Operator
Seven years running 24/7 operations, including the front office of Kentucky's largest hotel.
1,300rooms under 24/7 command
Read the caseOperations Leader · Hyderabad, India
Hello, I’m Syed Ali Adnan.
I am a builder, operator, and architect. I’ve spent the last decade building, breaking, and rebuilding the systems. Welcome to my portfolio.
Founder
Built companies from zero, ran them as operations, and sold two of them.
2ventures acquired
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Builder
A self-hosted AI operations stack, a custom CRM, a four-role LMS, and this platform.
392API routes on one platform
How it's built
Author
Books on hospitality leadership and operations, and a weekly dispatch on AI in operations.
4published books
Read the booksMost people think automation is about tools. I think it's about operating systems.
I spent seven years running high-volume, service-critical operations (24/7 multi-shift teams, four airline crew contracts, revenue-critical billing at Kentucky's largest hotel) and building the systems that ran them: nightly audit and reconciliation as scheduled jobs, dashboards instead of shift reports, onboarding as a programme instead of a prayer.
- Running high-volume, service-critical operations, and building the systems that run them.
- 7+ years
- Kentucky's largest hotel, under 24/7 front-office command across four airline contracts.
- 1,300+ rooms
- New-hire onboarding, through structured programmes instead of shadow-and-pray.
- 40% faster
- One operating platform: content, CRM, publishing, analytics and back-office automation.
- 392API routes
These are running right now.
All 8 case studies
AIOS Self-hosted AI operations system.
- Tool servers wired
- 7 MCP
- Knowledge base
- 40k+ chunks
SyedAliAdnan.com Personal operating platform.
- API routes
- 392
- Internal MCP tools
- 157
Custom CRM In-house replacement for a licensed vendor platform.
- Automated checks
- 345
- Cross-tenant exposures closed
- all
4-Role Learning Management Platform Live classes inside the platform itself.
- Roles shipped
- 4
Galt House Hotel Front-office command for Kentucky's largest hotel.
- Onboarding time
- −40%
- Guest satisfaction
- +25%
LandingEase AI landing pages, in minutes.
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43tools
I work in
Every tool below is one I use: models and orchestration, databases and message buses, infrastructure, and the business software an operation actually runs on. 5 of them are agents and services I built myself.
- Claude
- Anthropic API
- Ollama
- Model Context Protocol
- n8n
- AIOS
- OpenClaw
- Hermes
- OmniRoute
- Whisper
- Exa
- Postiz
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Python
- Docker
- Vercel
- Cloudflare
- Railway
- Caddy
- Tailscale
- GitHub
- Git
- AWS EC2
- LiveKit
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Prisma
- Drizzle
- Qdrant
- NATS JetStream
- Figma
- Stripe
- Obsidian
- Telegram
- Google Workspace
- Google Sheets
- Slack
- Canva
- Wispr Flow
- Lusha
- AI & agents12
- Build & runtime15
- Data & messaging6
- Operations10
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