AI Solutions Engineer · September 2024 – present
Updated
I bring in the work,ship the AI productsand set up the team.
At Cognilium AI, founded by Mudassir Marwat, I work across the whole company — not one lane.
Revenue engineAI productsOperating layerSince September 2024 I have been an AI Solutions Engineer at Cognilium AI, an AI engineering firm in Lahore. I built and ran its client acquisition — Upwork, outbound email and LinkedIn — and brought in more than USD 50,000 of client work. I led AI products from Paralegent AI to VectorHire, and set up the policies, hiring and administration the team runs on.
- Role
- AI Solutions Engineer
- Company
- Cognilium AI · AI engineering firm, founded 2019
- Founder & CEO
- Mudassir Marwat
- Dates
- September 2024 – present
- Client work brought in
- More than USD 50,000 (as of April 2026)
One role. Three seats.
Bring in the work.
Upwork, outbound email and LinkedIn — run as one engine.
- Marketplace research & positioning
- Six-step proposal operation
- Outbound email, LinkedIn & outreach platforms
Ship the AI products.
From the problem to the demo, as product manager.
- Paralegent AI — in production
- VectorHire, VORTA, ProspectVox
- Dynamics 365 track & Quote Rabbit
Set up the team.
The policies, people and admin a growing firm runs on.
- Organisational behaviour & a 24-section policy manual
- Hiring & onboarding pipeline
- Banking, PSEB & invoicing
The range,in numbers.
- client work brought in (April 2026)
- USD 50K+client work brought in (April 2026)
- outbound mailboxes across 3 providers
- 30+outbound mailboxes across 3 providers
- AI products led
- 4AI products led
- sections in the staff policy manual I wrote
- 24sections in the staff policy manual I wrote
How the revenue engine works.
Client acquisition did not exist as a system when I joined. I built it end to end and ran it every day — research, qualification, proposals, outreach and follow-up — and it brought in more than USD 50,000 of client work by April 2026.
Research.
How the Upwork marketplace ranks and where the demand is — turned into a 90-day plan, a profile and agency structure, Project Catalog offers and proposal templates.
Qualify.
Job alerts within ten minutes of posting and an IN / MAYBE / OUT fit grid, so effort goes to work we can win and deliver.
Propose.
A six-step operation — fit, client research, solution research, a short proposal, screening answers, follow-up — drafted with the browser extension I built. The solution research is where each proposal was designed: the architecture, the hard problems most teams miss, and a first phase scoped so the client could start.
Job
AI chatbot for a logistics knowledge base
● Strong fitProvider
Azure OpenAI
Template
Short proposal · technical buyer
Draft — a person edits before sending
Hi Sam — your team needs answers from 4,000 shipping documents, not a generic chatbot. Here is how I would scope it in three steps…
Reach out.
Outbound email on six domains and 30+ mailboxes I set up, warmed in stages and sent within a capacity I calculated, rotating tired batches out. On LinkedIn, a written strategy — a three-stage sequence, customer segments and a content calendar — with research-led outreach to US decision-makers and 15+ AdTech accounts. In 2026 I also evaluated and set up OXYGEN and HeyReach with approval gates and testing before launch, and worked inside the client-acquisition playbook: one-company research, drafts reviewed by a person, review gates.
Email set-up: 2025 operating scope; platforms: 2026. Sending capacity is not the same as mail sent or work won.
Close.
Replies matched to how experienced the buyer is, rate conversations taken to a call, short follow-ups that offer something concrete such as a scope document or an architecture sketch, and a clean handover into delivery — on a strategy I wrote down: the six-pillar growth strategy, the multi-channel plan (March 2025) and a 19-section sales playbook for the team.
Measure.
Knowing what actually worked: I separated a form being filled in from the notification actually arriving, an AI assistant sending a visitor from one citing us, and something being tracked from a real outcome.
Three things that look alike and are not — kept apart so the team knew what worked.
Ship the AI products.
As their product manager I defined the problem, wrote the requirements and workflows, coordinated delivery and explained each product to buyers. The engineering was a team effort.
Paralegent AI — I led it from idea to production.And I present it in its product video.
Read the Paralegent case studyDecision tools inside the ERP a business already runs.
I lead Cognilium AI’s Dynamics 365 track end to end: decision optimizers for pricing, demand and inventory, and warehouse pick paths — plus Quote Rabbit, a quoting tool for Business Central.
Turns a customer’s request into a priced quote: it reads the request, identifies and matches the products, prices them, and stops at a confidence gate so a person reviews anything uncertain.
- Request in
- Identify & extract
- Match products
- Price
- Confidence gate
- Human review
- Quote out
Demo catalogue: 1,000 products and 3,472 supplier offers. Writing quotes back into Business Central is the next step, not yet built.
How the company sells itself.
A firm that sells AI has to say clearly what it does, for whom and at what price. I wrote that down and built the system that publishes it.
What we sell
Defined, named, scoped and priced the service lines and three engagement models.
Who we are
Wrote the company knowledge base, the Master Brand Profile, the ideal customers and the voice.
Where we show up
Set up 20+ company platform profiles, and built the Cognilium.ai and Paralegent.ai websites with their enquiry flows.
How we publish
Worked on the content engine — Markdown, claim checks, a CMS draft and human review before anything goes live. My byline is on new articles from 24 August 2026.
Set up the team.
People, policies, routines and money. I set them up and kept them running, including while the CEO was unavailable.
People
- Job descriptions for generative-AI and senior AI engineers
- The hiring pipeline: interview booking, application and onboarding forms, a careers inbox
- Sourcing, offers, onboarding — and a professional exit
- Mentored a business-development intern as Team Lead (September – November 2025)
Policy & behaviour
- Organisational behaviour, written down: the values, conduct and ways of working the team agrees to
- A 24-section staff policy manual: values, conduct, anti-harassment, attendance, leave, working from home, compensation reviews, reimbursement, assets, exit, whistleblowing, conflict of interest and IT support
- The HR manual outline
- A 9-section employee NDA
Setup & routines
- Team routines and how decisions are routed — including when the CEO is unavailable
- Tools and accounts: company email, workspace and platforms
- Vendors and partners: suppliers, the bank, the co-working space
- Performance and reviews: targets, evaluations and compensation reviews
Finance & compliance
- The banking relationship, including fixing a USD/PKR remittance-split problem
- A rejected PSEB registration renewal, seen through to resolution
- Export-code alignment, invoicing and salary documentation
Drafting and administration — not a legal or accounting qualification.
What I chose, and what it cost.
Focus over volume.
- What I chose
- Back the October 2024 decision to sell generative AI and data automation, not app development.
- What it cost
- We turned away easier app work to become known for one thing.
A person signs every proposal.
- What I chose
- The extension drafts; a person reviews and sends.
- What it cost
- Fewer proposals per day — in exchange for ones a client reads to the end.
Inbox before speed.
- What I chose
- Warm every mailbox in stages and send inside a calculated capacity.
- What it cost
- Weeks before full volume, so the domains still work months later.
Claims checked before they publish.
- What I chose
- Content passes claim checks and human review before it goes live.
- What it cost
- Slower publishing, and no number we cannot stand behind.
Credit where it belongs.
Cognilium AI is Mudassir Marwat’s company. He founded it in 2019 and leads it as Founder & CEO; its clients are the company’s clients.
I am part of the team. The products were engineered together; this page shows the parts I did myself.
Not claimed here: client names, revenue beyond the figure above, or authorship of every model and agent.Questions people ask.
What does Ali Ahmed do at Cognilium AI?
Ali is an AI Solutions Engineer at Cognilium AI (September 2024 – present). He built and runs its client acquisition on Upwork, outbound email and LinkedIn, led AI products including Paralegent AI, leads the Dynamics 365 track, and set up the company’s policies, hiring and administration.
How much client work did Ali bring in?
More than USD 50,000 of client work by April 2026, through the acquisition engine he built and ran.
Can Ali build a client-acquisition engine for my company?
Yes. At Cognilium AI he built one end to end: marketplace research and positioning, fast qualification, a six-step proposal operation with his own drafting tool, outbound email infrastructure, a written LinkedIn outreach strategy, outreach-platform evaluation and measurement of what actually converted.
Which AI products did Ali work on?
Paralegent AI (in production), and VectorHire, VORTA and ProspectVox (built and demonstrated). As their product manager he defined the problems, wrote the requirements and workflows, and coordinated delivery; the engineering was a team effort.
Did Ali found Cognilium AI?
No. Mudassir Marwat founded Cognilium AI in 2019 and is its Founder & CEO. Ali is part of the team.
What did Ali set up inside the company?
A 24-section staff policy manual, a 9-section employee NDA, the hiring and onboarding pipeline, team routines and decision routing, tools and accounts, vendor relationships, performance reviews, and banking and compliance administration.
Is Ali available for a role or a project?
Open to remote-global roles and relocation to the Gulf (UAE/Saudi/Qatar), US, or Australia, plus fractional AI-delivery consulting. Reach him at hello@alioahmed.com.
Keep reading.
Need this range on your side?
A revenue engine, an AI product or a team that runs — tell me what you are building.