Top of the lyne - High churn, low LTV
Gen AI companies are often looked at with skepticism for their inability to scale past consumer/prosumer use cases, which are ailed by high churn and low LTV. Murf AI isn’t one of those companies. Murf is the runaway leader of the text-to-speech space not just for prosumers, but also for businesses. What separates the wheat from the chaff in this space (and Murf from the rest) is a GTM orchestration that (a) proactively triggers self-serve conversions and (b) serves flaming hot enterprise opportunities to their sales team. On a platter. This is the story of how the generative AI company Murf uses behavioral AI to penetrate the enterprise market while putting their self-serve conversions on anabolic steroids.
Meet Murf AI 🤝Entertainment animation agencies creating entire TV series episodes using AI-generated voices… authors creating a series of fantasy fiction audiobooks with little to no production costs… YouTube influencers creating rap videos using AI-powered speech - these stories are all very real in 2023 and they’re all powered by Murf.ai. Synthetic speech company Murf lets users generate “human-like” voiceovers without needing to buy recording equipment or hire a voice artist. Founded in October 2020, Murf saw its ARR rise 26x over the next two years while synthesizing more than one million voiceover projects along the way, in various speaking styles and tones. With a library of more than 120 human-parity AI voices across 20 languages, Murf raised a $10 million Series A round in September 2022, on the back of their blazing growth. What they didn’t know at the time, was that their growth so far was about to pale in comparison to the volcanic surge that was coming their way.
The trouble with growing 3x in 3 months...Murf tracks the behavioral data of users on Mixpanel. On the GTM end, they use Customer.io and Sendinblue to trigger emails to their customers prompting conversions - both self-serve and sales-driven. Prior to using behavioral AI, Murf built cohorts on Mixpanel to qualify users to trigger conversion prompts to. They tested a few hypotheses:
And so in September 2022, an AI company Murf turned to AI for help in a very unsurprising turn of events. Murf integrated behavioral AI into their GTM stack. Skyrocketing conversion rates by 7xMurf's problem was two-fold. On one hand, they needed to focus their relatively small sales team on the leads most likely to convert, rather than waste time, energy, and emails chasing leads who weren't qualified to convert yet. Playbook #1Goal defined to the AI: Free-to-enterprise sales-led conversions Playbook #2Goal defined to the AI: Free-to-pro self-serve conversions AI for AI: Up next for MurfWith these two playbooks orchestrating their GTM, Murf is able to be proactive about penetrating enterprises at a higher ticket price. Their top of the funnel growth rates continue to hold. And so, while acquisition is not a burning problem for Murf (it's an understood problem statement), a problem with a lot of unknowns is churn reduction and account expansion. Playbooks 3 & 4 loading ⏳, but more on that later. |
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