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Startup Stories - Mixergy

#2293 $2 million / year AI engineering firm

Startup Stories - Mixergy

Andrew Warner

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4.5591 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

My friend created an AI engineering firm and every time I see him, he tells me how much his business is growing. So I asked him to tell me all about it in this interview. This is the story of how Tarun Thummala created PressW, the Austin-based AI dev shop.

Tarun Thummala is the founder and CEO of PressW, an AI engineering firm that builds custom automation systems for real businesses in regulated, document-heavy industries. Instead of selling generic “AI transformation,” Tarun focuses on delivering specific workflow outcomes—often automating 90–95% of manual processes. Today, PressW generates over $2M in annual revenue by combining deep technical execution with a service-first approach to AI.

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0:00.0

Every time I see my buddy, he tells me how much his business is growing.

0:03.3

He created a company where he uses AI to create AI software for clients, and it's really taken off.

0:10.1

It's an interesting model, so I asked him to do an interview to walk me step by step through how we built the business.

0:15.0

Here goes.

0:16.5

Tarun Thumala is the founder of PressW, the AI engineering firm.

0:21.1

Yeah, let's get it.

0:22.6

The next new thing.

0:23.6

Presented by Zapier, the AI Automation Company.

0:27.6

How much revenue are you bringing in right now with your agency?

0:30.6

We're going to be doing well over $2 million this year.

0:35.6

How much did you do last year? Yeah, we did over $2 million this year. How much did you do last year?

0:40.5

Yeah, we did over $2 million last year.

0:44.5

Impressive. Give me an example of a typical thing that you do for your clients.

0:53.0

Yeah, so we're largely custom AI application developers, and so, you know, AI applications come in a lot of flavors.

0:57.5

Either we are helping them advance their own products, especially if they're like something like a SaaS, or a lot of our work primarily is on building like internal operation applications

1:04.6

that help them do their workflows better, smoother, faster with their, with their teams.

1:08.9

Is there an example project that you did that gives

1:11.4

us an understanding of what you do? Um, sure. Like there's, there's a lot of companies that,

1:16.6

for example, like process a lot of documents. Um, you know, we have a case on our website you can go

1:22.0

look at. It's a background checking company. They, they look at a ton of different court systems. And every single court

1:31.2

system in the U.S., there's over 5,000 of them that pull different records from. And you need to

1:36.1

examine that record. And each one looks and feels a little bit different. So this is, you know,

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