ABOUT MOEIN CYRUS POUDAT

Moein Cyrus Poudat was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1986.

His story started with music, but it never stayed in one lane.

At 10 years old, Moein started playing guitar. Music became his first language for discipline, emotion, pattern, and expression. Around the same time, another obsession started forming: computers. While he was growing as a musician, he was also drawn to mathematics, logic, hardware, and the way technology worked underneath the surface.

By 14, he had learned how to assemble desktop computers from scratch. Motherboards, RAM, CPUs, hard drives, power supplies, Windows installation, software setup, troubleshooting, and everything in between. He built and maintained the computers for his father’s company, learning early that technology was most valuable when it solved real problems for real people.

Moein continued his music education professionally in Tehran, studying composition at the Tehran Conservatory of Music while also earning an associate degree in Information Technology from Tehran ShahrSazi College. Those two worlds shaped him early. One trained his creativity. The other trained his structure.

At 20, Moein moved to the United States.

He continued his music path at the Lionel Hampton School of Music in Moscow, Idaho, while adjusting to a new country, new language, and new life. During that chapter, he joined AT&T. What started as a job became one of the most important training grounds of his career.

At AT&T, Moein discovered a deep passion for sales, marketing, coaching, customer experience, and leadership. He grew through multiple roles across Moscow, Portland, and San Francisco, including B2B Sales Account Executive, Corporate Retail Store Manager, Hiring Manager, and Sales and Marketing Leadership roles across multiple regions.

His AT&T career reached a major milestone in San Francisco, where he launched and opened AT&T’s 1 Powell flagship technology experience location in 2016. The location was not only a retail store. It was a 24,000-square-foot, three-story technology showcase in the heart of San Francisco and the largest AT&T retail location in the world at the time. It was built to showcase wireless, wireline, Internet of Things, connected cars, smart home technology, entertainment, connected devices, customer education, and the future of consumer technology. For Moein, it was a powerful lesson in how brand, technology, customer education, sales, people management, and experience design come together under one roof.

While still working at AT&T, Moein started building his next chapter.

For many people, construction would have seemed like a sharp turn. For Moein, it was already part of his life.

His father was a civil engineer with decades of experience in design, engineering, and building commercial and residential projects. Moein grew up around construction conversations, job sites, drawings, materials, clients, field decisions, and the pressure of turning plans into finished spaces.

After years of developing his own background in sales, marketing, customer experience, leadership, technology, and business operations, Moein and his father decided to join forces.

In 2016, they founded Lavan Construction Design & Build in the Bay Area.

His father led the field side: construction execution, building quality, technical construction knowledge, and job site delivery. Moein ran the company side: sales, marketing, branding, proposals, project management, client communication, vendor relationships, finance, technology, operations, and business systems.

That partnership gave Lavan its foundation. It combined deep construction experience with modern business execution, customer storytelling, design-build positioning, and a sharper client experience.

Lavan grew into a residential design-build company focused on high-end remodeling, additions, ADUs, and custom home projects. For Moein, it became a real-world operating system. Every project required trust, communication, planning, budgeting, design decisions, city coordination, field execution, client care, and problem solving under pressure.

In 2019, Moein expanded the vision by founding Lavan Design Store Inc., a 6,000-square-foot luxury design center in Sunnyvale. He personally designed the showroom concept, customer flow, material display strategy, product experience, visual merchandising, and brand environment from end to end. The design center connected homeowners, builders, contractors, designers, vendors, finish materials, and project execution into one integrated experience.

After years of operating companies in the real world, Moein began moving deeper into AI-driven systems.

Through UDA ADU, he has worked on sales, marketing, customer education, and technology-enabled workflows for a modern ADU company serving Bay Area homeowners. One of the key ideas behind the experience is simple: make ADU feasibility easier to understand. Instead of forcing homeowners to navigate zoning, setbacks, FAR, placement, design, and ROI on their own, the platform helps turn those questions into a faster and clearer customer journey.

Through Arayo Tech, Moein built an AI-driven operating system concept for construction companies. The work focused on translating real-world construction operations into clearer systems across projects, tasks, finance, marketing, reporting, team communication, estimating, design, plan review, and jobsite documentation. It included AI interior and exterior design concepts, smart estimating, BuildSurely construction document and blueprint analysis, and a walk-and-talk field capture module where jobsite video, speech, and photos turn into tasks and assignments.

Moein’s work now sits at the intersection of everything he has done before.

Today, Moein is focused on building and joining teams that use technology to simplify complexity, create better customer experiences, and turn ambitious ideas into systems that work.