The team
A founding team, taking shape.
We build products to be outgrown, not depended on. We are building the team the same way, slowly, with care, and only with people who want to do this work for the long middle.
01 · 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. He now designs and builds most of the studio's products himself, much of it in public, with a preference for software that stays useful without trying to keep you.
He is the studio's first full-time seat. Two more are in conversation now.
02 · The seats forming
Four seats beyond the founder.
Two are in active conversation, two are open. We are not announcing names yet, but here is what each one is for, and the kind of person we are holding it for.
Chief Technology Officer
Owner of the architecture underneath every Martori product: the calm, fast, privacy-first stack we run in production today, and everything it becomes as the experiences grow. Not a hired pair of hands, but a partner in how the studio builds, and in what it refuses to build. Those conversations are underway.
Chief Financial Officer
The case that software for people in their hardest seasons can also be a durable business: honest pricing, a studio that lasts, and a raise that funds the mission without bending it. Someone who reads a model and a value the same way. We are talking with the right people now.
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
The person who makes the companions feel alive without letting them overstep. This seat owns the intelligence layer across the studio: how Dove, and every companion after it, listens, when it speaks, and how it holds the boundaries the clinician draws. An engineer fluent in modern language models who treats restraint and safety as part of the craft rather than a limit on it, and who knows the difference between a model that performs and one that helps.
03 · How we hire
Fewer people. More care.
We hire for the long middle.
We are not staffing up for a sprint. We look for people who want to tend this work for years, not quarters.
Conviction over résumé.
It matters more that you understand why something like Sanctuary needs to exist than where you happened to work last.
One table, every discipline.
Strategy, brand, engineering, and the business sit at the same small table. There are no silos here to get lost in.
If this is your work too, write to us.
We do not post a wall of listings. When the work needs another pair of hands, we would rather hear from the people who already feel the pull of it. If something here sounds like what you have been wanting to build, tell us what you are working on.