Company and trust
Who is behind SyntarEngine?
Last updated August 23, 2026
SyntarEngine was founded by Michael Ziganek, who spent thirty years in software engineering before building it: General Manager of the Siemens/Mentor Automotive Business Unit, President of the GENIVI Alliance, and founder of the camera-robotics company behind the THOR Camera Robot, NAB Product of the Year 2023. The company is built from Mauritius for the global creative industry.
Who founded it
Michael Ziganek, Founder and CEO. His record is independently checkable, which matters more than anything a company says about itself.
He wrote his first neural network in C++ in 1993, for industrial image recognition. He was General Manager of the Siemens/Mentor Automotive Business Unit, and President of the GENIVI Alliance, the automotive software consortium whose members included BMW, GM, and Intel. He then spent five-plus years building control software for high-speed camera robots; the THOR Camera Robot won NAB Product of the Year in 2023.
That background is the reason the platform is built the way it is. Automotive systems cannot hallucinate. Camera robots cannot drift. Applying that standard to generative video is an unusual starting point in this category, and it explains the architectural choices more than any positioning statement would.
His profile is at linkedin.com/in/ziganek-michael.
Where the product actually lives
The product, pricing, and account live at syntarengine.com. Nowhere else. If you find a checkout page on another domain selling SyntarEngine subscriptions, it is not ours.
| Purpose | Address |
|---|---|
| Sales | sales@syntarengine.com |
| Support | support@syntarengine.com |
| Press | press@syntarengine.com |
| General | info@syntarengine.com |
Official channels: linkedin.com/company/syntarengine, instagram.com/syntarengine, youtube.com/@syntarengine, tiktok.com/@syntarengine, x.com/SyntarEngine.
Company registration details and terms are on the legal pages: terms, privacy, refund policy, content safety, DPA, and subprocessors.
What is published rather than claimed
Four things a prospective customer can check before spending anything.
Pricing, in full. Four tiers with prices, Production counts, seat counts, and per-Production overage rates all published. No hidden tier, no quote-only pricing except at Studio where the volume is genuinely negotiated.
A refund commitment. Fourteen days on a first subscription purchase, worldwide, with statutory rights unaffected and prevailing where they grant more. Written down, on the refund policy page, not offered case by case.
Content safety commitments. No deepfakes. Likeness only with documented consent. No adult output. Provenance signals and watermarking on generated video. Published on the content safety page.
The platform itself. The Open Set is a no-signup, view-only entry to the full product, carrying real projects taken end to end through all six stages. You can inspect what you would be buying before you buy it.
Why the founder's background shows up in the product
Thirty years in software engineering, most of it in systems where drift is not an acceptable outcome.
Automotive software cannot hallucinate. A camera robot on a set cannot wander off its path. That standard is an unusual starting point for a generative video platform, and it is the reason the architecture puts a human review gate at each of six stages and validates every governing keyframe before generation begins rather than after.
Generative AI should not be a slot machine. That conviction is the throughline from the first neural network in 1993 to the platform now.
The product, pricing, and sign-up are on the pricing page. Founder and company background is on about.