Khubaeb Shabbir — AI Systems Architect
I build AI loops that take over roles in real-world operations.
I have been engineering real-time and AI software, hardware, and networks across web, mobile, desktop, embedded, and edge platforms for industries ranging from cement and hyperlocal services to AgTech and venture capital.
Flagship work
HMWARE
A hive-mind of WhatsApp AI agents for real-estate brokers, with shared memory — in field testing in Costa Rica.
ZerHaul
Human-supervised AI for U.S. vehicle-hauling logistics (cars, bikes & boats) — voice + browser agents. Co-founded; led to acquisition.
MIPS CQM AI
A browser agent that logs into physicians' practice-management systems to automate clinical-quality (MIPS) reporting.
Truck Dispatch & Brokerage AI
Orchestrated voice & browser agents for freight trucking — dispatch and load brokerage.
Atlas Support Bot
Enterprise L1/L2 support triage — classify → RAG → draft → gate → escalate, humans in the loop. Built by a two-person AI innovation team.
Data Agent
The org's Data Agent — natural-language questions over enterprise data, for the COO.
VP Finance AI
An autonomous agent for a mergers & acquisitions pipeline — intake, workflow and decisions.
VentureCoPilot
Generative AI for VC due diligence — a scrape → OCR → vectorize → RAG pipeline, plus first agents.
Quarannect → Civilment
Covid-era civic tech that evolved into Civilment — citizens doing the work the state couldn't.
BynUp — Aquaculture Platform
A unified aquaculture platform — knowledge & Q&A, e-commerce, and IoT/drones/ML on Apache Pulsar.
Servii
A hyperlocal "Uber for all work & services" on a real-time work engine — field-tested, pre-investment.
Off-grid P2P Phones
Off-grid, serverless, encrypted P2P comms for phones & glasses. A U.S. provisional patent.
Recent research
Drones & AI in Agriculture
A ~900-use-case survey distilled to one thesis: in AgTech the moat is the AI intelligence layer, not the airframe — offline-first, one crop deep.
Read the notes →Hive-Mind WhatsApp AI Agents
Informal markets still run on WhatsApp. The bet: don't disintermediate the broker — arm them with an agent feeding a cross-tenant hive mind.
Read the notes →Cameras & AI
The world's 1.3B cameras mapped into a scored, regulation-aware build-order — 25 vision primitives recombined across 120+ verticals.
Read the notes →Spiky Educational POVs
A spiky POV for LearnWith.ai: mastery scales when students manage an AI's struggle, not when AI teaches them — grounded in the protégé effect and productive failure.
Read the notes →Before the mainstream
Autonomy in logistics (voice + browser agents).
Role-replacing AI in production — Atlas support triage and a Data Agent for a COO.
GenAI + RAG for VC due diligence — early enterprise GenAI.
Citizen-mobilising civic tech during Covid (Quarannect → Civilment).
Aquaculture IoT + drones + computerized hatcheries in Pakistan.
SIP + XMPP on carrier-grade VoIP/UC (Broadsoft) — enterprise real-time UC well before it was common.
Off-grid, serverless, numberless P2P — U.S. provisional patent, alongside the earliest mesh-messaging wave.
Android running in cars — before Android Auto (2014).
In-browser real-time voice/video on XMPP + WebRTC, before it went mainstream.
Work with me
A few engagements a year — AI consulting, fractional / interim CTO, or building the hard thing together: a loop that takes over a real operational role, humans on the approvals. If that's your problem too, let's talk →
Full career history on LinkedIn →