Our company

We're building the operating system for the AI era of physical facilities.

Facilities are flooded with sensor data and starved of action. Cyrus exists to close that gap — turning the feeds you already have into intelligence that prevents incidents instead of just recording them.

Our thesis

Value lives above the model API.

Frontier AI can finally understand sensory data, make decisions, and act on it — but running it on live feeds is expensive and hard. The lasting value isn't in the models themselves; it's in the orchestration, memory, and prediction layered on top.

That's the layer we own. We make powerful AI models accessible, cost-effective, and easy to use in real time — across any site, sensor, and application.

WHAT WE STAND FOR
  • Built from scratch, AI-native from the first line of code
  • Work with the hardware operators already have
  • Prove value in weeks, not quarters
  • Earn trust with human-approved, auditable action
The team

Operators and researchers who've shipped this before.

A founding team with two PhDs in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and deep experience building and deploying low-latency video-analytics pipelines and distributed edge/cloud systems — some patent-pending and featured at top conferences.

Jeremy Johnston, PhD

Co-founder & CEO

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Columbia University. Background in AI for wireless communication systems and quantum communication.

Mahshid Ghasemi, PhD

Co-founder & CTO

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Columbia University. Specialist in efficient system design for real-time video analytics.

Advised by

Steven Eames

Operational advisor

20+ years in security & military operations; real-time crime operations-center design.

Wayne Homschek

Financial advisor

Managing Director @ Bentley Associates; 20+ years in investment banking; former founder & CEO.

Omair Manzoor

Strategic advisor

Chief Hacker @ ioSENTRIX; former Sr. Security Engineer @ Amazon; former Sr. Security Consultant @ Cigital.

Doug Stebbins

Strategic advisor

Managing Director @ Bentley Associates; M&A, fundraising, venture capital & private equity.

How we work

Built with operators, not in a lab.

We learn from real sites, real events, and real edge cases — and ship from feedback, not from spec sheets.

Customer-first

Every feature begins with a problem an operator raised on a live site — never theory.

Feedback compounds

Expert input is wired into the system itself, so every deployment makes Cyrus sharper.

Quietly trustworthy

Approvals, audit trails, and on-prem options — so your data and your decisions stay yours.

Let's talk about your site.

Whether you're an operator, a partner, or just curious how agentic AI changes facility monitoring — we'd love to hear from you.

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