The story.

F. Aamir Ali is a student builder and founder from Surrey, British Columbia. He built and deployed an AI assistant inside his 1,500-student high school — recognized by the school's principal as the first student-built system of its kind there — and founded the Surrey Youth AI Summit, which brought ~70 students from 14 schools together to build AI in a single day. He also founded and leads his school's AI & Innovation Club.

I started by building FleetBot — an assistant that answers the questions a 1,500-student school asks all day. Getting it onto a real terminal in the front office taught me that shipping the code is the easy half; the hard half is whether anyone actually uses the thing.

From there I founded the AI & Innovation Club to get other students building, then ran the Surrey Youth AI Summit — ~70 students, 14 schools, a real sponsor, and a UBC keynote, all in one day.

What I keep coming back to is where AI meets real institutions — access, integration, and whether anyone actually needs the thing. That’s the kind of problem I care about.