Maaz Kazi — product and systems, San Francisco
Maaz Kazi is a product and operations person in San Francisco who works on
AI systems: taking them out of the demo stage and into the part of a
business that depends on them. He has founded two companies and builds and
ships software for running AI agents.
Companies
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CASEY — CEO and co-founder, San Francisco, founded 2025.
The intelligence layer for careers and hiring: helping people understand
themselves, and helping companies understand candidates. Rather than
filtering candidates on a static resume, it was built as a conversation
and a plan that changed as the person did. Seven on the team. It ran for a
year. caseyai.co
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TKaen — CEO and co-founder, Dubai, three years to a
successful exit in 2023. A hyper-local e-commerce marketplace aimed at the
heart of Dubai's bazaar, where the feed and the shop are the same surface:
sellers onboard as businesses, buyers as themselves, with a bargaining
mechanic so both could haggle the way they would in the souk. Ten on the
team.
Products
- Handrail — an LLM over everything you see on your monitor. A cross-platform desktop assistant, with tagged releases for Windows and macOS.
- SuperRouter — routes your work to the best model, for the best output at the best price.
- Mikoshi — a self-evolving brain for a team of agents.
- Locus — autonomous AI teammates on your own system.
- Course Distiller — turns a course you own into something you can ask questions of.
- CASEY — career intelligence for companies and candidates.
Other work
He hosted The 20-28 Podcast, a limited-series show for young
professionals on the eight years that quietly decide most of a career.
Certification and education
- Certified Scrum Product Owner and Certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Alliance, 2024.
- Digital Product Management: Modern Fundamentals — University of Virginia, Darden, 2024.
- Product Management Essentials — University of Maryland, 2024.
- Hult International Business School.
Elsewhere