The Team

Physics-Grounded Founders. Physics-Grounded AI.

GoatAI is built by a team that has spent decades inside the steel-plant systems it now builds AI for. The physics-grounding claim is not metaphorical — it comes from 30+ years of working with real plant systems and understanding why they fail.

Founders

Why this team can execute

Co-founder

Prabhat Tiwari

30+ years in steel-plant systems — now building the reasoning layer

Three decades building real operational systems in industrial automation, computer vision, process control, and systems integration on the steel floor. The kind of experience that comes from making things work in the melt shop and the crane bay — not from benchmarks.

The core question driving this work: how do you ground AI reasoning in plant physics — BOF kinetics, heat transfer, caster solidification, crane kinematics — so it can be trusted on the floor? The answer is architectural. GoatAI is the answer.

Physics-grounded agentic reasoning is not a research hypothesis. It is what you build when you've spent 30+ years watching software miss the physics of the plant it's embedded in.

Focus areas

  • Steel-plant systems & automation architecture
  • Operating-pulpit & crane-bay intelligence design
  • Intra-plant reasoning across crane, furnace, caster, ladle
  • Strategic architecture & steel-industry partnerships

Currently

Driving platform architecture and steel-plant engagements across crane, furnace, caster, and ladle operations.

Co-founder

Aditya Tiwari

AI researcher turning systems theory into operational architecture

AI researcher and systems developer focused on the gap between theoretical AI capability and what actually works in physical environments. The challenge isn't building models — it's building reasoning architectures that respect plant physics, equipment geometry, and real-world operating constraints simultaneously.

Current focus: physics-AI integration research on steel-process physics — BOF kinetics, heat transfer, caster solidification reduced-order models — and building the agentic orchestration layer that makes multi-agent reasoning over the plant operationally viable.

The question isn't whether agents can reason about a heat or a cast. It's whether the reasoning is grounded enough in plant physics to be trusted when it matters on the floor.

Focus areas

  • Interpretable AI & scientific machine learning
  • Steel-process physics & reduced-order modeling
  • Agentic architecture & platform development
  • Physics-AI integration research

Currently

Leading AI architecture, steel-process physics-AI integration research, and platform engineering across the agentic orchestration layer.

Team Philosophy

Operational credibility is the prerequisite

GoatAI is not positioned as a research startup that will eventually productize. It is built by people who have operated steel-plant systems and understand why AI must be grounded in plant physics to be trusted.

30+ years of plant-floor experience

Not building AI for steel systems from the outside. Building it from inside three decades of making such systems work in the melt shop and crane bay.

Physics first, language second

Every agent decision traces to a steel-process model. BOF kinetics, heat transfer, caster solidification ROMs, crane kinematics. Not language-layer approximations.

On the floor, not in a deck

Work is anchored in active plant engagements with real geometry and real process constraints — not a slideware roadmap. Credibility precedes the sales story, not the other way around.

Engagements

Building alongside steel operators and plant teams

We co-develop inside real steelmaking shops — with the operations and automation teams who run the plant. Engagements are shaped on the floor, against live constraints, across EAF, BOF, ladle, and crane operations.

Interested in working with us?

Steel-plant deployment, physics-AI research collaboration, partnerships, and press inquiries