There are moments in life when a room stops feeling like a room…
and becomes a spark.
2:30 PM, Invest2Innovate’s AI for Business Growth session — the hall filled with 150+ young founders, operators, problem-solvers. Everyone came in hoping to learn “AI tools.”
But they walked out realizing something much bigger:
AI isn’t here to replace people. It’s here to empower the people who act first.
And that’s exactly how this story begins.
When people introduce me today, they often list the titles:
“AAAI Chairman. Founder of PureDesigners. CEO of Evento.”
But the real story didn’t start with AI.
It started in a tiny room back in 2000, when an 11-year-old kid — me — made his first website.
No training.
No YouTube.
No Google.
Just curiosity… and a random encounter with Saleem bhai at a local café.
I don’t know what he saw in me, but he gave me direction.
And direction is underrated. When someone points you the right way, your entire life can change — but only if you take the steps.
Back then, technology didn’t look like success. It looked like confusion.
People were asking:
“Website banayein ya na banayein?”
“Domain leni chahiye?”
“Digital marketing kya hota hai?”
Those who stepped forward — even without clarity — grew 10x faster than everyone else.
Because uncertainty is not the enemy. Inaction is.
Before fancy platforms, before n8n, before Zapier…
automation was human.
It meant:
Structuring teams
Optimizing work
Building systems
Rome and Greece didn’t rise because of machines.
They rose because of organized workflows and disciplined thinking.
Humans have been automating from the day they learned to organize themselves.
Then slowly, the world shifted.
Microsoft BizTalk came.
Zapier arrived in 2011.
Make.com took things further.
And suddenly, people started automating with software instead of structure.
But today?
We’ve entered a completely different era:
AI-powered automation — where humans no longer build workflows…
they command them.
This was the energy I walked onto the i2i stage with.
And the founders in that room felt it instantly.
150 chairs.
150 notebooks.
150 minds ready.
The session was supposed to be a workshop.
But it started like a TED Talk — because impact always needs a story.
After the intro, after the origin story, after the mindset shift…
I said:
“Today, I’m not showing you AI.
Today, I’m showing you your future workflow.”
And that’s when the real experience began.
First demonstration:
A simple automation.
We connected:
n8n
AI agents
Google Sheets
A chatbot interface
Purpose?
To show that even a beginner can build a “Weekly AI Business Report” system in minutes.
The room leaned forward.
Founders saw — maybe for the first time — that AI isn’t magic.
It’s mechanical power behind simple instructions.
Next, we unleashed a long n8n workflow.
A workflow that:
pulled business data from Google Maps
extracted emails
categorized leads
stored everything in Sheets
prepared them for outreach
Real. Practical.
The kind of automation that can save teams 20 hours per week.
People were whispering:
“Yeh tu pura CRM automation hogaya…”
Yes. Exactly.
Then I showed them how founders can:
create posts
generate captions
schedule content
and publish across platforms
automatically, through n8n.
No agency.
No designer needed.
Just a workflow.
And suddenly, content creation stopped feeling like a burden.
This one hit differently.
I showed them how to pull raw deals from Pipedrive, turn them into organized data, and send reports automatically to the right people.
Founders who were struggling with sales operations had one reaction:
“Why aren’t we doing this already?”
Exactly the point.
We explored:
sales funnels
WhatsApp bots
remarketing flows
customer qualification
All powered by AI.
People realized:
AI doesn’t replace your team.
It becomes the team member who never sleeps.
Before ending, I said:
“We used AI inside automation.
Now let me show you the next level — automation made by AI.”
I took the long n8n lead-generation JSON file…
pasted it into ChatGPT…
and asked:
“Basanti, create a Lovable prompt and rebuild this workflow.”
5 minutes later…
We pasted the prompt into Lovable.
And the room gasped.
Because Lovable built:
the entire dashboard
the same workflow
the buttons
the UX
the layout
ALL automatically.
The founders saw the future with their own eyes.
Not AI taking jobs.
AI multiplying output.
AI compressing 6 hours into 6 minutes.
Automation wasn’t just happening.
It was creating itself.
We ended with Q&A — smart, intense, founder-level questions.
And then the final moment.
I put a QR code on the screen.
Through that link, every founder received:
My AI Business Growth Playbook
My book “404 Human Not Found”
All 4 JSON workflow files
The Lovable prompt
A full zip folder of everything they learned
Here is the public download link for you as well:
👉 Download the full workshop kit:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mwIZzcAmlBxAHdxEa8SaQU7RWOjrWRz7/view?usp=sharing
This wasn’t just a workshop.
It became a starter pack for the future.
Founders walked out knowing:
AI isn’t scary
Automation isn’t complicated
Tools aren’t enough — mindset comes first
The first movers will dominate
And the ones who don’t adopt AI?
They won’t survive the decade
For many, this wasn’t a session.
It was a turning point.
Twenty years ago, people were confused about websites.
Today, they’re confused about AI.
The pattern is the same.
Those who step forward now…
will be the leaders of tomorrow.
And if 150 founders in one room can shift their mindset in 90 minutes,
imagine what Pakistan can do in the next 5 years.
AI won’t replace people.
But AI-powered people will replace everyone else.
