Presentations should take seconds to create, not hours
A personal note on why I stopped waiting for someone else to build what people clearly needed.
As someone who has been in engineering management for quite a while, I've observed people using presentations for all kinds of things — like jotting down a tentative roadmap. And given how fast-paced the environment was, those drafts could pass through 10–20 people, including management, before they became stale or were actually updated to presentable visual quality.
It was mindblowing to me — a frontend engineer at heart — how much manual work all that required, when the real correct flow was always obvious: user clicks “Roadmap,” adds their data, and voilà — everything is positioned and styled, ready to present to the C-level. Want to tweak things? Sure, the tools are there. But it should look amazing from the get-go.
The other thing that stuck with me: complex processes, mapped out in static diagrams, shown to a room full of people who immediately started talking past each other. I kept thinking — take this into 3D. Let people see the connections in space. Half the confusion would disappear.
Last summer, when my schedule finally opened up, I decided to stop waiting for someone else to build what I've seen people need for years.
“User clicks Roadmap, adds their data, and voilà — everything is positioned and styled, ready to present to the C-level.”
What Encelade is built on
A presentation should take seconds, not hours
I watched drafts pass through 10–20 people before they ever reached presentable quality. That manual work is a flaw in the tool, not the job. Pick a use case, add your data, and get something C-level-ready right away — still editable when you want to tweak it.
Tooling should remove confusion, not just polish slides
I sat in too many rooms where a static diagram made smart people talk past each other. Prettier slides were never the fix. Some ideas belong in space and 3D, where you can finally see the connections — understanding that flat images never create.
Agent and AI output needs a layer people can actually show
Research, data, and analysis pile up in forms no one can put in front of a room. I'm building the missing step: the layer that turns that work into something polished you can present or send as a link.
The result should look excellent by default
The status quo assumes good-looking work needs someone to style it by hand. It shouldn't have to. The result should look polished from the start, on brand, with no designer in the loop — the tools to tweak it are right there, but you shouldn't need them to start.
This is the product I'm building. See how it works for your team, check the plans, or help build it.
Building a
world-class product
Before Encelade, I was VP of Engineering at DataRobot, where I led AI/ML platform and enterprise data tooling teams of more than 50 people. Over more than a decade in engineering — the last several years leading teams — I cultivated a culture of deep mutual respect: environments where extremely smart people could truly enjoy their work, from the people they interacted with to the day-to-day tasks. My team was never just a list of names on a spreadsheet or a budget to wrangle.
We were doing incredible things technology-wise, and we had a lot of pride in the quality and speed of what we produced. I knew I couldn't compromise on that — I'd seen what was possible, and that stays with you.
I wanted an amazing team that takes pride in their work and a product that's truly useful to people — and I wanted to build it in a category I know from the inside. Years of leading engineering for an AI/ML platform are what convinced me this layer needed to exist. That's why I started Encelade.
Nastia Gryshchenko
Founder & CEO, Encelade
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