Hi, I'm Saad Sharif Ahmed

• Selected to join Antler's intensive venture-building program, collaborating with top founders, engineers, and operators to explore and validate high-potential AI business opportunities.
• Conducted rigorous market research, competitive analysis, and customer discovery to refine problem–solution fit in AI automation and agentic system domains.
• Designed and tested hypotheses through rapid prototyping, iterative validation, and data-driven experimentation.
• Developed B2B AI product concepts leveraging LLMs, RAG, multi-agent orchestration, and auto-deployment workflows.
• Participated in pitch cycles, partner sessions, and investment committee reviews to evaluate venture scalability and fundraising viability.
• Strengthened founder-level decision-making across product strategy, GTM, pricing, differentiation, and business model design.

Applied AI Systems & Automation

• Launched AI-powered internal workflow automation allowing teammates to trigger approvals and actions via a single email.
• Built LLM workflows that auto-detect intent, create tickets, route assignments and update stakeholders.
• Supported deployment of an AI agent that auto-builds partner decks using live supply performance data.
• Eliminated hours of manual QA and enabled account managers to focus on negotiation and partner relationships.
• Integrated GenAI content generation tools for supply-partner communications.
• Delivered LLM-assisted legal messaging + contextual templates to reduce manual drafting and ensure compliance.
• Contributed to a Generative AI escalation-correction model trained on historical tickets.
• Blocked incorrect escalation routing and improved prioritization accuracy.
• Collaborated on AI re-engagement campaigns using personalized video + LLM copy generation.
• Boosted participation and conversion among dormant and under-engaged supply partners.

Insights & Engagement AI (Guest & Property Facing)

• Supported strategy for AI-powered property chat systems answering high-volume FAQs.
• Reduced repetitive support workload and improved response speed for property queries.
• Contributed to AI-generated review highlights and marketing video summaries.
• Enabled scalable content creation that reveals guest preferences and value-driving features.
• Assisted experimentation with AI-driven destination remarketing and personalization.
• Used tailored video remarketing to keep properties top-of-mind and improve re-engagement.

Data, Tooling & Compliance

• Built data-validation pipelines to detect and correct partner data issues at ingestion.
• Reduced escalation volume and strengthened downstream data reliability.
• Owned the One Supply Performance Dashboard used by leadership for strategic decisions.
• Aggregated reach, deal association %, meetings and account KPIs; maintained playbooks and documentation.
• Supported EU Digital Services Act (DSA) readiness and compliance delivery.
• Launched automated monitoring and reporting workflows with external vendors ahead of regulatory deadlines.
• Contributed to rollout of Avaya–HubSpot voice integration with global tracking and compliance.
• Delivered call metadata governance, monitoring and analytics for supply operations.

Operations

• Led a 5-member ops tooling team focused on AI optimization, partner communication intelligence and workflow automation.
• Directed the full Supply Test Booking program across major OTAs.
• Managed ticket creation, monitoring, resolution, SLA reporting and data integrity enforcement.
• Migrated HubSpot tickets to Hadoop analytics infrastructure for large-scale analysis.
• Enabled scalable variance and error analysis (PVar, rate leakage, booking issues, supplier trends).
• Delivered measurable cost reduction and improved PVar tracking through anomaly-based reporting and automation.
• Designed and launched SASA (Streamline All Supply Approvals).
• Automated 35+ workflows via PowerApps + SharePoint to centralize approvals and increase auditability.
• Standardized and automated AR Waiver & Absorption processes across Finance, Legal & Supply Ops.
• Shortened SLAs, reduced compliance risk and removed redundant templates.
• Drove QBR insights for leadership using automation metrics, PVar trends, SLA performance and partner impact.
• Guided resource allocation, cost decisions and tooling priorities through operational data.

• Project Planning: Crafted comprehensive project strategies, balancing the requirements of scope, resources, timeline, and budget.
• Requirement Analysis: Collaborated with clients to decipher project objectives, translating high-level visions into actionable development tasks.
• Contract Negotiation: Managed contract discussions, ensuring the scope, deliverables, and terms met both client and agency expectations.
• Client Relationship Building: Established and nurtured long-term relationships with key clients, understanding their unique needs and ensuring their satisfaction through empathic account management and strategic project delivery.
• Revenue Growth: Identified upsell and cross-sell opportunities, resulting in increased revenue and expanded service offerings to existing clients.
• Team Leadership: Led cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment with client objectives, timely delivery, and consistent communication.
• Financial Management: Monitored project budgets, invoicing, and ensured timely payment collections, maintaining positive cash flow.
• Risk Oversight: Identified potential project challenges; devised and implemented effective mitigation strategies.
• Quality Assurance: Oversaw rigorous testing phases, ensuring sites met enterprise-grade performance, security, and usability standards.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Conducted regular client meetings, providing status updates, gathering feedback, and integrating it into project workflows.
• Performance Metrics: Measured and reported on client satisfaction and project delivery metrics, utilizing feedback to drive continuous improvement.
• Vendor Relations: Built relationships with third-party vendors, streamlining integration and ensuring alignment with project requirements.
• Documentation & Compliance: Ensured meticulous record-keeping and adherence to industry and legal standards.
• Professional Development: Prioritized team growth and knowledge-sharing, staying updated with the latest trends in web development and client relationship management.
• Successfully delivered 7 projects till date.
• Made use of the EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) framework to plan and structure work at the agency as the Integrator.

• Monitored overall business health and made informed decisions by tracking key performance indicators, including ARR & MRR, CAC Payback Period, CLTV, and other relevant metrics.
• Ensured a 6 figure Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) across all sales & marketing channels combined, with a focus on new acquisitions for all products.
• Ensured a monthly sustainability of 600%+ ROI across paid marketing channels.
• Prepared GTM strategies to launch 6 new products in 2020 to diversify offerings.
  • Products: WP ERP Pro, Dokan Mobile App (Android & iOS), WP Hive, weMail, Appsero, Enzime
• Played a key role in the SDLC for most of our products and their features at all phases by collecting feedback from surveys, heatmaps & A/B Tests.
• Collaborated in preparation of PRDs with the Product Team.
• Personally handled partnerships with Payment Gateways such as PayPal, Stripe, MangoPay, Paddle.
• Handled partnerships with Web Hosting platforms such as WP Engine, Liquid Web, Hostinger, Pressable, Cloudways and many others.
• Crafted accountability systems (tracking time against Products, Task-Types, KPIs, etc) using Google Sheets to efficiently manage and report on the two departments (Marketing & Business Development).
• Created workflows to manage Growth Hacking in accordance with the AARRR framework.
• Maintained Community Engagement by hosting Webinars and attending events such as WordCamps, WordPress Meet-ups, Online Conferences, etc.
• Orchestrated the successful launch of the Brand Ambassador program across 12 countries.
• Built funnels that ensure a steady flow of thousands of leads monthly.
• Built teams within the team and managed them with a focus on developing individual strengths and improving their weaknesses via constructive evaluation and feedback based on empirical data.
• Assisted in the hiring process by assessing culture-fit (psychoanalysis) and domain knowledge of the candidates for many different roles.

• Managed the entire portfolio of 900+ clients for Byte Technology.
• Estimated the scope of a project, proposed budgets and allocated resources accordingly.
• Personally completed more than 45 projects. Managed a team of 4 WordPress developers.
• Conducted systematic one-on-one meetings with direct reports, placing emphasis on the ongoing enhancement of project methodologies and results, as well as the overall performance improvement of each individual.
• Performed QA of projects to pixel perfection as per the design schematics (PSD) provided and also ensured proper functionality of the end product in accordance with the client's requirements.
• Ensured the implementation of the best practices prior to launch using a pre-launch checklist.
• Deployed projects from staging to production and updated Nameservers and DNS records as required.
• Provided basic WordPress training to clients when requested.
• Maintained a proper communication channel with the client all throughout the project.
• Provided Maintenance and Technical Support to clients. Backed up websites and updated WordPress Core, Themes and Plugins on a periodic basis.
• Performed Website Hardening and also performed scans on malware infected / hacked websites. Managed cPanel and WHM accounts.
• Installed SSL certificates and helped configure basic plugins on request.
• Migrated websites to different hosting providers.
• Made websites compliant to 508, ADA & WCAG 2.0/2.1 guidelines. Set up Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Social Media Pixels and many other similar tools on client websites.
• Managed all Marketing endeavours for both Thinkstudio.io and many of its clients.
• Kept track of project deadlines and time spent working on individual projects by myself and also the developers.