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Built to work.
In the real world.

Build the product. Own the delivery. Grow the business.

Ali Ahmed is an AI Solutions Engineer who builds products and runs the business behind them. His work spans AI at Cognilium AI, energy software at Wattey Energy (formerly BijliBachao.pk), co-founding Wonder Women, and programme delivery through CIRCLE, Digitara, Innovation District 92 and GIZ.

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WattEY product dashboard showing measured electricity consumption and energy flowsWattEY / Production softwareParalegent AI in Microsoft Word: contract-review findings shown beside an agreementParalegent AI / In WordAsani sanitary-pad vending machine developed at Wonder WomenAsani / Product to market

Energy products

From a meter reading
to a business decision.

Software for the places where energy is generated, consumed, switched and billed.

Five energy products · formerly BijliBachao.pk

Wattey Energy

I designed and built the five energy products of Wattey Energy (formerly BijliBachao.pk), connecting electricity meters, solar inverters, switches and billing workflows. WattEY and Solar Performance Cloud turn that operational data into decisions people can act on.

1.92 GWhnet energy measured by WattEYProduction snapshot · 25 August 2026

94solar sites monitored by SPCProduction snapshot · 25 August 2026

My roleHead of Energy Systems & Product EngineeringOctober 2025 – present

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Solar Performance Cloud string analysis: each PV string compared with the plant’s median string, day by day
Solar Performance Cloud / String analysis

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AI products

Revenue, agents
and product leadership.

At Cognilium AI: the revenue engine, the AI products and the team behind them.

Ali Ahmed

Enterprise AI

Cognilium AI

Revenue engine, four AI products, and the team behind them.

My roleAI Solutions EngineerSeptember 2024 – present

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Startups & programmes

Build the product.
Build the business around it.

Hardware, software, partnerships and the work of bringing something to market.

Always Asani co-branded sanitary-pad vending machine — Wonder Women × Procter & Gamble partnership

FemTech · Co-founder chapter

Wonder Women

From the Asani vending machine to manufacturing, digital health tools and enterprise partnerships, including Procter & Gamble.

75,000+Asani transactions

  • Hardware
  • Digital health
  • Partnerships

My roleCo-Founder & Head of ProductMay 2022 – October 2024

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The systems behind
people moving forward.

Startup programmes, institutional delivery and the measurement that makes outcomes visible.

The judging panel at the Entrepreneurship World Cup Pakistan National Finals

Innovation District 92 · EWC · SEE Pakistan

Startup programmes at national scale

I led startup business development at ID92, organised EWC Pakistan in 2021 and 2022, and served as Team Lead for SEE Pakistan 2022.

230startups taken through incubation at ID92

My roleHead of Business Development (Startups), Innovation District 92February 2021 – February 2023

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  • Power BI dashboard of the programme’s participants and graduates

    Digital inclusion & measurement

    CIRCLE × Gates Foundation

    Programme delivery and monitoring systems for a Gates Foundation-funded digital literacy programme reaching 10,000 women. Delivered through CIRCLE Women Association.

    My roleProgram Manager & Business Intelligence LeadFebruary – October 2023 · Concluded

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  • Ali Ahmed with his Digitara colleagues in Lahore

    Founder & SME engagement

    UNIDO PAIDAR

    Outreach and ecosystem engagement for the EU-funded UNIDO programme, through Digitara, its contracted outreach partner.

    My roleHead of Outreach & Ecosystem Engagement, Digitara — on the UNIDO PAIDAR ProgrammeDecember 2025 – April 2026

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  • GIZ

    Migration & development

    GIZ

    Consultancy for the Pakistani-German Facilitation & Reintegration Centre, supporting safe, regular migration pathways between Pakistan and Germany.

    My roleConsultant — GIZ (Pakistani-German Facilitation & Reintegration Centre)December 2021 – April 2022

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Behind the case studies

Want to inspect the numbers?

Two energy projects also publish anonymised, portfolio-level production datasets, with dated snapshots, definitions and limitations. Both are available under CC BY 4.0.

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Let’s put it to work.

Hiring a builder who owns delivery? Exploring an energy venture or a product partnership? Let’s talk about where this experience fits.

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