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Riyadh · Saudi Arabia

AI consultant and AI developer for Riyadh companies

Aadhib Nasser · AI Engineer and AI Consultant

I'm Aadhib Nasser, an AI consultant and AI developer based in Dammam, in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province. I take on AI work directly, under my own name, for companies across the Kingdom, Riyadh included, and the work runs on the same clock as yours.

DAMMAM, SA26.42°N 50.09°EEnglish · Arabic
Based in
Dammam
Saudi Arabia
Working with
Riyadh
Time zone
Same as Riyadh
Asia/Riyadh, UTC+3
Clients in
Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Ireland
Works in
English · Arabic

Overview

If you are looking for one engineer accountable for the whole system rather than an agency, that is what this is. The person who advises on the architecture is the person who builds it.

What I do

All services →
01AI agents & integrationsProduction AI agents wired into the systems a business already runs.02Local & on-premise AIPrivate models on hardware you control, and hybrid local and cloud designs.03AI strategy & advisoryWhere AI fits, which model and vendor, and what a pilot has to prove.04Arabic-first AI productsBilingual, right-to-left AI products, and AI that cites Arabic sources.

What changes when the client is in Riyadh

Riyadh is where most of the Kingdom's regulators, ministries and large enterprise headquarters sit. The Saudi Data & Artificial Intelligence Authority, which supervises the Personal Data Protection Law, and the National Cybersecurity Authority are both based there, and so are many of the organisations that answer to them.

For AI work, that tends to set the order of the questions. Who owns the data, whether it may leave the Kingdom, which controls apply and who signs the system off all come before which model to use. Personal data is governed by the PDPL, including its rules on transfers outside the Kingdom, and organisations that work with government entities or operate critical infrastructure often have to meet the NCA's controls as well. Many of the documents, and many of the people using the system, are Arabic-first.

So the design starts from where the model is allowed to run and works back to the model: what stays on hardware you control, what can safely use a hosted model, and what each component is permitted to do. Running a model locally does not by itself make a system compliant with PDPL or NCA requirements. It makes certain architectures possible, and whether they are sufficient is for your security and legal reviewers to decide. I say so in writing.

Working together

  • 01Based in Dammam, on Riyadh's time zone (Asia/Riyadh, UTC+3)
  • 02WhatsApp or email to start. I usually reply within a day
  • 03English and Arabic
  • 04Direct, under my own name: the person you talk to is the engineer who builds it

Relevant work

Case studies and projects

01Building legal AI that refuses unsupported claims02Architecting multi-tenant legal AI with isolation, roles and audit03Building AI due diligence around evidence instead of answers04Mac mini versus cloud for client-side AI in Saudi Arabia05Building an enterprise visitor management system for Saudi operations

Further reading

Notes on AI in Saudi Arabia

01Local AI vs cloud AI: what actually makes sense for Saudi companies?02Saudi Arabia is an interesting place to build enterprise AI03"No source, no claim" should be the default for high-stakes AI

Questions

Asked before an engagement

Do you work with Riyadh companies if you are based in Dammam?

Yes. I take on work across Saudi Arabia, Riyadh included, and Dammam keeps the same hours as Riyadh. Engagements start with a few sentences by WhatsApp or email.

Can the AI run without our data leaving the Kingdom?

For many workloads, yes. Open-weight models can run on hardware you control inside your own network, and a hybrid design keeps the sensitive steps there while the rest uses a hosted model. Which workloads fit depends on the task, the documents and the context length, so I test on your own material first.

Who decides whether the design satisfies PDPL and NCA requirements?

Your legal and security reviewers. I set out what data goes where, what stays on your hardware and what each component is allowed to do, so they have something concrete to assess. Keeping data local is one input into that assessment, not its conclusion.

Do you build Arabic-first systems?

Yes. I work in English and Arabic, and Arabic-first AI products, including source-grounded legal AI that cites its sources, are one of the four services I offer.

Start a conversation

I usually reply within a day

Send a few sentences about the problem: what the process is today, where the data lives, and what would change if it worked.

WhatsApp +966 575 741 941hi@aadhib.aiContact form

Elsewhere

Other places I work with

01AI consultant in Dammam02AI consultant for UAE companies03AI consultant for Irish companies