Ali Ilhami Oztan

Building @OctoStudioCo & @nuviohq — helping founders design, build & run better startups |

[Ali Ilhami Oztan @ali_ilhami]

I’ve been that founder, up at 2am, staring at a half-built app—four freelancers in different time zones, a Figma that doesn’t match the product, and users who just… don’t get it yet.

Years in product taught me a hard truth: PLG isn’t code-first. It’s systems + design first. That demands a team that wakes up thinking about shipping working product, and understands the caveats.

Most founders are missing one side—product, dev, or design. Then freelancers work in silos and the result is predictable: patchwork, slow, brittle apps that can’t scale. I learned this the hard way while building Nuvio. It cost time, money, and energy I didn’t have.

So I’m building what I wish I had: @octostudioco.

Not “another agency.” A product studio that sits with you at ideation, shapes strategy & roadmap, designs a coherent system, builds with AI as a co-pilot, and doesn’t stop there—AI agents to automate marketing, sales, and onboarding so momentum doesn’t die after launch.

And if you’ve followed me, you know I’ve been building Vivelio in public. It’s still in progress—and it’s intentional. We don’t just build for founders; we also ship our own products to market to prove our standard. We’re our own first client. Like I said, this is not another "agency".

No hiring maze. No freelancer roulette. No duct-taped MVPs.
Just a team that ships, learns, and compounds.

If this is the season you’re in, my DMs are open. I’d love to help you design / build / automate something you’re proud to put in front of users.

[Ali Ilhami Oztan @ali_ilhami]

@tim_yakubson Stack

[Ali Ilhami Oztan @ali_ilhami]

@parker_brydon Canada! Let's go!

[Ali Ilhami Oztan @ali_ilhami]

I still can't fully believe this one.

We rebuilt Nuvio's entire landing page with Claude Code. It runs on Webflow. There's zero code in it.

Here's how it actually happened 🧵
https://t.co/MXM6KIiCId

[Ali Ilhami Oztan @ali_ilhami]

https://t.co/GU17uO7k2s

[Ali Ilhami Oztan @ali_ilhami]

https://t.co/GU17uO7k2s

[Ali Ilhami Oztan @ali_ilhami]

@sridharfyi Local minimum wage. I guess investors would like to see that. If you are not mentally sane, providing for yourself and family, you cannot build something good in the long run.

[Ali Ilhami Oztan @ali_ilhami]

@LoganTGott Prompts

[Ali Ilhami Oztan @ali_ilhami]

@kunchenguid Cursor definitely. The harness makes it the best solution in the market and you can use any model you like. The top tier models work better with harness. Plan with a top tier models and switch to composer 2.5 to build, save 90% on costs

[Ali Ilhami Oztan @ali_ilhami]

Hey @NotionHQ, your agents are spitting out their entire thought process into the output, even when the system prompt explicitly tells them not to. I'm seeing internal reasoning show up where the answer should be. Any plans to fix this? 😬

[Ali Ilhami Oztan @ali_ilhami]

Everybody is talking about loop engineering, but the part that actually matters is verification. @cubic_dev handles that step for us. It doesn't just flag syntax. It reads like a senior engineer and catches the small logic flaws that usually slip into production before you notice them. It has become our default reviewer.

[Ali Ilhami Oztan @ali_ilhami]

@hyojun_at Love to see new launches always as a founder. BUT, why the hell did you start with a video shows you can login to credit cards without user authorization :) the single red flag of all agentic actions

[Ali Ilhami Oztan @ali_ilhami]

@zach_yadegari Sent a DM!

[Aryan Mahajan @aryanXmahajan]

Your $5,000/month ghostwriter just became a $20/month Claude folder.

That's $60,000/year you stop paying.

→ No more 14 hours/month briefing someone who still strips your specifics out
→ No more voice drift by month 2 where you sound like them, not you
→ No more 10+ hour revision cycles that kill real-time optimization
→ No more AI slop reaching your feed with no quality gate

Just 21 Claude skill files. 9 folders. Drop into Claude. The entire LinkedIn content pipeline runs from there.

Here's what's inside:

→ Brand Memory Foundation (6-section context block. Every post sounds like you, not AI)
→ Hook Patterns Library (15 patterns. Templates behind posts hitting 9,000+ comments)
→ 8 Post Template Categories (authority, lead gen, myth-busters, story frames, engagement. Each with a trigger breakdown)
→ Voice Firewall (7-dimension scorecard. Kills slop before it ships)
→ ICP Profile Builder (your buyer's exact language, fears, and psychological triggers)
→ DM Opener System (fires on keyword comment. Qualifying question first, pitch never)
→ Visual Brief Generator (GPT Image 2 or designer handoff in 2 minutes)

Results from the same system:

- Posts hitting 9,020 comments. 5,400. 4,600. 3,800. 3,700.
- 50M+ views across LinkedIn
- The content infrastructure behind a $150K/month operation

Most people are still prompting Claude like it's Google.

This is infrastructure.

Like + comment "SKILLS" + repost, and I'll DM it to you.
(must be following)

[Ali Ilhami Oztan @ali_ilhami]

@aryanXmahajan Skills

[Ali Ilhami Oztan @ali_ilhami]

@JakeFleshner Agentic finance. V4 is already live. 1200+ companies tried till this date. Post revenue

[Ali Ilhami Oztan @ali_ilhami]

Webflow was always code underneath the visual editor, and that's exactly what slowed it down. AI flipped that into the advantage. Claude reads my variables through the MCP connector, builds a component, screenshots it to check itself, and loops. The old weakness became the moat.

[Ali Ilhami Oztan @ali_ilhami]

@DanielSmidstrup Switching costs

[Ali Ilhami Oztan @ali_ilhami]

@EliaxIturri We hit 95% success rate on scanning. For the remaining 5% you can always edit before saving. You are always in control of your finances.

[Ali Ilhami Oztan @ali_ilhami]

You shouldn't have to retype a receipt to know where your money went.

We just shipped the biggest Nuvio release yet, and the headline feature is the one nobody brags about: you stop typing.

Snap a photo of a receipt, invoice, or PDF and Nuvio AI reads the supplier, date, total, and tax. You review, confirm, save. Or forward an invoice to your Nuvio address and it files itself into a Drafts inbox, ready for a quick approval.

Finance ops in minutes, not an afternoon.

v4 is live. 50-second tour below.

[Ali Ilhami Oztan @ali_ilhami]

@AlfieJCarter Agents

[Ali Ilhami Oztan @ali_ilhami]

@parker_brydon Came to build just recently. The edge of Toronto is not relying on 10m seed investment. It's the opposite. Building a great product and a distribution with less interruption.