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Hey, I’m David, and we’re Retool. Retool is a dramatically faster way to build custom internal tools. For example, if you’re YouTube and someone uploads a dodgy video, you need an internal app so an operator can review it and approve or reject it. That kind of custom workflow exists inside every company.

Today, companies build these tools from scratch, even though they reuse the same patterns again and again. One of our customers spent $200,000 and six months building a custom sales forecasting tool. That is expensive, slow, and it ties up engineers on internal software instead of the product work that actually moves the business.

Retool lets teams build those internal apps much faster, so they can ship the exact tool they need without rewriting the same code every time.

We realized that most internal tools are made from the same building blocks. Retool gives you pre-built components you can drag and drop, then compose into the workflow you need, whether that is approvals, forecasting, or any other internal process.

That approach makes Retool about fifty times faster than building the same internal tool from scratch every single time.

The market is huge because every company runs on internal software, not just Silicon Valley startups. Think of a company like Coca-Cola. Most of the code they write is internal. In fact, one of our customers spends $400 million every year building internal tools. We think about fifty percent of all code in the world goes toward this kind of internal software.

We’re only two months in. We already have $11,000 in monthly recurring revenue and 13 live customers. On a sales call, we rebuilt that customer’s sales forecasting tool from scratch inside Retool in just 20 minutes, and that 75,000-person company signed a paid pilot with us. We also have a paid pilot with a giant enterprise worth $1.5 million.

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If you invest in or run companies that are spending months building internal tools, we’d love introductions to the teams that own this problem so we can save them that engineering time. Come talk to us after, or reach us at [insert contact or URL], and we’ll show you how fast you can build your first internal app in Retool.

Our goal is to become the default way every company builds internal software, so internal tools take minutes to create instead of months.