Built by tech veterans

Decades of experience, zero dad jokes! Well, maybe some 🤓

The right team to disrupt a 30 year old process

Yan

Co-Founder & CEO

3x Immigrant, ex-Homeless, Global Design Leader, 1st Designer at 4 startups, built and shipped successful products, shaped processes and systems, his work was impactful to 3x exits.

Preethi

Co-Founder & CTO

AI/ML Whisperer and Data & Database Rockstar with over 17 years of experience.

Recognized AI/ML Innovation Leader, and 2024 AI Use Case Champion at the Association for Financial Technology

Robert

Co-Founder & VP Engineering

Full-Stack Superhuman and Jira overlord with over a decade of experience in Product-Oriented Engineering and User-Centric Approach.

Start-Up Veteran

Gage

Software Engineer

Full-Stack rising star with endless levels of curiosity, years of experience, and an obsession with Cybersecurity.

Charlie Brown

Chief Happiness Officer

Morale Maximizer with a proven track record in tail-wagging leadership, team spirit, and strategic walk breaks.

Recognized for excellence in emotional intelligence, nap-based productivity modeling, and keeping the team grounded, smiling, and slightly covered in dog hair.

We’re seasoned builders, designers, engineers, and technologists who’ve spent decades at startups, from early-stage bets to high-growth scale, from successful exits to painful failures. We’ve seen what helps companies move faster, and what causes them to stall.

What sets Cepien AI apart is a rare blend of design, product, and engineering depth. Our team brings deep experience across product, design, and technology, shaped by years of building, leading, and learning in high-stakes environments where the quality of a decision can change a company’s trajectory.

Across that experience, we kept seeing the same problem: critical decisions were being made with incomplete, scattered, or anecdotal data.

Teams were shrinking, yet, expected to move faster, but the context they needed was buried across dashboards, docs, decks, backlogs, and disconnected tools. Insights were fragmented, priorities became harder to trust, and too often, teams missed opportunities, wasted resources, shipped the wrong things, or wasted effort chasing noise.

So we built Cepien AI.

Cepien AI unifies scattered data, surfaces what matters, and helps teams make faster, smarter, evidence-backed decisions with greater clarity, confidence, and agentic support.

Tech industry lost over $2 Trillion in the past 5 years to decisions made with bad data and incorrect insights

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Shipping blindly

Of companies, rely on incomplete insights

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Waisted money

Of companies reported 2+ costly project failures annually to lack of good insights

Don't be part of the statistic.

A note from our Co-Founder & CEO

Cepien AI started with a question I kept coming back to for years: why do smart teams with so much data and knowledge still struggle to see what matters most?

Across decades in design, product, and technology, I saw the same pattern repeat itself. Important decisions were being made every day, but the context behind them was scattered across research, feedback, analytics, roadmaps, decks, backlogs, and too many disconnected tools. Teams weren’t short on information, they were short on shared understanding.

While leading design at a rapidly scaling startup, I developed a framework to help us cut through that noise, to better understand where to focus, what to build, and how to make product decisions that lead to features our customers needed and users loved.

It worked because it gave us something rare: a clearer way to connect signals, priorities, and action, which led to an ability to see what truly mattered,

I’ve spent years teaching that framework to other design and product leaders, and one thing became obvious: this wasn’t just one team’s problem. It was everywhere. I considered turning it into a book. But eventually I realized the better answer was not to describe the system. It was to build it.

At its core, Cepien AI is built on a belief I’ve carried through my entire journey: when people can truly understand what matters, they can build with more clarity, more courage, and far greater impact.

Cepien AI is built on a battle-tested product decision framework, now evolved into a unified product intelligence platform.

We’re on a mission

Empower your team to be more efficient

Time spent on things that matter

We believe that the best teams are the ones who know exactly where and how to use their time, effectively, efficiently, and with confidence.

Cepien AI frees their time to concentrate on the things that truly matter, and time sensitive.

Democratize insights across entire company

Everyone walking in the same direction

Insights should not be immediately visible to just one team, to rally an entire company to be driven by the exact same insights and direction, is the superpower that makes companies into unbeatable innovators and build cult like customer following.

Cepien’s agents will not just inform your product team of what is happening, but will always make sure the entire company is aware of the latest insights.

Help your team build what people love

Loved products, are no accidents

We know that building something people love, is among the hardest jobs of any team, so many companies die trying.

This is why we built Cepien, so your team always knows what your users need, and desire, so you can stop building and shipping with one eye blindfolded.