Qadi Emerges from Stealth with AI-Powered Compliance Platform for MENAT

Editorial Team

Last updated 8-12-2025

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Qadi emerges from stealth with pre-seed funding to launch a regulatory compliance platform.

The platform converts local laws and policies into AI agents for swift compliance decisions.

It's designed for MENAT's legal landscape, enhancing proactive regulatory processes without confidentiality risk.

Fresh funding will expand the team and deploy the platform in GCC law firms and institutions.

Qadi aims to be the compliance automation backbone, crucial for regional scaling amid evolving regulations.

Qadi has stepped out of stealth mode with fresh pre-seed backing, betting big on what it calls the Middle East’s first sovereign regulatory compliance platform. The round was led by Incubayt, and the company is pitching a system that turns local laws and internal policies into AI agents capable of making compliance decisions on the fly. I’ve seen quite a few legal-tech tools pop up across the region lately, but this one does seem a bit more ambitious than the usual contract-checking bots.

The platform is built specifically for the legal and regulatory landscape of MENAT, weaving together regional expertise, data sovereignty and next‑gen automation. In practice, Qadi breaks down everything from local regulations to internal company playbooks and encodes them into AI agents that plug into business workflows. It’s meant to be proactive rather than reactive, which—if you’ve ever had to wait days to get an NDA cleared—sounds spot on.

One of the ideas behind Qadi is giving legal and compliance teams a system they can trust without sacrificing confidentiality. The agents handle tasks end to end: reviewing NDAs and MSAs, checking them against local requirements, routing them to the right people, and nudging commercial teams when a deal can finally move. Another group of agents scans media assets to ensure they’re in line with regional advertising and financial‑promotion rules. Having once watched a startup lose a week untangling a tiny compliance slip-up, I reckon this kind of embedded intelligence could save a lot of headaches.

Qadi’s founder, Mohamad El Charif, described the company’s goal as building “the engine for compliance automation,” noting that they aren’t trying to make just another AI copilot. That said, with AI creeping into every corner of legal operations, the timing feels well… I mean, ideal.

The fresh funding will help expand Qadi’s team of AI and legal engineers, with plans to roll out the platform to select law firms and financial institutions across the GCC. On the flip side, it’s a crowded space globally, but the regional focus might give Qadi the edge it needs.

Incubayt’s founder, Sami Khoreibi, said regulatory AI is shifting from experiments to core infrastructure worldwide, but in this region it needs to be sovereign and tightly aligned with local frameworks. He highlighted Qadi’s approach of encoding laws into agents that run inside an institution’s own environment—a combination he described as exactly what sophisticated clients are asking for. And believe it or not, data sovereignty really has become one of those non-negotiables that used to be a bit of a faff.

As regulatory systems evolve across the Middle East and global capital flows in, Qadi aims to become the operational layer that helps firms scale their compliance work instantly and safely. From what I’ve seen supporting early-stage founders here at Arageek, that sort of infrastructure is often the missing puzzle piece—definately something many teams wish they had earlier.

Whether Qadi becomes the backbone of legal automation in the region remains to be seen, but for now, the company is stepping confidently into a space that’s ripe for change.

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