# Ali Asif

> AI-native operator. Builds companies by directing AI.

Ali Asif is the founder of Procul Solutions, a Saudi AI company he owns outright, and general manager of Northlane Solutions, an aviation infrastructure company in Al Khobar. He is a Kellogg MBA, Class of 2027.

## Latest from the AI radar

- 2026-10-14 | Google DeepMind | [Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-14-gemini-4-argon-lfm-runai#item-1) | Frontier
- 2026-10-14 | Google DeepMind | [Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-14-gemini-4-argon-lfm-runai#item-2) | Robotics
- 2026-10-14 | Liquid AI | [Run fast, private agents on-device with LFM2.5-24B-A2B](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-14-gemini-4-argon-lfm-runai#item-3) | Open weights
- 2026-10-14 | NVIDIA | [NVIDIA Run:ai Is Now Open Source as Part of NVIDIA DSX AI Factory Platform](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-14-gemini-4-argon-lfm-runai#item-4) | Agents and coding
- 2026-10-14 | ComfyUI | [Nvidia VFX Nodes for Video Upscaling, Frame Generation and SDR-to-HDR](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-14-gemini-4-argon-lfm-runai#item-5) | Image, video, world
- 2026-10-14 | Ai2 | [How Molmo 2's open release helped an MIT researcher rethink fish tracking](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-14-gemini-4-argon-lfm-runai#item-6) | Science
- 2026-10-13 | Meta | [Muse Wonder](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-13-muse-wonder-self-replication-radar#item-1) | Frontier
- 2026-10-13 | Anthropic | [AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-13-muse-wonder-self-replication-radar#item-2) | Frontier
- 2026-10-13 | Qwen | [Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-13-muse-wonder-self-replication-radar#item-3) | Image, video, world
- 2026-10-13 | OpenBMB | [MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-13-muse-wonder-self-replication-radar#item-4) | Open weights
- 2026-10-13 | vLLM | [vLLM v0.31.0](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-13-muse-wonder-self-replication-radar#item-5) | Open weights
- 2026-10-13 | NVIDIA | [ReplaySSM: Rethinking State Storage for Faster Hybrid-Model Decoding](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-13-muse-wonder-self-replication-radar#item-6) | Science

## What I am building

- **The Northlane agent organisation**: 26 role-specialized AI agents that do the bid, estimating and compliance work of a small company.
- **Northlane operating system**: The dashboard that reads the inbox, tracks every RFQ and drafts the quotation.
- **Estimating brain and price memory**: Eight years of supplier emails turned into a priced, sourced memory the agents estimate from.
- **Arabic tender reader and Etimad feed**: Turns a scanned Arabic tender into structured line items, and watches the government tender portal daily.
- **Drawing-to-costing system for an engineering group**: My first outside client: estimators drop drawings in a folder and get a reviewed estimate back.
- **ProCul, the agent-native ledger**: An accounting product for Saudi companies where agents post, match and prepare the close, and a person approves every entry.
- **@heyaliasif content engine**: A daily video pipeline: raw clip in, reviewed and captioned edit out, posted only after I approve.
- **Chief-of-staff morning brief**: A bounded agent that reads every project each morning and hands me a short decision brief.
- **The AI radar on this site**: A publishing pipeline that turns primary AI sources into a short post with my take, up to three times a day.
- **Saudi Tender Tagger**: A small model that reads an Arabic Saudi government tender title and says what kind of work it is.

## Numbers

- role-specialized AI agent definitions: 26 (Agent definition files counted 2026-10-07 and again 2026-10-13 (fact ledger AI.AGENTS). They are prompt-defined roles, not trained models.)
- of my own operating workload automated: ~90% (Ali-stated 2026-10-08 (fact ledger NLS.AUTOMATION). The tilde stays: it is an operating-model figure, not an audited metric.)
- supplier RFQs issued through the Northlane operating system: 293 (Database count, October 2026 (fact ledger NLS.CODEBASE and NLS.OPS_AUTOMATION).)
- priced supplier records from 137 suppliers: 2,356 (Mailbox price catalogue and pricebook health check, 2026-10 (fact ledger NLS.PRICE_MEMORY and AI.PRICEBOOK).)
- named bid pipeline: $16M+ (SAR 60M at 3.75 (truth-lock A8: named bid pipeline exceeding SAR 60M). Ali's live-bids figure on 2026-10-08 was about $29M; the lower, locked floor is shown.)
- bidders reached the final round on a giga-project helideck package: 4 of 30 (Ali-stated with two supporting documents (fact ledger, giga-project helideck entry, verified for public use 2026-10). Client not named.)

Canonical: https://heyaliasif.com