Chicago Real Estate, Without the Friction.

Dreams is a website for people with a business idea. It walks you through checking the idea step by step, so you find out early whether people really want it. It also has a "what NOT to build" list, which keeps your first version small. It is live today.

What you get

• Exercises that test whether real people want your idea.
• A stress test that finds the weak spots in an idea.
• Ready-made starting plans for a simple online app or shop.
• A cost check: what it costs to win a customer, against what that customer is worth.

How it works

• You answer questions one step at a time.
• The hard questions come first, before you spend money.
• You finish with a plan for the smallest first version.

Good to know

• The same ideas and design are used to build Belvi's other tools.

TourMon is a private sightseeing trip through downtown Chicago. A driver takes your group in an electric car with a glass roof. The stops can include spots for mobile-game raids.

What you get

• A private driver, so the car is for your group only.
• A glass roof for views of the buildings and landmarks.
• Stops planned around mobile-game raids.
• Fast Wi-Fi and phone charging on board.
• Screens in the car that follow the route.

Parking

• Reserved downtown garage parking for up to 12 hours can be added at a lower rate.

Who it is for

• Families visiting Chicago.
• Game players who want to raid and sightsee in one trip.

Hameed Consulting Group is a personal list of trusted professionals in the family. Instead of searching for a stranger, you ask Bilal, and he introduces you to someone who does the work.

Six kinds of work

• Real estate.
• Notary and loan signings.
• Home repair and building.
• Computer systems, cloud and AI.
• Wholesale goods.
• Event visits from Chai, the family's calm, gentle poodle.

How it works

• You ask Bilal. He is the one point of contact.
• He introduces you to the right person for the job.
• Every name on the list is someone the family knows.

Chai Time Repair is backed by RRHOMEFIX, the family contracting firm. It has about 40 years of work behind it, from small fixes to whole-home remodels.

What it does

• Plumbing and electrical work.
• Carpentry, drywall and custom cabinets.
• Full remodels and interior build-outs.

Good to know

• Quick help when something breaks, and a final fix-it list to finish a job.
• Pre-built, low-mess build-outs for shops and offices, so a condo board is not left waiting on construction delays.
• Ongoing upkeep for people who manage buildings with many units.

Chai is a Golden Toy Poodle. A visit from Chai is meant to calm nerves and get people talking.

Where Chai visits

• Company workshops and conferences.
• University events and wellness days.
• Tech hackathons.
• Welcome lounges.

How it works

• Chai is calm, trained and gentle, even in busy city crowds.
• Visits can be a half day, a full day or several days.
• People relax, start conversations and meet each other.

Hameed IT Concierge builds and looks after technology for businesses. Bilal has worked in this field since 2017. It also keeps Belvi running.

What it does

• AI that learns from data, and AI helpers that run on your own computers.
• Servers, cloud moves and systems that stay up.
• Camera and sensor systems that detect things on their own.
• Watching over security and keeping things running.

Track record

• Presented at Huawei's international conference in 2018.
• Built automatic detection systems for large downtown parking garages.

The family has sold general merchandise wholesale for about 15 years. Bilal studied information and decision sciences at UIC, with a focus on supply chains. The new catalog tool is in testing now.

What the tool does

• A supplier texts a price list or sends a spreadsheet.
• AI reads it and builds a live web catalog.
• The catalog shows price tiers, so bigger orders cost less each.
• A shop can order straight from the catalog.

Mini-stores

• A local wholesaler can open its own branded online store.
• Many stores run on one system, each with its own look.

Companies that sell to governments and big organizations must answer long request-for-proposal documents. In 2018 Bilal was the technical lead on a program that did most of that work by itself. It took about 3 weeks of bid paperwork down to under 5 minutes.

What it did

• Read a big list of requests and opened the PDF behind each one.
• Pulled out the technical needs from the PDF.
• Collected product details and pictures from a network-equipment website.
• Used machine learning to match the best products to each request.

The result

• It built the bid and filled in the sales system on its own.
• It sent its emails on its own.
• The team could answer far more bids in the same time.

This is an automated trading program Bilal is building for prop-firm futures, and for crypto and crypto futures. It places a trade only when its rules say so. Prop firms are companies that let people trade with the firm's money after passing a skills test. It is still in testing.

What it does

• It follows a set of rules about price, trend and time of day.
• When the rules say so, it places the trade by itself. Nobody clicks.
• It runs only during set hours.

Safety rules built in

• Every trade has a stop that gets out if it goes wrong.
• It stops for the day after a set win or a set loss.
• It closes every trade before the market day ends.

Where it stands

• Still in testing.
• The pictures are tests on past prices, not live results.

Please know

• A backtest is a replay. Real trading has fees, delays and surprises that a replay can miss.
• Past results are not a promise of future results. Trading futures can lose money.
• This is not investment advice, and it is not an offer to trade anyone's money.

Threads is a T-shirt brand from Chicago. Each shirt has six words on the front, and their first letters spell one name down the chest. The name is printed on the back like a sports jersey. It is not on sale yet.

What is on a shirt

• Front: six words, with the first letter of each in gold.
• Back: one name across the shoulders, like a team jersey.
• Three colors: black, forest green and bone.

How it is made

• A design studio turns each phrase into a print-ready file.
• An art tool turns Bilal's own sketches into finished ink or pencil drawings.
• Each order waits for Bilal to approve it before anything is printed.

Where it is now

• The website is built and being tested.
• Nothing is for sale yet.