wesolutionsai
FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEERING · GCC

Sovereign AI,
built on the ground.

wesolutions brings together senior engineers from Palantir, OpenAI, McKinsey QuantumBlack, BCG X, Accenture, DeepMind and the AI labs of Oxford, MIT and Imperial — and embeds them inside the Gulf's most consequential institutions, alongside a fast-growing cohort of GCC-national engineers we train ourselves. Production AI inside ninety days, fully aligned with Saudization, Emiratization, ICV and every local mandate.
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RIYADH · ABU DHABI · DOHA · MANAMA · KUWAIT CITY · MUSCAT
EST. 2024
AI-FIRST, BY DESIGN

AI-first, by design.

WeSolutions AI builds advanced, AI-first solutions for businesses and for consumers. Every product and engagement is designed around AI from the first line — from enterprise advisory, governance and custom AI systems for organisations, to consumer apps and games published directly by WeSolutions AI Ltd.

01

B2B

AI strategy, cybersecurity and GRC advisory, and custom AI systems for enterprises and public-sector-adjacent organisations across the GCC and Europe.

02

B2C

Consumer apps and games built AI-first and published by WeSolutions AI Ltd for iPhone and iPad — currently Gravewake, Tiny Survivors: Riven Isle and Rifthold: Last Bastion.

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03

Fully advanced

Frontier models, agentic workflows and self-hosted, data-sovereign deployments where clients need them.

Trusted by ministries, sovereign funds, national champions and central banks across the Gulf.

ENGAGEMENT 01DOSSIER →

Sovereign wealth fund · deal-screening system

SOVEREIGN WEALTH · GCC · 11 months
ENGAGEMENT 02DOSSIER →

National oil company · predictive-operations agent

ENERGY · GCC · 16 weeks
ENGAGEMENT 03DOSSIER →

Federal ministry · Arabic citizen-request triage

GOVERNMENT · GCC · 90 days
ENGAGEMENT 04

Tier-1 GCC bank · fraud-detection agent

FINANCIAL SERVICES · GCC · in flight
ENGAGEMENT 05

GCC central bank · supervisory analytics platform

FINANCIAL SERVICES · GCC · in flight
ENGAGEMENT 06

National telco · bilingual customer-operations agent

TMT · GCC · in flight
Selected engagements. Client identities held under NDA, available on reference call. Click a dossier to read the full defensible case narrative — situation, intervention, results, stack and compliance posture.

"They were in the room in week one, and in production in week eleven."

— Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry, GCC

"The first vendor we have worked with where the senior engineer on the proposal was the senior engineer on the engagement."

— Chief Investment Officer, Sovereign Wealth Fund, GCC

"Our national-content colour improved over the course of the engagement. That has never happened to us before."

— Group Chief Human Capital Officer, Tier-1 National Oil Company, GCC
BY THE NUMBERS
38
senior engineers & principals
≥60%
GCC-national pods, by design
120
local engineers in active Academy development
90 days
to first production
0
offshore engineers ever billed
6
GCC capitals on the ground
Figures as of Q2 2026. Independently audited.

The engineering DNA of a global tier-one consultancy — relocated to the Gulf.

The firm draws its craft from the AI labs and engineering organisations below. The team has relocated to Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Manama, Kuwait City and Muscat to build a sovereign engineering firm of, and for, the region.
OPENAI
ANTHROPIC
GOOGLE DEEPMIND
NVIDIA
PALANTIR
STRIPE
McKINSEY QUANTUMBLACK
BCG X
ACCENTURE
MIT
OXFORD
IMPERIAL
ETH
INSEAD
Selected prior employers and academic institutions of the firm's senior engineering team. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.
THE WEDGE

Why wesolutions, and why now.

Senior, from the start.

Every engagement is led by a senior engineer who personally sat at the desk where the problem was first solved. The DNA is McKinsey QuantumBlack, BCG X, Palantir, OpenAI and the AI labs of the UK and US.

Local, by construction.

Every pod is staffed to exceed the local nationalisation threshold of its market — because our Academy brings a new cohort of GCC-national engineers into the firm every year, each paired with one of our most senior engineers.

Sovereign, by design.

Every line of code we ship runs inside a cloud your regulator has already approved, on infrastructure your sovereign data office has already cleared.

THE THESIS

Most consulting firms send slides. We send engineers — and we send the senior lead with them. A wesolutions pod arrives in week one with a senior lead, a tech lead, two senior engineers, a forward-deployed PM, a compliance liaison, and a pair of Academy engineers from the country we are serving. They stay until the system is in production, owned by the client, and earning its keep.

01

The senior lead is the engineer.

The senior lead who signs the proposal also sits at the desk. There is no lead-to-associate ratio because there is no pyramid.

02

Senior, brought to the Gulf.

Median engineer tenure: 12+ years. The senior bench is European, British and American by origin; it now lives in the region full-time.

03

Local, grown deliberately.

Every Academy engineer is paired with a named senior. Our target: within 36 months, the Academy engineer leads their own pod. This is how localisation becomes durable.

WHAT WE BUILD

Four practices. One operating model.

01

Sovereign AI Platforms

Reference architectures, model-serving stacks and evaluation pipelines deployed inside in-country clouds (G42, Oracle, Azure UAE, Nutanix Sovereign). Stand up in 6–10 weeks.

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02

Mission-Critical Agents

Production agentic systems for casework, intelligence triage, customer operations, fraud, claims and inspections. Built to your data, not to a demo. First agent live in 8 weeks.

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03

Custom Model & Data Engineering

Fine-tuning, distillation, retrieval and evaluation for Arabic-first workloads, including dialect-aware NLU for Khaleeji, MSA and Egyptian Arabic.

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04

AI Adoption at Scale

Cleared trainers, bilingual playbooks, change programs and operator enablement. Measured by adoption rate, not attendance.

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THE MAP

Six countries. One operating model.

ARABIAN GULFARABIAN SEARED SEARIYADHKUWAIT CITYMANAMADOHAABU DHABIMUSCAT
[ KSA ]
Saudi Arabia
Pod composition
≥60% Saudi national
Compliance
Nitaqat Platinum-targeted · HRDF-eligible · Qiwa-documented
Cloud
Google Cloud · Oracle Cloud · STC Cloud
Procurement
Etimad-registered · Saudi Aramco Ariba Network
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THE OPERATING MODEL

A 24-month engagement, in six phases.

Every wesolutions engagement runs on the same operating cadence. A senior lead is named on day one and remains on the file for the full 24-month arc. Academy engineers from the country of delivery join in week one and — by design — inherit the system at handover.

00Week 0 – 2

Mobilise

Partner-led scoping with the client's executive sponsor. Sovereign-cloud onboarding paperwork initiated with SDAIA, TDRA, NDMO, NCA or the relevant regulator. Pod named, cleared and on the ground. No slideware — a signed engagement charter and a running dev environment inside the client's tenancy.

01Week 2 – 6

Discovery

Two senior engineers and one engagement lead sit at the desk where the problem lives. We instrument the workflow, interview the operators in Arabic and English, and produce a Systems Dossier: data lineage, decision points, latency budgets, failure modes, and the exact human step the agent will replace or augment.

02Week 6 – 12

Prototype

Working software against real client data — never a demo. Evaluated weekly against a pre-agreed metric tree (accuracy, cycle time, cost per decision, refusal rate). Fine-tuning, retrieval and eval pipelines built inside the sovereign perimeter. Client engineers pair with our seniors from day one.

03Week 12 – 20

Production

Hardening, red-teaming, DPIA and model-risk sign-off with the client's compliance function. Rollout to a first business unit under a lead-signed operational readiness review. First measurable business outcome — not a pilot metric — booked before go-live.

04Month 5 – 12

Scale

Roll-out across business units, geographies and languages. Arabic-first evaluation harness runs continuously. Academy engineers assume tech-lead responsibilities under senior supervision. Cost-to-serve and adoption curves reported monthly to the client's board.

05Month 12 – 24

Handover

The system is owned, extended and operated by the client's own engineers — several of them Academy graduates hired by the client at the end of their apprenticeship. wesolutions steps back to an advisory posture. The senior lead remains personally on call.

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HOW THE FIRM IS ORGANISED

Nine industries. Three firm-wide capabilities.

The firm's delivery is organised around nine industries — each led by a senior lead personally accountable to the client's board sponsor — and three firm-wide capabilities that cut across every industry we serve.

INDUSTRIES
01
Aerospace, Defense, Intelligence & National Security
02
Government & Sovereign AI
03
National Risk Management
04
National Cybersecurity
05
Smart & Cognitive Cities
06
Natural Resources & Utilities
07
Products & Retail
08
Healthcare
09
Technology, Media & Telco
CAPABILITIES · FIRM-WIDE
01
AI Strategy

Defining the roadmap for embedding AI into any organization — board thesis, prioritised portfolio, sovereign-platform architecture, 24-month plan.

02
AI-First Transformation

Reorganise an institution around the systems it is about to build. Not a program — an operating model.

03
Roll-ups & Venture Capital Support

Engineering and diligence for the region's most consequential platform builders and their portfolios.

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THE WESOLUTIONS ACADEMY

We do not promise local talent. We build it.

The wesolutions Academy is a 24-month master-and-apprentice program in which our senior engineers and principals mentor hand-selected graduates of ten universities across five GCC countries: KFUPM, KAUST, Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University, Prince Sultan University, Khalifa University, NYUAD, AUS, Qatar University, Sultan Qaboos University and Kuwait University. Academy engineers earn a full firm salary and sit on live client engagements from month one; national wage-support programmes such as HRDF, Nafis and Tamkeen apply wherever the hire qualifies. This is the mechanism by which our pods meet and exceed local nationalisation thresholds — and by which our clients' own scorecards improve.

In development, 2026120 engineers
Universities10 in 5 countries
Mentoring ratioUp to 4 apprentices per senior
Engagement hours≥ 1,800 in 24 months
Promotion to Lead (target)≥ 70% by month 36
Target by 2028400 in active development
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SELECTED WORK

Dossiers from the field.

Three engagements from the last twelve months. Client identities held under NDA and available on reference call. Each dossier is written and signed by the sponsoring lead.

CASE DOSSIERJAN 2026
01
DOSSIER · KSA
82%
reduction in time from teaser to first-pass IC memo
REF · WES-JAN2026-01SOVEREIGN WEALTH
KSA · Sovereign Wealth11 months

Reducing deal-screening cycle time at a GCC sovereign wealth fund.

I. SITUATION
A Tier-1 GCC sovereign wealth fund (AUM > USD 400bn) was screening more than four thousand opportunities a year, and its analysts were spending sixty to seventy percent of their week on first-pass triage.
II. INTERVENTION
A fourteen-person pod, embedded in the investment office for eleven months, shipped an agentic investment-memo system into production in week ten. It runs entirely inside the fund's own sovereign-cloud tenancy, with retrieval over the client's deal history.
III. OUTCOME
82% less time from teaser to first-pass IC memo. 4.3× deals screened per analyst per quarter at constant headcount.
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CASE DOSSIERDEC 2025
02
DOSSIER · QAT
31%
reduction in unplanned downtime on instrumented assets
REF · WES-DEC2025-02ENERGY · UPSTREAM
QAT · Energy · Upstream14 months

Cutting unplanned downtime on an upstream asset by 31%.

I. SITUATION
An upstream asset of a Tier-1 NOC was losing production hours to unplanned shutdowns on rotating equipment, despite a mature reliability programme.
II. INTERVENTION
A twenty-two-person pod, eleven of them Qatari engineers, embedded in the asset's operations centre for fourteen months. The predictive-operations agent went live on one compressor train in week fourteen and then across the asset.
III. OUTCOME
31% reduction in unplanned downtime on instrumented assets. About USD 86m in annualised production uplift, audited by client finance.
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CASE DOSSIEROCT 2025
03
DOSSIER · UAE
73%
of citizen interactions resolved without human escalation
REF · WES-OCT2025-03GOVERNMENT
UAE · Government9 months

Re-architecting a federal ministry's flagship citizen-services platform.

I. SITUATION
A federal ministry's flagship citizen-services platform, handling several million transactions a year in Arabic and English, had reached the end of its useful life, and call-centre escalations had risen for six consecutive quarters.
II. INTERVENTION
An eighteen-person pod re-architected the platform over nine months and added an Arabic-first conversational layer, with every model running inside the ministry's sovereign-cloud perimeter. The first production cut-over came in week eleven.
III. OUTCOME
73% of citizen interactions resolved without human escalation, against a 41% baseline. Median response time of 4.6 seconds in Arabic and English.
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RESEARCH & INSIGHTS

From the firm's publishing programme.

FLAGSHIP REPORTOCTOBER 2026

The Gulf Sovereign AI Index 2026

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BRIEFINGOCTOBER 2026

Evolved Nitaqat 2026 and the profession-level Saudization wave

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BRIEFINGOCTOBER 2026

In-Country Value in UAE procurement: how the formula scores an ICT vendor

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PARTNERS & ACCREDITATIONS
Cloud & technology partners
SDAIA-ALIGNED
G42
AWS BAHRAIN
ORACLE KSA SOVEREIGN
AZURE UAE NORTH
OCI ABU DHABI
NVIDIA
OPENAI
ANTHROPIC
Academic & research alliances
KAUST AI
KFUPM CIS
MBZUAI
KHALIFA UNIVERSITY
Accreditations & supplier registrations
ISO 27001
ISO 27701
ISO 9001
SOC 2 TYPE II (IN AUDIT)
ETIMAD
TEJARI
ADNOC SUPPLIER
ARAMCO ARIBA
QATAR ENERGY
MoF UAE
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