AI engineeringfor the businessesthat run the real world.

I'm Zain — an AI engineer building end-to-end solutions, automations and workflows — agentic and non-agentic — on top of the databases and infrastructure SMB and mid-market teams already run on. The unglamorous, important work.

Discipline Infra · Data · AutomationsEngagements Fixed-scope · 2–8 wksStack Agentic + Non-agenticBased in US · Remote

01 AI that does
the actual work.

Phone agents, chatbots, back-office automations, and websites — agentic and non-agentic — wired into the systems you already run. From a one-person shop to a multi-crew operation: engineered to last, not demoed and forgotten.

02 Teaching teams
to use Claude Code.

Self-paced courses for owners, ops leads and devs who want to ship with Claude Code and Codex — not just watch demos. Real codebases, real exercises, real production output.

Capabilities

What I build.

Every operations-heavy business has the same four problems with different names. Bad data, missed work, slow quotes, leaky handoffs. I fix those, then leave you something you can actually run.

Who it's for

Built for the businesses that run on operations.

If you run on jobs, schedules, calls and customers, there's a fit here — across the trades and most ops-heavy SMBs.

Home services · HVAC · plumbing · electricalGeneral contractors & constructionAuto & field servicesDental & medical officesLocal shops & retailOnline & e-commerceAgencies & coaching…and most ops-heavy SMBs

For regulated offices (dental, medical) I build around the front desk — reception, scheduling, reviews, web and voice — and never touch patient records or PHI.

Self-paced · Courses

Claude Code for Beginners.

Self-paced video course. Buy once, watch on your time, ship something real by the end. Designed for people who have never opened a terminal and for engineers who've been faking it since GPT-4.

Course 001 · Available now

Claude Code for Beginners

Go from "I've heard of it" to shipping a working project with Claude Code. Real codebases, real exercises, no fluff. Lifetime access, watch at your own pace.

FormatSelf-paced video
Length~16 hours
AccessLifetime access
PreviewFirst lesson free
Syllabus

What we cover

  1. MOD 01Setup, mental models, first useful prompt~3h
  2. MOD 02Editing real codebases without breaking them~4h
  3. MOD 03Tools, MCP, automating the boring parts~4h
  4. MOD 04Ship a project + review + what's next~5h

Lifetime access — watch at your own pace.

How we work

Engagement process.

I don't sell retainers. Every project is fixed-scope, fixed-price, with a working artifact at the end of it.

01 / Call

Scope

30-minute call. We figure out whether there's actually a project here, and what it looks like. No deck.

02 / Audit

Map

I spend a week mapping your data, tools and people. You get a written plan with effort, risk and what we're not doing.

03 / Build

Ship

Focused build, daily updates, demoable progress every Friday. Production by the last day of the engagement.

04 / Handoff

Own

Documented, runbook'd, and handed to a person on your team. I'll come back for a tune-up at month three.

About

Who's building this.

Zain. AI engineer with deep domain knowledge in infrastructure, databases, automations and solution engineering — building AI on top of the systems service businesses already run on, not next to them.

Most AI work today is for SaaS companies that already had clean data. The real opportunity is one layer down: the ops team whose schedule lives in three places, the dispatcher who's the smartest person in the building, the manager whose RFIs live in a group chat.

I build for those businesses. And I teach the smart people inside them how to build for themselves.

PostgresSupabaseClaude CodeCodexMCPPythonTypeScriptn8n / MakeTwilioVoice / IVRNext.jsVercelAWS

Tell me what's broken.

30-minute call. I'll either tell you there's a project here, or tell you there isn't. No follow-up emails, no funnel.