Floqer, a startup building an automated customer-knowledge system for business-to-business sales teams, plans to release the technology behind its database as open source in early 2027. TechCrunch reported on October 14 that the proposed release remains conditional on security reviews, reflecting the sensitivity of systems that collect and maintain detailed information about companies, employees and customer interactions.
The company describes its product as a continuously updated knowledge layer for sales and marketing. Instead of asking staff to search company websites, job boards, professional networks and other sources one by one, users describe the kinds of customers they want to find. Floqer’s agents then search for matching companies and contacts, organize the results and keep the records current as new information appears.
According to Floqer, the platform enriches target accounts with information drawn from more than 100 third-party sources. When a team needs a verified email address or phone number, the system uses a sequential process that checks multiple data providers until it finds usable contact information. It can also monitor changes such as a prospect moving to a new job, receiving a promotion or working for a company that has raised funding.
The startup grew out of a different product. Co-founders Shivam Mahajan and Zaaheda Islam initially built a browser extension called Super Chat for understanding information and taking notes through a ChatGPT account. TechCrunch reported that enterprise users began applying the extension to the manual work of cleaning customer relationship management records. Feedback from those users led the founders to pivot toward the current database product.
Floqer now presents the service as a fleet of agents that conducts customer research continuously. The company told TechCrunch that customers have reported reductions of as much as 70 percent in prospecting time. That figure is a company-reported customer outcome, not an independent benchmark, and the article did not provide a methodology for comparing research quality or completeness before and after adoption.
The planned open-source release is partly a response to organizations that want more control over their data and infrastructure. Some prospective customers prefer to host customer information themselves rather than store it in a vendor-controlled platform, while others want to modify the system or build additional tools on top of it. Floqer says its current autonomous database is available only to a limited audience because the company cannot yet serve all the demand it sees.
Opening the underlying technology could expand access, but it also raises practical questions about protecting the information the software gathers. Floqer is conducting security reviews before the targeted early-2027 release because the database can contain sensitive customer data and is already used by large companies. TechCrunch did not report a final release date or describe the future open-source license.
Floqer says it has passed $1.2 million in annual recurring revenue and increased total revenue roughly tenfold over the past year. The company was founded in 2024, has raised $2 million in pre-seed financing and employs eight people. It reports more than 1,000 customers, with Perplexity, Wise and AngelList among the names cited in the report.
The company’s growth points to a specific enterprise use for AI agents: repetitive research that spans many sources and quickly becomes stale. The model is less about generating a single answer than maintaining a changing operational record. Whether an open-source version can preserve data quality, security and reliable contact verification outside Floqer’s managed environment will be a key question if the planned release proceeds.
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