# Marek Sotak

> Marek Sotak is the London-based founder and CEO of Inline Manual, a self-funded digital adoption platform. A self-taught programmer with a background in Drupal, he builds tools for in-app guidance and customer engagement and writes about giving distributed teams the context to work independently.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Inline Manual
- **Organizations:** Inline Manual, Eventhunt.io, UBS Wealth Management, Atomic Ant
- **Known for:** Built Inline Manual as a self-funded, profitable business, as described on his personal site., Reported seven-figure annual recurring revenue in a public founder retrospective., Created a Drupal administrative interface he reported was used by approximately 8,000 websites.

## Career timeline

- **2005** — Joined the Drupal community after discovering its modular architecture.
- **2012** — Inline Manual began, according to its company history; worked at UBS in Switzerland.
- **2013** — Founder role at Inline Manual begins in May on his public résumé.
- **2014** — Published a humorous April Fools’ announcement about acquiring Clippy.
- **2015-2017** — Co-founder of Eventhunt.io, according to his résumé.
- **2021** — Launched Kairo on Product Hunt and published Business aware developers.
- **2026** — Demonstrated a real-time Clippy experiment using Jev in September.

## Achievements

- Built Inline Manual as a self-funded, profitable business, as described on his personal site.
- Reported seven-figure annual recurring revenue in a public founder retrospective.
- Created a Drupal administrative interface he reported was used by approximately 8,000 websites.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Demonstrated a real-time Clippy experiment using Jev, posted September 17.
- **2026-03** — Inline Manual published onboarding and digital adoption articles under his byline.

## Links

- Website: https://sotak.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mareksotak/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/sotak
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sotak

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Last updated: 2026-10-14