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SOURCE-LINKED CLAIMS

The numbers behind Dcrayons

Every number we print: on this site, in a sales deck, in a founder essay: is pulled from a query you could re-run. Four claims, four sources, one quarterly refresh schedule. Last verified 2026-06-01. Next refresh due 2026-07-15.

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Four claims we stand behind

Every claim below has a bold form and a conservative form. We use the bold form when the audience is close enough to verify; we use the conservative form on cold outreach so we under-promise by design. Either form is defendable against this page on the date stamped at the top.

Claim 01
As of 2026-06-01

84% of paying-client revenue is repeat business

84
percent
Public form

Bold: 84 percent. Conservative public form: 60 percent or more.

Definition + data

Counted as: paying customers with two or more paid invoices, share of total paid revenue from that cohort. SQL pull against the HRMS production invoices table on 2026-06-01. 147 paying customers total, 82 repeat, Rs 1.04 Cr total paid, Rs 87.7 lakh repeat.

Source

Query: Team AI repo: data/queries/repeat-revenue-2026-q2.sql
Audit doc: Team AI repo: posts/2026-06-01-dcrayons-defendable-numbers-sources.md (section 4)

Claim 02
As of 2026-06-01

10 years operating

10
years
Public form

Bold: 10 years. Conservative form: a decade.

Definition + data

Dcrayons Consultancy Private Limited registered 2016. Counting completed calendar years through 2026-06-01 gives 10. The DCrayons Inc. US entity was registered later; the headline counts the Indian parent.

Source

Query: MCA registration filing (year of incorporation 2016)
Audit doc: Team AI repo: posts/2026-06-01-dcrayons-defendable-numbers-sources.md (section 2)

Claim 03
As of 2026-06-01

88-person team across functional departments

88
people
Public form

Bold: 88 people. Conservative form on outbound: 60+ specialists. Background note: 60 is the count of billable specialists; 88 is total headcount including operations + leadership.

Definition + data

Live count from the HRMS users table on 2026-06-01 (88 rows where deleted_at is null). 79 customer-facing roles are active; 9 carry leadership / operations / finance functions. Split is published in the source doc.

Source

Query: HRMS users table on AWS 144 (live)
Audit doc: Team AI repo: posts/2026-06-01-dcrayons-defendable-numbers-sources.md (section 1)

Claim 04
As of 2026-06-01

523 client records, 148 paid, 79 active accounts

523
client records
Public form

Bold: 523 total client records. Public-facing roll-up: 200 or more clients across India, UK, US, UAE. Specific cuts: 148 have paid at least one invoice; 79 are active retainers.

Definition + data

From the HRMS customers + invoices tables on 2026-06-01. 523 = all client records ever opened. 148 = customers with at least one paid invoice. 79 = customers with status = active right now. 70 paying customers YTD 2026 (up from 55 in 2025 and 37 in 2024).

Source

Query: HRMS customers + invoices tables (live)
Audit doc: Team AI repo: posts/2026-06-01-dcrayons-defendable-numbers-sources.md (section 3)

How we refresh these

The four queries above re-run on a fixed quarterly cadence. Next scheduled refresh: 2026-07-15. If a number drops below the published bold figure at the next refresh, the bold figure on this page comes down within 48 hours of the pull and the conservative public form takes over until the next quarterly window.

If you find a public Dcrayons claim that does not match this page, tell us. Email info@dcrayons.app with the URL and the figure; we either fix the public copy or open the source query for you.

The discipline behind these numbers

Source-linked claims only hold if the words around them meet the same standard. Three pages document how we keep the copy honest.

The word ban

42 words we never print

The full ban wall: every banned word struck through, with the plainer replacement we use instead.

The refusals

What we refuse to print

Claims we turned down because the source data could not back them, listed by category.

The prompt

The writing prompt we use

The exact prompt our writers work under. Copy it and run it on your own content.

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