How Arbuz started.

Arbuz started with three guys trying to furnish an office.

One of them is a third-generation rug craftsman, so the rug should have been easy. It wasn’t. They spent days going back and forth on which one fit the space. Then came the table, the chairs, the lighting. They ordered, they returned, they ordered again. More than a week in, they were still trying to figure out the room.

At some point in the middle of it, they had the same thought: if the three of them, with a rug expert at the table, were struggling this hard, what does this look like for everyone else? Most people don’t have a rug expert. Most people don’t have anyone in the room with them at all.

They were already building AI for a living. So they decided to build one for this. They trained a model on what designers and retail associates do all day: matching styles, choosing proportions, working out what fits in a room and what doesn’t.

That became Arbuz. A shopper taps any product on a retailer’s site, and the model finishes the room around it in AR. The whole room appears in seconds, in their actual space.

Hikmatillo Umarhojiyev, our CEO, is the third-generation rug craftsman. He has run retail businesses with 150+ employees combined. Abdulaziz Alimov, our CTO, spent ten years in software engineering and built AI product placement at Jasper AI. Gulomjon Azimov, our CLO, has spent two decades in international business law.

We are based in Mountain View, building Arbuz for furniture retailers. It’s what we wish we’d had that week in the office.