# Ali Ahmed — AI Solutions Engineer

> A founder-grade operator who ships production-grade AI products and owns the business behind them.

_Last updated: October 2026. Lahore, Pakistan. Open to remote-global roles and relocation to the Gulf (UAE/Saudi/Qatar), US, or Australia, plus fractional AI-delivery consulting._

Entity anchors (co-occur with the name): Cognilium AI, Wattey Energy

## Core pages

- [Home](https://alioahmed.com/): Who Ali Ahmed is — identity, proof, and FAQ.
- [Work](https://alioahmed.com/work): Everything shipped — the case studies and portfolio.
- [About](https://alioahmed.com/about): Who Ali Ahmed is — the whole career on one page (each role, its dates and its case study), education, awards and availability. Markdown twin: https://alioahmed.com/about/raw
- [Contact](https://alioahmed.com/contact): How to reach Ali Ahmed.

## Open data

- [Open data](https://alioahmed.com/data): Dated, anonymised production observations from WattEY and Solar Performance Cloud.
- [WattEY production data](https://alioahmed.com/data/wattey-production): Net energy, load, tariff-window and reporting-gap observations.
- [Solar Performance Cloud data](https://alioahmed.com/data/spc-performance): String-level solar health and fault observations.

## Case studies (13)

- [Cognilium AI](https://alioahmed.com/work/cognilium): At Cognilium AI, Ali Ahmed built the client-acquisition engine, led AI products from Paralegent AI to VectorHire, and set up the team’s policies, hiring and…
- [Paralegent AI](https://alioahmed.com/work/paralegent): Ali Ahmed led Paralegent AI from idea to production: 18+ specialist AI agents that review contracts against a company’s own playbook, inside Microsoft Word.
- [Wattey Energy](https://alioahmed.com/work/bijli-bachao): Ali Ahmed designed and built Wattey Energy’s five energy products (formerly BijliBachao.pk): WattEY, STS, Metering, Sub-Billing and Solar Performance Cloud.
- [Solar Performance Cloud](https://alioahmed.com/work/solar-performance-cloud): Ali Ahmed built Solar Performance Cloud: independent, string-level, 24/7 solar inspection for Pakistani plants, aligned to IEC 61724-1 and 62446-1.
- [WattEY](https://alioahmed.com/work/wattey): Ali Ahmed built WattEY: IoT electricity monitoring for Pakistani industry — three-phase readings turned into time-of-use, net-metering and generator accounting.
- [STS — Smart Transfer Switch](https://alioahmed.com/work/sts): Ali Ahmed built STS: it switches a building between solar and grid, confirms each switch from the device’s own sensors, and enforces safety in hardware.
- [TenantBill](https://alioahmed.com/work/tenantbill): Ali Ahmed built TenantBill: Android meter capture and web tenant billing, with photo evidence, arrears tracking and monthly reconciliation.
- [WattEY Sub-Billing — Fair electricity bills for shared buildings](https://alioahmed.com/work/electricity-sub-billing): WattEY Sub-Billing by Ali Ahmed: residents share measured room usage by stay dates, with meter photos, departure bills and tracked balances.
- [Wonder Women](https://alioahmed.com/work/wonder-women): Ali Ahmed co-founded Wonder Women, Pakistan’s FemTech startup: Asani vending machines, 75,000+ transactions, a P&G partnership, and the HEC seed fund.
- [Startup ecosystem at national scale](https://alioahmed.com/work/startup-ecosystem): Ali Ahmed runs startup programmes at national scale: Innovation District 92, National Organiser of Entrepreneurship World Cup Pakistan, and SEE Pakistan 2022.
- [CIRCLE × the Gates Foundation](https://alioahmed.com/work/circle-gates): Ali Ahmed delivered a Gates Foundation-funded Digital Literacy Program at CIRCLE, bringing 10,000 women into the digital economy and measuring its impact.
- [GIZ — safe, legal migration to Germany](https://alioahmed.com/work/giz): Ali Ahmed consulted for GIZ, the German government’s development agency, on the Pakistani-German Facilitation & Reintegration Centre (PGFRC), 2021–22.
- [UNIDO PAIDAR — mobilising Pakistan’s ecosystem for a UN, EU-funded programme](https://alioahmed.com/work/unido-paidar): Ali Ahmed was Head of Outreach & Ecosystem Engagement on UNIDO PAIDAR, an EU-funded UN programme, mobilising Pakistan’s startup and SME ecosystem.

## Explainers (1)

- [How AI contract review against a playbook works](https://alioahmed.com/work/paralegent/how-playbook-review-works): How AI reviews a contract against a legal team’s own playbook, step by step, and the four problems it has to solve — by Ali Ahmed, who led Paralegent AI. Markdown twin: https://alioahmed.com/work/paralegent/how-playbook-review-works/raw

## Profiles

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alioahmed/
- GitHub: https://github.com/alioahmed
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4265-3295
- X: https://x.com/Alioahmed_
- Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@alioahmed

## Contact

- Email: hello@alioahmed.com
- Email (personal): alioahmed@outlook.com

## Machine-readable

- Full corpus (every page, one fetch): https://alioahmed.com/llms-full.txt
- Agent brief: https://alioahmed.com/agents.md
- RSS 2.0 feed: https://alioahmed.com/feed.xml
- JSON Feed 1.1: https://alioahmed.com/feed.json
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