Qadi Secures Pre-Seed Round Led by Incubayt
Qadi, the Middle East’s first sovereign regulatory compliance platform, has officially emerged from stealth and announced its pre-seed funding round, led by Incubayt. The platform transforms local laws, regulations, and internal policies into AI agents capable of making compliance determinations, redefining how law firms and institutions across the region manage their legal and compliance workflows to accelerate operations and unlock growth.
Purpose-built for the legal and regulatory environment of the MENAT region, Qadi integrates regional legal expertise, regulatory depth, and data sovereignty within a unified compliance automation infrastructure. The platform deconstructs local legislation and internal policies and encodes them into AI agents that proactively embed compliance checks into institutional workflows.
Qadi’s mission centers on providing legal and compliance teams with a trusted regulatory operating layer. The company ensures the confidentiality of institutional data and policies while unleashing the speed and intelligence of next-generation AI agents.
Within the platform, AI agents convert fragmented legal and compliance tasks into end-to-end workflows. One group of agents can take first-pass responsibility for contracts—reviewing Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) and Master Service Agreements (MSAs), validating them against local requirements and internal playbooks, routing them to the appropriate approvers, and notifying sales and go-to-market teams once deals are ready to progress. Another group focuses on scanning media assets for adherence to regional financial promotion and advertising regulations.
Mohamad El Charif, Founder at Qadi, stated:
“Qadi is doing something distinct. We aren’t just building a copilot; we’re building the engine for compliance automation. By bridging the gap between strategic legal advisory and AI, Qadi is positioning itself as the backbone of the next generation of legal services in the region.”
The newly raised funding will support the expansion of Qadi’s team of AI and Legal Engineers and enable the rollout of its platform to select law firms and financial institutions across the GCC.
Sami Khoreibi, Investor and Founder of Incubayt, commented:
“Around the world, regulatory AI is moving from experiments to core infrastructure but in this region, it has to be sovereign and deeply tuned to local rules. Qadi is taking the right approach of starting with local laws, regulations and policies, encoding them as agents, and deploying them inside the institution’s own environment. That combination of agentic automation, regulatory depth and data sovereignty is exactly what our most sophisticated clients are asking for.”
As the Middle East continues modernizing its regulatory frameworks and attracting global capital, Qadi aims to deliver the region’s regulatory operating layer, embedding regulatory intelligence into operational workflows to enable instant and scalable decision-making.
