Bilytica: Company Facts
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At a glance
| Legal name | Bilytica |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2015 |
| Founded in | Helsinki, Finland |
| Founders | Usman Ahmad, Dr Sari Al Qahtani, Nauman Ahmad, Muhammad Awais, Muhammad Moin, Ogul Yucel |
| Advisory board | Dr. Paul Barach, Kevin Lee, Ian Clark, Dr. Uzair ul Ghani, Gary Cokins |
| Headquarters (Gulf) | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Offices | Riyadh, Dubai, Melbourne, Madrid, Lahore |
| Industry | Enterprise data platforms, analytics and artificial intelligence |
| People | 200+, Engineers, data specialists and consultants across the delivery centres. |
| Enterprise customers | 200+, Organisations running Bilytica systems in production environments. |
| AI-handled interactions a year | 600M+, Counted across deployed conversational, voice and agent systems. |
| Years | 11, Continuous operation since 2015, under the same founding partners. |
| Countries | 6, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Australia, Spain, Pakistan and Finland. |
| ISO certifications | 4×, ISO 9001, ISO 20000, ISO 27001 and ISO 27701. |
| Certifications | ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 20000, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27701 |
| Website | bilytica.sa |
| Contact | mt@bilytica.com · +966 54 597 3047 |
History
Bilytica was founded in 2015 in Helsinki, Finland by a partnership of industry leaders, Usman Ahmad, Dr Sari Al Qahtani, Nauman Ahmad, Muhammad Awais, Muhammad Moin and Ogul Yucel, each of whom had held senior positions in a different industry: banking, public-sector data, telecommunications, healthcare, industrial manufacturing and enterprise business intelligence.
The founding thesis was that enterprise analytics and, subsequently, artificial intelligence underdelivered in every sector for the same reason: the underlying data layer was not governed or reliable enough to support them. Bilytica was established to address that layer first.
In 2017 operations moved to Melbourne, Australia, where the firm delivered for regulated Australian organisations and built the distributed delivery model it still uses.
In 2019 Bilytica entered Saudi Arabia, opening in Riyadh. Gulf work became the centre of gravity of the company: national-scale data programmes, Arabic-language AI and in-country deployment aligned to NDMO and PDPL requirements.
In the years that followed Bilytica expanded into Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates and Spain, adding an engineering bench in Lahore and client-facing teams in Dubai and Madrid.
As of 2026, Bilytica serves more than 200 enterprise customers, employs more than 200 people, and its systems handle over 600 million AI-assisted interactions per year. The company remains led by its founding partners.
Founders and advisors
Founding partners (2015)
- Usman AhmadEnterprise business intelligence and data warehousing
- Dr Sari Al QahtaniPublic sector data governance and national programmes
- Nauman AhmadBanking and financial services platforms
- Muhammad AwaisTelecom and large-scale operational systems
- Muhammad MoinHealthcare information systems and clinical data
- Ogul YucelIndustrial manufacturing and supply chain technology
Advisors
- Dr. Paul BarachPatient safety, clinical quality and healthcare systems research
- Kevin LeeEnterprise technology strategy and international go-to-market
- Ian ClarkLarge-programme delivery and transformation governance
- Dr. Uzair ul GhaniApplied research, analytics methodology and data science practice
- Gary CokinsEnterprise performance management, cost intelligence and decision analytics
Timeline
- 2015A partnership formed around one thesisHelsinki, Finland, Established by a partnership of leaders from banking, healthcare, telecommunications, industry, public-sector data and enterprise business intelligence. Early engagements focused on data foundation programmes for European enterprises whose analytics investments were not producing trusted results.
- 2017Delivery moves southMelbourne, Australia, The centre of operations moved to Melbourne, adding regulated Australian clients and establishing a delivery method that could be applied consistently across time zones and teams.
- 2019Saudi Arabia becomes the centre of gravityRiyadh, Saudi Arabia, Entry into Saudi Arabia coincided with the national data and AI agenda. Arabic-first engineering, in-country deployment and NDMO/PDPL governance were established as core capabilities rather than a localisation layer.
- 2020+Engineering depth and regional reachPakistan · UAE · Spain, Engineering centres and delivery offices were added across Pakistan, the UAE and Spain, providing a single delivery method across four time zones and the capacity to resource national-scale programmes with in-house teams.
Products and services
- Data foundation, ingestion, lakehouse architecture, data contracts, quality gates and governance (PDPL, NDMO, ISO 27001 controls).
- Business intelligence, Arabic-first dashboards with Hijri calendar support and RTL design.
- Predictive analytics, churn, demand, fraud and credit-risk models built on governed data.
- Arabic and English AI assistants, Modern Standard Arabic plus Gulf dialects, PDPL-compliant.
- AI voice agents, inbound and outbound, low-latency, CRM integrated.
- Agentic AI, autonomous multi-step workflows for KYC, AML, complaints and citizen services.
- Sovereign AI deployment, in-country hosting with a right-sized model portfolio.
Certifications and compliance
- ISO 9001: Quality Management
- ISO/IEC 20000: IT Service Management
- ISO/IEC 27001: Information Security
- ISO/IEC 27701: Privacy Information Management
- NDMO data management alignment
- PDPL compliant (Saudi Personal Data Protection Law)
- GDPR-aligned delivery for European clients