Cluely: A Desktop AI Assistant That Sees Your Screen and Hears Your Audio 170

Cluely is a desktop AI assistant that can view screen content and listen to audio in real time, providing help without requiring the user to actively ask questions, and is completely invisible during screen sharing and meeting recordings. It is suitable for a variety of scenarios, such as meetings, sales calls, and focused work.

Key Features:

• Screen monitoring: Can view on-screen content, such as code, slides, documents, and more.

• Audio listening: Listens to audio in the background and understands meeting content in real time, without needing to join the meeting.

• Proactive assistance: Actively offers help the user may need, without waiting for the user to ask questions.

• Completely undetectable: Invisible during screen sharing and meeting recordings—only the user can see it.

• Follows your gaze: The Cluely window can be moved, allowing you to place it wherever you're looking without breaking your focus.

Use Cases:

• Meetings: Can answer questions in real time, such as summarizing discussions the user missed, including timeline adjustments, budget allocation disputes, and more.

• Sales calls: Helps sales representatives handle objections, provides product information, and introduces security standards such as SOC 2 Type II certification and data encryption.

• Personal deep work: While the user is learning, it can answer specialized questions, such as explaining physics concepts, answering chemistry questions, and more.

Key Questions:

Q: What is the main difference between Cluely and traditional AI chat robots?

A: Traditional AI chatbots only respond when the user actively asks a question, whereas Cluely is a proactive AI assistant that anticipates user needs by monitoring the screen and listening to audio, offering help without requiring the user to ask.

Q: What security measures does Cluely have in place for data protection?

A: Cluely is SOC 2 Type II certified, and all data is encrypted during transmission and storage. It has dedicated data centers in the United States and the European Union to comply with local regulations. It never shares user data with third parties and can provide audit logs and compliance reports to facilitate annual audits.

Q: What role can Cluely play in meeting scenarios?

A: During meetings, Cluely can understand meeting content in real time and answer related questions; when the user misses part of the discussion, it can summarize the missed information to help the user keep up with the meeting progress.

Funding and Plans:

In April 2025, Cluely completed a $5.3 million seed funding round.

In June 2025, Cluely announced it had secured a $15 million Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Cluely plans to use the new funds to increase marketing investment and expand market share.