Applied AI in regulated industries

Production AI agents, deployed where failure isn't an option.

Big Brain builds and runs production AI agents inside regulated, high-consequence operations — owned end to end, from scoping the use case to keeping it live.

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BACKED BY TECHSTARS '24  ·  ECOLAB

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How we work

From scope to production.

We don't hand over a model and walk away. We own the whole arc — and stay on the hook for it running in the real world.

01 — Scope

Find where an agent earns its keep

We sit inside your operation and pick the work that's repeatable, high-cost, and high-consequence — not the demo-friendly stuff.

02 — Build

Built against the real thing

We build the agentic system against your actual data, tools, and constraints. Production from day one, not a pilot that never ships.

03 — Run

Kept live and reliable

Monitoring, guardrails, and iteration so it holds up where mistakes are expensive and the environment is regulated.

Flagship deployment

Frontline equipment repair

A soda-machine outage used to mean six hours down and a call to an expensive technician. With Big Brain it's a fifteen-minute, self-serve fix — the worker gets a guided, interactive repair walkthrough on the spot.

Before
6 hours
down · call a technician
With Big Brain
15 minutes
self-serve fix · no technician
~70%
Less downtime
6h → 15m
Time to fix
~$1,200
Saved per outage
The product

What the worker sees.

An interactive visual instructor that answers questions, walks through repairs step by step, and heads off problems before they start.

Big Brain product demo preview Watch the 2-minute demo
Conversational answers for frontline workers
Answer questions instantly
Interactive visual repair instructor
Interactive visual instructor
Predictive maintenance intelligence
Predictive intelligence
Where we work

The same approach, wherever the stakes are real.

Frontline operations

Repair, maintenance, and procedure guidance — delivered to the people doing the work, in the moment they need it.

Safety & sanitation

Dense compliance and sanitation manuals turned into clear, actionable answers a worker can follow on the floor.

Legal document workflows

Structuring complex records for litigation — in trial with several of the largest US law firms.

About

An applied-AI deployment shop.

We don't sell a model and disappear — we embed in regulated, high-consequence operations and own the deployment from scope to production. Techstars '24. Backed by Ecolab.

Nikhil Arun
Nikhil Arun
Founder & CEO

Shipped the first FDA-authorized at-home COVID test in the US and scaled a healthcare orchestration company from $0→$50M across 119M+ lives. Earlier founded and sold an ML ad platform, and built early consumer voice AI at Microsoft used by 35M+. Duke CS + Fuqua MBA.

Jessica Bock
Jessica Bock
COO

Leads program management and delivery at Big Brain. Former Lead Program Manager at 1health and Google, and consultant at IBM. American University.

Get in touch

Have work that can't go down? Let's talk.

info@big-brain.ai