For startups and companies

How I build AI for you.

I lead CPTO roles for startups and SMEs, and my studio, Zaltech AI, builds AI products for companies. This is how a build runs, the architecture behind it, and the team that ships it.

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Method

How I work.

Four phases. The first one ends with a yes or a no rather than a proposal.

Phase 01

Discovery

  • Your problem, users and constraints
  • Honest feasibility assessment
  • Where AI adds value, and where it doesn't
  • A straight answer on fit
Phase 02

Architecture & Roadmap

  • System and data architecture
  • Evaluation criteria defined up front
  • Scope, milestones and timeline
  • Decisions documented before code
Phase 03

Build & Ship

  • Delivery in focused sprints
  • Working software reviewed weekly
  • Integrations and testing in parallel
  • Continuous deployment from day one
Phase 04

Launch & Support

  • Production deployment and monitoring
  • Handover with real documentation
  • 30 days of support included
  • Optional retainer for what comes next

Signature Architecture

Memory is the moat.

Most AI products stop at retrieval. The systems I design layer semantic, relational, temporal and behavioural memory so context compounds instead of resetting every session.

Four-layer stackselect a layer
L1 · Vector<50ms retrieval

Semantic Memory

Every communication, approved response and interaction, embedded and searchable by meaning rather than keyword.

  • text-embedding-3-large for text, CLIP for multimodal.
  • Pulls the twenty closest prior examples on every request.
  • Drives few-shot injection, so personalisation needs no per-user fine-tuning.
Context reasoning engine · request flowEvery request assembles context across all four layers in parallel.
01Intent classification
02Parallel query across all four layers
03Relevance ranking: recency, match, diversity
04Prompt assembly from top examples + rules
05Model routing
06Self-critique across candidate drafts
07Confidence gate: send, flag, or escalate
Human stays in the loop wherever confidence is low.

How Zaltech AI runs

Organised around decisions, not people.

For a hundred years, more work meant more people. AI broke that link. So I stopped drawing my org chart around job titles and started drawing it around the calls a human has to make.

Sohaib Waheed

Sohaib Waheed

Sets the direction

Head of Product

What to build

A human decides

Architect

GitHub · Linear

Designer

Figma · Vercel

QA Manager

What ships

A human decides

Reviewer

GitHub

QA Tester

Vercel · Postgres

Finance Lead

What's too risky

A human decides

Finance

Stripe · Wise

Watchdog

HubSpot · Slack

Head of Sales

What we say no to

A human decides

Screener

HubSpot

Scheduler

Calendar · Notion

A human owns the call An agent does the work, with only the tools that job needs
Watch the reel

One question grades every task

What happens if it's wrong? 35 tasks in my company, three levels.

15

Fully autonomous

Wrong costs a minute. It runs, I read a report.

13

Human-assisted

Wrong is a bad draft. AI drafts, a person edits and sends.

7

Human-led

Wrong costs money or reputation. AI prepares, a human presses send.

Stop asking who to hire. Ask where a human really needs to decide.

Products we own · Zaltech AI

Products we own.

White-label platforms I built and license, alongside 100+ client engagements delivered through the studio.

  • 01

    Zagent AI

    One prompt to a live business

    No-code builder
  • 02

    MedScribe AI

    Clinical documentation

    Healthcare
  • 03

    Zal GPT

    Private enterprise intelligence

    Enterprise
  • 04

    Levo AI

    AI voice agents for sales

    Multi-industry
  • 05

    PropertyPilot AI

    Real estate automation

    Real estate
  • 06

    SalesAssist AI

    E-commerce sales assistant

    E-commerce
  • 07

    KnowledgeBase AI

    RAG-powered support

    Support

Stack

What I build with.

Chosen per problem rather than per preference. The list is short on purpose.

01Models & Agents
OpenAIAnthropicLangGraphLangChainCrewAILlamaIndex
02Retrieval & Memory
PineconeWeaviateChromaDBQdrantEmbeddingsEval harnesses
03Build
PythonFastAPITypeScriptReactNext.jsPostgreSQL
04Voice
VapiRetellTwilioElevenLabsDeepgram
05Product
JiraLinearMiroFigmaNotionDiscovery
06Infrastructure
AWSGCPSupabaseVercelDockern8n
ClaudeGeminiLangChainHugging FaceElevenLabsPythonFastAPITypeScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsTailwind CSSPostgreSQLRedisMongoDBSupabaseDockerGoogle CloudVerceln8nFigmaJiraNotionLinear

Work with me

Book time with me.

Paid calls. Pay securely, then pick a time that suits you. Bring your idea, your build or your career question. You leave with a next step, not a pitch.

Review
$7530 min

I look at your idea, your page or your build and tell you what I'd change first.

Plan your build
$10045 min

We put your app on one page together: the flow, where the AI sits, and the tools to build it.

Deep dive
$15060 min

Architecture, a walkthrough of your build, or how to land your first paid AI work.

Secure payment by Stripe. Right after paying, you pick your time. If I can't help, I'll tell you in the first five minutes and refund you.

Leadership

CPTO for startups and SMEs

I lead product and technology for startups and SMEs: full-cycle AI product delivery, from the first page to production. Strategy, architecture, the team and the build, held by one person.

Need a team to build it for you? That's my studio, Zaltech AI. zaltechai.com

Contact

Let's talk.

Tell me what you're building and where it's stuck. I reply within 24 hours.

sohaib@zaltechai.com