# Saif Qureshi: AI Product Engineer and founder of SolutionPlus

> Saif Qureshi is a Berlin-based AI product engineer and founder of SolutionPlus. He designs and ships production AI systems — AI agents, RAG pipelines, and full-stack AI products — for companies and enterprises.

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## Identity

- Name: Saif Qureshi
- Role: AI Product Engineer; founder of [SolutionPlus](https://solutionplus.io)
- Also: founding AI product engineer at Parker AI (since 2023)
- Location: Berlin, Germany, working remotely worldwide (EU time zone)
- Experience: shipping software since 2014 in consulting and product roles
- Contact: isaifqureshi@gmail.com, +49 176 47658461
- Booking: free 30-minute intro call at [Calendly](https://calendly.com/heyitsaif)
- Profiles: [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/HeyitSaif), [GitHub](https://github.com/HeyitSaif)

## The production-AI thesis (quotable)

- "Demos are cheap. Production is the product."
- "Agents earn their place, or they do not ship."
- "Retrieval is where hallucinations are born."
- "Every LLM call should have a price tag."
- "The best assistant lives where the work happens."
- "Founders should ship."

## How engagements work

- One or two focused engagements at a time, scoped as 2 to 12 week milestones with evals and a handoff
- Technical partner for non-technical founders, from idea to a production AI product ([For founders](https://heyitsaif.com/for-founders))
- Fractional AI engineer for enterprise teams through SolutionPlus
- Starts with a free 30-minute call; no pitch deck required

## Key pages

- [Home](https://heyitsaif.com/): who Saif is, selected work, services, process, thesis, FAQ
- [For founders](https://heyitsaif.com/for-founders): technical partner for founders with an idea
- [Projects](https://heyitsaif.com/projects): production case studies
- [Experience](https://heyitsaif.com/experience): roles and timeline
- [Blog](https://heyitsaif.com/blog): production AI engineering notes
- [Contact](https://heyitsaif.com/contact): booking and email
- [Sitemap](https://heyitsaif.com/sitemap.xml)

## Services

- [AI platforms & agent orchestration](https://heyitsaif.com/services/agentic-platforms): Multi-agent workflows with planning, memory, typed tool calls, and human checkpoints — from creative-strategy platforms to assistant co-pilots.
- [Hybrid RAG & retrieval engineering](https://heyitsaif.com/services/hybrid-rag): Vector + relational retrieval, semantic chunking, and re-ranking so LLM outputs stay grounded when catalogues and documents get large.
- [Data ingestion & API integrations](https://heyitsaif.com/services/ingestion-integrations): Schedulers, retries, and normalised pipelines from ads APIs, social platforms, and internal services — built for scale and observability.
- [Embedded AI & browser assistants](https://heyitsaif.com/services/embedded-assistants): Chrome extensions and sidepanel experiences with in-browser RAG and real actions via tool gateways — not another detached chat tab.
- [Product engineering & SaaS delivery](https://heyitsaif.com/services/product-engineering): Full-stack delivery from editor UX and PDF correctness to billing, credits, and SEO-strong marketing sites.
- [Cost, evals & production safety](https://heyitsaif.com/services/cost-safety-rails): Model routing, budgets, caching strategy, and auditability so AI products survive real traffic, reviews, and finance scrutiny.

## Case studies

- [Parker AI](https://heyitsaif.com/projects/parker-ai): Multi-agent platform that turns TikTok, Instagram, and Meta signal into shippable creative for high-spend DTC brands. (Founding AI Product Engineer, 06/2023 – Present)
- [Get Magic](https://heyitsaif.com/projects/get-magic): AI co-pilot for getmagic.com and embedded assistant surfaces — enterprise extension workflows with RAG, memory, and real tool actions. (Senior AI Engineer (Consulting), 2023 – 2024)
- [Bewerbung.AI](https://heyitsaif.com/projects/bewerbung-ai): Agent-driven Lebenslauf and Anschreiben, job-fit coaching, Lambda PDF export, and analytics — tuned to the German hiring market. (Senior Engineer (Consulting), 2023 – 2024)
- [QuickBilling](https://heyitsaif.com/projects/quickbilling): Solo-built SaaS to send invoices and quotes in minutes, track opens, manage expenses, and share secure client links — with a public OpenAPI. (Solo Founder / Engineer, 2024 – Present)
- [getSimplePay](https://heyitsaif.com/projects/getsimplepay): Shopify app and checkout extensions for US bank-pay — merchant admin on Polaris, payment customization functions, and ACH positioning at getsimplepay.io. (Lead Engineer, 2022 – 2024)
- [Manzil](https://heyitsaif.com/projects/manzil): Goals-based halal investing from the Aghaz monorepo — React Native app, Express/Postgres API, Plaid funding, admin ops; now Manzil Invest at manzil.ca. (Lead / Senior Engineer, 2021 – 2025)
- [Bindr.uk](https://heyitsaif.com/projects/bindr): Built the product end-to-end with a team of three — React, Node, GraphQL, Jitsi, and StreamChat. (Lead Engineer, 09/2021 – 06/2022)
- [Microservices Chat](https://heyitsaif.com/projects/microservices-realtime-chat): Docker/Kubernetes microservices with Firebase-backed realtime chat, Redis IPC, and a dynamic web crawler. (Engineer, 2017 – 2019)

## Founder stories

- [Parker AI: from an idea to an AI platform](https://heyitsaif.com/stories/parker-ai): Founding engineer at Parker AI: Mastra agents, Temporal ingestion, hybrid RAG. Built the platform from scratch. Idea turnaround went from days to minutes.

## Experience

- [Founding AI Product Engineer, Parker AI](https://heyitsaif.com/experience/parker-ai): 06/2023 – Present. Building the AI-native creative-strategy platform for high-spend Meta advertisers.
- [Senior AI Engineer · Magic Assistant, Get Magic (getmagic.com)](https://heyitsaif.com/experience/get-magic): 2023 – 2024 (consulting). Building the AI co-pilot that scales Magic’s 24/7 executive-assistant service.
- [Senior Engineer · AI Resume & Coaching, Bewerbung.AI](https://heyitsaif.com/experience/bewerbung-ai): 2023 – 2024 (consulting). Building Germany’s AI-powered application platform — résumé, cover letter, coach, and Bewerbung flow.
- [Founder & Founding Engineer, SolutionPlus.io](https://heyitsaif.com/experience/solutionplus): 11/2023 – Present. Founder of SolutionPlus.io — a software solutions company delivering web, mobile, and AI products for clients.
- [Senior Software Engineer, Medwing](https://heyitsaif.com/experience/medwing): 12/2022 – 06/2023. Healthcare hiring platform — full-stack feature delivery on Next.js and AWS.
- [Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack), Modus Create](https://heyitsaif.com/experience/modus-create): 10/2021 – 12/2022. Enterprise consulting — Business Service Intelligence for Device Ops and platform optimisation.
- [Lead Software Developer (Full Stack / Mobile), Hopprfy](https://heyitsaif.com/experience/hopprfy): 05/2021 – 10/2021. Mobile-first product lead — iOS and Android delivery, sprint management, and product forecasting.
- [Lead Software Developer (Full Stack), Envoymobile / AssuredRN](https://heyitsaif.com/experience/envoymobile-assuredrn): 10/2019 – 2021. Healthcare-adjacent product build — APIs, mobile, CI/CD, and AWS deployment from scratch.

## Blog posts

- [One design system for the website, proposals and LinkedIn](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/one-design-system-everywhere) (2026-11-12): Our website, proposals and slides had three different sets of colours and fonts. Now one folder holds the design system and every project links to it. Here is what's in it and how to set it up with an agent.
- [A message must never go out twice: how we built sending in our outreach tool](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/send-exactly-once-email) (2026-11-11): Two workers pick up the same email in the same second. Does the lead get it twice? These are the database rules we use so the answer is no, plus the Gmail sender rules I treat as the floor.
- [How to build a company brain, part 10: a SQLite index and knowledge graph your agent maintains](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/company-brain-sqlite-knowledge-graph) (2026-11-10): One SQLite file with a row per document, full-text search and a table of links you can query like a graph. Your agent builds it and keeps it current, and it is what keeps a large brain fast.
- [Consistent AI video and image sequences with Seedance 2.5, no code](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/seedance-2-5-consistent-video-no-code) (2026-11-09): How to make one continuous, consistent sequence with Seedance 2.5 in Dreamina, with no code: a story bible, face-free references, timestamped prompts, extensions in place of new clips, timestamp edits, and stills pulled from the finished video.
- [How to build a company brain, part 9: when it gets big and slow, give the agent a graph](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/company-brain-scaling-graphify) (2026-11-07): Once a brain has a few thousand files, an agent opens far too many of them to answer one question. Here is why that costs you, and how I use Graphify so the agent asks a graph first and reads less.
- [How to build a company brain, part 8: research that can still be trusted a year later](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/company-brain-research-practices) (2026-11-05): Research in a brain follows one template: the question, dated and saved sources, findings marked measured or inferred, what it means, open questions, and where it was filed.
- [How to make motion graphics with AI without writing code](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/motion-graphics-with-ai-no-code) (2026-11-03): A step-by-step workflow for a 20-second product explainer and a 10-second animated stat. Write the brief, storyboard it with Claude, pick a tool, then fix the preview one prompt at a time.
- [How to build a company brain, part 7: the rules, and how to keep personal data out](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/company-brain-rules-and-privacy) (2026-11-01): Five standing rules that stop an agent doing damage, a handful of writing rules, and four layers of masking that keep personal data out of what agents see and pass on.
- [Private document search for a small company, fully local](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/private-document-search-local) (2026-10-30): How a company of 5 to 50 people can search its own contracts, invoices and mail without uploading them anywhere: the parts, how they fit together, and where local stops being enough.
- [How to build a company brain, part 6: skills that make every agent work the same way](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/company-brain-agent-skills) (2026-10-28): Rules tell an agent what it must not do. A skill tells it how a job gets done, so every agent and every new teammate does it the same way. Six feature skills, the housekeeping ones, and how to write your first.
- [How to build a company brain, part 5: sharing it with the whole company through GitHub](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/company-brain-collaboration-github) (2026-10-26): A brain only works if everyone has the same copy. These are the Git rules my example team and its agents follow, which changes wait for the founder, and what GitHub can and can't enforce for you.
- [How to build a company brain, part 4: the folders, the summary files and a one-week plan](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/build-a-company-brain-step-by-step) (2026-10-24): The practical part: the entry page, the summary file every folder gets, how material moves from a drop folder into knowledge, the routines, and a day-by-day plan with prompts you can paste.
- [What fits in a first MVP, and what it costs in Germany](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/mvp-scope-and-cost-germany) (2026-10-22): One agency guide says most agencies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland quote EUR 15,000 to 50,000 for an MVP. Where you land depends on scope: what to build first, what to cut, and how to pay.
- [Build local hybrid search with SQLite FTS5, EmbeddingGemma 2 and Python](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/hybrid-search-sqlite-fts5-python) (2026-10-19): A step-by-step guide to hybrid search on your own files: SQLite FTS5 for keywords, EmbeddingGemma 2 for meaning, weighted reciprocal rank fusion, a gated reranker and an MRR and hit@k check. Python you can paste into one file.
- [EmbeddingGemma 2 local search: building Finer on a local embeddings API](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/embeddinggemma-2-local-search) (2026-10-16): Finer indexes my documents, scans, e-mail, images, audio and video on my own Mac. EmbeddingGemma 2 runs as a local process that behaves like an embedding API. This is how it's built, which ideas lost along the way, and what the measurements say.
- [Will AI replace motion designers? Motion graphics are code now](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/will-ai-replace-motion-designers) (2026-10-13): Will AI replace motion designers? Not on the evidence so far. Claude Motion writes code that animates your own material, and Anthropic says one change leaves the rest alone. In one X search for the launch terms, 44 of the top 100 posts came from Higgsfield's accounts or accounts whose bios mention it.
- [Claude Motion and Higgsfield Katana, explained: plans and what is still unknown](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/claude-motion-higgsfield-katana) (2026-10-10): Claude Motion, Anthropic's animation beta, is on Team and Enterprise plans only. Higgsfield Katana reaches Claude through an MCP connector, and Higgsfield's pages disagree on whether it is free. Facts as of 10 Oct 2026, plus what nobody has documented yet.
- [How to build a company brain, part 3: use cases for operations, personal admin, product and sales](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/company-brain-use-cases) (2026-10-07): The same pattern runs very different jobs: expenses, client documents and taxes; personal admin; product research and feature decisions; and sales. Plus the dashboards and small apps you can build on top.
- [How to build a company brain, part 2: the benefits, from consistency to knowledge that stays](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/company-brain-benefits) (2026-10-04): What changes when a company has a brain: agents work from the same context, documents and messages sound like one company, and knowledge stays when people leave. And what it costs.
- [How to build a company brain, part 1: what it is and why AI agents need one](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/how-to-build-a-company-brain) (2026-10-01): A company brain is a folder of linked Markdown files plus written rules that every person and AI agent reads before acting. Here's what it is, what it isn't, and what the ten parts cover.
- [Why agent projects get cancelled: it's the harness, not the model](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/why-ai-agent-projects-fail) (2026-09-26): Gartner blames cost, unclear value and weak risk controls. A bigger model fixes none of them. Here is the engineering around the model that does, and the order I'd build it in.
- [The EU AI Act for small businesses: what applies now and what to do this week](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/eu-ai-act-article-50-small-business) (2026-09-23): Which EU AI Act rules already apply to a small business that uses ChatGPT, a website chatbot or AI images, who has which duty, and what to do this week. Not legal advice.
- [Your vibe-coded app works in the demo. Audit it before you rebuild.](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/vibe-coded-app-audit) (2026-09-19): Six checks to run, in order, before you pay anyone to finish or rebuild an AI-built app. Each one comes with a read-only prompt you can paste into Claude Code.
- [Cost per successful task: how to price and monitor AI agents](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/cost-per-successful-task) (2026-09-16): Token prices tell you what an attempt costs. Cost per successful task tells you what a result costs. How I measure it, what goes into it, and how it settles the "should we switch models" question.
- [How to do SEO and GEO with AI: a no-code workflow, prompts included](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/seo-geo-with-ai-no-code) (2026-09-12): Eight steps to get a site found in Google and in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude, with no code. Each step names the tool and gives you the prompt to paste.
- [Evals that check the end state, not the text](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/agent-evals-end-state) (2026-09-09): An agent can tell you it sent one reminder and have queued two. A recipe for evals that look at the database after the run and ignore how confident the transcript sounds.
- [Who owns your code? Six things to put in your company's name from day one](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/who-owns-your-code) (2026-09-05): Your developer should get access, not ownership. Five kinds of account and one contract clause to put in your company's name, how to set each one up, and how to offboard cleanly.
- [MCP after the 2026-07-28 spec: what the stateless core changes for builders](https://heyitsaif.com/blog/mcp-stateless-spec-2026) (2026-09-02): The 2026-07-28 MCP spec removed the handshake and the session. What changed, what it means if you build or buy MCP servers, a migration checklist, and one warning about handles.

## Auf Deutsch (German pages)

Saif Qureshi ist KI-Produktingenieur in Berlin und Gründer von SolutionPlus. Er arbeitet als fractional CTO und technischer Mitgründer auf Zeit mit Gründern und frühen Teams und baut MVPs, KI-Agenten und SaaS-Produkte, darunter sein eigenes QuickBilling.

- [Startseite](https://heyitsaif.com/de): Dein technischer Partner in Berlin: fractional CTO, MVP und KI-Agenten für Gründer
- [Dein fractional CTO: Seniorität ohne Vollzeit-Stelle](https://heyitsaif.com/de/fractional-cto): Externer CTO für Startups ohne Vollzeit-Stelle: Architektur, Build-Leitung und KI-Umsetzung in Slices von 2 bis 12 Wochen. Berlin, remote in EU-Zeit.
- [Technischer Mitgründer auf Zeit, ohne Equity-Kompromiss](https://heyitsaif.com/de/technischer-mitgruender): Kein CTO in Sicht? Fractional technischer Mitgründer für die Frühphase: MVP, Agenten und Hiring-Fahrplan. Von Idee zu Produktion, mit Übergabe.
- [Dein MVP: klein starten, schnell lernen, fair bepreist](https://heyitsaif.com/de/mvp-entwicklung): MVP in Wochen statt Monaten: ein Nutzertyp, ein Kern-Flow, Basis-Analytics. Feste Meilensteine mit Preis, aus Berlin, mit Belegen aus vier SaaS.
- [KI-Agenten, die in Produktion bestehen](https://heyitsaif.com/de/ki-agenten-entwicklung): Agenten am Ort der Arbeit: Planung, Memory, typisierte Tools, Human Checkpoints. Referenzen: Parker AI Ideen-Engine, Magic Assistant im Browser.
- [Rechnungen schreiben, teilen und bezahlt werden](https://heyitsaif.com/de/rechnungssoftware): QuickBilling vom Solo-Gründer: Angebote und Rechnungen in Minuten, Share-Links mit Tracking, Ausgaben neben Einnahmen, Workspaces, offene API. Deutsch.
- [Für Gründer](https://heyitsaif.com/de/fuer-gruender): Du hast die Idee, dir fehlt Seniorität im Build. Fractional technischer Mitgründer in Berlin: AI-MVP und Agenten in Slices von 2 bis 12 Wochen.
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