Delegram builds companies with founders selling into the Gulf. We run the build stack. You run the company. The first product ships in weeks, not quarters.
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The Gulf is one of the most underbuilt markets in the world for AI-native ventures right now. Capital is concentrated. Enterprise buyers are underserved. Serious operators are moving to Dubai and Riyadh. The combination is a once-per-cycle window — and it is open now.
Not a generic AI idea. A specific buyer in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, or Oman with budget, urgency, and a reason to move now.
Vision 2030, the AI buildout across Aramco and ADNOC, and the migration of serious operators to Dubai and Riyadh have opened a window that does not exist anywhere else. We screen for whether you're early, on time, or already late — for this region specifically.
The first product has to enter through a buyer you can reach and a problem they cannot ignore. Regional access matters. Being in the room matters.
Gates, agents, memory, audit trails, regional setup, and repeatable execution loops. Every company built in the Gulf sharpens the next.
Nothing autonomous. Nothing irreversible. Every step has a clear input, a clear output, and a clear approval.
One page. Gulf buyer, problem, why now, what access you have, and what you've already done. Five minutes of writing, not a deck.
72 hours. Six-axis rubric scored by screening agents and reviewed by the studio against GCC procurement, regulation, distribution, and founder edge. You get a number and a critique.
If you pass, we send terms. Founder keeps 88%. Studio takes 12%. Founder retains operational control. IP is assigned to the venture, not the studio.
Specialist agents build the product, run outreach, validate pricing, and prepare regional setup through ADGM, DIFC, mainland UAE, or KSA where needed. Payments rails and Arabic-language requirements are handled when the product needs them.
The studio operates with the founder for 18 months by default. Founder approves each meaningful action. You run the company. We support the operating layer.
No vibes. The rubric is the same for every venture, scored the same way, and you see your scores. Pass at 70+.
GCC enterprise procurement realities matter. "SMBs" is not an answer. "The head of digital transformation at a Tier-1 Saudi bank" is.
Scored on operational pain in the Gulf context: compliance delays, approvals, capacity, service quality, procurement drag, lost revenue, or strategic urgency.
Interviews, prototypes, pre-orders, pilots, design partners. A regional design partner with budget and authority scores higher than a polite global conversation.
CAC, gross margin, retention, sales cycle, and pricing assumptions are stress-tested against comparable ventures in our memory and GCC pricing realities.
ADGM, DIFC, SAMA, SDAIA, Arabic-language requirements where relevant, sovereign-adjacent procurement cycles, distribution, and time. If the answer is "nothing blocks this," we look harder.
Lived knowledge, network, technical depth, and conviction. Regional access counts: being in the room with the right family office, ministry, buyer, or operator.
Western studios can copy the software stack. They cannot copy the operating layer required to incorporate, bank, hire, sell, and ship in the Gulf.
Stack is opinionated, not exhaustive. The regional layer is what no Western studio can replicate.
Dubai-based operator. Self-taught engineer. Building Delegram, GetMem.ai, and Optima AI from the Gulf.
In this region, operator-led pattern recognition matters more than founder mythology. The question is not who tells the best story. It is who understands the buyer, the regulatory path, the corridor, and the moment.
The proof is not theoretical. Anvante operates in Dubai. Optima AI is built for UAE enterprises. GetMem.ai is built in Dubai and serves global agent infrastructure.
The first cohort tested the studio model across premium electric mobility, enterprise AI, and agent infrastructure. Different buyers. Same discipline: build from a regional wedge, ship fast, keep founder control.
High-service electric mobility operation in Dubai, built around premium service and an automated execution layer.
Production AI for UAE enterprises: deployed systems for operational pain, not endless pilots. Arabic-language capability where required.
Durable memory infrastructure for AI agents. Built in Dubai, used globally, and based on the thesis that serious agents need persistent context.
The speed of execution changed everything. The product was live in a matter of weeks.
Founder retains operational control, strategic veto, the CEO seat, and the right to buy out the studio before Series A. The studio takes 12% for the operating system, agents, integrations, and work.
Delegram is built for the empty quadrant: Dubai-based, regional, founder-controlled, and agentic-native.
Twelve percent reflects what the studio actually does: months of agentic build, the integration layer, growth experiments, regional setup, terms-sheet support, and founder operating help. Lower would underprice the work and break the model. Higher would distort founder ownership.
Yes. Operational control is the founder's. Strategic veto is the founder's. Founder is CEO. The studio holds 12% as a minority shareholder and operates alongside — not above — the company.
Every agent action with cost, customer-facing output, or irreversible state lands in a queue. The founder approves, edits, or rejects. Nothing autonomous. Nothing surprising.
You get the rubric scores and a written critique. No equity, no fee, no obligation. Many founders resubmit a sharper version.
Yes. The studio's agents replace generic execution work; they don't replace human co-founders or specialist hires. Many ventures bring a co-founder and use the studio for the operating layer.
Alex Popyrin and a small bench of operators. Full profile here.
Software-led ventures headquartered in or selling into the GCC. We are strongest in enterprise AI, vertical SaaS, ops, infrastructure, mobility, fintech-adjacent workflows, and sovereign-adjacent enterprise problems. We are not the right partner for hardware, biotech, or consumer-app gambits.
We build companies headquartered in or selling into the GCC. Portfolio companies can serve global markets, but the wedge has to touch the region. If your buyer is in San Francisco, we are not the right partner.
No, but you need to be willing to spend serious time here during the build phase. The studio operates from Dubai. The region rewards presence.
We work with serious operators of any background. Many of our strongest founders are non-nationals who have moved to the region. What matters is buyer access and conviction, not passport.
Yes. ADGM, DIFC, mainland UAE, and KSA setup are part of the operating layer. No additional fee.
Five minutes of writing, not a deck. Seventy-two hours to a verdict. Either way, you walk away with a full critique.