Pencil ✏️
Sumukh Avadhani is the CTO and Co-founder of Pencil AI, where strategic leadership focuses on utilizing creative AI to enhance the effectiveness of personalized advertising campaigns. Previous experience includes roles at Entrepreneur First as a Fellow, at Google as a Principal in Product Quality Operations, and at Kaybus, Inc. as a Manager and Technical Specialist. Earlier positions include Senior Software Engineer at Toshiba, Senior Engineer at Marvell Semiconductor, Technical Manager at Samsung India Software Operations, and Software Engineer at Sasken, specializing in video and audio codecs. Sumukh holds an MSc in Signal Processing from King's College London and a B.E. in Telecommunication Engineering from B. M. S. College of Engineering.
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Pencil ✏️
Pencil is a end-to-end platform designed to scale GenAI assets for enterprise marketing teams. What sets it apart is its ability to bring together the industry’s top AI models under a unified framework for highest asset creation results. Unlike others, Pencil focuses on generating complete ads—not just text or images—while providing tools for templates, image and video editing, and more. It also stands out by automatically applying brand guidelines to ad production, using ingested brand documents. Pencil connects directly to media accounts, delivering AI-driven insights and predictions, backed by over $1B in media spend. With a client-first approach, it empowers brands to equip their teams and agencies with an AI platform that adheres to brand standards, sparking ideas predicted to perform and enabling creative teams to produce their best work. Pencil was founded in 2018 with a team from Google, Facebook and Uber with backing from Sequoia and Entrepreneur First. We were acquired by The Brandtech Group in 2023 to pursue a shared vision of bringing GenAI to the Fortune 500.