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Nick Smith
Co-founder · Abu Dhabi
Former national-security OSINT lead. Brings 9 years of experience working with the UAE's National Security and Law Enforcement sectors. Directs the product. Led a $3M+ government contract in the domain.
Algorism: modular AI frameworks for domestic government deployment, Abu Dhabi
01 The problem المشكلة
Agencies are made to choose between capability and control.
Intelligence work now depends on fusing open-source, signals, and internal data into a single picture. The tools that do this well were not built for sovereign environments, and the systems built for sovereign environments do not do it well.
02 What we build التحوّل
The point is what your analysts stop doing.
- manual sweeps
- scattered sources
- rebuilt timelines
- cross-source visibility
- complete audit trail
- operational readiness
- legal admissibility
Open-source, signals, and internal data that analysts spend weeks collating across disconnected systems become one queryable picture in hours, with every judgment carrying its source and chain of custody, so a single product serves the operations room and the courtroom.
03 How it works الآلية
One certified core. Assembled to your mandate.
We maintain a single, reusable module core and assemble each deployment from it. Two fields in a manifest, what the system is for and how sensitive its data is, determine the modules, the safeguards, and where the system is allowed to run.
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Define the mandate
You set the mission and the classification. Everything downstream follows from those two decisions, including which environment the system is permitted to run in.
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Assemble from the core
Modules are drawn from a shared library that is already built and already certified, so the work is configuration and tailoring rather than starting again.
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Prove it automatically
Every build passes a fixed set of compliance checks covering residency, approved endpoints, where inference runs, audit, provenance, and offline posture. A build that fails any check cannot ship.
residencyPASS
approved endpointsPASS
where inference runsPASS
auditPASS
provenancePASS
offline posturePASS
RESIDENCY ✓ VALIDATEDSHIP
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Deploy in-country
Sovereign cloud, private tenancy, or fully offline on your own hardware. The data stays in your jurisdiction and the AI runs on infrastructure you control.
04 Classification التصنيف
Sensitivity decides where the system lives.
Classification is not a label we attach at the end. It is an input that determines the deployment environment, the safeguards, and what the system is allowed to reach.
- Residency is the constant.Data never leaves your national jurisdiction, and only approved endpoints are ever reachable.
05 Who we serve من نخدم
Built for the institutions that carry the mandate.
Abu Dhabi · 24.4539°N 54.3773°EUnited Arab Emirates
Built in the United Arab Emirates, for the United Arab Emirates.
06 The name الاسم
Algorism: the root of the algorithm, brought home.
9th century · House of Wisdom, Baghdad
al-Khwarizmithe scholar
algorismthe art of calculation
algorithmtoday
Algorism is the medieval word for the art of calculation, taken from al-Khwarizmi, the ninth-century scholar of Baghdad's House of Wisdom whose name gave the world the word algorithm. The House of Wisdom gathered knowledge from every source, translated it, and made sense of it together, which is intelligence fusion in its oldest form.
Written in Kufic script, the wordmark returns the root of the algorithm to the language and the region it came from. We build for that region by design, and from home.
07 Team الفريق
Operators who sat inside the problem.
Three long-standing partners who delivered intelligence programmes together, now productising what they built, with engineering and strategic foresight alongside.
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Ric Hallikeri
Co-founder · Access & partnerships
Government access, strategic partnerships, and business development. Co-originated the programmes the platform grew out of.
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Kamron Qureshi
Co-founder · Programmes
Programme leadership and client delivery. Co-originated the programmes the platform grew out of.
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Dr Ash Rossiter
Strategic foresight
Senior advisor and academic on the emerging defence and security landscape.
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Engineering
Client delivery
A senior full-stack engineer owns delivery engineering: the code and interfaces that work in production. Local engineering hires in Abu Dhabi from 2027.
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Advisory
Abu Dhabi
A local strategic partner supports sovereign programme access and in-country partnerships.
08 Contact تواصل
Tell us what you need to see in one picture.
We work with government and security institutions in the United Arab Emirates. If sovereignty is a requirement rather than a preference, we should talk.
We should talk nick@algorism.ae