Carcinize builds Modyl: decision rooms where agents call your team in and humans settle the work.
Minsky inspired me as a kid and I've returned to his work my whole career. Now that agents can talk and listen, the working paper on what he missed about coordination is public, corrections included.
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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.
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 Chief Product & Technology Officer and later Chief Innovation Officer, I was responsible for technology, product, and infrastructure, along with security and compliance. We grew it from a handful of users to most of the largest U.S. government contractors. 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: Chief Product & Technology Officer → Chief Innovation Officer; seed → $30M Series B; FedRAMP, CMMC 2, SOC 2, no findings
WHAT WE BUILD
Status: the v1.0.0 engine works. Rooms are hand-run with design partners today. Next: a gated alpha with pre-registered success and kill criteria, published before we recruit. Not yet: public release, self-serve access, or revenue.modyl.to →
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basit@carcinize.netAleatoric is Basit Mustafa's research entity; it publishes the working papers and benchmarks. Modyl is built by Carcinize Corp, a Delaware C-Corporation in Boise, Idaho.