I build software that has to work off the screen — in kitchens, on campuses, in a car at 5 a.m.
Malik Al-Shourbaji
What if the recipe could see you?
Glutt is an AI chef that cooks with you. It talks you through the recipe out loud, keeps the timers, answers when your hands are full — and through your phone’s camera or a pair of Meta glasses, it looks at the pan before it answers.
“Chef.”
Say her name and the mic opens. Say it again while she’s talking and she stops mid-sentence.
It knows where you are.
Step 1 of 8. The three-minute timer you asked for. What’s in your pantry — and which pans you own, so she never asks for one you don’t have.
“Does this look right?”
Point the phone, or just look down with the glasses on. She checks the frame before she answers.
One thing at a time.
What’s right before what’s wrong. If she can’t see clearly, she asks instead of guessing. If something’s dangerous, she stops you.
What it’s made of
- Voice
- Realtime and interruptible. The mic stays closed until you say “Chef.”
- Vision
- Frames from the phone camera or Meta glasses, checked before any answer that depends on them.
- Glasses
- Meta smart glasses as camera and mic: pairing, streaming over Bluetooth and Wi‑Fi, and App Store rules for shipping it.
- Native iOS
- SwiftUI, local-first. Recipes, pantry and progress live on the phone.
- Context
- The current step, running timers, your pantry, your tools, your allergies — held for the whole cook.
- Business
- On the App Store. Subscription only; there is no free tier.
The app, as it ships
Recipes, pulled in from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or a screenshot. 
Every recipe ends in one button: Cook with Chef. 
Cook mode. “Say ‘Chef’ if you need anything.” 
Skills: Chef watches through the glasses, or checks photos. 
“Wearing your glasses? Let her watch instead.” 
The tools you own. She won’t ask for one you don’t have.
I run the sessions myself.
I bring the ingredients to someone’s kitchen in Miami, they put on the glasses, and they cook their own recipe while Chef talks them through it. Two hours, $109.99.
Then I watch where it breaks, and we fix it before the next one.
- Your hands are busy. That is the whole design constraint.
- Say what’s right before what’s wrong.
- If the picture doesn’t support an answer, don’t give one.
- A phone can photograph both sides of a knife; glasses never can. Photo mode is a different lesson, not a worse one.
What if a dating app gave you fewer choices?
One match.Every Wednesday.
- 1,000+
- 30+
- Sign up with a school email. Verify your phone.
- Wednesday at 6 p.m., one match arrives by text.
- Interested or pass. Contact details appear only if you both say yes — with a place to meet.
The matching was the easy part. The hard part was getting a thousand users in under a month, so it felt alive.
03 — Experiments
Weekend builds with friends. Each one taught software to watch something.
Savoir AI A tutor you talk to out loud. It answers with questions, and draws the math while it talks.
A conversational avatar guided by Claude’s reasoning, with Desmos, GeoGebra and Manim drawing alongside the conversation. Parents get a summary of every session.
Pharos Watches a driver’s face at night and speaks up before they drift off.
An iPhone on the dash calibrates to your face, tracks your eyes while a navigation view runs beside them, and talks to you when your attention slips. Filmed on a real drive through Montreal at 5 a.m.
Sentinel Watched Québec’s traffic cameras for crashes and called emergency services on its own.
Hundreds of public Québec 511 camera feeds on one map. A vision model watches for collisions; when it finds one, Gemini writes the incident report and Twilio places the call.
Montreal→Miami
Originally from Montreal. Computer science at John Abbott, a few hackathons, and a first student app that strangers actually used. Then Daisy, for campuses across the city.
In June 2026, Omar and I moved to Miami for Telora’s S26 fellowship to build Glutt full-time.
I like ideas that get more complicated the closer they get to the real world.
- Computer science, John Abbott College
- 1st overall at JACHacks — Sentinel
- McHacks 13 — Pharos
- First line of Daisy
- Best Use of ElevenLabs at JACHacks — Savoir AI
- Telora S26. Moved to Miami.
- Glutt: paying customers, smart glasses
