Illustrative diagram of an AI-assisted control-design workflow: model, operating point, linearization, controller candidates, closed-loop simulation and verification, with AI agents supporting each step.

Taking an AI control-design platform from concept to a validated MVP

Technical Product Manager at an agentic-AI startup (name withheld): MRD, 100+ customer interviews, requirements and backlog, a team of seven engineers, two proof-of-concept cycles, an approved readiness gate and the go-to-market plan.

ViGenX editor with a plain-language brief at the top and the generated workflow graph below it.

ViGenX: an AI video editor that shows its plan before it runs

An open-source AI video editor that turns a plain-language brief into a typed workflow graph you can edit, with human approval before anything renders. Pre-1.0.

Starting This Blog

This blog is a place for concise technical notes from my work in AI and robotics. The topics I plan to write about include ROS2 software architecture, reinforcement learning for control, Isaac Gym and Gazebo simulation workflows, multimodal robot data pipelines, and the practical details of connecting LLMs and VLMs to robotic systems. My goal is to keep the writing useful: implementation notes, design decisions, experiments, lessons from hardware integration, and research summaries that can help another engineer reproduce or improve the work.

May 27, 2026 · 1 min · Mahdi Sarfarazi