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AI systems that reach production.

We find where AI pays off, build the system, and embed our engineers until your team is running it. You own everything we build.

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Built for the systems your business already runs on.
2026
Founded
10+ yrs
Building software
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95 out of 100 AI pilots never reach production.

Not because the models don’t work. Because nobody wired them into the systems the business actually runs on.

Externally-built systems succeed2×
UAE firms deploying AI agents92%
With the processes to run them17%
Our typical scope to production6 to 12 wks
Reached production: 5Stalled in pilot: 95

What we build for you.

The stack we work in.

Models

Frontier APIs or open weights, picked per task and swapped as the frontier moves.

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Runs anywhere

Your cloud, your own hardware, or fully air-gapped with no egress at all.

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Engineering

Typed, tested, documented, and handed to your team at the end.

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Wired in

Into the systems of record and the channels your people already use.

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How an engagement runs

A two-week Audit, a fixed-scope build, embedded engineers, then ongoing care. Fixed fee, quoted after the Audit.

See how it works

Operators who build, not advisors who recommend.

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Three companies in our own group run on systems we built.
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Senior only
engineers who have run software they built in a business that depended on it. No bench, no pyramid.
100%
of the code, docs and runbooks are yours. No lock-in.
Weekly
demos against real data, so nothing waits for a reveal at the end.

Built fast, without the shortcuts.

Data sovereignty

Some organisations can’t send data to a cloud AI service. We build systems that run entirely inside your own network: models, data and processing on your infrastructure.

Your network
Your dataat rest, inside your perimeter
Model weightsself-hosted, your hardware
Inferenceruns on your infrastructure
No egress
OutsidePublic AI services: never called
Deploymentyour cloud, on-premise or air-gapped
Modelsself-hosted open weights
ResidencyUAE, or wherever you require

Human approval gates

Risky actions, and anything touching money, require a person to approve. Deliberately.

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Issue refund: AED 4,820claims-triage agent
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Evals before rollout

Scored on a test set from your own history, re-run on every change.

Accuracy on test set94%
baseline 61% ship gate 90%

Ownership, no lock-in

Source code, docs and runbooks are yours.

Source codeyours
Runbooks and docsyours
Cost to walk awaynone

Scalable infrastructure

One architecture from the first pilot user to the millionth, sized for the load it will actually carry.

99.9%
uptime target
<3s
median response
24/7
unattended runs
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Pilot to org-wideno rebuild
Cost per runmeasured from week two

Security

Defence in depth, from the edge to the audit log, specified in the build plan and not bolted on after the review.

EdgeDDoS mitigation | WAF | rate limits
TransportTLS 1.3 | mTLS between services
DataAES-256 at rest | managed keys
AccessSSO | MFA | least privilege
Auditevery action logged & attributable
SOC 2 alignedUAE PDPL & GDPRAnnual pen test

We don’t have a demo. We have companies.

Momentem is a Gridwork Group company. Three businesses in the group run on systems we built, which is where the patterns we deploy for clients come from.

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Gridwork

AI employee platform

An AI employee platform that runs 80 to 90% of a company’s operations at scale, with a human in the loop on every consequential call.

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5 AI employees, live in beta
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Real estate

An AI-first listing and collection platform for real estate agents, built so they close more, close better and close faster.

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Listings assembled, enriched, kept current
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Beta rollout

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Ecommerce

A managed service where human and AI agents run ecommerce end to end: build, operations, scale and support.

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One accountable team, end to end
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Built for operations that already work, just too slowly.

Logistics

Dispatch, ETAs and exception handling across the fleet.

Banking & finance

Onboarding checks, reconciliation and regulatory reporting.

Real estate

Listings, leasing operations and tenant enquiries.

Government

Case processing, entirely inside your own network.

Healthcare

Intake, coding and patient communication.

Construction

Tender review, procurement and site reporting.

Retail

Catalogue operations, pricing and support at volume.

Professional services

Document review, proposals and billing hygiene.

Hospitality

Bookings, guest requests and revenue reporting.

Energy & utilities

Asset records, maintenance planning and compliance.

Education

Admissions, student records and support desks.

Legal

Contract review, disclosure and matter intake.

Not sure which one you are?

If your operation runs on systems of record and people re-typing between them, it is the same problem underneath. The Audit tells you what it is worth fixing.

Schedule call

Weekly demos against real data. Nothing waits for the end.

Week 0

Scope

Sessions with the people doing the work. We leave with a written target and a data map.

Week 1 to 2

Prove

A thin slice against your real records, scored on a test set drawn from your own history.

Week 3 to 12

Deploy

Integrations, approval gates, audit logging. Live on one team with a rollback switch.

Ongoing

Hand over

Runbooks, paired on-call and a decision log, until your team changes it without us.

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One paragraph is enough. We reply within a business day with a time and the two engineers who’ll be on the call.

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Asked before every engagement.

Anything not covered here, ask an engineer directly and you’ll get a straight answer.

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The Audit, always. Two weeks, fixed scope, ending in a build plan you could execute with anyone, including yourselves. We won’t quote a build before we understand what it’s worth.

You do. Source code, documentation and runbooks are yours, in your repositories, from the first commit. There is no proprietary runtime you have to keep licensing from us to operate your own system.

Yes. We deploy inside your cloud tenancy, on your own hardware on-premise, or fully air-gapped, using models available in your environment or self-hosted open weights. No training on your data.

Consultancies hand over recommendations. We hand over running systems, and we operate three businesses of our own on the same patterns. The advice comes from production experience rather than a methodology.

Hiring is the right answer eventually, and our engagements are designed to end in your team owning the system. Forward deployment gets you there faster, with people who have shipped this class of system before.

We say so, in writing, early. An Audit that concludes “fix the data pipeline first, then revisit” is a successful Audit. Deploying something you’ll switch off in a quarter is not.

Two weeks for the Audit, then typically six weeks to a system running on live work with one team. Weekly demos throughout, so nothing is a surprise at the end.

Yes. We’re based in Dubai and most of our work is in the Gulf, but engagements run wherever your operation and your systems are.

Fixed scope and fixed fee, quoted after the Audit and driven by pod size, environment constraints and integration surface. No hourly meter, and no licence on work you already own.

Three companies in the Gridwork Group that run on systems we built: an AI employee platform for operations, an AI-first listing platform for real estate agents, and a managed ecommerce service. They’re our proof, and the source of most patterns we deploy.

Insights

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Aug 2026 · 6 min

Why 95% of AI pilots never reach production

The failure is almost never the model. It’s the four things nobody scoped.

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Jul 2026 · 8 min

Running AI on-premise in the Gulf

What sovereign deployment actually costs, and where it’s worth it.

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Jul 2026 · 5 min

What a two-week AI audit should produce

If it ends in a slide deck rather than a build plan, it failed.

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