YC W24 · Series B

We rebuilt Greptile for enterprise. Six months later, it raised a $25M Series A.

Client

Greptile (AI code review platform)

Year

2025

Involvement

Brand Identity,

Product Design,

Website,

Sales Decks

2×

Demo requests immediately after launch

$25M

Series A raised at $180M valuation, led by Benchmark

Glowing green Greptile logo mark on a dark background

Greptile had the technology enterprise teams needed, but not the trust signals.

Where Greptile was

Greptile had YC backing, real technical depth and a product that could review complex codebases.

What it needed

A system that could explain the product quickly and feel credible to larger engineering teams.

What was not working

The brand, website and product story felt fragmented. Buyers had to connect the value for themselves.

Why it mattered

As Greptile moved upmarket, every unclear touchpoint added friction to a sale built on trust.

Greptile's mark and wordmark drawn as vector outlines, each detail cut into its final shape
Greptile type poster reading 'review.', with review notes in Geist Mono down a line-numbered gutter
Greptile's colour system as blocks that resize into each other: #107A4D, #06281B, #3E5D50, #42C583, #AEECC6 and #C5D5CE

Critical challenge

01 / 02

Every touchpoint told a different Greptile story.

Problem

Greptile's technology had moved faster than the way the company presented itself. Brand, website and sales materials each told a slightly different story.

Why it mattered

Enterprise buyers do not separate the product from the company behind it. An inconsistent signal makes a capable platform feel like a risk.

What we did

We rebuilt the identity, positioning, website and sales system together. Clarity, durability and trust became the filter for every decision.

Outcome

Greptile had one coherent system for product, sales and investor conversations instead of a set of disconnected deliverables.

Greptile banner answering 'vibe coding?' with 'vibe check greptile.' over a dot-matrix lizard
Greptile poster reading 'watches every line.' above a lizard, with a review card: 'No line left unread. Safe to merge.'
Greptile terminal poster: '$ grep -r trust .' over a file list with a race condition flagged

Critical challenge

02 / 02

Buyers saw the complexity before they saw the value.

Problem

AI code review crosses repositories, code context and review workflows. Showing all that complexity at once made the value harder to see.

Why it mattered

If a buyer could not understand the workflow quickly, the demo had to explain the interface before it could prove the outcome.

What we did

We simplified the hierarchy, clarified key paths and carried the same visual logic from the website into the product experience.

Outcome

After launch, demo requests doubled in the first week and the product story gave sales a clearer starting point.

Greptile's results around a dot-matrix eye: 200% demo requests in week one, 180k+ bugs caught in month one, $25M Series A in month six
Greptile app icon: the white mark on a green tile
Cover of the Greptile SDS, its design system, over columns of code
Greptile poster in a subway car: a halftone lizard above a sign-up strip with a QR code

In their own words.

Client testimonial

“Daksh is a tier-1 designer, with great taste, attention-to-detail, and strong product intuition. I highly recommend working with him.”
Daksh Gupta, Greptile

Daksh Gupta

CEO, Greptile

Greptile dashboard on a tablet held in two hands: highlight of the week, comments per day, credit summary and monthly usage
Greptile's mobile site on a phone: a dot-matrix '</>' above its purpose line and a 'Try for free' button
Close-up of the Greptile dashboard: repositories with week-on-week change, and monthly usage as rows of green dots

Then Greptile started sending other YC founders our way.

Beyond metrics, our work became Greptile's internal standard for how they present themselves across product, sales, and investor touchpoints.

Greptile began referring us to other YC founders. One introduction turned into several, and this collaboration became the foundation for our long-term partnerships across the YC ecosystem.

Today, we work closely with multiple YC-backed teams, helping them translate strong technology into clear, credible systems.

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Frequently asked questions

We build brands, websites and products for startups that need to command enterprise trust. Brand identity, website design, product design, design systems, motion and sales assets, all designed together as one system.

Greptile doubled demo requests in week one and raised a $25M Series A within six months of launch. Sully scaled 26x in 11 months after its redesign. Sainapse relaunched ahead of general availability and is now deployed by Fortune 500 companies including Ford and Freshworks.

Brand sprints take 2–4 weeks. Brand plus website projects take 6–8 weeks from kickoff to launch. We regularly deliver under hard deadlines like fundraise announcements and launch dates.

Brand sprints are $15,000. Brand plus website projects run $25,000 to $40,000. Retainers start at $6,000 a month. See current services and pricing on Contra.

You work directly with the team on Slack, with fast turnarounds and quick iterations. No account managers, no layers, no surprises.

Rarely. Most clients come to us with something functional that no longer matches their ambition. We keep what works and rebuild what holds you back.

Book a discovery call or message us on Telegram. We will review where you are today and tell you honestly what we would change.

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