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Kandela

Command feed attention on high-end displays effortlessly

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High-growth digital brands lose up to 40% of visual engagement on modern feeds because standard creative assets render flat and washed out on high-end mobile and desktop screens.

Kandela provides an automated visual mastering engine that dynamically optimizes brand assets, product photography, and ad creative for high-dynamic-range screen hardware. The platform automatically calibrates luminance maps, preserves exact color profiles, and caps harsh glare to ensure visual elements pop without violating platform guidelines. By optimizing digital assets at the CDN edge layer, growth teams boost feed click-through rates while preserving brand integrity.

Kandela is establishing the visual luminance standard for the next generation of ultra-bright consumer screens.

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Problem
  • When I launch paid ad campaigns on social feeds, I want to stand out on premium Apple and OLED screens, but standard exports render flat visual contrast resulting in $15k in wasted monthly ad spend.
  • Why Now: Over 65% of mobile devices and laptops shipped in 2025 feature XDR and Ultra-HDR displays, creating a massive visual disparity between legacy image assets and native display hardware.
  • When I manually attempt to encode HDR gain-maps into brand logos, I want high visual contrast, but bad metadata strips the image or creates blinding glare artifacts costing 12 hours of designer rework per campaign.
  • When I post corporate brand updates on LinkedIn, I want our executive content to look visually commanding, but inconsistent platform media compression ruins asset clarity across different operating systems.
  • Existing Alternatives: Manual Photoshop curve tweaking, custom Python scripts for ICC profile embedding, or settling for standard SDR exports.
Solution
  • High-Level Concept: Dolby Vision for digital marketing assets and corporate brand identity.
  • Automated luminance gain-mapping that boosts visual contrast up to 2.5x specifically for HDR-capable screens.
  • Smart glare containment engine that prevents oversaturation and blinding artifacts during dark mode browsing.
  • Edge CDN integration that dynamically serves calibrated SDR or HDR assets based on real-time target device capability.
Distribution
  • Early Adopters: Performance marketing leads at DTC brands spending $50k+ monthly on paid social ads targeting high-income demographics on modern iOS devices.
  • Direct outreach to top 100 Shopify Plus brand agency directors with custom HDR visual audits of their current ad campaigns.
  • Co-marketing integration partnerships with headless CMS platforms and creative design tool suites.
Pricing
  • Value Ladder: Starter plan at $99/mo (1k asset renders), Scale plan at $299/mo (10k asset renders + real-time CDN optimization), Enterprise at $899/mo (Unlimited bandwidth + custom display profiling).
  • One Metric That Matters [OMTM]: Total monthly active optimized image impressions served on HDR hardware.
  • Market Sizing: 40k mid-market DTC and B2B SaaS companies spending $10k+/mo on paid ads. Targeting 2% market penetration (800 accounts) at $300 average monthly price yields $2.88M year 1 ARR.
Scale Costs
  • Proprietary device display matrix laboratory for hardware profile benchmarking across all consumer displays.
  • High-throughput edge computing nodes for real-time dynamic image encoding under 15ms latency.
  • Enterprise SOC2 security compliance and continuous image metadata validation pipelines.
Expert Opinions
Avg: 9.0
  • world-class Growth Marketing Executive and Brand Architect with $200M+ ad spend oversight
    9
  • world-famous Display Calibration Specialist and Image Processing Lead
    9
  • top-tier Venture Partner in B2B MarTech and Visual Infrastructure
    9
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