The team
Small enough to stay accountable.
Brian leads the room. Specialists join when the work needs them, and the founding team is forming around the parts that deserve permanent care.
The founder
Brian Martori
Founder
Brian founded Martori in Nashville in 2026 after a decade in brand and account work across Amazon, VML, and The Tombras Group. The studio began with a refusal he could not shake: people living through heartbreak, addiction, grief, or the loss of their footing deserve better than software that turns distress into engagement.
He designs, writes, tests, and rebuilds most of the studio's products himself, much of it in public. The aim is not scale at any cost. It is useful software that can stay close without pretending to know better, then step back when its work is done.
Build something strong enough to meet a person in the hard part, gentle enough not to take over, and honest enough to know when it should leave.
Brian currently leads the studio full time. For what the studio is and how to hire it, see About.
The people joining the work
A founding team is forming around the work.
Two roles are in active conversation and two remain open. Titles are public. Names stay private until the people in those conversations are ready.
Chief Technology Officer
Owns the architecture beneath every Martori product: a fast, privacy-minded stack that can grow without weakening the studio's standards. This is a partner in how the studio builds and in what it refuses to build.
Chief Financial Officer
Builds the financial case for software that helps people and supports a durable studio: honest pricing, disciplined growth, and funding that does not bend the mission. Someone who reads a model and a value with the same care.
Head of Clinical Care
The clinical conscience of the studio. This seat owns the safety of every experience: how the crisis surfaces work, where a companion should step back, and the lines the products will not cross with someone in a fragile season. A licensed clinician who believes technology can sit beside care without pretending to replace it.
Founding AI Engineer
Owns the intelligence layer across the studio: how each companion listens, when it speaks, and how it keeps the boundaries set by the clinical team. This engineer treats restraint and safety as part of the craft and knows the difference between a model that performs and one that helps.
How we hire
Fewer people. More care.
Long-term commitment.
We are not staffing up for a sprint. We look for people who want to tend this work for years, not quarters.
Conviction and judgment.
It matters more that you understand why something like Sanctuary needs to exist than where you happened to work last.
Every discipline at one table.
Strategy, brand, engineering, and the business sit at the same small table. There are no silos here to get lost in.
The room is still forming
If this is your work too, write.
There is no wall of listings. Tell us what you make, what you protect, and which part of this work keeps pulling at you.