Enterprise AI · Architecture, adoption, go-to-market

I build AI systems that hold up in front of regulators, engineers and buyers. Then I take them to market.

$2.4Mbooked ARR with a four-person team
GEC 2025award for AI governance and compliance
Three products live in market
5regions: US · EU · MENA · SEA · India
Habib Mehmoodi
Agentic AIAI governanceEvals & observabilityForward-deployed engineeringHuman-in-the-loop designAdoption & enablementGo-to-marketPricing & packagingMarket expansionP&L
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The thesis

Enterprise AI stalls in one of three places: nobody trusts it, nobody uses it, or nobody will pay for it. I have worked on all three, as the engineer who builds the system, the trainer who gets teams using it, and the operator who owns the number.

Start with a 30-minute brief See how I work
$2.4Mbooked ARR, built with four people
$10.5Mqualified pipeline behind it
10vertical AI accelerators shipped
3patent-pending governance methods
20+years across B2B technology
130%market-share growth on the last expansion

The four mandates

What I get hired to do

Four kinds of work I get hired for. Each stands on its own. Together they take an AI capability from first design to revenue.

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Mandate 01 · Architecture

Forward-deployedAI architecture

Agents, retrieval and a governance layer. I design the system with your engineers and stay until it runs in production.

PythonTypeScriptLangGraphClaude · OpenAIPostgres RLSAWS
Three patent-pending methods · six families by 2026
01Trust-Aware Agent OrchestrationHard gates come before risk. A trust score never creates authority, and a permit survives handoffs and retries.
02Compliance-Aware Prompt CompilerYour policies are compiled into obligations the system has to carry on every call, not advice in a prompt that a model can drop.
03Observability-Driven Adaptive RAGRetrieval improves from what the model actually used, through controlled and reversible changes that never trade access rights for relevance.
10industry accelerators built on the platform, three of them earning revenue
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Mandate 02 · Adoption and training

Adoptionat scale

A pilot becomes a habit when leadership, a core group of champions and the frontline all move together. I ran training programs before I built AI platforms.

  1. Week 1Executive briefing

    Where AI will pay for itself in your business now, where it will not yet, and what the board will ask.

  2. Weeks 2 to 4Champions cohort

    A small group from each team learns on their own real work, then teaches the people around them.

  3. Month 2Playbooks and guardrails

    Written procedures, approval rules, and a clear line on what a human must sign off.

  4. Month 3Live and measured

    Usage and outcomes reported to the sponsor every month, so the ROI case rests on real numbers.

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Mandate 03 · Go-to-market

Go-to-marketfor AI products

Positioning against the big platforms, pricing that gets through procurement, and a pipeline your sales team keeps running after I leave.

ArqAI Labs · fifteen months · four people
Booked ARR$2.4M
Near-close$4.2M
Qualified pipeline$10.5M
Positioned against

Amazon Q · Microsoft Copilot · Google Vertex

Accenture · Deloitte · EPAM

+50%lead-to-opportunity conversion for an AML platform sold to banks
−25%sales cycle at the same company
$1.5Ma year in ads-for-equity with the Hindustan Times Group, a deal I brokered
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Mandate 04 · Market expansion

Marketexpansion

I have opened and run markets in five regions, mostly for regulated products, and mostly from inside the company rather than as an adviser.

USHealthcare payers

Took ArqFWA, our fraud-and-waste accelerator for payers, from pilot to paying clients. Its first assessment found $3.2M a year in waste the incumbent tool had passed.

EUIRIS Carbon in Europe

Launched IRIS Carbon, a regulatory reporting platform, across the EU, with GDPR compliance built in from day one.

AfricaSouth Africa, +130%

Grew IRIS Carbon's South Africa market share 130% in two years through positioning and channel partners.

MENAA partner channel from zero

Opened the Middle East for ACI Infotech and ArqAI Labs single-handed: found and signed the partners, built the channel, and turned it into a revenue line.

SEA80+ startups launched

Ran my own marketing agency across the region for seven years and helped launch and grow more than 80 tech startups.

IndiaA new asset class, launched

TOYOW lets people own fractions of art, films and music as digital tokens. I ran its national launch, 250,000 users in the first quarter, and brokered a $1.5M-a-year ads-for-equity deal with the Hindustan Times Group.

Habib Mehmoodi receiving the GEC Award 2025 for AI Governance and Compliance Innovation GEC Awards 2025 · Innovative Vendor

Recognition · GEC Awards 2025

Innovative Vendor of the Year for AI Governance and Compliance

The GEC Awards, run by the Global CIO Forum, are judged by enterprise technology leaders across the Middle East, Africa and Asia. In 2025 they named ArqAI the innovative vendor in AI governance and compliance: the platform I architected, which lets a company run AI agents with the same controls it would demand of a new employee, and prove it to a regulator.

3 methods patent pending10 industry products built on them$3.2M a year of waste found for one client

Next

How I work: architect, adopt, expand.

  • Agent orchestration
  • Policy as obligations
  • Governed retrieval
  • Evidence and audit trail
Mandate 01

Architect

I design the system, then build it with your engineers until it runs in production. Security and compliance are checked as we build, not at the end.

The architecture rests on six governance methods, three of them patent pending: policy compiled into obligations the system must carry, agents that act only with current and verified authority, retrieval that improves without weakening access rights, and, added in 2026, controls for uncertain outcomes, recovery capacity and the completeness of evidence before an agent acts.

  • POC to production
  • Security and compliance review
  • Built with your team
  • 6 to 12 week engagements
  • Executive briefings
  • Team programs
  • Use-case discovery
  • ROI cases
Mandate 02

Adopt

Before I built AI systems, I designed training programs for frontline insurance advisors and ran an agency for seven years on client retention. Getting people to use a system is most of the work.

Champions networks, playbooks, approval rules with a human in the loop, and the follow-through that keeps a rollout alive after month three.

  • Champions network
  • Playbooks and SOPs
  • Human-in-the-loop design
  • Change management
  • Positioning
  • Pricing and packaging
  • Pipeline engine
  • Sales enablement
Mandate 03

Expand

Go-to-market and market entry. I have positioned AI against Amazon Q, Copilot and Vertex, priced it for enterprise procurement, and opened the EU, Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia for regulated products.

GDPR and AML compliance work, partner channels, and P&L ownership when the role calls for it.

  • US · EU · MENA · SEA
  • Partner channels
  • Regulatory framing
  • P&L ownership

Built and live

thearq.ai

ArqAI Labs

Architected the platform and the three patent-pending governance methods it runs on, then built ten industry accelerators on top. Took it from a website to $2.4M booked ARR with a four-person team.

↗ burraquantum.com

Rumin

AI-native ad platform that plans, launches and runs campaigns on Google, Meta, LinkedIn and Microsoft on its own. It monitors live performance, proposes changes with its reasoning, and keeps a ledger of predicted against delivered results. Built and run solo, live with a self-serve trial.

↗ tapresume.ai

TapResume

Designed and built a two-sided AI hiring platform from the ground up. Candidates get a career profile they own and a private career agent; employers get a recruiting workspace run by governed AI agents. Live, with billing, a public API and paying seats.

↗ pip install seectx

SeeCTX

Wrote and open-sourced a tool that records exactly what an LLM saw on every call, so teams can debug and audit AI behaviour. Works with OpenAI, Anthropic and LangGraph.

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Selected work

Four engagements that show the range: build, adopt, sell, expand.

Discuss a brief
PlatformGTMP&L

ArqAI Labs went from a website to $2.4M booked ARR in fifteen months

Services

What you can hire me for

Advisory, hands-on build, or a team that runs it for you. Most engagements start with a thirty-minute brief and a fixed-scope first phase.

Advisory + build

Enterprise AI strategy and architecture

AI strategy, use-case selection, system architecture, governance and compliance design for regulated industries. Agentic systems, retrieval, evaluation and observability. I build alongside your engineers until it runs in production.

  • AI readiness and use-case discovery
  • Architecture and governance design
  • Forward-deployed build, POC to production
  • AI vendor and platform evaluation
Programs

AI adoption and training

Executive briefings, team training, champions programs and the playbooks that turn a pilot into daily practice. Designed by someone who ran training programs before building AI platforms.

  • Board and leadership briefings
  • Role-based training programs
  • Champions network and playbooks
  • Adoption measurement and ROI reporting
Advisory

Go-to-market and pricing

Positioning, pricing and packaging, sales enablement and a pipeline engine for AI and B2B software products. Built against real competitors, priced to get through procurement.

  • Positioning and messaging
  • Pricing and packaging
  • Sales playbooks and enablement
  • Pipeline design and demand generation
Retainer

Marketing consultation and fractional CMO

Marketing strategy for founders and leadership teams that need a senior operator without a full-time hire. Brand, demand, marketing operations and the analytics to run them, with P&L accountability when you want it.

  • Fractional CMO or growth lead
  • Marketing strategy and annual plan
  • Marketing automation and analytics setup
  • Team structure and hiring
Done for you · Burraq Quantum

Marketing agency services

When you need the work done, not just advised. A small senior team under my direction, with AI-native tooling including Rumin for paid media.

  • Performance marketing on Google, Meta, LinkedIn and Microsoft
  • SEO and answer-engine optimisation (AEO)
  • Content, thought leadership and executive ghostwriting
  • Brand strategy and identity
  • Website and landing page build
  • Marketing automation, CRM and attribution
Advisory + on the ground

Market expansion and international GTM

Entering the US, EU, Middle East, India or Southeast Asia with a regulated or technical product. Regulatory framing, partner channels, local positioning and the first revenue.

  • Market entry strategy
  • Partner and channel development
  • Regulatory and compliance framing
  • Regional launch and first customers
Start with a briefBased in Mumbai, working in Dubai and remotely across the US, EU, MENA, India and Southeast Asia.
Habib Mehmoodi speaking on the GITEX Global stage in Dubai
GITEX Global · Dubai
Speaking at GITEX Global, Dubai. Also a speaker and delegate at the World CIO 200 Summit in Egypt, Qatar and the UAE, and host of the YouTube channel You Got Prompt.
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Career arc

Twenty years, one direction

Bank sales in Dubai, then sales training, then seven years running an agency, then taking regulated tech into new markets, then building and selling AI. Twenty years, almost all B2B, always close to the revenue.

Delegates at the World CIO 200 Summit 2025 gala night in Egypt
World CIO 200 Summit 2025 · Egypt
World CIO 200 Summit gala night, Egypt, 2025.
2026 · now

Founder · Burraq Quantum

Product studio and consultancy. Builds and runs Rumin; advises mid-market companies on AI adoption and marketing operations.

2025 to 2026

VP, Innovation and Strategy · ArqAI Labs

Founding operator and technical lead of a four-person team. Architected three patent-pending governance methods, built the platform and ten accelerators, ran enterprise pilots, and booked $2.4M ARR. GEC Award 2025.

2023 to 2024

Head of Marketing and Growth · TOYOW / Aqex

GTM, automation and analytics from scratch for a platform that tokenizes art, films and music. 250,000 users in the first quarter.

2021 to 2023

Marketing and Growth Strategy Lead · Clari5

AML and real-time fraud platform sold to banks. Lead-to-opportunity up 50%, sales cycle down 25%.

2019 to 2021

Head of Marketing and Global Expansion · IRIS Business Services

RegTech. South Africa share up 130%; EU, Middle East and Africa opened; EU launch with a GDPR framework.

2012 to 2019

Founder and Managing Director · Brand Metasis

Multi-country marketing agency across Southeast Asia. Full P&L for seven years, 95%+ client retention.

2003 to 2012

Emirates Bank · Max New York Life · ETOOS

Sales, then marketing, at one of the UAE's largest banks. Senior training manager building programs for frontline insurance advisors. Marketing manager for an online exam-prep company in South Korea.

Habib Mehmoodi with the GEC Award 2025 trophy at the wall of fameRecognition

GEC Award 2025

Innovative Vendor: AI Governance and Compliance Innovation, for ArqAI.

IP · 3 patents pending, six method families

Agent governance methods

How an enterprise keeps control of what an AI agent may still do after plans, outcomes and evidence change.

  • Compliance-Aware Prompt CompilerPolicy becomes obligations the system must carry, not prompt advice that can be dropped.Patent pending
  • Trust-Aware Agent OrchestrationHard gates before risk. A trust score never creates authority; permits survive handoffs and retries.Patent pending
  • Observability-Driven Adaptive RAGRetrieval improves only through controlled, reversible changes that never trade access rights for relevance.Patent pending
  • Effect-Inferring Task CompilerWhen an action's outcome is uncertain, authority stays correct for every state that could have occurred.2026
  • Delegation-Conserving Capability TokensAgents act only when the capacity to recover the whole outstanding workload is reserved first.2026
  • Rights-Consistent Context Controller"Nothing found" counts as evidence only when the search was complete, permitted and still current.2026
Habib Mehmoodi speaking at GITEX GlobalStage

GITEX Global · World CIO 200

Speaker and delegate in Dubai, Egypt, Qatar and the UAE.

Certified

AWS AI Practitioner

AI and ML executive programs; enterprise architecture and governance frameworks.

Where I work

Mumbai · Dubai · remote

Based in Mumbai, in Dubai often, and working with teams across the US, EU, MENA, India and Southeast Asia.

Ready when you are

Tell me whatyou are tryingto move.

Thirty minutes is usually enough to find where it is stuck: trust, adoption or the business case. You leave with a clear next step whether or not we work together.

Start the brief taaish@gmail.com