Taking on new work for 2026.
The Idea Stock is a Dubai lab led by Shaibi Shamsudeen. We work on the unglamorous parts — the control loop that knows when to stop, retrieval that returns the right thing, evaluation that catches the regression, controls that leave evidence — and ship them into real operations.
// Ventures and projects
Each one links a real problem to a system design and an outcome you can check. Colour marks the layer of the AI system it lives in.
45% better retrieval efficiency than the project baseline. Second prize among 250+ accelerator participants.
A deep-research system that coordinates specialised agents across web, video, academic, news and vector sources, with a consolidation step that checks for contradictions.
First assurance loop implemented and verified end to end. An early MVP — persistence and the assessment stages are not built yet.
An industry-neutral workbench for designing, evaluating and assuring AI-enabled applications, from concept through pre-deployment approval and change review. The premise is that every decision should leave evidence a reviewer can actually check. Built with e2e, unit and accessibility tests from the start.
Acquired by Dow Jones in March 2018.
A cloud platform for auditable third-party risk assessment. I led the functional architecture across scoring, workflow states, approvals and reporting.
// How we work
Most AI projects fail on the seams, not the model: the handoffs, the evaluation, the evidence trail. We start by naming those, then build.
// Let's talk
Tell me a little about the problem and the timeline, and I'll reply within a couple of days. I'm also open to senior AI architecture roles.