Founder & CEO, LocalDesk
Mehrad Arbab
Mehrad Arbab is the founder and CEO of LocalDesk, an AI-native workspace built to turn instructions into organized, executable work you can check.
About
At LocalDesk, Mehrad is building software around one idea: a request is not the work. Baymax understands what someone wants, Mission turns it into a structured plan with a check on every step, and Orbit is the workspace where the work happens and where it can be inspected.
The focus is agentic workflows that finish — carrying real work from coding to distribution, returning a result a person can verify, and keeping people in control of anything that matters.
Mehrad writes about AI agents, mission-oriented execution and product engineering, from a founder's perspective. This page collects that writing in one place, linked to where each piece was first published.
Selected writing
Medium
I Didn’t Want to Build Another AI Chatbot. So I Started LocalDesk
The story behind LocalDesk and my attempt to rethink how humans work with artificial intelligence.
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The AI Agent Race Has a Missing Metric: Did the Work Actually Get Done?
I’m 19, working on a workspace built for the era of intelligent agents. And I believe the next AI revolution is about more than just making agents smarter.
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All writing
- I Didn’t Want to Build Another AI Chatbot. So I Started LocalDeskRead on Medium(opens Medium in a new tab)
- The AI Agent Race Has a Missing Metric: Did the Work Actually Get Done?Read on Medium(opens Medium in a new tab)
- AI Agents Don't Need More Autonomy. They Need Proof They Finished the Job.Read on DEV(opens DEV in a new tab)
Connect
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