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.”
Building a
world-class product
Over the years, I cultivated a culture of deep mutual respect in every team I led. I built 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 is truly useful to people. That's why I started Encelade.
Nastia Gryshchenko
Founder & CEO, Encelade
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