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A real coordination block
Google Meet offered translation for Spanish and English, but not in the mobile conditions the team actually had. If one participant only had a phone, the session failed.
Founder-market fit
From a bilingual math session to infrastructure for global teamwork
OlyLive started inside Axiomath, when a bilingual coordination session between Spanish- and English-speaking collaborators broke because existing real-time translation did not work on mobile 4G. That failure exposed a universal market: collaboration breaks when language barriers enter the workflow.
Today OlyLive is a browser-based software company for multilingual meetings, with public product access, self-serve demo entry, paid usage plans and enterprise conversations.
Public product
Paid usage plans
Enterprise path
Founder, mission and operating philosophy
The company story matters because OlyLive did not begin with abstract startup positioning. It began with a concrete failure in a live teaching and coordination scenario.
Leonardo Leandro Arriagada — CEO & Founder
PhD in Exact Sciences - PUC Chile
Postgraduate studies - Imperial College London
9+ years teaching STEM in Argentina
Teacher and STEM olympiad coach
Leonardo combines a scientist's training with years of classroom practice. That mix matters: he understands both rigorous systems thinking and the practical friction of making real people communicate, learn and coordinate across unequal devices and networks.
The mission is to make multilingual collaboration operationally natural, and then extend that infrastructure toward low-resource language inclusion, starting with Mapuzungun, where mainstream software currently offers no serious path.
From Axiomath to OlyLive
The origin was specific: coordinate a live Axiomath math session between Argentina and Sri Lanka, across Spanish and English, on devices that depended on mobile 4G.
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Build for the real constraint
That forced a different architectural target: browser-based, mobile-first, low-friction, spoken translation plus collaborative context instead of desktop-first assumptions.
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Universal market insight
The same failure mode appears everywhere: global teams, healthcare, technical support, NGOs and public services all break when language differences meet real-time decision-making.
Technical credibility is a business requirement
For OlyLive, performance claims are not decorative. The company has to earn the right to sell communication infrastructure by demonstrating that the stack works at the edge cases where customers actually feel operational risk.
- LiveKit for real-time media orchestration
- Vertex AI speech and translation pipeline
- CRDT whiteboard for synchronous collaboration
- GDPR-aware architecture with encrypted communications
- Mobile-first delivery instead of desktop-first assumptions
Operational proof
These numbers matter because OlyLive is selling operational trust, not a novelty feature.
100concurrent users tested per room
0.006%packet loss in validated load conditions
12simultaneous languages in the current commercial offering
Beachhead first, platform second
Education generated the founding use case, but the platform is intentionally horizontal. OlyLive operates as a software business with self-serve product access, paid usage plans and an enterprise path for larger multilingual deployments.
B2B workflow layer
Teams that need multilingual sales, support, coordination and external meetings without interpreter overhead.
B2G access layer
Public-service deployments where language access is both an operational issue and a policy requirement.
B2NGO inclusion layer
NGOs and social-impact operators can fund reliable multilingual coordination and inclusive deployments in distributed field environments.
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