I've been thinking about multi-agent intelligence since I first read Minsky. Now I'm building it.
Carcinize is the company behind Modyl. The hard part of AI isn't the model anymore — it's how we work with it. That's what we build for.
BASIT MUSTAFA — FOUNDER
IBM · 2000s
I've been building software and hardware since I was a kid — assembly and C on microcontrollers, into the Linux kernel back when it was pre-1.0, then client-server systems through the birth of the cloud and Kubernetes fresh out of Borg. Enterprise scale too: nearly a decade at IBM across technology, management, and sales, including the Federal Reserve's Check 21 program. Full stack in the literal sense — silicon to distributed systems, and how they actually get built, secured, and scaled.
Voltaire · 2014
In 2014 I founded Voltaire and wrote every line of V1 — AI jury-selection software that trial lawyers used in live courtrooms, real decisions on real deadlines, before attention was all we needed. Then I co-founded an ATS on early NLP for government-contracting and cleared hiring, just as the first transformers arrived.
PSCI · →2026
At Procurement Sciences, as CTO and later Chief Innovation Officer, I was responsible for technology, product, and infrastructure, along with security and compliance. We grew it from seed to a $30M Series B, from a handful of users to most of the largest U.S. government contractors. We earned our FedRAMP authorization and CMMC 2, and passed and maintained our SOC 2 Type II with no findings. All of it sharpened a conviction I'd had from the start.
Carcinize · Now
In April 2026 I left to build on it myself.
The model is rarely the limit anymore. What holds us back is how we work with it — how it joins the room, takes real context, and carries the work forward. That's a harder, less flashy problem than a smarter chatbot or a better agent. It's the one I care about, and the one I left to work on.
Writing C since age 4 — my father is one of the people who made the immigrant-dad stereotype what it is
IBM — nearly a decade across divisions: tech, sales; M&A in the office of the CFO
Voltaire — founded 2014; wrote every line of V1; profitable
Procurement Sciences — CTO → Chief Innovation Officer; seed → $30M Series B; FedRAMP, CMMC 2, SOC 2 — no findings
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