Alina Truhina
Founding & Managing Partner
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ASTROLABE
An astrolabe helped navigators find their bearings. For us, it’s a reminder to check where we are and agree on what comes next.
The Utopia Studio’s team co-builds AI companies from Doha, Qatar, with domain experts across the GCC, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Founding and Managing Partners Alina Truhina and Roo Rogers work with specialists in product, engineering, design, growth, operations, and investment.
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Studio team
/LIFE AT THE STUDIO
The work happens together.
/OUR COMMITMENTS
How we work together.
The principles we hold each other to, every day.
We co-build with domain experts. Not around them.
Fellows are the premise; we are the lever. We translate industry scar tissue into product logic and systems we ship — starting from their reality, not our templates.
We ship to operational systems. Not to the pilot graveyard.
The point is what runs after the demo is forgotten: systems that survive messy data, regulated environments, and operators who will break anything not built properly.
We hold a view and bet the studio that way.
Pods are theses, not folders. We back our position with capital, time, and reputation — and we do not soften a thesis to avoid a hard conversation.
Tell the truth. Hold the trust.
Soft feedback is a disservice. We say the hard thing early, in the open, and we keep our word once we have given it.
Coach the room, not the deck.
We pay attention to the people in front of us before the artifact between us. The fellow's growth is the project; the slide is just a tool.
Build structures that outlast the meeting.
Every system, playbook, and prompt should make the next venture faster. We do not ship effort that evaporates when the call ends.
Humility. Empathy. Challenge. Ambition.
The fellow knows their industry better than we do. Everyone in the room is carrying more than we can see. Soft feedback is a disservice — and we are here to build what would not otherwise exist.