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AI Creative Strategist

GetCrux is the AI Creative Strategist to launch winning ads. Creatives have become the biggest lever to win on ad platforms. Yet, there is no clear way to figure out why something works. Marketers end up guessing and replicating the best performing ad, only to see it fail - with high CAC & wasted dollars. GetCrux helps performance marketers find winning patterns in their ad creatives across 100+ parameters like hooks, messaging, storyline, music, pacing, and recommend exactly what to launch next.
Active Founders
Himank Jain
Himank Jain
Co-Founder and CEO
Himank is the co-founder and CEO at GetCrux. He has previously worked at J&J as an ML Engineer, leading the NLP initiatives to automate sales transcript and was a data consultant at PwC. Himank has graduated from IIT Bombay. During his college time, he headed Mood Indigo which is Asia's largest student-led festival. It attracts artists from 25+ countries and 140K+ visitors nationwide and has raised $500K in capital from global brands. Excited about space, spirituality and sports!
Atharva Padhye
Atharva Padhye
Founder
Atharva is a co-founder at getcrux. Prev a Renewable Energy Engg grad at IIT Bombay. Started Crux while in college and dropped a management consulting job offer at Bain & Co. Prev worked on Risk Analytics at Citibank. While in college, I headed Mood Indigo (Asia's largest college festival) where we built the first-ever metaverse for colleges - a 3D experience to explore live events on the campus that brought in 100K viewership in 2 days. Avid interest in music & international cuisines.
Prabhat Singh
Prabhat Singh
Founder
Hi! I'm Prabhat, Co-founder of getcrux.ai. I completed my bachelor's at IIT Bombay. Previously, I co-founded a social initiative, Eduride, which helped over 1000 applicants reach their exam centers during COVID-19. I'm passionate about AGI, game design, fintech, and sports.
Company Launches
GetCrux: AI Creative Strategist to Launch Winning ads
See original launch post

Creatives are the #1 lever to optimize and scale performance while running ads on Meta, Google, TikTok or any paid media channel.

Yet, most growth and creative teams don’t have a data-driven process to iterate on creatives.

There’s no clear answer for:

  • Why do some ads work and others don’t?
  • What are the top objections and concerns users have?
  • What angles and concepts are working for my competitors?
  • How do I learn from these insights and make ads faster?

So we built the AI Creative Strategist that helps you iterate faster and launch winning ads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLOutqGo4wU

This is how teams run their creative process with GetCrux:

  1. Surface Insights: AI watches every ad, finds patterns across creatives, tells you what works and why
  2. Learn from the Market: Learns from competitor ads, comments, reviews, and comes up with new angles
  3. Execute at Lightning Speed: Converts insights into on-brand and compliant creatives and auto-publish to ad platforms

We connect with all your data sources:

  1. Ad Platforms (Meta, Google, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Snapchat, Display, App Campaigns, Applovin, TradeDesk, Inmobi, Criteo, Atari)
  2. 1st Party Data Sources (Snowflake, Tableau, Metabase, Looker)
  3. Attribution, MMPs or 3rd Party Tools (AppsFlyer, Adjust, etc.)


Growth and creative teams from large publicly listed enterprises to some of the fastest growing startups, including YC companies iterate 10X faster, and have even scaled 2X at a 10% lower CAC with our ads.

We’re one of the best teams working on this problem:

  • Backed by senior execs from Google and Meta
  • Our 1st product was acquired by one of the largest ad agency
  • Building AI tools for marketers for over 3 years now
  • Best AI engineers from IITs (top 0.01%) with avg age of 23!

If you’re a growth, paid social, or creative team that wants to iterate faster, we would love to chat. Talk to the founders.

Previous Launches
Stop guessing which ad creatives work and find winning patterns that reduce CAC
Optimize Google & Meta Ads with insights & recommendations from our AI Ads Specialist.
Selected answers from GetCrux's original YC application

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Customer-facing Analytics Copilot for SaaS

How long have each of you been working on this? How much of that has been full-time? Please explain.

We have been working full-time on this for the last 18 months and staying together.

February 2022 - June 2022 (5 months) We worked on several ideas in real-money gaming and web3.

July 2022 - January 2023 (7 months) We worked full time on a ‘User Acquisition Tool for Web3 Games’. Raised a pre-seed round, scaled to $10K revenue, and served 10+ games with 100,000 NFT drops

February - May 2023 (4 months) Pivoted away from web3, explored several idea spaces, and saw great opportunity in recent LLM developments

May - August 2023 (3 months) Built Crux - AI Copilot for Analytics for marketers in DTC brands in the US.

August 2023 - present (2 months) Building Crux in its current form.

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

Problem Statement:- A growth stage SaaS company ($10M - $100M ARR) serving enterprises gets 100-200 ad-hoc requests per account per month to create custom reports, dashboards and provide insights. A pre-configured dashboard rarely solves the problem since the needs of the account are constantly evolving & every user in the account tracks different metrics.

These ad-hoc requests come to the customer success manager, who takes it to an analyst or engineer who fetches data, reconfigures the dashboard, and generates a report which takes 48-72h on average depending on complexity of the query.

Solution:- Crux is an AI Copilot for SaaS companies to provide customized analytics to their enterprise accounts by asking questions in plain English. Crux connects with all data sources, converts English queries to SQL, and generates insights & visualization.

Vision/Roadmap:- We want to help SaaS companies with one thing - enabling their customers to take the right decision quickly & effortlessly. This will be through:

Stage 1: Fetching the data lying in the SaaS via custom reports & dashboards

Stage 2: Proactively generating insights by identifying trends in the data

Stage 3: Being a co-pilot in planning by making predictions & executing tasks

YC Winter 2024 Application Video
GetCrux
Founded:2022
Batch:Winter 2024
Team Size:9
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Harj Taggar