TripleDart exceeds $7 million in annual recurring revenue with growth driven by AI, reporting a 50 percent EBIT margin.

      Bengaluru, India

      TripleDart, a self-funded B2B growth company, has announced that it has exceeded $7 million in annual recurring revenue while maintaining a 50% EBIT margin. The firm attributes this growth to software rather than increasing its workforce or capital.

      This achievement comes amid a contentious discussion, as venture investors have invested over $300 million this year into "services-as-software" startups, believing that labor-intensive services can achieve software-level profit margins. Most of the funded companies in this sector have focused on particular aspects of marketing—such as design, content, or SEO—to validate their approach. However, TripleDart claims it has managed to achieve this across the entire inbound marketing function, positioning itself as the first company in India to accomplish this.

      The primary driver of this transformation is Slate, an AI-agent platform developed in-house by TripleDart after realizing that no existing tools met their needs. Slate's agents handle live SEO, content, and AI visibility tasks, while a "cowork" mode facilitates collaboration between client teams and the agents, aiming to create a marketing function that operates like a product rather than a traditional agency.

      Over the past four and a half years, TripleDart has grown to 120 employees and now oversees more than $200 million in ad spending for over 300 clients, including General Electric, SentinelOne, ByteDance, Sage, and Glean in the US, as well as WeWork, Cognizant, and MakeMyTrip in India.

      “The services-as-software trend has attracted hundreds of millions of dollars to support one theory: that a services business can operate at software margins,” stated Shiyam Sunder, Founder and Managing Director of TripleDart. “We have proven this without any external funding, across all marketing services, rather than just a single area. At TripleDart, we view ourselves as a software company that redefined the function from the start, rather than an agency that merely integrated some software. When a bootstrapped team can achieve this profitably, the term ‘agency’ no longer applies. This represents a new category.”

      TripleDart’s success is one instance in the broader discussion regarding whether service-based businesses can genuinely be transformed to operate at software margins, or if venture capital is necessary to achieve such results. TripleDart asserts that its model is effective in India, and profitable, without needing to secure a funding round.

      About TripleDart

      TripleDart is a Bengaluru-based B2B growth partner that has reconstructed the complete inbound marketing function as software. With a client base exceeding 300 companies across the US and India and managing over $200 million in ad expenditures, this bootstrapped company achieves software-level margins through its proprietary AI-agent platform, Slate. Its clientele includes General Electric, SentinelOne, ByteDance, Sage, Glean, WeWork, Cognizant, and MakeMyTrip.

      Website: https://www.tripledart.com/

      Contact

      Mahesh

      Director of Growth

      TripleDart

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