🧪 The Birth of The Polyglot Lab


Hello, World!

Or even better…

package main

import fmt

func main (){
    fmt.Println("Hello, World!")
}

Every line of code has a story. Ours starts with frustration, coffee, and a Slack channel that refused to die.


How it started

We didn’t start with a big vision board or pitch decks.

We started with firefighting — not the heroic kind, but the kind where a Technical Account Manager (TAM) gets looped into a Slack thread at 6 PM on a Friday because someone tagged @here. The kind where you’re simultaneously expected to respond fast, know everything, and never drop a ball.

If you’ve been in Customer Success, Support, or DevOps, you know the drill:

  • “Can someone create a channel?”
  • “Who’s on this case?”
  • “Did we loop in the right engineer?”
  • “Where’s the Jira?”
  • “Can anyone write a summary of the problem/discussion?” (x10 😅)

Chaos. Glorious chaos.

Until it wasn’t fun anymore.

That’s when burnout creeps in quietly.
You’re no longer solving problems — you’re absorbing dysfunction.
You’re the glue between departments, but no one sees the toll.

You start questioning yourself:

  • “Is it me?”
  • “Why does this feel harder than it used to?”
  • “Wasn’t I good at this?”

That mental loop is where we found ourselves.


Enter Escalation Ninja

We didn’t need a promotion. We needed peace of mind.
We wanted something that could:

  • Slash response times,
  • Remove manual overhead,
  • And actually help people do their jobs.

So we built it.

Escalation Ninja was born — a Slack bot that automates war room creation, auto-invites the right people, and parses Jira links to extract signal from noise.

It started as a weekend hack to reclaim sanity.


…and then came The Polyglot Lab

That prototype turned into our first real product.
And from there, we launched The Polyglot Lab — a small but mighty studio (or… Lab) where we build automation tools for people on the frontlines: TAMs, CSMs, Support Engineers, and builders who know what it’s like to be the last line of defense.

We believe software should be invisible to the point that people don’t have to think about it: software will do it. We get rid of the noisy processes that consume time. We make software aid those people who care enough (or too much) and want to do the right thing.

We don’t chase unicorns.
We build tools that:

  • Save time
  • Preserve energy
  • And make you look like a pro when things hit the fan

The Polyglot Lab is where burnout meets automation, and where thoughtful software makes the difference.


What’s next?

We’re just getting started. If you’ve ever:

  • Manually handled an escalation,
  • Repeated your customer summary for the 4th time,
  • Or been the “glue” between teams…

…we’re building tools to make your life easier.

Welcome to The Polyglot Lab.
We build small tools that punch way above their weight. 🥷


💡 P.S.

Escalation Ninja is now live and under review in the Slack App Directory.

Want to help us speed up approval? Join the Beta — and cut through chaos like a boss. 🥷