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Khayyam Wakil

@iamkhayyam

Making people smile + Making World's Firsts.

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I build feedback-driven systems of intelligence.

From edge intelligence to market mechanisms, I design the loops that make AI useful in the world.

  • Model–hardware co-design · edge inference for livestock (CacheCow)
  • Mechanism design · CacheFair, a federated Nash framework for fair ranching
  • Decision signals · RAM Index (6/6 NBER recessions)
  • DeepTech + dual-use · translating research into deployable infrastructure
Khayyam designs feedback-driven AI systems for the real world.
Khayyam builds AI where models meet hardware and markets.
Cybernetics for AI: co-designing chips, models, and incentives.
Turning edge AI and mechanism design into working systems.
Khayyam Wakil builds AI systems at the hardware–model boundary and designs the market rules that make them useful.
Cybernetician and 3x founder building edge AI for livestock, and the mechanisms and indices that govern it.
Khayyam Wakil turns feedback loops into products: edge intelligence, fair-market protocols, and macro signals.
Founder, CacheCow (Edge AI for Livestock) | 3x Founder & Cybernetician | Khayyam Wakil builds feedback-driven AI systems: model–hardware co-design, fair-market protocols, and macro indices.
Khayyam Wakil is a cybernetician and 3x founder who builds feedback-driven AI systems. He focuses on the model–hardware interface (edge intelligence for livestock), on incentive design for real markets (CacheFair), and on decision signals (RAM Index, 6/6 NBER recessions). He translates research into working infrastructure for operators and policymakers.
Khayyam Wakil builds AI systems at the hardware–model boundary and designs the mechanisms around them. Recent work: CacheCow (edge inference for livestock), CacheFair (federated Nash framework for fair ranching), and the RAM Index (recession timing signal, 6/6 NBER calls). His lens is cybernetics: close the loop, co-design the stack, prove it in production.
Founder, CacheCow (Livestock Edge Intelligence). 3x founder & cybernetician. Khayyam Wakil builds feedback-driven AI systems—model–hardware co-design, federated market mechanisms (CacheFair), and macro signals (RAM Index: 6/6 NBER recessions).
Khayyam Wakil is a cybernetician and three-time founder who builds feedback-driven AI systems. He leads CacheCow, bringing edge intelligence to livestock operations. His mechanism design work includes CacheFair, a federated Nash framework for fair ranching, and he created the RAM Index, a macro signal that has matched 6/6 NBER recessions. His focus is the model–hardware interface, incentive design, and turning research into field-tested systems.
Khayyam Wakil builds AI that works in the messiness of the real world. He focuses on two things: making models run efficiently on the hardware we actually have, and designing the rules so people using those models get fair outcomes. He tests it in production—on ranches and in markets.
Founder, CacheCow 🤠 (Edge AI for Livestock) | Khayyam Wakil builds feedback-driven AI systems: model–hardware co-design, fair-market protocols (CacheFair •θ•), and macro signals (RAM Index •ɸ•).

Overview

Role
Founder & President @ CacheCow Technologies
Focus
Frontier tech · Storytelling · World's Firsts
Based
Calgary, AB (YYC)
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Email
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AboutConstitutional Forcing · Pattern · Moat

⚑ Constitutional Forcing. Four ventures. One methodology.

I find the constraints that force new fields into existence — then build the company before the category has a name.

HOW /

Math forces it. Patents protect it. The company commercializes it. Three to five years before the market catches up. Every time.

— Immersive Media → Digital Domain. $100M exit. First Emmy for immersive.

— LivePlanet / VideoCoin with Halsey Minor. $50M raised. $460M peak.

— The Artofficial Company. Over 100 inventions. US government diagnostic contracts via True Diagnostics × Abbott. Super Bowl LIV holograms.

— CacheCow. $1.65B–$2.57B global market (2025–2031). ~70% ranching-tech awareness, sub-20% adoption. Now.

WHY /

Nine digits in exits. Eight digits raised across two startups. One repeatable methodology.

DeepTech · AgTech · Defense · Frontier mathematics. Or investors who understand that original mathematics is the deepest moat available — let's talk. The time is now.

Elsewhere

X LinkedIn Medium ◐ MixCloud 📖 Ishmael ◈ Knowware

Featured WorkSee all work →

Branded Roster155+

Brands · Agencies · Identities Hover to pause · See all work →

Kind Words · Press

"Hideo Kojima using Sony's Telepresence System." — a public flex from the Death Stranding creator.

Hideo Kojima
Hideo KojimaKojima Productions · via 𝕏

"And the Greatest Ad of the Year Was…" — Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series, feat. the work.

Slate
Slate2014

"Stream Anywhere in 360 VR with Live Planet" — feature on the platform Khayyam co-founded.

TechCrunch
TechCrunch2016

"Taylor Swift is Now a '360 Immersive' App" — WSJ on the AMEX UNSTAGED Emmy-winning experience.

The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal2014

"Some lucky fans got to watch the MTV VMAs in 360-degree VR."

Fortune
Fortune2015

"Immersive Media acquired by Digital Domain Holdings for $100M."

Crunchbase
Crunchbase2015 · Exit

"Digital Domain Holdings, Immersive Media Form Joint Venture for VR Content."

Variety
Variety2015 · IM360

"CNET founder Halsey Minor's Live Planet moves toward decentralizing pay-per-view."

VentureBeat
VentureBeatLive Planet · VideoCoin

"Digital Domain, Immersive Media Partner to Create Virtual-Reality Programming."

Deadline
Deadline2015

Award TourSee full ledger →

×3
Grand Prix
×9
Gold Lion
×9
Silver Lion
×6
Bronze Lion
×1
Emmy Award
×∞
Best in Show
🏆Emmy — Taylor Swift × AMEX UNSTAGEDOutstanding Creative Achievement · Television Academy2015
🦁Cannes Lions — Volvo Trucks×27 across four tiers · 2013–2015
⭐Grand Prix ×3Creative Effectiveness · Film · Cyber2014–15
🥇Gold ×9Integrated · Promo & Activation · PR · Cyber · Direct · Film Craft2014
🥈Silver ×9Media · Film Craft · Titanium · PR2014
🥉Bronze ×6Volvo Trucks ×4 · Lloyds TSB / London Olympics ×1 · Lloyds TSB / Torchview ×12012–14
🎉Most-Awarded Film Commercial in the WorldGunn Report · "Epic Splits"2014

Selected ProjectsAll →

20151M Google Cardboard GiveawayThe New York TimesWorld's First
2015The Neymar Jr. EffectNike · Wieden+Kennedy · Digital DomainVR
2015LifeLiveSamsung · @radical MediaImmersive
2013Super Bowl XLVII · Live Stream 360NFL · Baltimore RavensWorld's First
2013PET MRIGE Healthcare · Immersive MediaWorld's First
2012RNC + DNC 2012 · 360° LiveCBS · Tampa & CharlotteWorld's First

Capabilities

01
Venture Building
02
Frontier Research
03
IP Architecture
04
Immersive + Experiential
05
Creative Strategy
06
World's Firsts ⚑
⚑ 06.1 Coordinated edge intelligence
⚑ 06.2 Stereoscopic live-streaming at scale
⚑ 06.3 Immersive media + Google Street View

Work ExperienceDeep dive on /work →

CacheCow (Cowbell Labs) · Founder + Head Wrangler 01.2026 — ∞ · Calgary, AB [REDACTED] · [REDACTED] 01.2026 — ∞ · [REDACTED] The Artofficial Company · Chief Executive Officer 03.2019 — ∞ · Pioneertown, CA Live Planet · Chief Strategy Officer, Co-Founder2016 — 2019 · San Jose, CA Digital Domain · Senior Strategy & Brand Consultant2015 · Los Angeles, CA Digital Domain · Chief Innovation Officer2012 — 2013 · Los Angeles, CA

SpeakingAll talks →

2022Serious Play: Gaming the Way to WellnessElevate Festival · TorontoKeynote
2022DAOs and Empowering CommunitiesConsensus by CoinDesk · AustinChair
2018Large-Scale XR EntertainmentOn the Lot @ Paramount StudiosChair
2017Virtual Psychedelics: How VR Affects Your BrainSXSW · AustinPanel

WritingAll writing →

2025 →Knowware: Systems of Intelligence for the 21st CenturyA field guide for anyone who must survive what is coming — and the tools, markets, and institutions they'll have to think with📘 Book
2023 →Token WisdomNotes on frontier tech, culture, and systems · ongoing◈ Publication
2015Beyond AdvertisingWiley · Wharton📘 Book
2013Innovation: How Innovators Think, Act and Change Our WorldKogan Page Publishers📘 Book
2013You Can Sell Your Time, But You Can Never Buy It Back.Medium

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