Qadi, the Middle East’s pioneering sovereign regulatory compliance platform, has officially emerged from stealth with a pre-seed funding round led by Incubayt. The company aims to redefine how legal and compliance functions operate across the region by transforming local laws, regulations and policies into AI agents that deliver real-time, automated compliance decisions.
Positioned at the intersection of legal engineering and next-generation AI, Qadi is specifically built for the regulatory environments of the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey (MENAT). The platform integrates regional legal expertise with data sovereignty—a critical requirement for institutions in sectors such as finance, law, government, and regulated industries. By encoding rules into specialized AI agents, Qadi embeds compliance checkpoints directly into business workflows, enabling faster institutional decision-making while maintaining regulatory rigour.
“We’re building the engine for compliance automation in the Middle East.” — Mohamad El Charif
Qadi’s architecture allows AI agents to handle fragmented, manual tasks and convert them into end-to-end legal workflows. For example, one group of agents can autonomously conduct first-pass reviews of contracts, including NDAs and MSAs, comparing them against local requirements and internal playbooks before routing them for approval. Another group can analyze media content to ensure adherence to regional advertising and financial promotion regulations. This shift from advisory-driven processes to machine-executed workflows represents a significant transformation for legal service delivery in the region.
“Qadi is doing something distinct. We aren’t just building a copilot; we’re building the engine for compliance automation,” said Mohamad El Charif, Founder at Qadi. “By bridging the gap between strategic legal advisory and AI, we aim to become the backbone of the next generation of legal services in the region.”
Investor Sami Khoreibi, Founder of Incubayt, emphasized the significance of Qadi’s approach: “Regulatory AI is becoming core infrastructure globally—but in this region, it must be sovereign and deeply tuned to local rules. Qadi’s model of encoding regulations as agents and deploying them within the institution’s environment is exactly what sophisticated clients are demanding.”
With regulatory modernization accelerating across the Middle East, Qadi aims to deliver a trusted operating layer that embeds regulatory intelligence into daily institutional workflows—providing speed, accuracy, and scalable compliance for the AI era.
