The Studio

Two founders. Twelve films. No subscription.

180 Meridian is a boutique AI video studio. We work the way cinematographers and designers worked before the algorithm — one brief at a time, finished by hand, signed off by a human. The tools are new. The standards aren’t.

What we don’t do

The studio is defined by its refusals.

  • We don't sell a subscription.

    Twelve films a year. Project by project. Each one priced on its own. If you want a content tap, we know who to point you at.

  • We don't generate slop.

    Every scene gets hand-finished by a designer. If a shot can't be made to hold up, we cut it — or don't take the project.

  • We don't replace your team.

    If you have an in-house creative shop, we partner alongside them — not pretend they don't exist. We bring scale where the in-house team can't reach without burning out.

  • We don't pitch fifty-slide decks.

    You send a brief. Within 24 hours you get a single-page concept and a price. If we're not the right studio, we say so on the same page.

The Founders

Two people. One signature on every cut.

Oybek Abdualiev, Strategy & Operations
Strategy & Operations

Oybek Abdualiev

Denver, Colorado · Co-founder, 180 Meridian

Strategy is choosing what we won't do — then delivering what we said extraordinarily well.

Three cities — Riga, Barcelona, Denver. Years on the operations side of creative work: deciding what a studio takes on, how it scopes, and what every project owes a client when it ships.

Multicultural exposure gave me an ear for which ideas travel and which only land at home. Every brief at 180 Meridian gets that test.

Aleksandr Salnikov, Creative Direction
Creative Direction

Aleksandr Salnikov

Dubai, UAE · Co-founder, 180 Meridian

Trends rent attention. Vision keeps it.

A career in creative direction across sectors that don't forgive sloppiness — luxury, hospitality, spirits, fashion, finance. Each demanded that the work hold up under close inspection.

What came out is not a method I borrowed — it's a way of seeing I built. Light, framing, restraint. Not the trend. Not the algorithm. A style that travels.

Method, in four lines

The road from brief to film. One road.

  1. WhyMake the unfilmable.
  2. ScopeGoal. Script. Film.
  3. CraftAI is the tool. Craft is the difference.
  4. PriceEvery video, priced on its own.
Selected coverage

The work travels. Press follows.

Coverage will live here. Until then, the work is the proof — see selected film.

If we’re a fit, you’ll know in 24 hours.