20 y.o building an AI-first procurement platform for industrial companies @aralabsnet prev @kaistpr

San-Francisco, CA
Joined December 2025
hey, this post went somewhat viral, so i'm gonna tell you a little about myself. i'm Rassul, 20 y.o. founder who's been working on startups since 14 y.o. i launched a marketing agency, coding school, VR education startup, and VR simulators for enterprises. i've been selling to enterprises since then. my first deal was $17k contract at 15 y.o i lived in a small town near the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan, where i spent days in a school basement working on everything. later on, i moved to Korea, where i studied AI at @kaistpr (top 10 in ai) for a year. dropped out, moved to SF. now I'm looking to build my network here, make some friends, and so on. DM me; let's chat!
gave @sama 🇰🇿 kazakhstan chocolate during my 4th week in SF and pitched him my procurement AI startup @aralabsnet
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got stuck with a total of 7 Waymos here and then almost got hit by a group of motorcyclists typical saturday in sf
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jk, the motorcyclists were cool
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it’s become a tradition to give Kazakhstan chocolate to founders
just met 3 awesome founders in SF from kazakhstan they've been boat.dev users for some time, helped them migrate off a big sandbox provider and cut their bill by a ton they gave me delicious chocolate to thank us for boat i must have the best job in the world
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this is absolutely CRAZY
Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10. Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years. Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
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Comparing supplier bids on a single heavy tender can take a procurement team up to a month ⏳ Lately, I've talked to 50+ procurement experts in oil & gas, mining, and manufacturing. One of the most common pains: bid evaluation. Quotes come in as PDFs, Excel, and Word documents, each in a different format. Someone has to rebuild them into a single comparison table (Excel) by hand, check every line against the spec, and chase down missing items. Today I'm showing Bid Evaluation, one of the features of Arp, an AI-native procurement platform for industrial companies. Quick walkthrough in the video 👇 Stay tuned for more, and DM me for a demo 🚀
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the most San-Francisco thing ever
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Rassul retweeted
Don't start a startup expecting you'll go to college (or back to college) afterward. Those two paths are incompatible, and you're lying to yourself if you try to pretend otherwise.
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today I had a call with a ministry from abroad. it was great to see that ministries are interested in working with startups and reaching out to you themselves.
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I feel really sorry for anyone paying via API billing🥲
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wtf @sama is in EF’s hacker house.
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Today we’re launching our leaderboard for Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1, an agentic benchmark for scientific research work. GPT-6 Astra (max) and Claude Opus 5.5 (xhigh) currently top it at 63% and 62% Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 was announced in August 2026, built by @StevenDillmann and researchers at Stanford with the @terminalbench team and a global community of open source scientific contributors. It has 70 expert-curated tasks based on real research in five domains: life sciences (19), physical sciences (17), mathematical sciences (17), engineering sciences (9), and earth sciences (8). As with Terminal-Bench, each task drops an agent into a sandbox environment with the data, tools and instructions for a task, and the agent runs from start to finish. Automated tests grade every task pass/fail, and we report the average pass@1 over 3 attempts. Key takeaways: ➤ Only two models score above 50%: GPT-6 Astra (max) at 63%, and Claude Opus 5.5 at 62% (xhigh) and 59% (max). Recent releases have made large advancements, but even the top model, GPT-6 Astra, has significant headroom ➤ Life sciences is the lowest-scoring domain for most leading models, though domain scores are noisy with 8 to 19 tasks each. Claude Opus 5.5 (xhigh) passes 71% of mathematical sciences tasks but 46% of life sciences tasks ➤ The best open weights models, GLM-5.3 (max) at 10% and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max) at 9%, sit more than 50 points below the leaders
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the uni i dropped out of
"Not only does South Korea have the second-highest talent retention rate of 77 percent, its key institution KAIST leapt twelve places since 2022 to now rank as the third-highest institution in terms of producing top AI talent." So proud of our entire KAIST family—our students, faculty, alumni, and everyone who has helped build this community. Let's keep pushing! 🌟 Full article from Carnegie: carnegieendowment.org/featur…
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dreams come true brother
I can't believe Sam Altman and I both got Kazakhstan chocolate xitter.cf/rassulred/status/21030…
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After Kevin Hartz, I am probably the 2nd most bullish on central asians in SF. Watch these guys, they're going to do great things. xitter.cf/kevinhartz/status/2083…
this guy (@coderpr0grammer) was the first to ask for Kazakhstan chocolate. met him with my legendary team i don’t have many but he deserved it.
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this guy (@coderpr0grammer) was the first to ask for Kazakhstan chocolate. met him with my legendary team i don’t have many but he deserved it.
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he is building AI high-school. check it out
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Edtech is now solved. Yesterday we launched our first student @units_school. Today we're launching our first teacher. Introducing Gilbert, Jev for learning.
Today we’re launching Remy, our first student @units_school. Remy founded EasyData, signed a $6.3m contract, raised $165k, and moved from Toronto to SF. He's 17 years old.
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