About Raghav

Why OpenClay exists

Data enrichment is, at its core, a simple job: take a row, look something up, write the answer back. The tooling around it is priced as though it were much more than that: $149 to $800 a month before you enrich a single record.

Meanwhile the models that do the actual work are available to anyone with an API key, at a fraction of a cent per row. OpenClay is the thin layer between those two facts: it turns your spreadsheet into per-row prompts, runs them against a model you choose, and writes the answers back into new columns. You pay the model provider directly. There is no platform fee, and there never will be.

How it's funded

It isn't, and that's deliberate. There is no company, no billing, no accounts and no database. You bring your own API key, so running OpenClay costs me nothing regardless of how many people use it. That is exactly why the free tier can be honest rather than a funnel.

• No platform fee, no credits, no seats.
• No account, so there is no user table to monetise or leak.
• Your files are parsed in your browser and your API key never leaves it except to reach the provider you chose.
• The whole thing is open source, so none of the above has to be taken on trust.

What it is today

• 28 models across 4 providers, plus any OpenAI-compatible endpoint you point it at.
• Live web search per row, with the cost quoted before you commit.
• Token, rate-limit and data-quality reporting during a run.
• Everything client-side except a stateless proxy that logs nothing.

Several of those exist because users wrote in and asked. The reset control, the token and peak-throughput stats, the blank-cell counter and exponential backoff all came from one person's feedback about running large batches through Azure. If something is missing or wrong, that is the fastest way to change it.

Get in touch

Happy to hear about:

• Feature requests and bug reports for OpenClay
• Feedback from anyone using it in production

The fastest route is LinkedIn, or open an issue on GitHub. If you want to run your own copy, the self-hosting guide is three commands long.