AI consultancy · Pasadena, CA
Enough talk.
Let’s make it work.
I build automations and agents for small and mid-size businesses, train their teams on their own workflows, and build websites that ChatGPT and Google's AI answers can cite. Every engagement ends with your team running it without me.
What I do
Build what's worth building, train your team, and modernize your website for AI. Hire me for one or all three.
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AI Solutions
Automations and agents built with your team, with the permissions and approval rules to trust them, after an honest look at whether to build at all.
- A discovery that says build, buy or skip, with the cost of each
- A working pilot fast, then a production system your team runs
- A handoff with 30 days of support, and no lock-in
- 02
AI Enablement
Hands-on sessions built around your real workflows, plus the tool and model choices and the policy to run them safely, until your team can build its own.
- Hands-on sessions on your workflows, in person across Southern California or remote
- A ranked plan for tools and models: what to adopt, what to skip, what to build
- An AI usage policy your staff can actually follow
- 03
Modern Web
Websites on a modern stack that LLM coding tools can build on, AI features can run on, and ChatGPT / Claude can cite.
- Changes turned around in hours, not weeks
- Pages found and cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI answers
- AI at the heart of your site, working for your customers and your team around the clock
Results
Three engagements, in the clients' own words.
All case studies →The Property Inspection Pros · Home Inspection Firm
56%
less time per inspection report: 90 minutes to 40, across 400+ inspections
“What used to take hours now takes about a third of the time, and we've used it on hundreds of inspections.”
Sam Taylor · Home Inspector, The Property Inspection Pros
A classifier and visual search suggest each photo's category and comment, inspectors approve everything in one app, and Power Automate Desktop enters the report into HomeGauge. Accuracy is up from about 40% to 85%.
Read the case study →Illustrated: photos sorted, suggestions approved, the report entered CAMCO · CRE Investment Group
45min
or less to answer a client or partner inquiry, down from 3+ hours
“He's become someone we trust for both advice and execution, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend him to any business looking to improve its operations.”
Kyle Campbell · President, CAMCO Investment Group
Claude Team on the firm's SharePoint, with an automated Azure workflow redacting 475 offering memoranda (about 27,000 pages) and a managing partner approving each one first. Also a rebuilt website with an investor login and GEO, a site-screening tool for heavy-power tenants, and two onsite training visits.
Read the case study →Illustrated: a memorandum redacted, approved by a partner, summarized Code3 · Digital Advertising Agency
20hours
of hands-on training until teams across a 140-person agency were building and maintaining their own AI tools
“Within a quarter we had teams across our business building and maintaining their own AI-powered tools.”
Jack Gilbert · Director of Performance & Analytics, Code3
A CFO-sponsored sprint on an "I do, we do, you do" model: Claude Skills and Slack bots for every department, an MCP retrieval server over the agency's documents, migration and skill-creation playbooks, and a ranked map of ten AI opportunities.
Read the case study →Illustrated: a bot per department over one index of the agency's documents
How an engagement runs
Four steps, agreed before any work starts.
- 01
A free 15-minute call
You describe the work; I say whether and how I can help.
- 02
Discovery
At your desk or on a screen, watching how the work actually happens before proposing anything.
- 03
Fixed scope, capped budget
Agreed before work starts, with weekly check-ins while it runs.
- 04
Handoff
Documentation, 30 days of support, and a team that can change, run and fix it without me.
Who you'd work with
About Rasheed
I'm Rasheed. I spent eight years in product, as head of product at a healthtech startup and product lead on Air Force software, before starting Bad Alien in 2023. I roll out and build AI the way I ran product: find the real problem, ship something that works, and leave a team that can run it.
- Based in
- Pasadena, California
- Working with
- Teams across Los Angeles, and remotely
- Before this
- Eight years in product
Start
Start with a call, or start with the work.
Free · 15 minutes
A free 15-minute call
You describe the work; I say whether and how I can help. If it is a fit, you get a fixed scope and a capped budget before anything starts. If it is not, you get a clear no.
Office Hours · $200 remote · $350 in person
A paid hour on your problem
Nothing is charged when you book. If it wasn’t worth it, tell me within 24 hours and you won’t be charged.
- AI your team pays for and barely uses
- Your first assistant or automation
- A tool decision
- Something that stopped working, or an idea to test
Your data
Sensitive data stays within the permissions you already have: scrubbed or kept out of reach before anything is connected, with a usage policy that says what may go where. The chat on this site is for a general description of the work, never client records.