AI-First Mindset

A visionary co-founder growing businesses through digital infrastructure.

I build and scale products, teams and systems that create real business impact. I start with AI when approaching a problem — always.

Saman Gholami

AI First

I start with AI when approaching a problem.

1000+
Restaurants Served Across Products
40+
People Led Across Teams & Operations
10+
Years in Product, Tech & Business
Millions
Of Orders & Transactions Enabled

Journey

Businesses I’ve Built

Different problems. Same mission: create impact at scale.

Co-Founder & CEO

Restaurant commerce infrastructure

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Vendo is a front-office growth platform for restaurants: branded websites, web menus, web kiosks and direct digital ordering flows, built to help restaurant brands increase direct sales and reduce dependency on third-party channels.

Direct Sales Web & Kiosk Retention Growth

Co-Founder & CEO

Online food ordering platform

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Delino helped restaurants and customers connect through online ordering, while giving me first-hand experience in marketplace dynamics, restaurant operations, growth, customer behavior and execution at scale.

Marketplace Operations Growth Execution

Co-Founder & CEO

Corporate meal management solution

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Nahartime focuses on corporate meal management and food ordering for organizations — a different operating model with its own logistics, account management and process design challenges.

Corporate Logistics Account Mgmt Process Design

About

A founder with a growth lens, technical depth, and an AI-first mindset.

I work where product, operations, analytics and software architecture meet. I care about business outcomes as much as I care about system design — revenue, retention, clarity and execution, not just shipping features.

What I’m best known for

Building and scaling digital products in food, restaurant and commerce spaces — from online ordering and direct sales channels to business analytics, retention and operational systems.

Turning operational complexity into products that customers can actually use.
Designing systems that connect product, data, support and business growth.

How I operate

I usually work across strategy, product, analytics and system design at the same time. I care about the business model as much as the database schema, and the customer journey as much as the reporting layer behind it.

Start with the business problem, then use AI and software to remove friction.
Prefer simple, scalable systems over clever but fragile solutions.

Focus

What I work on today.

Growth, analytics, AI and architecture are connected. The best results usually come from treating them as one system instead of four separate functions.

Business Growth

Revenue models, product-market fit decisions, partnerships, go-to-market thinking, retention and direct channel growth.

Data & Analytics

KPI design, BI, business reporting, customer segmentation and using data to make decisions faster and better.

AI-First Solutions

I usually start with AI when approaching a problem — recommendation, automation, insight extraction, search, or decision support — and then design the rest of the system around it.

Database & Software Systems

Data modeling, performance-aware design, back-end architecture and reliable foundations for products that need to scale.

Thinking

Topics I think about a lot.

Not blog posts yet — but these are the areas where I spend most of my time thinking, building and making decisions.

AI in Real Products

How AI can move from demo-level novelty to something that actually improves ordering, support, discovery, personalization and internal operations.

Restaurant Growth Infrastructure

How restaurants can own more of their demand through websites, direct ordering, loyalty, better data and less dependency on third-party channels.

Data-Driven Management

How reporting, segmentation, operational metrics and disciplined visibility can improve execution quality and make companies less dependent on individual heroes.

Contact

If you’re building something ambitious, I’m open to a good conversation.

Whether it’s product, growth, restaurant commerce, analytics, AI or systems, feel free to reach out. Email is the easiest path, but LinkedIn works too.