character.ai shows sustained decline with 3 consecutive months of decreases, down 15% overall to 163M.

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curl https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/signals/5182a3bb-62e2-4c09-95db-2c980de2f2c7 \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY"

curl -X POST https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/companies/enrich \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"domain":"character.ai","limit":20}'