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Your problem is that you need a real touring bike.
Most ti bikes are like that Sportive, more of a general purpose bike.
And custom ti is very expensive.
Only if you pay for a marquee brand name, the weight weenie treatment with butted tubes, and/or cosmetic flourishes like tapered chain stays.
XACD will build and ship a custom frame for under $900. Habenero will handle all of the details going into an XACD build, prepare the frame here, and accept warranty returns for $1300 (which is less than the Gunnar with custom geometry) Smaller builders' custom prices start under $2000 like NTP in San Francisco which is not a cheap city.