A boutique footprint with enterprise-grade outcomes. The work spans grid-scale energy storage, agentic AI products, autonomy research, and consulting for some of the largest infrastructure providers in the world.
Co-founded and led the Battery Analytics group at Fluence, one of the world's largest grid-scale battery integrators, building life models and BOL/DC energy insights that drove material savings across a global fleet.
The Battery Analytics group built physics-informed, data-driven models for state-of-health (SOH) and remaining useful life (RUL) estimation, DCIR tracking, and knee-point detection across the global energy storage fleet, replacing opaque vendor curves with transparent, defensible insights.
The work informed warranty design, revenue-at-risk modeling, and billion-dollar capital allocation decisions. Patterns from this engagement now anchor Brighture's broader battery analytics practice.
Consultation engagement with Dell Technologies on data-center architecture and AI-workload strategy. Worked alongside enterprise architects on questions where the answer determines billions in capital deployment.
Brighture supported Dell with advisory on how AI workloads, and particularly the new generation of GenAI inference and training patterns, reshape data-center planning: power envelopes, network topology, accelerator strategy, and the hybrid edge/cloud workloads that follow customers into regulated environments.
Engagements of this kind are where Brighture's research depth (Boeing, MIT) meets its operating depth (Fluence Energy), they require equal comfort with the physics of the box and the economics of the buyer.
Mehran serves as fractional CTO and co-founder of SMART Battery Analytics, a venture productizing the life-modeling and fleet analytics work that was previously bespoke to Fluence and similar integrators.
The SMART Battery Analytics platform turns raw cell and system telemetry into bankable, auditable insights, life-interval vs. life-curve analytics, cell-to-pack health, and risk-managed warranty views, for integrators and asset owners who need to move away from black-box vendor curves.
The engagement is a useful proof point of Brighture's fractional leadership model: senior, embedded technical leadership without the full-time commitment, and a working demonstration that the founder operates at this level for partner companies.
Built and shipped grocifyai.info, a multi-modal agentic platform applying AI agents across the grocery and consumer-goods stack, coordinating pricing, coupons, dietary constraints, and basket optimization.
grocifyai.info is a working example of how Brighture takes a domain-grounded problem, household grocery economics, and ships an agentic system around it: pricing agents, nutrition agents, and deal-finding agents coordinating under safety and budget constraints.
The platform doubles as a proving ground for Brighture's opinions on agentic AI: domain-grounded RAG instead of hallucination, human-in-the-loop evaluation, and safety- and security-hardened agent orchestration.
Delivered a comprehensive AI & digital-transformation assessment for RockFiber, a manufacturing startup, covering data infrastructure, AI posture, talent strategy, and a sequenced 12-month roadmap. Now the reference template for Brighture's startup track.
Early-stage manufacturers usually face the same question: with limited capital and talent, which AI and digital-transformation investments earn their keep this year, and which ones are a year early?
The RockFiber engagement produced an honest audit of the team's data, stack, and AI talent posture; a prioritized roadmap with quarterly milestones; and an investor-ready narrative tying the technical plan to commercial outcomes. The same engagement template now anchors Brighture's discounted startup-track offering.
Pre-Brighture, Mehran built the research and engineering foundation that the practice now stands on, across MIT, Boeing Research & Technology, and Boeing.
Applied AI and autonomy work for UAVs and digital twins; research and prototyping on position verification and robust multi-agent coordination, yielding patent-level IP. Foundational experience for Brighture's autonomy and cyber-physical security practice.
Postdoctoral research on cyber-physical systems, resilient consensus, and secure control. Collaborative work with power systems, autonomy, and CPS security groups, the academic backbone behind 1600+ citations and Brighture's CPS security capability.
Most of the substantive detail behind these engagements lives under NDA. With a mutual NDA in place, we're happy to walk through specifics, outcomes, and architectures in a private conversation.
