Bad Alien — AI Consulting & Enablement in Pasadena, CA
What I Do
Teach your team, pick the right tools, build what's worth building. Hire me for one or all three. Every engagement ends with your team running it without me.
Enablement
Your team has AI licenses and still does the work by hand. I fix that with hands-on sessions built around your actual workflows, not generic prompt tips. Your people leave able to build their own assistants, Skills and automations, with the guardrails to run them safely. I succeed when you stop needing me.
Strategy
Which tools are worth paying for, which model fits the job, and where your data should live. That might be the right model tier from Anthropic, OpenAI or Google, or an open-source model that brings the cost way down. I compare the options against your budget and the work you actually do, then hand you a ranked plan: what to adopt, what to skip, what to build. No vendor to sell you.
Deployment
When something is worth building, I build it with you: custom automations, agents, integrations with the tools you already use, and open-source or local LLMs when the data can't leave your walls. Discovery first, a working pilot fast, documentation your team can maintain. No black boxes, no lock-in.
What I've Done
From consulting engagements to personal experiments
CAMCO: Training the Team, Building the Tools
Ongoing AI advisor to a commercial real estate group, remotely and through on-site enablement and training visits. I regularly teach partners and staff how to put AI to work in their daily workflows. I built Power Automate flows that scrub sensitive financial information from offering memoranda and other documents in SharePoint, with strict permissions on what the AI can and can't access. I also built a web app they can open anytime on a prospective property: it pulls from public records, satellite imagery, government announcements and recent news, then scores the property on power availability and expansion potential.
Social Ad Agency Enablement Sprint
A 40-person social ad agency where everyone used AI their own way: prompts lost in personal chats, the same custom assistant built twice by different teams. I coached their leads to build and run AI workflows themselves, then moved the whole agency onto one standard AI platform, with a shared knowledge base for every client account and a library of reusable skills that staff build and maintain themselves.
AI Back Office: B2B Wholesaler
LangChain agents that run the work between first contact and paid invoice. They find and research leads and email them, log every touch in the CRM, generate purchase orders and invoices, chase anything overdue, and answer customer questions by text and email, handing anything unusual to a person. 10-20 qualified leads a week.
badalien.works
Home of Bad Alien. A consulting sales tool, portfolio showcase, chat assistant, and a few experiments under one roof.
Decoded
Year-in-review for a shared UNRAID server. Interactive data viz celebrating curated taste over algorithmic feeds.
CRM Sales Intelligence
Pulls CRM data and competitive intel to generate targeted sales recommendations automatically.
Who I Am
I'm Rasheed. I run Bad Alien, an independent AI consultancy in Pasadena, California, working with small and mid-sized businesses across Los Angeles and remotely.
I started in tech as a machine learning researcher, then spent 8 years as a product manager shipping AI-powered systems across finance, defense contracting, and healthtech. I built data products for institutional teams, led development on mission-critical intelligence platforms, and shipped diagnostic automation tools for clinical workflows.
Now I help businesses adopt AI honestly. Years of experience across wildly different industries meant working with every type of user and stakeholder imaginable — I know how to meet people where they are. And AI is too important for anyone to stay dependent on someone else to use it. My goal is to make you capable, not just a recurring client.
Outside of Bad Alien, I do photography, build data visualizations in the spirit of Tufte, and lose myself in whatever new tech, medium, or subject has my attention. Check out my portfolio.