverified / analysis Not established by the sources reviewed. |
| MRR | Not established | D · unverified / analysis Not established by the sources reviewed. |
| ARR |
| B · founder / official disclosure As of 2026-03-16[chatbase-interview] Founder-reported run rates; no independent billing audit. ARR does not equal received cash, annual recognized revenue, profit or valuation. |
| Gross profit | Not established | D · unverified / analysis Not established by the sources reviewed. |
| Net profit | Not established | D · unverified / analysis Not established by the sources reviewed. |
| Financing | Not established | D · unverified / analysis Not established by the sources reviewed. |
| Valuation | Not established | D · unverified / analysis Not established by the sources reviewed. |
What remains unverified
Startup costs; Operating costs. Check the field-level limitations before relying on this case. No missing cost is assumed to be zero.
A small, falsifiable pilot
ToolJovia analysis / suggested experiment (D). These steps are not reported founder actions or verified demand.
Mechanism worth testing
D · unverified / analysis As of 2026-10-22ToolJovia research proposal or inference, not a claim about achieved demand, revenue or replication outcomes.
Review a permissioned sample of existing support questions. Compare answers with an approved rubric and count human escalation before using any automation-rate assumption in a quote.
Your pilot workflow
D · unverified / analysis As of 2026-10-22- Measure a support baseline without uploading private tickets.
- Set allowed tasks and human handoff conditions.
- Model low/base/high cases using user-supplied assumptions.
- Log pilot errors, retained human time and spend before scaling.
ToolJovia research proposal or inference, not a claim about achieved demand, revenue or replication outcomes.
Risks and failure conditions
D · unverified / analysis As of 2026-10-22- Unsafe automated answers or actions.
- Hidden integration, onboarding and QA costs.
- Early distribution and a founder's ARR do not predict a new entrant's revenue.
ToolJovia research proposal or inference, not a claim about achieved demand, revenue or replication outcomes.
- Before spending, define an observable buyer action and a deadline in the validation planner.
- Run a small, consented pilot. Record actual review time, rework, replies and payments in your downloaded worksheet.
- Compare observations with your predeclared stop rule. Filling out a plan does not prove demand.
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Original sources and dates
Links support the attributed claims. Sources do not endorse ToolJovia. We do not treat repetition in the press as independent financial verification.
- Chatbase
official_product · reviewed 2026-10-22 · Official feature claims, not independently verified customer outcomes.
- I Hit $1M ARR in 117 Days. Bootstrapped to $10M. Here's My Playbook
original_founder_video_interview_transcript · reviewed 2026-10-22 · published 2026-03-16 · Founder interview is B despite independent publisher. ARR is a recurring run rate, not cash received, profit or valuation.
- Pricing - Chatbase
official_pricing · reviewed 2026-10-22 · Page mixes yearly effective and monthly toggle values; only explicitly labelled yearly figures retained.