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How Arcads Hit $6M ARR With a Five-Person Team and AI Agents

Romain Torres explains how Arcads grew from its January 2024 launch to $6M ARR with five engineers, paid ads on its own product, and internal AI agents built in Gumloop.

Romain Torres · Arcads

Published July 8, 2025
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Romain Torres, founder and CEO of Arcads, explains how his five-person team went from a January 2024 launch to $6M in ARR. He covers the company's three acquisition channels, the weight loss app that led to the idea, and how around 100 Gumloop agents run the growth work.

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From $5M to $6M ARR in a month

“So I think one month ago, we were at 5,000,000 ARR. Now we are at six.”
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Using their own tool for paid ads

“The first one and the most important one is, like, actually paid ads. We use our own tool to promote our tool.”
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5K MRR in the first week

“I think first week, it was, like, 5 k of monthly recurring revenue after, like, literally one week.”
Watch at 07:03

Why AI works best from examples

“What you have to understand is AI is very good at duplicating stuff. It's... I think it's gonna be good at creating very soon, but right now, it's like really world class at taking something that is good and doing something similar.”
Watch at 17:49

Repeat the ad system for weeks

“And if you do that, like, very repeatedly for weeks and weeks and weeks, your ads performance tends to improve.”
Watch at 24:23

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Romain Torres

Founder & CEO · Arcads

Company revenue
$6M

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