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What we have learned, including the parts that are awkward to publish

Cost models with real numbers, the due-diligence questions your clients are actually asking, and post-mortems on projects that did not work. Written by the people who do the engagements, not by a marketing team.

GCC regulation 14 July 2026 12 min read

The UAE PDPL deadline is 1 January 2027 — what it means if you use AI

Federal Decree-Law 45/2021 requires full compliance by 1 January 2027. If your team puts customer data into AI tools, that deadline is about you. Here is what changes, what does not, and what to do in the time left.

  • Federal Decree-Law 45/2021 (PDPL) requires full compliance by 1 January 2027 — that is the date to plan against.
  • PDPL was not written for AI, but it applies to AI, because pasting customer data into a third-party tool is processing.
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GCC regulation 8 July 2026 10 min read

DIFC Regulation 10: the GCC's first AI rulebook, and who it binds

Regulation 10 has been the leading AI-specific regulation in the MEASA region since 2023 and reached full enforcement in January 2026. If you are a DIFC entity running anything autonomous over personal data, it already applies.

  • Regulation 10 sits inside the DIFC data-protection regime and is already fully enforced — since January 2026.
  • It binds DIFC-registered entities, not onshore UAE ones. If you are onshore, the federal PDPL applies to you instead.
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Governance 2 July 2026 11 min read

The eleven AI questions clients will ask this year

Client due-diligence questionnaires and PI insurers have started asking about AI controls directly. Here are the questions we are seeing, what a good answer looks like, and what happens when you cannot give one.

  • Client DDQs and insurer renewal forms now ask about AI controls as standard, not as an exception.
  • Saying "we are looking into it" is treated as a negative answer, and increasingly gets priced accordingly.
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Agents 18 June 2026 9 min read

What a bilingual voice agent actually costs to run

Vendors quote build cost and go quiet on running cost. Here is the full picture — per-minute economics, the hidden line items, and the break-even calculation you should be doing before you sign anything.

  • Running cost is per-minute and scales with volume — the build fee is often the smaller number over three years.
  • The line items vendors omit are telephony, failed-call retries, human escalation and the tuning nobody budgets for.
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