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A phone-intent sales intelligence platform that helps outbound teams prioritize prospects and connect signals to calling workflows.
TitanX alone ~$7.2–7.4M · $0 → $1.4M ARR from June to December 2024 · 136% NRR, 92% gross retention
Gilkey paid $200K down plus an $800K seller note for a slow, human-powered phone-data service, turned it into software, and went from a June 2024 beta to $1.4M ARR by December and about $6M a year later.
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TitanX is a sales intelligence SaaS platform focused on phone intent: helping outbound teams decide which prospects are more likely to answer calls. Founder Joey Gilkey said the company acquired underlying IP in August 2023 for $1 million, structured as $200,000 upfront and an $800,000 seller note. The product began as a tool for his fractional sales business, then became the basis for a software company launched in beta in June 2024. The founder said TitanX reached $1.4 million ARR by the end of 2024 and roughly $6 million by the end of 2025. After acquiring dialer company FrontSpin, he reported combined ARR of $9.7 million in early 2026, with TitanX contributing about $7.2–$7.4 million and FrontSpin about $2.1 million. Growth included a shift away from an attempted PLG approach toward enterprise selling, and a $27 million Series A. This is founder-reported scale in a capital-intensive, acquisition-assisted model rather than a simple solo SaaS template.
Gilkey came to TitanX from a career in enterprise sales and a fractional sales business that already licensed the phone-data service, so he had a live operating context before the software existed.
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“Today, we're sitting at the time of recording this, we're at 9.7 million ARR.”
0:04 · hear it in the videoData credibility: Founder Joey Gilkey stated the figures himself: $1.4M ARR at the end of 2024, "six something" at the end of 2025, $9.7M combined ARR in early 2026 (about $7.2–7.4M TitanX and $2.1M FrontSpin), 136% NRR, 92% gross retention, pricing bands and the $406K largest contract. Deal terms ($1M IP purchase, $13M FrontSpin acquisition, $27M raise at about $92M) are also his account. His $18.7M figure for 2026 is a target. Nothing was shown on screen or audited.
A phone-intent product earns its first dollar when an outbound organization believes the signal can improve the productivity of a real sales team. TitanX’s founder said the company took its first dollar at a beta launch on June 1, 2024, after acquiring the IP and redirecting it from a services-company use case.
TitanX’s growth loop combines proprietary intent signals, outbound usage, and feedback from call outcomes. The founder described a model using more than 70 signals and a product that learns from how lists score and perform in a dialer.
A new data product can spend months between a promising signal and a repeatable sale, particularly when the buyer is an enterprise sales organization. TitanX’s founder started with an IP purchase in 2023, launched a beta in June 2024, and said the initial PLG approach was dropped after a month or two.
TitanX positions itself between prospect data sources and outbound calling systems. It uses phone-intent signals to help a sales team prioritize who to call, and the founder described a feedback loop from how a list was built, scored, and then performed in the dialer. The platform is distinct from a raw contact database in its stated aim to predict who is likely to answer. Its acquisition of FrontSpin added a high-velocity dialer, connecting intelligence with call execution. The product has to make data provenance, signal freshness, and compliance understandable because phone-based outreach operates under regulatory constraints. A practical product experience should explain why a record is prioritized, let managers control workflows, and capture call outcomes without forcing reps to leave their daily tools. That combination is technically and operationally demanding, especially when data comes from multiple private and public sources.
TitanX sells to outbound teams through customer bands associated with sales-rep counts. The founder cited bands of 3–10, 10–30, 30–50, and 50-plus reps, corresponding to price points of $24,000, $50,000, $90,000, and $250,000; the largest customer had just expanded to $406,000 a year on a three-year contract. He also described consumption-based credits, hands-on account management, and expansion as customers add teams, usage, or product lines. Revenue reportedly grew from $1.4 million ARR at the end of 2024 to roughly $6 million at the end of 2025, then $9.7 million combined ARR after the FrontSpin acquisition. These are founder statements in an interview. For a similar company, price against measurable team value and usage, while making overconsumption and renewal terms explicit. Expansion can raise contract value, but only if usage continues to create wins for the customer.
TitanX's cost base is proprietary data, R&D and human-enabled operations. The founder said the acquired IP was initially a tech-enabled service with humans in the loop, and that the company invested to make it faster, cheaper, and more scalable. It uses more than 70 signals drawn from sources described as compliant scraping, private-market purchases, and public data, alongside human elements. Those inputs create real operating costs: data access, normalization, fraud detection, telephony integrations, compliance review, and technical account management. A founder building this category should calculate contribution margin by customer cohort and include onboarding labor, not just cloud bills. Build provenance and deletion controls into the data pipeline, and audit source permissions before scaling. The company’s acquisition of a dialer further broadens the cost base and product surface. Our read: without a margin figure, revenue scale is not proof of profitability.
Copy the choice to own a distinct piece of intellectual property when it directly improves a customer outcome that a generic data feed cannot provide. TitanX’s founder bought IP for $1 million and developed it from a services context into a software platform; he also described domain expertise in telco data and fraud detection. Copy the focus on an operational metric buyers care about, such as connecting with more of the right prospects. Change the capital assumptions. TitanX raised $27 million and acquired FrontSpin for $13 million, so its growth path is far beyond a typical bootstrapped build. A smaller founder should validate a single signal in one segment, secure rights to the data, and sell a limited paid pilot before buying an adjacent company or building a full dialer. Make integrations and measurement credible, then expand only when retention and unit economics support it. This is a strong scale reference for enterprise operators, not a plug-and-play solo SaaS recipe.
The largest risk is data defensibility: if signals are easy to reproduce, larger sales platforms can bundle similar prioritization and erase the advantage. A second risk is regulatory exposure. Phone outreach depends on compliance with rules such as TCPA, and a data source or workflow that violates customer expectations can damage trust and create legal costs. Enterprise implementation and hands-on account management also raise service burden, while acquisitions add integration and financing risk. TitanX reported $9.7 million combined ARR after acquiring FrontSpin, but this figure does not show profitability, customer concentration, or the cost of its $27 million financing and acquisition strategy. The founder cited a large customer contract and high net revenue retention, yet gross retention was described as 92%, a signal to monitor carefully. A smaller entrant should avoid broad claims about answer prediction, document data rights, and prove repeat usage before scaling sales hiring. The business needs durable outcomes, not just a large signal count.
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