Ifthikar Ali is a builder, ideator and software engineer. Now that how to build is the easy part, he spends his time on what to build.

Founder
Tutornote, Cansee Analytics
Software Engineer
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Studied
UT Dallas, ’22–’26
Certified
AWS Solutions Architect – Associate
Based
Dallas–Fort Worth, TX

Tutornote puts a tutor inside your notes. Drop in notes, slides, a PDF or a YouTube link and each section comes back written up, read aloud line by line, drawn out on a board, and turned into quick checks that find what did not stick.

We built it for the hours in between, when you are studying alone and the urge to skim takes over. In beta on the web and on Windows.

Role
Founder
Type
Web app, Windows app
Status
Beta, waitlist open
Live
tutornote.ai
Media
App screenshots, and demos recorded from the live site
The Tutornote wordmark in multicoloured letters on lilac graph paper with faint handwritten formulas.
TN_01.PNGWordmark
Tutornote open beside a biology lecture PDF. A board window draws a layered diagram titled “Desmosome connection” while a caption explains how protein filaments hold cells together.
TN_02.PNGIn the app: the board explains a lecture slide
TN_03.MP4Tutorme, teaching a page of notes
TN_04.MP4The board, drawing as it talks
TN_05.MP4Click a line, get it explained
TN_06.MD

Everyone keeps notes. Almost nobody goes back to them.

From the Tutornote manifesto
TN_06.MDWhy it exists
TN_07.MP4Quick checks while it teaches

Cansee Analytics measures how a company shows up when people ask an AI instead of a search box: whether it gets mentioned, where it ranks against everyone else, and what to change to be seen.

It treats GEO, generative engine optimisation, as something you measure rather than guess at. It is not public yet, so the tiles here are drawn in code with sample data. They are illustrations, not screenshots.

Role
Founder
Type
Analytics platform
Status
Not public yet
Media
Drawn live in code, sample data
CNS_01.LIVEIt looks back. Move your cursor
CNS_02.LIVEAsk, answer: were you in it?
CNS_03.LIVERank, week by week
CNS_04.LIVEOne number to watch