Neel Bhattacharya
Founder at LeadTrackAI
Neel Bhattacharya is founder of LeadTrackAI and TheSolarAI, Australian platforms that respond to new sales leads within 60 seconds using AI voice, SMS and email. She spent more than 20 years in enterprise marketing automation, including roles at IBM Unica, Salesforce and Adobe Campaign, before building TheSolarAI in 2023 to serve the solar industry; it now generates more than $8,000 in monthly recurring revenue. LeadTrackAI extends the same approach into automotive, real estate and home services. On Day One's Pick My Brain, she outlined a four-quadrant framework for solo founders.
Career
- Now Founder · LeadTrackAI
- Earlier Enterprise marketing automation · IBM Unica
- Earlier Enterprise marketing automation · Salesforce
- Earlier Enterprise marketing automation · Adobe Campaign
- From 2023 · Startup Founder (evolved into LeadTrackAI) · TheSolarAI
Sources: indiehackers.com, newsletter.thesolarai.com
Key moments
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- 1:27 Neel's origin story: from wanting to be an architect to a decade in energy product management
- 3:01 Why Neel left corporate to become a founder
- 3:44 Who LeadTrackAI is for and the problem it solves for solar and battery resellers
- 5:06 How the AI voice agent works: calling leads the moment they come in
- 6:32 Why a fresh, qualified lead is worth more than ten cold ones
- 7:01 Where LeadTrackAI is today: three large customers and expanding to Sydney
- 8:55 Why every call is transcribed and how that builds an audit trail for regulated industries
- 9:57 The founder's trap: chasing shiny objects instead of documenting what works
- 11:27 Alan's four-quadrant framework for prioritising urgent vs important tasks
- 14:28 Why SOPs and financial admin always end up in the "important but not urgent" pile
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