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👋🏼 Hey, I'm Ali.

I'm a brand advisor and writer helping SaaS founders of high-growth B2B startups build powerful brands through un-ignorable content to grow influence and attract customers 10x faster.

I use the latest branding and content marketing strategies to help FP&A & FinOps founders & CFOs grow and get well known. 

The internet is loaded with content. So how will your brand and content stand out in the sea of sameness? That's where I jump in to help you stand out with my high-end branding and content strategies to accelerate your growth, reputation, and revenue.

I've written thousands of pieces of compelling and trustworthy content for tech founders, VCs, and SaaS companies. Hundreds of my written posts have gone viral on LinkedIn.

⚡I have spent the last 3 years helping VCs, founders and tech companies bring value in the digital world through branding strategies, content writing, and social selling to skyrocket their growth.

I have helped:

→ GPs scale their online brand to generate investment opportunities.
→ B2B SaaS companies with brand messaging, positioning, and content writing to attract customers. 
→ Founders generate $30 million in revenue while growing their LinkedIn following with 50 million+ views.

I'm highly skilled at personal branding, ghostwriting, and creating brand & content strategies. I believe learning never stops, so I'm always optimizing. 


📚 I have a master's in marketing & management, and on a personal level, I am someone who:

‣ Motivates people.
‣ Deals with empathy.
‣ Loves to solve problems.
‣ Focuses on bringing value.
‣ Always happy to consult with and navigate people.
‣ Love to lead an intentional life to leave a positive legacy behind.

Ali
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Ali Bilawal

CEO & Founder at Aimplan - plan, budget, and forecast directly inside Power BI.

Hi, I’m Erik!

I have spent 25 years of my life working in the FP&A / EPM / CPM space, both as a consultant and within software companies delivering FP&A solutions. Now, I'm the CEO and founder of Aimplan, with the purpose of changing how companies work with planning, forecasting, budgeting, and financial reporting.

So finance professionals always ask me this:
“Why do we need to buy separate FP&A software when we already have Power BI?”

The answer is simple - Power BI is not a FP&A tool! Users can’t edit any data in Power BI to create plans, budgets, and forecasts. Controllers and CFOs cannot easily create the structured reporting (P&Ls, etc.) that management wants. And there is no way in Power BI to manage different scenarios, mappings of accounts, or other critical structures (i.e. no master data management).

That’s the reason we started Aimplan!

We want our customers to be able to extend their usage of Power BI and extend their existing Power BI models to also solve the needs of the office of the CFO. And move away from manual, disconnected, error-prone spreadsheet way of working into highly efficient, automated, integrated, and Power BI supported processes.

I feel so privileged to help companies get better at FP&A.

I personally love building products, companies, and teams. I have a wife and two grown-up girls, one still living with us and one living in Stockholm.

When I'm on vacation, you'll see me near the lake house in the summer, cutting the boards to the right length or driving a Seadoo Spark watercraft. During the winter season here in northern Sweden, with abundant snowfall, snowmobiling is the way to go when seeking fun and excitement.

I believe a healthy body equals a healthy mind. So here at Aimplan the team loves running out of the office to the gym and coming back with a refreshed brain, ready to take on challenges.

That’s it!

Please reach out to me if you need help or would like to talk FP&A and Power BI!

Erik Lidman

Nobody wants to be the person who says ‘maybe we don't need AI.’ 

So everyone nods. Approves the budget. Buys the tools.

Then quietly goes back to Excel.

What actually happens:

The AI tool gets a 45-minute demo.
Everyone's impressed.
Purchase order approved.

Three months later, one person uses it.
Everyone else pretends they do.

Why the disconnect?

Executives see headlines: ‘AI reduces forecasting time by 80%’ 

What they miss: That company spent 6 months cleaning their data first.

Your data lives in:

• Local files no one can find
• 47 department spreadsheets
• 3 different ERPs (from acquisitions)
• A shared Google Sheet with broken formulas

AI can't fix that.

Here's what nobody admits:

Most finance teams don't have an AI problem.

They have a:

• Data quality problem
• Process documentation problem
• ‘We've always done it this way’ problem
• Cross-functional communication problem

AI just makes these problems faster and more expensive.

So before approving the next AI budget:

Ask one simple question:

What's the most tedious manual task you do every week? 

If the answer involves copying data between systems, that's your AI use case.

If the answer is ‘I don't know, we just need AI,’ save your money.

AI works when you know exactly what you're automating.
Everything else is just expensive confusion.

CEO at Aimplan - Extending Power BI and Fabric with Operational and Financial Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting

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