About StileSense

Fashion is an ensemble business.

Retail has spent more than twenty years perfecting search and the product grid. But nobody gets dressed one product at a time. We started StileSense to build commerce around the moments people are actually dressing for.

Customers shop for moments, not isolated products.

Behind a simple request like “something relaxed but polished for a family dinner, under $200” sits a lot of work: understanding the person and the occasion, styling a complete look, checking real availability and price, and working out whether to ship it, hold it for pickup, or have it waiting in a fitting room.

Most retailers already have excellent systems for each of those pieces. StileSense is the intelligence that brings them together around one customer intent, in a way that is personal, accurate and respectful of the brand.

Stile is Italian for style. StileSense is style sense for every moment.

The Founders' Edit · Issue 01 · 2026

Two pieces. One look.

Complementary experience, one idea. Meet the architects behind StileSense.

Portrait of Krishna Manchikalapudi
Piece 01

Piece 01 · The Enterprise Architect

Krishna Manchikalapudi

Co-founder & co-creator · Enterprise Architect, Technology Leader

AI should earn its place in commerce. It suggests, and trusted systems confirm.

The profile

Twenty-three years of building platforms that simply cannot go down. Krishna has architected cloud-native, AI-enabled systems for highly regulated enterprises, taken AI agents and retrieval-augmented generation into production, and led core-banking modernisation to better than 99% availability, mentoring more than 500 engineers along the way.

Wearing23 years of enterprise architectureAI agents & RAG in productionCore banking at 99%+ availability500+ engineers mentored
Accessorised withAWSAzure AIKubernetes certifications
Portrait of Anil Kumar Veldurthi
Piece 02

Piece 02 · The Principal Architect

Anil Kumar Veldurthi

Co-founder & co-creator · Principal Architect, Solution Leader

People don't shop for products. They shop for moments, and every moment deserves a complete answer.

The profile

Twenty-three years across financial services, insurance and healthcare. Anil designs cloud-native, AI-enabled platforms on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, bringing hands-on depth in generative and agentic AI together with multi-tenant architecture and real-time data pipelines built for enterprise scale.

Wearing23 years of enterprise engineeringGenerative & agentic AIFinance, insurance & healthcareMulti-tenant platformsReal-time data pipelines
Accessorised withAWSAzureGoogle CloudM.S. Computer Science

Complete the look

The common thread · both hold an M.S. in Data Science

What we believe

Four beliefs guide everything we build.

Moments over products

Start with what the person is trying to do, then find the products.

Trust over hype

Intelligence suggests, and trusted systems confirm. Never the other way round.

Every brand keeps its voice

Shared capability should never mean every brand looks the same.

Evidence over enthusiasm

Start with one moment, prove the value, then scale with confidence.

Let's talk.

Whether you're a shopper, a retailer or a potential partner, we'd love to hear from you.