Mahir Rahman

Who I Am

I grew up watching my father turn a single poultry farm into one of Bangladesh's largest conglomerates. After earning my BSc in Computer Science from UBC, I came home - not just to carry on what he built, but to approach the same operational challenges with a new mindset. One that's automated, tech-first, and built around AI.

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I don't just think about AI in theory - I deploy it in production, in factories, every day. The goal is to bring agentic automation to every traditional industry in Bangladesh, starting with the ones I already run.

The Group

Paragon Group is one of Bangladesh's largest conglomerates - 12,000+ employees, 20+ companies, and operations spanning 12+ industries with international business connections worldwide.

Mahir Rahman speaking at Paragon Night 2025

In 1993, my parents - Moshiur Rahman and Yasmin Rahman - started with a single poultry farm of 25,000 parent stock and a vision to build something lasting. Over three decades, they grew that into Paragon Group: one of Bangladesh's top agro-industrial conglomerates, headquartered at Paragon House in Mohakhali, Dhaka.

Today the group spans poultry farming, animal feed, processing plants, plastics & FIBC, consumer foods, tea estates, solar energy, fisheries, flour mills, dairy, retail, and export footwear. I represent the next generation - bringing a computer science background and an AI-first mindset to a business built on decades of operational excellence.

My Role Across Paragon

I run IT & Software and Transport & Logistics across every Paragon company - from poultry farms to processing plants to factories.

Every Paragon company - poultry, feed, plastics, tea, retail, footwear - runs through my two departments. The IT & Software division handles all internal technology, from ERP systems to the custom dashboards and AI tools I build myself. The Transport & Logistics division manages a fleet of ~350 vehicles operating nationwide, moving feed, livestock, goods, and materials across Bangladesh every day.

This is where my computer science degree from UBC becomes an unfair advantage. I don't just oversee - I build. AI-powered dashboards, automated reporting pipelines, WhatsApp-to-database ingestion using Claude's vision, intelligent fleet management tools. Every system I deploy is designed to eliminate manual work and bring real-time visibility to operations at scale.

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Vehicle Logistics & Route Planning

A fleet of ~350 vehicles operating nationwide across all Paragon companies. Approval workflows, route optimization, and real-time coordination - serving poultry farms, feed mills, processing plants, and factories.

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Group-Wide IT

Technology strategy for 15+ companies and 12,000 employees. Internal tools built to the design standard of Linear and Vercel - because enterprise software doesn't have to be ugly.

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Claude-Powered Operations

Claude running 24/7 across my departments. Production data parsed from WhatsApp photos, email intelligence pipelines, automated reporting - real AI in real industry.

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Custom Software

Full-stack React + PostgreSQL dashboards, operations hubs, and management tools - all built in-house with my software team. Designed, architected, and deployed by me.

The Flagship

Parasole Footwear is Paragon's export-oriented shoe manufacturing company - and the division I lead directly.

Parasole is where I spend most of my operational energy. It's an export-focused footwear factory producing for some of the world's biggest retail brands - currently Walmart, Target, Zara, and Costco among others. We pick up new buyers all the time.

Today we run 4 production lines with ~2,300 employees, and we're building an extension to add 6 more lines by end of 2026 - more than doubling capacity. Alongside Parasole, I also oversee P&M, our sister sole manufacturing factory that feeds into the production pipeline.

This is where Claude has the deepest impact. Factory supervisors send WhatsApp updates that Claude parses automatically via vision, extracting production numbers and inserting them into our database in real time. I've built a full AI operations system - codenamed Jarvis, powered by Claude - that tracks output, monitors email intelligence from buyers, and proactively manages my day. Claude in a real factory, every single day.

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Lasting Machine

Claude & Me

I don't just use Claude.
I build with Claude.

In my factories, Claude reads WhatsApp messages from supervisors, extracts production numbers from photos using vision, inserts them into databases, and flags anomalies - all autonomously. This isn't a demo. This is Claude running a real manufacturing operation in Bangladesh, every day, at industrial scale.

I chose Claude because Anthropic's mission resonates deeply. In a country like Bangladesh - where AI adoption is still early but the potential is massive - responsible deployment isn't optional. I want to be the person who shows what Claude can do here, not just for tech companies, but for traditional industry.

What I Build

Task-Ticket — the operating system for every Paragon department.

A project management platform built with Claude for the entire conglomerate. Every department runs their workflows through this — built for agentic operations from day one.

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Real-time dashboards powered by WhatsApp & Outlook integration.

Factory supervisors live on WhatsApp. Buyers communicate through Outlook. Instead of fighting that, I built an AI layer that extracts data from messages and images via Claude Vision — no manual entry, no behavior change. The data just flows.

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My Network Across Bangladesh

Bangladesh has a thriving custom software industry - but almost no one is deploying agentic AI in real business operations. I sit at the intersection of both worlds.

Software market projected at $1.65B by 2029. 700K+ developers. 2,500+ startups. Custom ERP and enterprise solutions everywhere. But Industry 4.0 adoption sits at just 1.9/5. The tech community builds tools - the business community runs factories. Almost nobody speaks both languages. That's where I come in.

The Opportunity

Bangladesh is graduating from Least Developed Country status in November 2026. With 170 million people, 62% under 35, and the world's second-largest garment export industry, the foundation is massive. The tech ecosystem is growing - 700,000+ developers, a National AI Policy 2026-2030 in draft, and strong government support for digital transformation. What's missing is a bridge between AI and traditional industry.

Why Me

I grew up in an industrial family and now run five divisions of a conglomerate. I have personal relationships across apparel, pharma, steel, technology, agriculture, and energy. A Claude community here wouldn't be limited to the tech bubble. I can bring AI awareness and adoption to the business leaders and operators who would benefit from it most - the people running factories, supply chains, and companies. Almost nobody in Bangladesh speaks both languages. I do.

Why Bangladesh Needs Claude

Bangladesh has 170 million people, a booming tech scene, and one of the world's fastest-growing economies. But AI adoption here is still early. I'm already living proof that Claude can transform traditional industry in emerging markets. I'm not just talking about it - I'm running Claude in production, in a factory, in the real world, where it matters most.

Get in Touch

Let's bring Claude to the
masses of Bangladesh.

Looking to connect about AI in manufacturing, building Claude communities in emerging markets, or the ambassador program.

mahir@paragon.com.bd LinkedIn X GitHub

Available for the Claude Community Ambassador program