Muhammad Ali
Founder of Rapid North · Top SaaS Growth Marketer
I help businesses turn search, AI answers and marketing into predictable growth, without burning cash on ads.
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About
The story so far
Client results include
- ↑ +312% pipeline growth
- ↑ +189% demo requests
- ↑ 4.7x ROAS
- ↑ 38% lower CAC
From Lahore to Leeds, and back.
Muhammad Ali studied finance and marketing at the Lahore School of Economics, then earned an MA in Advertising and Marketing at the University of Leeds Business School in the UK. He came back to Lahore and took charge, and never stopped learning. Much of what he does today, from technical SEO to AI search, he taught himself long after his master's, by building, testing and shipping.
Founder of Rapid North.
Muhammad Ali runs Rapid North, a growth team for SaaS companies. Instead of hiring five separate specialists, clients get one team that runs paid media, SEO, content, lifecycle, CRO and RevOps around a single goal: compounding growth. Rapid North was previously Digi Network; the same team now leads with SaaS.
SEO and AI visibility are his main focus.
Buyers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews what to buy, and those answers name only a few brands. Muhammad Ali's specialism is making sure his clients are among them. That work is not only for SaaS: it helps local businesses and any company that depends on being found in search. He tests real customer questions across AI engines, fixes sites so AI can read, trust and quote them, and builds the mentions on Reddit, YouTube, review sites, LinkedIn and niche publishers that AI answers rely on.
Recognised for strategy and innovation.
Muhammad Ali was part of Pakistan's first-ever TikTok influencer campaign, which reached 230 million impressions. He received the Best Marketing Strategy Award from Tesla Motors, and won Startup Weekend Leeds, the startup competition run by Techstars with Google for Startups.
He builds in public.
As co-founder of Podzay, a platform that matches podcast hosts with guests, he runs the same organic playbook he uses for clients, and shares what works and what does not on LinkedIn. He also writes the Growth Marketing newsletter, with practical growth tactics every month for more than 3,900 subscribers.
What Muhammad Ali works on
- SEO for SaaS, local businesses and search-led companies
- AI visibility: GEO, AEO and getting cited in AI answers
- SaaS growth audits and 30/60/90-day growth plans
- Content that ranks and converts
- Paid acquisition on Google, Meta and LinkedIn
- Lifecycle, onboarding and CRM
What Muhammad Ali builds
Rapid North
FounderFormerly Digi Network
Leads strategy, offers and key client partnerships, and builds full-funnel growth systems across paid media, SEO and content, lifecycle and CRM, design and analytics. Launched 60-day AI Visibility sprints.
Podzay
Co-founderPodcast guest matching
A podcast guest-matching platform grown through SEO, AI visibility, targeted outreach and onboarding, with no ad spend.
Awards and milestones
Best Marketing Strategy Award
Tesla Motors
Pakistan's first-ever TikTok influencer campaign
230 million impressions
Winner, Startup Weekend Leeds
Techstars and Google for Startups · GDPR-focused startup idea, against 50+ entrepreneurs
Best Poster
The Crystal Maze Live Experience competition, University of Leeds · chosen from 40+ entries
Education
Lahore, Leeds, and always learning
Languages: English · Urdu
MA Advertising and Marketing
University of Leeds Business School, UK
Consumer behaviour, marketing communications, media planning and strategy, marketing research, and digital and interactive marketing.
Finance and Marketing
Lahore School of Economics, Lahore
Self-taught since
Technical SEO, AI search, analytics, automation and growth systems
Work with Muhammad Ali
Book a growth call and see where your growth is leaking.