Act II · About

I'm Ali, an AI builder who taught himself everything on this page. By day I build the machinery that helps a retail startup buy smarter: forecasting models, replenishment agents, reporting pipelines. By night I build my own things: agents, automations, websites, and the knowledge system that made all of it possible.

Four countries before one career

Born in Jordan. Raised between Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Qatar, now in the UK. Moving that much teaches you two things: how to talk to anyone, and how to figure things out alone. There was never anyone at the desk next to me showing me how things worked, so I learned to be my own teacher early, long before I learned to be a good student.

And I was not a good student. I coasted through school and started taking my future seriously years later than I should have. I always knew I was capable. But knowing you have potential and watching it go unused is its own kind of weight.

Bath, and betting on myself

My master's at the University of Bath changed the trajectory. Not because of any single course, but because it was the first time I decided to bet on myself properly. Since then it has been one continuous project: teaching myself to code, teaching myself AI, studying how business and money actually work, and turning all of it into things that run in the real world.

Learning became a game

The engine behind everything I do is a system for teaching myself: consume, capture, go deeper. It lives in an Obsidian vault that people ask me about more than almost anything I have built. The honest truth is that I have always had an obsessive engine, and for years it was pointed at games and escapes. The turnaround was not discipline appearing out of nowhere. It was pointing the same engine at mastery.

AI is what made that click. It gamified everything for me. Every new tool was a quest, every project a level, and for the first time progress had a visible scoreboard. Once learning felt like playing, I stopped needing motivation at all. That is when I understood that systems are the way: build the loop once, and the loop does the work.

The day job and the night shift

Today I build AI systems that a real company depends on: demand forecasting, automated replenishment, intricate reporting. On the side, I build for people: websites, personal agents, automations. Friends and strangers started coming to me with their AI questions, from "should I learn to code first?" to the deeply technical, and I discovered I genuinely love answering every level of them.

That is who this site is for, too: the capable person who started late, had no mentor, and is watching AI change everything, feeling both the opportunity and the fear of being left behind. I was that person. The way out is skills, systems, and shipped projects. I am documenting mine as I go.