# Ali Zahid Raja — AI Systems Engineer & Independent Researcher

> Builds and owns production AI systems and does original research on how those
> systems earn trust. Systems at SHCV.IT OÜ (Estonia), building sovereign AI for
> the European Mittelstand. Founder of Islam & AI. Published researcher — ISNAD framework, arXiv:2607.24117.

Not to be confused with unrelated projects using the word "isnad".

## Core
- [Home](https://alizahidraja.com): Positioning, proof, three pathways
- [Systems](https://alizahidraja.com/projects): Production case studies
- [Evidence Architecture](https://alizahidraja.com/evidence): Logging, provenance and documentation for AI compliance
- [Islam & AI](https://alizahidraja.com/islamandai): Islamic knowledge platform — founder's story and the origin of ISNAD
- [ISNAD](https://alizahidraja.com/isnad): Claim-level provenance framework, arXiv:2607.24117
- [ISNAD Documentation](https://alizahidraja.com/isnad/docs/): Install, chains, audit records, CLI reference, architecture
- [Tools](https://alizahidraja.com/tools): Open-source AI tooling family
- [About](https://alizahidraja.com/about): Story, credentials, SHCV affiliation
- [Writing](https://alizahidraja.com/writing): Articles on production AI, career leverage, and the arc
- [Contact](https://alizahidraja.com/contact): Work with me — leadership, fractional CTO, advisory

## Research
- [ISNAD Paper (arXiv:2607.24117)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24117): Grading the Narrators — 25 pages, cs.AI/cs.MA
- [ISNAD Source](https://github.com/alizahidraja/isnad): Reference implementation, Python 3.12+, Apache-2.0
- [ISNAD PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/isnad/): pip install isnad (v2.19.0)
- [§8 Experiment](https://github.com/alizahidraja/isnad/tree/main/experiments/s8_gated_vs_ungated): Gated vs. ungated serving, 20,000 claims

## Tools
- [Agent-Surface](https://github.com/alizahidraja/agent-surface): Make websites usable by AI agents
- [knowledge-ci](https://github.com/alizahidraja/knowledge-ci): Repository-native RAG with CI evaluation
- [RAGLint](https://github.com/alizahidraja/RAGLint): AI Data Readiness Report for RAG systems
- [Magnific](https://github.com/alizahidraja/magnific): Config-driven media pipeline

## Author
- [Ali Zahid Raja](https://alizahidraja.com): AI Systems Engineer & Independent Researcher
- ORCID: 0009-0003-7875-4590
- SHCV.IT OÜ (Systems) — https://www.shcv.it/en/