About
About Rasheed,
founder of Bad Alien
AI consultant in Pasadena, CA
Every one of those jobs came down to the same thing: tools only work when the people using them understand them. That's what I bring to AI now.
I'm Rasheed. I run Bad Alien, an independent AI consultancy in Pasadena, California, working with organizations across Los Angeles and remotely since 2023.
Background
Before that I spent eight years in product: evaluating AI and ML tooling as a technology analyst, running product at a healthtech startup, and leading a joint contractor and Air Force team.
Outside of work, I enjoy photography and design, reading, and playing sports.
Based in Pasadena? See how I work with local businesses →
Eight years in product
Experience
HealthTech
Owned the product function at a healthtech startup. Scaled the platform from pilot to 30+ physician offices and $300K+ ARR, and co-presented to investors in its $4.1M raise.
- ARR
- $300K+
- raise
- $4.1M
Defense
Product lead for Air Force software. A facility maintenance app reached 85% adoption in two months; a pilot flight-readiness app shipped in four months and won a 30% contract expansion.
- adoption in two months
- 85%
- contract expansion
- 30%
AI & ML
Working with AI and ML since 2015. Prototyped predictive analytics, NLP and recommendation systems that shaped a healthtech roadmap, specified its computer-vision features, and rolled out AI features such as a patient-inquiry chatbot through A/B tests.
How I work
How I work
Built around your work
Discovery starts with how the work actually happens, at your desk or on a screen, before anything is proposed or built.
Built to be handed off
An engagement is done when your team can change it, run it and fix it without me.
Governance from day one
Usage policies, approval rules and a review cadence for every system, written down in a playbook your team owns.
What clients say
“Rasheed is great to work with. He quickly understands how different parts of our business operate and identifies opportunities for improvement that we hadn't considered. His work has significantly improved our response times and given us better tools to evaluate potential investments.
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.”
Client work
Selected work
CAMCO
CRE Investment Group
45min
or less to answer a client or partner inquiry, down from 3+ hours
Set up and configured Claude Team on the firm's SharePoint, where an automated Azure workflow redacts 475 offering memoranda (about 27,000 pages) and a managing partner approves them first, cutting average client and partner inquiry responses from 3+ hours to under 45 minutes.
Read the case study →Illustrated: a memorandum's path to an answer Code3
Digital Advertising Agency
20hours
of hands-on training until teams across a 140-person agency were building and maintaining their own AI tools
Led a CFO-sponsored enablement and deployment sprint for a 140-person agency on an "I do, we do, you do" model: Claude Skills and Slack bots for every department, connected to Asana, Google Workspace and Figma; an MCP retrieval server over the agency's documents with access controls and continuous ingestion; ChatGPT-to-Claude migration and skill-creation playbooks; and a ranked map of ten AI opportunities that reordered its priorities.
Read the case study →Illustrated: a bot per department over one index of the agency's documents The Property Inspection Pros
Home Inspection Firm
56%
less time per inspection report: 90 minutes to 40, across 400+ inspections
Cut report preparation time by 56%, from 90 minutes to 40, across 400+ inspections.
Read the case study →Illustrated: photos sorted, suggestions approved, the report entered
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Let's work together
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.