AI product builder · Health tech founder · Technical PM

Building AI startups and health tech products end to end.

Product, engineering, agentic systems, and go-to-market in one person. Co-founder building the AI agent layer for behavioral health across Pakistan and the South Asian diaspora, and four years shipping digital health products for the World Psychiatric Association. Open to founding, product, and AI engineering roles — plus advisory and the right contracts.

Co-Founder & CEO, DilKiBaat · Chapter Lead, AI Collective Karachi · AI Educator

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Taj Magsi AI Startup Founder
Health Tech Builder

Licensed MHPs on DilKiBaat

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Psychiatrists reached (WPA)

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Aiza AI conversations

Where I focus

01 — Focus

AI startup building

Zero to revenue: product, team, agentic infrastructure, and GTM — validated in health tech, applicable across sectors.

Urdu-first AI

Voice-aware, culturally grounded assistants for 220M+ Urdu speakers and low-literacy users.

Health tech products

End-to-end delivery of digital health platforms — web, mobile, clinical NLP, and AI agents — from WHO/WPA-scale to early-stage startups.

Multi-agent systems

Writer/checker agent pipelines that ship content and products without editorial drift.

Venture building

Gated 90-day operating systems: validate, monetise from day one, kill fast when signals say so.

Civic tech

Bilingual, zero-dependency tools for underserved urban communities.

Selected work

02 — Work

Co-Founder & CEO

DilKiBaat

Building the AI agent layer for behavioral health — Pakistan first, South Asian diaspora next. Aiza handles triage, matching, and follow-up. Clinicians get AI-assisted intake and note-taking. One connected care path from first message to ongoing therapy. NIC-incubated, raising $250K pre-seed.

49 licensed professionals, 600+ sessions, PKR 1.5M billed revenue at zero marketing spend. Aiza: 1,000+ AI conversations (dilkibaat.ca/aizaai). Cambridge-linked research partnership.

CBT PlatformAI ChatbotLMIC HealthEnterprise GTM

dilkibaat.ca

Project Lead & Coordinator

123CBT.online

Multilingual CBT learning platform delivered for the World Psychiatric Association — requirements, localisation, QA, and global rollout, end to end.

Live globally. World Psychiatric Association membership: 250,000+ psychiatrists across 100+ countries. Cambridge-published feasibility study on the animated psychoeducation series — script-to-production delivery led by Taj.

WPA PartnershipMultilingual LMS100+ CountriesCambridge Publication

123cbt.online

Founder & Lead

Aiza AI

Conversational AI mental health support tool with WhatsApp integration, web platform, and Android app in development — triage-first design routing users to appropriate care based on risk level, built for low-literacy and underserved populations.

1,000+ AI conversations across web. Urdu-first, culturally adapted for low-literacy and underserved populations.

WhatsAppWebAndroidTriage AIUrdu-first

Founder & Lead

Raaha

Multilingual voice and mental wellness platform for cross-cultural populations — Arabic, Urdu, Malayalam, Tagalog, and English.

Web platform with multilingual voice interface across 5 languages. Pilot programme, privacy-first architecture, national vision framing.

ReactVoice UIMultilingualMental Wellness

GitHub

PsychRx
● In development

Android mental health app in active development — auth, paywall, and analytics wired from day one. GitHub

Noteveil
Only Apache-2.0 stack in niche

Privacy-first clinical NLP for mental health — the only Apache-2.0 open-commercial stack in the niche. GitHub

Lyari 3D Crisis Map
12 issues · 1M+ residents

Bilingual 3D map of 12 documented crisis issues in Lyari, Karachi — single HTML file, zero build step. GitHub

Practice-in-a-Box
50+ warm clinicians

90-day operating system for Pakistani mental health clinicians — done-for-you setup plus an AI-ready cohort. GitHub

Content Desk
● Operational internal tool

Multi-agent content pipeline — writer agents draft, a fresh-context checker rejects drift before it ships. GitHub

Creator Engine
● In development

Content business built on a proven creator playbook — recipes, hooks, and monetisation as a repeatable system. GitHub

Pocket Therapist
● In development

Single-purpose mental-wellness mini apps — each solves one narrow emotional-support need. GitHub

Venture Lab Qatar
● QSTP application in progress

AI + voice venture for Qatar incubation — MENA/Vision 2030 agentic angle, QSTP application track. GitHub

Mental Health Studio
● Live site · 24 pages

HIPAA-compliant websites, apps and digital marketing agency for mental health practices in the US, Canada and UK — full multi-page site with working lead capture. Live site

Roles I hold

03 — Roles

Founder & Managing Director Pakistan's first national CBT platform — product, clinicians, enterprise GTM, research partnerships. DilKiBaat

Project Lead & Coordinator Global delivery of the 123CBT multilingual learning platform for psychiatrists in 100+ countries. WPA · 123CBT

Chapter Lead Building Karachi's AI builder community — events, mentorship, and an open build culture. AI Collective Karachi

Always building

04 — Activity

— contributions in the last year

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What I'm reading

05 — Reading

Reading

The Mom Test

Rob Fitzpatrick

Customer-conversation discipline for the DilKiBaat enterprise pipeline.

Completed

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries

Validated-learning loop underpins the 90-day gates model.

Reading

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

Systems grounding for Noteveil's clinical-NLP infrastructure.

Queued

The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

Network effects for the clinician-marketplace side of DilKiBaat.

Milestones & achievements

2025
DilKiBaat incubated at the National Incubation Center
Pakistan's first national CBT platform enters formal incubation.
2025
Cambridge-published feasibility study
Animated psychoeducation series for low-literacy populations, via 123CBT / WPA.
2024
123CBT live across 100+ countries
Multilingual CBT learning platform delivered for the World Psychiatric Association.
2024
Chapter Lead, AI Collective Karachi
Building the city's AI-builder community — events, mentorship, open build culture.

Selected writing

06 — Writing

Publications

2025
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (Cambridge UP)
"Feasibility and acceptability of a culturally adapted CBT-based 'animated shorts video series'..." Open Access. doi:10.1017/S1352465825101173 — led script-to-production delivery of the evaluated series.
2021
the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (Cambridge UP)
Latif M, Awan F, Gul M, Husain M, Sayyed K, Magsi T, et al. "Preliminary evaluation of a culturally adapted CBT-based online programme for depression and anxiety from a lower middle-income country." doi:10.1017/S1754470X21000313

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Build in public

07 — Building

Taj Magsi @tajmagsi · #buildinpublic

Built a $10k mental-health native Android app in 7 days with AI — 14 screens, Urdu + English, voice via ElevenLabs, CBT exercises, crisis support, zero-retention privacy mode. "Privacy and safety are not features you add at the end. They are the product."

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AI education

08 — Education

AI for healthcare

Practical, jargon-free AI adoption for clinicians and health tech teams — agentic workflows, free-tool automation stacks, real-world implementation.

Founders & SMEs

Multi-agent systems explained simply. Workshops on how a clinic, agency, or small business actually adopts AI — not the hype version.

Content & community

AI explainers and curation on LinkedIn and X, backed by self-built multi-agent content systems. Chapter Lead, AI Collective Karachi (May 2026–present).

Guest Lecturer Special lecture to MS Clinical Psychology students on evaluating mobile health apps and advising patients on their use. Effat University, Saudi Arabia

Expert Committee Member International Interdisciplinary Expert Committee, IEEE Global Medical Mobile App Assessment and Registry (IEEE SA / ICAP). IEEE SA · ICAP

PARHAO Library Project Raised PKR 200,000 and collected 2,000+ books for an underserved community library in Karachi. Community Initiative

Open to collaborations, advisory roles, and the right contracts

Let's build
together.

AI startup founder and health tech builder open to advisory, investment, collaboration, and the right contracts — from Karachi, for anywhere that needs it.

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