I'm Sanketh. I live in Hyderabad, but my roots — and much of this story — lead back to Mangaluru. I grew up in a big Indian family where traditions, values, and memories weren't things you wrote down. They were things you lived. Grandma's recipes. My father's lessons. The way my uncle handled difficult news. The small wisdoms that shaped me, quietly, over years.
Then the pandemic came. I watched friends and families lose loved ones, and struggle with everything that came after — missing documents, forgotten passwords, unfinished conversations, unclaimed assets. The grief was hard enough. The chaos that followed made it unbearable.
I realised something simple: every person who has ever lived is a whole universe — their voice, their values, their way of seeing the world. And when they go, that universe deserves to be preserved. Not as a document. As an essence.
The idea took shape in Hyderabad. But Soult only became a company when I met Mohammed Saleem and Durga Charan — both originally from Mangaluru, now based in Dubai. They understood the problem in their bones, because in Mangaluru, family isn't an abstraction. It's the centre of everything. We incorporated the company in Mangaluru — because it felt right for a product about legacy to be built from a place where legacy is still lived.
Soult is a combination of Soul and Vault — a place to preserve the full essence of a human being. Their assets, yes. But also their memory, their guidance, their love. So that nothing of who they were is ever truly lost to the people who loved them.
This is our mission: to honour every life by making sure nothing that matters slips away.