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Arcads.ai is an AI-powered ad creation platform that enables brands to generate video ads using AI actors, eliminating the need for traditional UGC creators. The company was co-founded by Romain Torres and Dylan, who previously operated a seven-figure weight loss mobile app and recognized that AI would transform paid advertising creative production. They sold that app and launched Arcads in January 2024. The company reached $5,000 in monthly recurring revenue within its first week, broke $1 million in ARR by June 2024, scaled to $6 million ARR by May 2025 with a team of five, and reached $10 million ARR by November 2025 with a team of eight. As of 2026, revenue stands at $15 million. The company is fully bootstrapped with no outside funding, operates at what Torres describes as very healthy profit margins, and serves 6,000 paying customers, some of whom pay over $100,000 per year. The single most striking strategic fact is that Arcads uses its own product to run its paid advertising, creating a direct feedback loop between marketing spend and product development. Torres and his co-founder split responsibilities cleanly, with Torres owning all marketing and sales and Dylan owning product, and the company has scaled to $1 million in revenue per employee while building an internal army of roughly 100 AI agents in Gumloop to automate growth tasks including competitor ad monitoring, influencer sourcing, and content generation.
- Revenue
- $15M
- Customers
- 6K
- Year founded
- 2024
- Funding
- $25M
- Team size
- 10
- Location
- France
