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AI systems engineering · Serving the GCC
Most AI pilots never ship. We build the ones that do.
Pountech designs and engineers AI products — agents, copilots, and the data platforms underneath them — for companies across the Gulf. We have been shipping production software for over a decade. The models are new; knowing how to keep a system standing under real load is not.
- United Arab Emirates
- Saudi Arabia
- Qatar
- Kuwait
- Bahrain
- Oman
Taking projects for Q4
What we build
AI agents & automation
Systems that take a task end to end — reading your data, calling your tools, and handing back work a person can check. Built with the guardrails and audit trail a regulated business needs.
LLM product engineering
Copilots, assistants, and retrieval over your own documents — including Arabic and mixed Arabic-English content, where off-the-shelf tooling usually falls over.
Data & ML platforms
The unglamorous half that decides whether the rest works: pipelines, feature stores, model serving, monitoring, and a clear answer to where your data lives.
AI-enabled web & mobile
Full products, not demos. Marketplaces, payment flows, dashboards and operations tools — with the model work built in rather than bolted on.
AI discovery sprint
Two weeks to find out whether AI is the right tool for the problem you have. You leave with a working prototype, a cost model, and an honest answer — including "not yet".
01 — 04
How a project runs
Four phases. Every one ends in something you can use.
The old way of running software projects — a long specification, a longer build, a launch you find out about at the end — does not survive contact with AI work, where the answer to "will this actually work" is empirical.
So we front-load the uncertainty. You get a real prototype before you commit to a build, and each phase ends with a deliverable that stands on its own if you decide to stop there.
01
Discovery
We sit with the people who do the work today, map the process, and find where a model actually helps — and where a database query would have done the job cheaper.
You get: scoped problem, cost model
02
Prototype
A working version against your real data, with an evaluation set so "it feels better" becomes a number. This is where we find out if the idea holds.
You get: running prototype, eval results
03
Build
Production engineering: the interface, the integrations, access control, logging, and the fallbacks for when the model is wrong — because sometimes it will be.
You get: shipped system, handover docs
04
Operate
Monitoring quality and cost after launch, retraining or re-prompting as your data shifts, and training your team to run it without us.
You get: monitoring, a team that owns it
Clients
A decade of products, across six industries.
Faith, sport, logistics, education, food and property. Different domains, the same job underneath — take something a business does by hand and make software carry it reliably.
Deemples
Golf
NAQL
Furniture moving
E-Learning Academy
Online learning
TastyVoo
Food & beverage
Shaetry
Property
Wichey
Food & beverage
Ucar
Smart transportation
Dicardy
Business online cards
Escoola
Online learning
Amce
Constructions
Shareely
Affiliate platform
Fadfadh
Psychological consultations
Implementoo
Lead Generation & call center CRM
Nateera
E-commerce
Efectivoo
Payment gateway
Working with the Gulf
Close enough to be in the room. Far enough to be affordable.
- Working week Sunday to Thursday, on Gulf hours — not a European calendar with a Gulf phone number.
- Language Arabic and English throughout, in the product and in the room. Arabic-language AI is a first-class requirement here, not a translation task at the end.
- Data residency We architect for in-region hosting from the start, and will tell you plainly which parts of a design send data outside the region.
- Engagement Fixed-price discovery, then a build contract with a named team. No open-ended retainers.
- Delivery Engineered in Alexandria, Egypt — a two-hour time difference and a three-hour flight from Dubai.
Next step
Tell us what is slow, manual, or drowning in documents.
We will tell you whether AI is the right tool for it — and if it is not, we will say so. That conversation costs nothing.