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Orly Shoavi has done what most founders only talk about: built through the “two years in the desert,” found a breakout wedge, and exited—then came back for round two with ClarityQ. In this episode, Orly (Co-Founder & CEO, ClarityQ) sits down with Haggai Klorman Eraqi to unpack the real founder journey: choosing a co-founder like a marriage, surviving the emotional whiplash of acquisition talks, and the moment SafeDK unlocked growth by shifting from “everyone loves it” to “everyone pays.”
Then we fast-forward to ClarityQ—the pain Orly felt firsthand at scale: teams drowning in data but blocked by bottlenecked analysts. She explains why GenAI made this problem solvable now, how ClarityQ builds trust (transparency, SQL visibility, human-in-the-loop), and what it means to move from prompt engineering to context engineering.
What you’ll learn:
How Orly vetted a co-founder—and why alignment beats “perfectly different skill sets”
The SafeDK wedge: monitoring SDKs → ad intelligence → explosive demand (and why it started as “just a feature”)
The acquisition roller coaster: term sheet, sudden freeze, brutal uncertainty… then a better all-cash offer
Why “waiting on analysts” slows decisions—and how ClarityQ helps teams move faster
How to trust AI analytics: plans, steps, SQL, guardrails, and analyst verification workflows
Orly’s advice to her younger self: start earlier
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