Today, Qadi, the first sovereign regulatory compliance platform in the Middle East, announced its pre-seed investment round, spearheaded by Incubayt. Qadi’s technology turns local laws, rules, and policies into AI agents that may decide whether or not to follow them. The idea is to speed up the way law firms and organisations in the area handle legal and compliance matters so they can develop.
Qadi is a platform that brings together data sovereignty, regional legal knowledge, and regulatory intelligence to help MENAT’s legal and regulatory systems. Qadi takes local laws, rules, and internal policies and turns them into AI agents that do things. It also makes sure that compliance checks are built into company operations ahead of time.
Qadi wants to give the area a set of rules that legal and compliance teams can trust. It keeps institutional data and processes private while allowing AI agents of the next generation to perform faster and smarter.
In Qadi, AI agents turn broken-up legal and regulatory tasks into full processes. One set of agents may handle contracts from the very beginning. They can check to make sure that Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) and Master Service Agreements (MSAs) follow local laws and the company’s internal rules. They can also transmit them to the right people for approval and let sales and go-to-market teams know when agreements are ready to go. Another group of agents can check media assets to make sure they follow the rules for advertising and financial promotions in their area.
Mohamad El Charif, the company’s creator, remarked, “Qadi is doing something different.” We aren’t only making a copilot; we’re also making the engine that will make compliance automatic. By combining AI with strategic legal guidance, Qadi is putting itself in the middle of the next generation of legal services in the region.
The money will enable Qadi hire more AI and Legal Engineers and get its platform to several law firms and banks in the GCC.
Regulatory AI is moving from experiments to core infrastructure around the world,” said Sami Khoreibi, an investor and the founder of Incubayt. “But in this region, it needs to be sovereign and closely follow local rules. Qadi is right to start with the institution’s own local laws, rules, and policies, code them as agents, and use them in the institution’s own setting. Our most sophisticated clients want exactly that mix of data sovereignty, regulatory depth, and agentic automation.
Qadi intends to be the regulatory operational layer for law firms and institutions in the Middle East as the region’s laws and rules continue to be updated and attract investment from all over the world. Qadi streamlines decision-making by directly integrating regulatory intelligence into operational workflows.