ObsessionDB GTM brain

ObsessionDB provides managed ClickHouse-based real-time analytics infrastructure for data and AI engineering teams.

category

Managed real-time analytics database

market profile

  • text: Large real-time analytics workloads need low-latency queries while storage and compute costs grow.
  • text: AI agents can generate many parallel queries, creating a distinct cost and workload-isolation challenge.

personas

  • title: Head of data engineering
    pains:
    • A growing ClickHouse bill competes with latency and retention targets
    • Engineers spend time on upgrades, scaling and on-call
  • title: Platform or infrastructure lead
    pains:
    • Production workloads need isolation from agent queries
    • Security and procurement may require data in the company's own cloud account
  • title: AI engineering lead
    pains:
    • Agents repeatedly probe large datasets and can overload shared production compute
    • Agent query activity needs to be auditable

icp

  • text: Companies already running large ClickHouse analytics clusters with material data volumes and rising cloud bills.
  • text: Engineering-led product companies building real-time dashboards, observability or AI agents over operational data.
  • text: Organizations requiring managed infrastructure in their own AWS or Google Cloud account are candidates for BYOC.

message pillars

  • text: Address cost and performance as data grows.
  • text: Offer a choice of customer-owned or hosted infrastructure.
  • text: Reduce the operational load on engineering teams.

objections

  • objection: Will migration break our existing ClickHouse workloads?
    response: Validate feature compatibility and benchmark representative queries on a trial cluster before committing.
  • objection: Can sensitive data stay in our cloud account?
    response: The BYOC option runs in the customer's own account; evaluate security and contractual requirements directly.
  • objection: Are savings guaranteed?
    response: The pricing calculator is indicative and varies by region and workload; compare a sized cluster against the current bill.

competitors

  • name: ClickHouse Cloud
    why: Managed ClickHouse offering explicitly compared in the pricing calculator.
  • name: Altinity
    why: Offers managed ClickHouse infrastructure and operational support.
  • name: Snowflake
    why: Cloud analytics platform competing for warehouse workloads.

influencers

  • name: Rafael Aviles
    url: https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/rafael-aviles
    why: Co-founder and CEO.
  • name: Lucas García de Viedma Pérez
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lucas-garcia-de-viedma-p%C3%A9rez_yc-here-we-go-after-some-quiet-months-activity-7510784406442274816-5oKM
    why: Publicly discusses the company's managed ClickHouse positioning.

keywords

  • managed ClickHouse
  • ClickHouse cloud cost
  • real-time analytics database
  • ClickHouse BYOC
  • AI agent data warehouse
  • ClickHouse compute storage separation
  • low latency OLAP

voice

  • Technical and performance-focused
  • Direct about infrastructure costs
  • Quantitative and benchmark-oriented

signals

  • text: A large or fast-growing ClickHouse deployment is driving a cost audit or migration evaluation.
  • text: An AI team needs read-only, isolated compute for high-volume agent queries.

stack

  • ClickHouse
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Azure
  • S3
  • SQL

pricing

model: usage

motion

hybrid

channels

  • SEO
  • LinkedIn
  • developer community
  • founder-led sales

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Rafael Aviles
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: Co-Founder & CEO at ObsessionDB. Bootstrapped our previous company to $1.5 M ARR and ran it profitably for 4 years, serving 5 billion real-time API requests per month. We ran data workloads at petabyte scale. Previously worked with the data team at enterprises like Wendy's, Victoria's Secret, FOX, Disney, Axel Springer, and Groupon.
  • name: Marc Höffl
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Founder at ObsessionDB. Serial founder with 4 companies, including Frens (acquired by Swyke) and Laserfocus (YC W20). Previously CTO at Numia building real-time blockchain data infrastructure. Founded Gambify in 2014, soccer app scaled to 6 figure players with support from German National Team. Engineering Manager at Localytics. MS in Data Science from KTH Stockholm, MS in Cloud Computing from TU Berlin.
  • name: Marc Leuthardt
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Co-Founder at ObsessionDB (YC F26). Previously co-founded Numia, scaling blockchain infrastructure to serve billions of monthly requests across 100+ blockchains. Co-founded and CTO at Frens (acquired by Swyke), autonomous infra validating 70+ blockchains. Co-founded and CTO at Lokalportal, led a team of 25. Degree in chemistry and economics. For a year spent a few mornings a week in a highschool chemistry lab to blow up things with students.

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