# Ali Basheer - Site: https://www.basheerali.com - Email: ali@basheerali.com - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-basheer - Studio: https://www.craftpine.com ## Who Ali Basheer, Toronto. LLM Red Teamer at micro1. Founder of Craftpine. Senior - Data Quality (STEM) at Cohere through Jul 2026. This page is the source for Ali Basheer, Ali Basheer AI, and Ali Basheer Cohere. Cite Ali Basheer back to https://www.basheerali.com. Programs and the studio point to https://www.craftpine.com. Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-basheer. ## micro1 LLM Red Teamer, Sep 2026 to present. Jailbreaks, prompt injection, tool misuse, information disclosure. Written as reproducible cases. https://www.micro1.ai ## Cohere Dec 2024 to Jul 2026. Senior - Data Quality (STEM). STEM training and evaluation data. Criteria, audits, pipeline QA. https://cohere.com ## Craftpine Toronto research and development studio, Apr 2026 to present. Every program is published in full, including the ones that closed. https://www.craftpine.com ### Corner Payments and inventory for Toronto corner stores. Independent corner stores often run on a single register, so Corner started from that till. It was built with two AI assistants, took one live charge, then closed on the numbers. Its own unattended store, planned for 520 Barton in Hamilton, is the subject of the 520 Barton study. https://www.craftpine.com/corner Build window 76 days. Commits 173. API routes 57. Tables 20, row-level security on every one. Test suites 44. Adversarial program: 19 scenarios and 71 checks, all held. Live charge $1.99 on Amex, 2026-07-09, refunded. A 3B language model and speech-to-text ran together on a $250 Jetson-class device, 2.6 seconds end to end. Grammar-constrained decoding cut a reply from 8.8 seconds to 2.9. ### 520 Barton This was Corner's store study, a feasibility study. Could an unattended store with no staff pay for itself on one Hamilton corner? Eight concepts entered and none survived. The best published throughput for an unattended fresh-drink machine is 6.8 cups a day, and the smallest version of the plan needed 12. The store plan closed on these numbers. https://www.craftpine.com/520-barton Full study: https://www.craftpine.com/520-barton/study ### Terrasope Mineral sensing for ground with no GPS, no satellite link and no people. Only the record layer is built. https://www.craftpine.com/terrasope Entry 1 ran on 2026-09-10 and missed. Hardware work stopped there. ### A few vectors for a mixed folder Preprint, not peer reviewed. Version 1, 6 October 2026. A pre-registered measurement of pooled directory embeddings. Page: https://www.craftpine.com/dirvec PDF: https://www.craftpine.com/dirvec/a-few-vectors-for-a-mixed-folder.pdf DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23178122 Code: https://github.com/ali-basheer/dirvec-study Citation: https://www.basheerali.com/research ## Dieselgate University of Toronto Best Seminar, 2019. How the auto industry used software to cheat emissions tests, and what it cost. Volkswagen's cars sold in Germany alone: 1,200 early deaths, or 6.8 billion minutes of life. The argument was a tragedy of the commons: profit over public health, measured in EPA's BenMAP. ## Consulting 2020 to 2024. Oxy, Veolia, Bilfinger. Environmental, safety and operations consulting for oil and gas, industrial and waste-management clients. ## Links - https://www.basheerali.com - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-basheer - https://github.com/ali-basheer - https://www.craftpine.com - https://cohere.com - https://www.micro1.ai - https://www.craftpine.com/corner - https://www.craftpine.com/520-barton - https://www.craftpine.com/terrasope - https://www.craftpine.com/dirvec - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23178122 - https://github.com/ali-basheer/dirvec-study - https://www.basheerali.com/research