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Business. AI. Automation.

I’m Abid Hussain, a UK company director and insurance broker. My work brings together business, software, AI, automation and digital marketing to turn ideas into practical solutions.

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  • 20+ years in insurance & business
  • Software development
  • AI
  • Automation
  • Digital strategy

About me

Business experience. Practical technology.

At a glance

  • Director, Focus Insurance Services
  • 20+ years in insurance, mainly commercial
  • Builds across front end, back end, AI and automation
  • Based in the United Kingdom

I’m a Director at Focus Insurance Services, and I’ve spent more than 20 years in the insurance industry, mostly in commercial insurance.

In that time I’ve worked with business owners, landlords, property investors, fleet operators and all sorts of commercial businesses. Running a business myself has given me a working knowledge of sales, customer service, operations, compliance and marketing — and of the everyday problems that quietly slow a business down.

Technology has become a big part of what I do. I work across software development, AI and automation, and I build things myself: websites, web applications, internal tools, databases, integrations and automated workflows, on both the front end and the back end.

I usually come at technology from the business side. I’ll notice something that’s slow, repetitive or more complicated than it needs to be, work out what a better version would look like, and then build it. I also spend a lot of time trying out new AI models and development tools, and finding sensible ways to combine AI with traditional software.

Skills at a glance

Development

  • Front end
  • Back end
  • Full stack
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • APIs
  • Databases

AI

  • LLMs
  • AI agents
  • AI-assisted development
  • AI automation
  • Prompt engineering

Automation

  • n8n
  • APIs
  • Webhooks
  • Workflows
  • Integrations

Digital

  • SEO
  • Technical SEO
  • UX
  • Conversion
  • Digital strategy

Business

  • Insurance
  • Operations
  • Marketing
  • Process improvement
  • Product strategy

What I focus on

Areas of Focus

  • AI and automation

    Practical applications for everyday business processes.

  • Software and digital tools

    Turning business requirements into useful solutions.

  • Digital marketing

    Websites, SEO, content and customer journeys.

  • Business operations

    Clearer processes, better enquiry handling and service delivery.

What I do

What I can do

I build and experiment with software, websites, AI and automation myself. Most of it starts with a real business problem rather than a piece of technology looking for somewhere to fit.

AI & artificial intelligence

I use AI as a working tool, not just a chat window. That means building it into software, connecting it to real business processes and picking the right model for the job.

In practice, that looks like assistants that understand how a particular business works, workflows that take care of routine admin, and tools that pull information together so decisions are quicker and better informed.

  • AI-assisted software development
  • AI-powered business tools
  • AI agents & automated workflows
  • Connecting AI to existing processes
  • Prompt engineering & structured workflows
  • Choosing the right model for each task
  • Research & experimentation
  • Content & marketing workflows
  • Analysis & decision support
  • Automating repetitive admin
  • Internal AI assistants
  • AI for insurance and other sectors

Tools I work with regularly

  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  • Cursor
  • Codex
  • Manus
  • AI coding agents
  • n8n

Different tools suit different jobs. Conversational models handle reasoning, writing and analysis. AI coding tools and agents help me build and refine software far more quickly. And n8n connects AI to the rest of a workflow, so it runs on its own rather than relying on someone copying and pasting between systems.

Front-end development

Modern, responsive interfaces for websites and web applications. I pay close attention to how something feels to use and whether it does its commercial job — not just whether it technically works.

  • Website development
  • Web application interfaces
  • Responsive, mobile-first layouts
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Landing pages
  • Forms & multi-step forms
  • Dashboards
  • Business applications
  • UI/UX improvement
  • Conversion-focused design

Back-end development

The logic, data and connections behind the interface. I’m particularly interested in joining systems together so information moves automatically, instead of the same details being typed into three different places.

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • Back-end logic
  • REST APIs
  • Database design
  • Data handling & processing
  • Authentication & user accounts
  • Admin systems
  • Business logic
  • Third-party integrations
  • Webhooks
  • Automation

Full-stack development

I’m comfortable thinking about the whole application rather than one layer of it — from the first rough idea through to something people can actually log into and use.

Seeing the full picture helps. Decisions about the customer journey, the data and the automation get made together, instead of each piece being designed in isolation and stitched together later.

Technologies I work with or experiment with

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Supabase
  • PostgreSQL & databases
  • GitHub
  • Netlify
  • APIs
  • n8n
  • AI development tools

From idea to working product

  1. Idea
  2. UX
  3. Front end
  4. Back end
  5. Database
  6. API
  7. Automation
  8. Deployment

Business automation

“Why are we still doing this manually?”

It’s one of the questions I ask most often. Plenty of businesses still copy details from one system to another, chase updates by email and rebuild the same spreadsheet every week. A lot of that can be automated — carefully, and in a way the people doing the work actually trust.

The kind of things I work on

  • Repetitive administration
  • Moving information between systems
  • Automated notifications
  • Internal workflow systems
  • Lead management
  • CRM-style workflows
  • Data collection
  • Automated forms
  • Document workflows
  • AI-assisted administration
  • Customer journeys
  • Quote & enquiry workflows
  • Email workflows
  • Reporting
  • Internal dashboards

What it should lead to

  • Less manual work
  • Fewer duplicated tasks
  • Faster processing
  • Better organisation
  • A better customer experience
  • A business that scales more easily

SEO & digital growth

I treat SEO as part of building a website rather than something bolted on afterwards. A site needs to look good, but it also needs a clear structure so that customers and search engines can both understand what it offers.

  • Technical SEO
  • On-page SEO
  • Website structure
  • Keyword research
  • Search intent
  • Local SEO
  • National SEO
  • Landing page strategy
  • Content architecture
  • Internal linking
  • Metadata
  • Schema & structured data
  • Site performance
  • Conversion optimisation
  • Google Business Profile

Website & product development

I enjoy building complete digital products, not just individual pages — things people log into and use every day.

How I normally approach it

  1. 1Understand the problem
  2. 2Simplify the process
  3. 3Design the experience
  4. 4Build the system
  5. 5Automate where possible
  6. 6Keep improving it
  • Business websites
  • Lead-generation websites
  • SaaS concepts
  • Client portals
  • Broker portals
  • Admin portals
  • Quote systems
  • Internal applications
  • Dashboards
  • Booking & enquiry systems
  • Business tools
  • AI-powered products

My business experience

Why the business side matters

I’ve spent more than 20 years in insurance and have substantial hands-on experience running an FCA-regulated insurance brokerage.

Running a real business puts you in front of things developers don’t always see up close: customers with urgent problems, staff, regulation, cash flow, and the constant balance between growing and keeping service standards high.

That shapes the way I build. I’m interested in software that genuinely improves how a business runs — not technology for its own sake.

What running a business involves

  • Customers
  • Sales
  • Lead generation
  • Compliance
  • Regulation
  • Operations
  • Staff
  • Insurance
  • Marketing
  • Cash flow
  • Customer service
  • Business growth
  • Process efficiency

Focus Insurance Services

Director

Focus Insurance Services arranges commercial insurance for businesses across the UK, including:

  • Property owners
  • Landlord
  • Fleet
  • Commercial
  • Liability
  • Shops & trades
  • Motor trade
  • Commercial vehicles
  • Taxi & private hire
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TigerLab is my personal website. It isn’t an insurance business and doesn’t give insurance advice — for insurance enquiries, please contact Focus Insurance directly.

Insurance + technology

Where insurance, business and technology meet

Insurance still runs on a lot of processes that were designed around paper and email: the same risk details keyed in for several insurers, documents passed back and forth, and renewals chased by hand.

That’s exactly the kind of work where well-built software and carefully applied AI can make a real difference — and it’s the area I find most interesting to build in.

  • Reducing duplicate data entry
  • Improving broker workflows
  • Quote management
  • Insurer and MGA workflows
  • Collecting risk information
  • Client onboarding
  • Document processing
  • AI-assisted administration
  • Lead generation
  • Customer communication
  • Workflow automation
  • Internal insurance tools

How I work

Simple first, then automate

  1. 01

    Find the problem

    Understand what’s taking too much time, costing money or creating unnecessary work.

  2. 02

    Simplify it

    Remove the unnecessary steps before trying to automate anything.

  3. 03

    Build it

    Create the website, application, integration or workflow that’s needed.

  4. 04

    Automate it

    Use APIs, automation and AI where they genuinely add value.

  5. 05

    Improve it

    See how it’s actually being used, then keep refining it.

Current interests

What I’m working on and exploring

I’m a hands-on builder first. These are the areas taking up most of my time at the moment.

  • AI agents
  • Agentic workflows
  • AI-assisted software development
  • Business automation
  • Full-stack development
  • Insurance technology (InsurTech)
  • SaaS development
  • APIs and integrations
  • Intelligent internal business tools
  • AI-powered research
  • Search and SEO
  • Data-driven automation
  • Building businesses with AI

Businesses

My Businesses

Here are the businesses I’m involved with. Click through to each site for services and contact details.

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