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Applied AI - Abu Dhabi

Ship AI that works.

X01 is an applied AI studio in the UAE. We take AI from prototype to production for teams that have to answer to real customers, real regulators, and real budgets.
Based inAbu Dhabi - UAE
Founded2025
FocusProduction AI
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PROTOTYPE.
PRODUCTION.
SHIPPED.
Anyone can demo. We ship what works on Monday morning.
What we build - 01/

Five disciplines. One accountable team.

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* AI - 01

AI systems that ship.

Applied models, agents, and RAG pipelines built for production - with evaluation, guardrails, and cost control from day one.

LLMs - Agents - Vision
* FULLSTACK - 02

Web platforms, end to end.

Next.js, Laravel, Node, Postgres. Frontend, backend, and infrastructure - one team, one contract, one accountable delivery.

Web - APIs - Cloud
* MOBILE - 03

Apps customers actually keep.

Native iOS/Android and cross-platform builds - from first onboarding to store operations and long-term retention.

iOS - Android - Flutter
* DESKTOP - 04

Desktop tools that fit the workflow.

Cross-platform desktop apps for internal ops, industrial control, and creative pipelines - Electron, .NET, and native shells.

Electron - .NET - macOS
* CYBER SECURITY - 05

Security your board can defend.

Threat modelling, pentests, and hardening - with the paper trail your regulators and auditors need.

AppSec - Pentest - Compliance
A single idea

Applied AI, shipped like software. Run like production.

In the box

What actually goes into every X01 build.

01 - Evaluation

An eval harness that catches what a demo can't.

Deterministic tests for stochastic systems, versioned against your real traffic.

02 - Guardrails

Prompt firewalls, PII redaction, refusal budgets.

Every model call passes through a policy layer you can inspect and defend.

03 - Cost & Latency

Model routing, caching, and observability by default.

Cheaper inference where it fits, premium models only where they earn it.

04 - Human-in-Loop

Approval queues your compliance team can defend.

Audit trails, reviewer queues, and rollback - not an afterthought.

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FEATURE - EVALUATION HARNESS
How it comes together

Signal in.

Every X01 system starts the same way - messy, real-world signal from your operation.

01 - Signal
02 - Structure
03 - Decision
FRAME - 001 / 240
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Production AI systems shipped
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Regulated industries served
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0.9%
Production uptime, 12 mo.
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Avg. prototype -> live
Why teams pick X01

Small studio. Production discipline.

Not a consultancy. Not an agency. A studio that owns the outcome from scope to Monday morning.

* Delivery

Prototype to production in ~42 days on average.

A working system in front of real users fast, then hardened against what you learn.

* Uptime
99.9%

12 mo rolling.

* Cost

Inference bills, cut.

62%
* Coverage

AI, Fullstack, Mobile, Desktop, Cyber - one accountable team.

No handoffs. No sub-contractors. No finger-pointing between vendors when it breaks at 3 AM.

* Governance

Regulator-ready audit trails.

Built for GCC compliance from day one, not bolted on later.

Approach

We stop at production, not at proof-of-concept.

Most AI projects break the day a real user touches them. We build for that day, first.

* 01 - SCOPE

Start with the failure mode.

What breaks when this ships - cost, latency, compliance, hallucination - is where we start. Not the model, not the demo.

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* 02 - BUILD

Ship in weeks, not quarters.

Small, opinionated teams. A working system in front of real users fast, then hardened against what you learn.

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* 03 - OPERATE

Own it after launch.

Evaluation, monitoring, and cost controls stay with the system. AI that quietly works on Monday morning is the deliverable.

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Founders - Team

Three founders. One small, senior team.

We stay small on purpose. The people who scope the system are the people who ship and run it.

CO-FOUNDER - 01
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CEO - Operations & Strategy

Samya Ali

Drives operational execution and corporate strategy across enterprise ventures. Scales internal processes, aligns cross-functional execution, and ensures delivery against core business outcomes.

CO-FOUNDER - 02
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CTO - Systems & Security

Abdulrahman Hani

Hands-on engineering lead with expertise across web architecture, platform delivery, and cybersecurity. Owns the end-to-end technical infrastructure and product security posture.

CO-FOUNDER - 03
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CFO - Growth & Marketing

Hossam Hassan

Combines financial oversight with data-driven market acquisition and growth strategy. Manages capital allocation while driving brand scaling and enterprise ROI.

TEAM SIZE
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Engineers, designers, and operators
LOCATIONS
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Abu Dhabi - Cairo - Dubai
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Per senior engineer on staff
Selected work - anonymized

What "in production" actually looks like.

* CASE 01 - AI

Cutting call handle time by 41%.

Multilingual voice AI for a regional telco, taking 60% of tier-1 support autonomously.

AIArabicTelco
* CASE 02 - FULLSTACK

A regulator-ready real-estate platform in 11 weeks.

End-to-end Next.js + Laravel build for a co-brokerage network - from listings to KYC to payouts.

FullstackNext.jsReal Estate
* CASE 03 - MOBILE

Field-ops app used 6 days a week.

Offline-first cross-platform app for construction inspectors, deployed to 4 megaprojects.

MobileFlutterConstruction
* CASE 04 - SECURITY

Fintech pentest & hardening in one sprint.

Threat model, red-team engagement, and remediation for a licensed regional fintech before audit.

CyberPentestFintech
Teams already running X01

Trusted in production.

Compliance & certifications
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 SOC 2 - Type II GDPR UAE PDPL CBUAE Sandbox DIFC Innovation Licence
Field notes - Insights

Recent thinking from the studio.

Short essays on the engineering behind production AI, published quarterly.

TECHNICAL

Why eval harnesses beat prompt engineering.

Every X01 project starts with deterministic tests for stochastic systems. Here's why.

6 MIN READREAD ->
POINT OF VIEW

Arabic voice AI: what the demos always miss.

Dialect handling, code-switching, and confidence estimation in real production traffic.

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CASE NOTE

Cutting inference bills 62% - the routing playbook.

A repeatable model-routing pattern we deploy across every stack we ship.

10 MIN READREAD ->

Common questions.

Prefer to talk? Book a 30-minute call.

Fixed-scope builds of production AI systems, and longer partnerships where we own operation and evolution of the system after launch.

Real estate, financial services, construction and industrial safety, and government-facing services in the UAE and wider GCC.

Both. We start with the best model available for the task, then decide what - if anything - is worth training or fine-tuning ourselves.

Consultancies deliver slides and hand off. We deliver a system that stays live, and we stay accountable for it.

Ready when you are

Let's ship
something real.

Tell us what breaks in production today. We'll tell you honestly if AI is the right lever.

Or write us directly at hello@x01.ae. We reply within one business day.