About
I never planned to run two companies. I planned to help a handful of local businesses show up better online — and every problem they handed me pushed the work one step further. This is the honest account of how a student side hustle turned into a software studio.
Edmonton, Alberta
I'm a business problem solver based in Edmonton — an Edmonton kid, really — and everything I've built has been for businesses like the ones I grew up around: contractors, movers, electricians, the shops down the block. People who do excellent work and still lose to competitors who simply show up better online.
I started in civic life — running for Edmonton City Council in Ward Papastew and organizing in my community — and I still show up for the people here. That instinct, solving real problems for real people, is what everything since has been built on.
Nobody handed me a playbook. I learned marketing by running real campaigns, sales by closing them, and AI by building systems that had to work — because a real business was counting on them. That hasn't changed: diagnose the real problem, build the fix, and stay until it runs.
Today I'm the founder of Unconventional Group Inc. and AltaPro AI. The primary work is AltaPro AI — my software studio, building quoting engines, back-office automation, custom CRMs and software, and the AltaPro AI School. Unconventional Group is the marketing & growth arm that feeds it. Different doors, same team, same standard.
If you've got a business worth scaling — let's talk.
The Journey
Unconventional Media starts between lectures — building websites and running marketing for local Edmonton businesses. One client turns into two, two turn into ten, and the "side" in side hustle quietly stops being true.
I left the University of Alberta to take Unconventional Media full-time. Betting on yourself sounds romantic right up until the moment you actually do it — but the phone kept ringing, and the work deserved everything I had.
The side hustle becomes a real company. Unconventional Media rolls into the newly formed Unconventional Group Inc. — a team, a standard, and a complete growth engine for service businesses, with 50+ served across Canada.
The AI work grows into its own software studio. AltaPro AI becomes where most of the building happens — quoting & estimating engines, field-sales tools, back-office automation, custom CRMs, dashboards & software, and the AltaPro AI School, where we teach businesses to run AI themselves.
What I Run
AltaPro AI is the software studio, and where the primary work lives. Unconventional Group is the marketing & growth arm — and the parent company it grew out of. I don't outsource what I sell, and I don't build alone: there's a team behind every project.
The software studio: quoting & estimating engines, field-sales tools, back-office automation, and custom CRMs, dashboards & software — plus the AltaPro AI School, practical AI training for businesses and professionals.
altaproai.ca →The marketing arm that fills the pipeline: websites, ad management, lead generation, funnels & CRO, AI visibility & e-commerce growth. 50+ businesses served across Canada.
unconventionalgroup.ca →How I Operate
Anyone can point at a problem. I build the thing that fixes it and stay on the hook for whether it works.
Your business isn't a template. Everything I build is fitted to how you actually operate.
Sites in days, systems in weeks — without cutting the corners that matter.
One point of accountability — me — with a team behind it, so nothing falls through the cracks between vendors.
Most people sell you advice and leave. I take the problem on, build the system that fixes it, and stay until it runs on its own.
— Haruun Ali
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