A studio,
run by its founder.
Altivorum is not a startup. It is a private technology studio: one founder, a portfolio of software products, long time horizons. Built patiently, operated with care.
“I build products I want to use myself. If I lose interest, I either sharpen it until I’m interested again, or I shut it down. There is no third option.”
Tleugazin Merey is an entrepreneur and engineer building products at the intersection of artificial intelligence, automation, and real-world productivity. He is the creator of SozAI, a transcription platform used by professionals worldwide to convert speech into actionable text — psychologists documenting sessions, lawyers transcribing depositions, journalists processing interviews, content creators turning recordings into written work.
SozAI is one of seven products he currently runs under the Altivorum umbrella. The others — Orvik, VinylAI, Vinsip, Cantivy, Nomax, Telvio — span reading, music, wine, travel, and international communications. All are live. All are independently operated.
There is a quieter way to build a technology company.
Most of what passes for technology today is built on a single assumption: that companies should grow as fast as possible, raise as much capital as possible, and sell at the right moment. It is a good model for a certain kind of business. It is also the reason so many products you love eventually disappear, change beyond recognition, or pivot into something their original users never asked for.
Altivorum is built on a different premise. Own the company. Build fewer things, but build them carefully. Run them for a long time. Have a direct line between the person who writes the code and the person who uses it. Answer your own email.
This is not a new idea — family firms, workshops, and independent studios have done it for centuries. What is new is that software makes it possible to do this with global reach, a small team, and a sustainable economics. One person can now operate seven products that together serve users on four continents. That is not a growth hack. It is a studio.
If you use one of our products and it matters to you, that is the measure we care about. If you would like to work with us, write. If you disagree with how we are doing this, write anyway — we read everything.
— Merey
- Legal name
- Altivorum Inc.
- Country
- Canada
- Ownership
- Privately held, founder-owned
- Funding
- Self-funded · no external capital
- Founded
- 2026
- Primary contact
- [email protected]