Mohamed Nabil · Alexandria, Egypt — building from MENA for global markets

I build AI companies for high-stakes decisions.

Founder & CTO at Prism56 · A decade shipping investment intelligence, sovereign AI, and enterprise transformation.

10

years building production AI

2

national ministry deployments

500K+

employees at largest institution

01 — Founder & operator

Built where decisions carry weight

  1. Current venture

    Prism56

    Co-Founder & CTO

    01

    Context — Investment teams make consequential decisions from fragmented company, market, and diligence signals.

    Built — An AI-powered investment intelligence platform for venture and institutional investors — agentic pipelines that turn scattered signals into structured, decision-grade analysis.

    Proof — Backed and incubated by Fikra Ventures, Abu Dhabi.

  2. Proof under constraint

    Farabi

    AI Lead (4.5 yrs) · Shareholder

    02

    Context — Arabic document workflows break down where script complexity, degraded scans, security requirements, and national-scale operations collide.

    Built — Arabic-first document intelligence and on-prem processing infrastructure built for regulated government environments.

    Proof — Deployed with the Ministries of Interior and Foreign Affairs, including work inside an institution with 500K+ employees.

Selected operating record

  • Next15

    Senior AI Transformation Lead

    Group-level AI strategy paired with hands-on systems delivery.

  • Saqaya

    AI Lead Consultant

    Selective embedded engagements from transformation strategy through delivery.

  • Tactful AI

    Head of AI

    Bilingual conversational AI and enterprise customer-engagement systems.

  • Vortex Robotics

    Co-Founder

    Underwater autonomy for safety-critical oil and gas operations.

  • Helm

    Creator

    Geopolitical scenario intelligence for consequential regional decisions.

02 — Operating edge

Where the advantage compounds

01

Investment & Decision Intelligence

Agentic systems for decisions where speed and rigor both matter.

  • Company, market, filing, and diligence signals unified into decision-grade analysis
  • Evaluation, traceability, and failure design built into the product architecture
  • Founder-level ownership from product thesis through production engineering

02

Sovereign & Arabic AI

Models and infrastructure built for language, control, and deployment sovereignty.

  • Arabic-first NLP and document intelligence for difficult real-world data
  • On-prem and air-gapped deployments designed around security review
  • Sovereign model strategy, domain adaptation, and foundational model development

03

Enterprise AI Transformation

Strategy that becomes operating capability, not a portfolio of pilots.

  • Group-level roadmaps anchored to near-term systems and measurable impact
  • Governance, architecture, team topology, and hiring designed together
  • Embedded delivery inside the client’s stack, constraints, and operating model