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Product Design Engineer & Researcher
Remote, worldwide

Ahmad Bilal builds AI you can audit.

Selected work

Six systems I shipped. AI platforms, tools that agents run on, and the tests that keep them honest.

+ Other work Scarlett: a personal AI assistant that stays honest PVARA: foundation research & design for Pakistan’s virtual-asset regulator MobiMatter: eSIM checkout conversion, +10% in testing

As products learn to think, design has to become auditable.

I design AI-native products, and I publish the research behind them. Every number on this page links to where it came from, so you can check it instead of trusting me. I built Articos from nothing as its lead researcher and designer, and shipped product work at AutoLeap, Careem, and EY.

live Evidence theater · live simulation
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Protocol

One protocol runs everything here, from AI-native product design to published research. Every step leaves a record.

  1. 01_ Find a real tension worth the work
  2. 02_ Map the system and its actors
  3. 03_ Design probes, collect signals
  4. 04_ Analyse patterns and failures
  5. 05_ Build, test, iterate
  6. 06_ Publish it open, so anyone can check
Ship evidence, not opinions. Make the work auditable, and it becomes impossible to argue with.

Operating principle · how I run product research

Impact in numbers

Shipped with EY · Careem · AutoLeap · Strategyn · GovX 2030 · Articos ref:005 engagements · roles per case study

Research

I research how people and AI actually behave together, then design around what I find.

Each paper begins with a question.
Each question uncovers a system.
Each system shows new possibilities,
and new responsibilities.

Flagship · SSRN · under peer review

Grounded Simulation

A first-principles architecture for LLM-based synthetic UX research

The architecture behind Articos. AI stands in for research participants, but every finding traces to evidence and carries a confidence score. Spotting themes is easy. Being right about them is the hard part, and that is what this buys: 42% precision against 6.7%.

2026 SSRN Essay

New preprint · medRxiv + SSRN

Acquisition Confounding

An audit of five open tuberculosis chest X-ray benchmarks

The same TB screening model scores 0.990 or 0.569 depending only on the evaluation split. Evaluation design, not model quality, decides the number.

2026 medRxiv SSRN Essay

Peer-reviewed · IEEE ICICS 2024

English / Urdu to Pakistan Sign Language

A CFG-based translation system from video and audio to PSL gestures

A multi-stage pipeline that turns English and Urdu media into validated Pakistan Sign Language gestures. Built to lower communication barriers for Pakistan’s deaf community.

2024 IEEE Xplore

ahmad@research:~$ OPEN DATA. OPEN METHODS. OPEN FUTURE.

Notes & sources

  1. AutoLeap, Principal Product Designer. +$4M revenue influenced across two enterprise accounts; +20% ACV via DVI upsell; +15 NPS; −23% churn. Source: résumé.
  2. Articos (a Disrupt Labs product), Lead Researcher & Product Designer. 42% theme precision against 6.7% for bare prompting, a 4.4× F1 gain, measured on the evaluation harness and published on SSRN. Usage figures are the client's; I can walk through them on request. verify ↗
  3. Careem Care. 3,200+ support agents across 15 countries. They resolved issues faster once I replaced the scattered tools with one. Source: project record.
  4. MobiMatter. +10% conversion rate from checkout optimisation. Source: résumé.
  5. Engagements. EY (UX consultant), Careem (senior product designer), AutoLeap (principal product designer), Strategyn (instructional designer), a public-sector vision program with EY (GovX 2030), and Articos, a Disrupt Labs product (lead researcher & product designer). Scope and outcomes are in each case study.

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Beyond this point, there are no more pages.
Only signals, intentions, and systems
waiting to be understood.

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