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PENTA

PENTA is the database expert your team doesn't have to hire. Built for teams running Postgres and MySQL without a full-time DBA, PENTA monitors, investigates, and diagnoses database incidents in real time, then proposes fixes your team can approve and ship without the 3am scramble. It's the kind of product that lives inside the tools teams already use, like Slack, and speaks in the same plain, confident language a great DBA would.

Industry
Data Infra
Year
2026

Deliverables

  • Web design
  • Product screenshots
PENTA pricing page with Starter, Team, and Enterprise tiers

Challenge

A brand that looked AI-built, pitching to enterprise buyers

The existing PENTA concept had a website, but it was almost entirely AI-generated: no attached branding, no defined visual hierarchy, no real design system underneath it. It looked like a product, but not like a company. For a tool asking enterprise data teams to trust it with production databases, that gap between what PENTA does and how it presented itself was a real liability.

Shimmering effect on upgrade button

Approach

Urgency and trust, built into color and type

We built the identity from the ground up, starting with what PENTA actually is: fast, alert, built for the moment something goes wrong. That gave us the colour palette, an orange and red combination that signals energy, urgency, and speed to act, without tipping into alarm. We paired that with a new, modern typeface to give PENTA a distinct visual voice, and added the kind of polish that separates a real product from a template with the logo swapped out.

PENTA colour palette

Result

A credible brand, ready for design partners

This is an early-stage concept, so the results here are about the transformation in look and feel rather than performance metrics. What was a generic, AI-generated site now reads as a considered, credible brand, from the product screens through to pricing and footer, ready to support PENTA as it moves toward design partners and general availability.

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Incident product visualisation
PENTA incident channel message showing root cause found in 90 seconds
PENTA homepage footer and call to action

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