Ali Asif

Now

This month

Updated October 2026.

School. Year two at Kellogg, majoring in Finance and Strategy. I'm splitting the year between Chicago and Al Khobar, and spending it on the Chicago to Saudi corridor: the Venture Capital Lab, founders I meet, and the Saudi deals I follow from Al Khobar.

The AI radar. This site starts publishing it this month: primary sources only, a short post with my take, up to three times a day. I'm also writing weekly catch-up roundups back to September 2025, clearly labelled as written now.

The agent organisation. I'm keeping the 26 agents behind Northlane working on live bids, and adding review gates wherever I catch them overrating their own output.

Procul Solutions. Building ProCul, an agent-native ledger and monthly close for Saudi companies (early build, no customers yet), and supporting the engineering group that uses my drawing-to-costing system.

Reading. Open-weight models, agent tooling and anything that changes what a small team can run. I check the model card or the repo before I form a view.

Ali Asif in glasses and a black t-shirt, seated in a car
On the road, Saudi Arabia