I raised $3.5M to build the AI lab I've been dreaming about.
And I'll be its CEO until I find someone better than me.
It's called Naijm — "star" in Arabic. Based in Dubai, backed by the business community here in the UAE. This isn't a bet on a pitch deck: three companies are waiting to buy our services before I've hired a single person.
The model is simple.
We go inside massive enterprises, take their most expensive process, and rebuild it with agentic AI. We get paid on the savings we prove. If the client doesn't win, we don't eat. Efficiency and cost reduction — unsexy words, enormous money.
Why the UAE? Because nowhere else on earth can you build this. No AI Act. No Brussels drag. None of the American lifestyle that burns people out over a parking spot. Here, an entire nation is racing into AI — and the leaders pick up the phone.
The lab is bigger than one product. It's the infrastructure to create and deploy many ideas. Some of what we build will become companies of their own, run by the people who built them. I'll back them.
Now I need the crew.
Ten people.
Four jobs: engineers, hackers, biz devs, storytellers.
Autonomous people only — I have no managers to give you and no roadmap to hand you.
I want people so smart they never bore me.
I want full-stack people who understand business.
I want to build polymath paradise.
I'll pay up to $200,000 a year, in a country where you keep every dollar. The bonus can run 2–3x the base, written on the same savings number our clients pay on.
If you've ever thought about working with me one day, this is the moment.
The application takes thirty minutes. No CV. It starts with a blank page.
Link in the comments ❤️
PS: I also raised with the same people a $20M fund as a solo GP, to invest in AI companies that want to distribute in the UAE — to the same clients we're already talking to. It's good to be back ⭐️ Send me your pitch: [email protected]