Salman Ahmad is the co-founder and CEO of Mosaic, a Phoenix-based, tech-enabled general contractor reinventing how build-to-rent homes get planned and built. He grew up in a construction household, then stacked degrees in computer science from Arizona State, Stanford, and a PhD from MIT before deciding the most interesting unsolved software problem was the most analog industry there is: pouring foundations and framing walls. Mosaic's software platform, Mosaic Hub, coordinates contractors, schedules, and payments so homebuilders can offload construction the way startups offloaded servers to AWS.
Arize AI builds the observability layer for AI - a platform engineers use to trace, evaluate, and debug models, agents, and LLMs running in production. Its open-source Phoenix library and enterprise platform are used by companies like Uber, DoorDash, Instacart, Reddit, Booking.com, and Duolingo to make AI systems work in the real world.