The wesolutions
Academy.
A 24-month master-and-apprentice program through which we develop GCC-national AI engineers for sovereign work — and the mechanism by which our pods meet and exceed local nationalisation thresholds.
Vision 2030 and We the UAE 2031 demand sovereign AI capacity at a scale the region's universities cannot graduate engineers fast enough to supply. Localisation, as a result, cannot be solved by hiring quotas. It must be solved by training.
The most credible localisation strategy in the Gulf is not a hiring quota. It is an engineering school inside an engineering firm. The wesolutions Academy is that school.
1,500 applicants per annual cohort across ten universities in five GCC countries, narrowed to 60 through a technical interview process designed and chaired by the firm.
Every Academy engineer is paired with a named senior engineer or principal for the full 24 months; each senior mentors up to four apprentices. Pairings are public inside the firm.
Academy engineers are billed at a junior rate from week one on live client engagements. They earn a full firm salary.
Our target: by month 36, at least 70% of Academy graduates lead their own pod. By month 60, the most senior enter the Principal Track.
The Academy recruits from the ten universities above. In 2026 it counts 10 to 15 engineers per university; the plan for 2027 is 20 to 30. Academy engineers are encouraged to stay connected with their university's research community throughout the 24-month programme.
National wage support, routed to the client.
Academy salaries draw on national wage-support programmes — HRDF in Saudi Arabia, Nafis in the UAE, Tamkeen in Bahrain and their equivalents in Qatar, Kuwait and Oman — wherever the hire qualifies.
The subsidy attached to an Academy engineer on a client engagement is routed to the client, not retained by the firm. This is a commercial commitment, written into every engagement letter.
On a typical 18-month engagement with two Academy engineers, the routed subsidy is material — and it compounds across consecutive engagements.
Every engagement with wesolutions actively grows the sovereign AI engineering capacity of your country. We do not merely meet the local nationalisation quota. We expand the national pool from which it is drawn.