One new venture per quarter · Three live

We build and run
service companies powered by AI.

BLOQ is a small team based across the GCC and Europe. We take one operational job at a time — finance, hotel operations, growth — and replace it with working AI software. When the same job exists in every company in an industry, we start a service to do it at scale.

We don't sell tools. We do the work.

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Our team comes from
How we operate

Two sides, one team.

On one side, we go into companies and build AI systems that solve operational problems — finance, hotels, sales pipeline. On the other, we co-found and run service companies powered by AI that take over the same job at scale, across industries. Customers pay for the outcome — clean books, the morning brief, qualified leads — not for software seats.

01 / SYSTEMS
Systems · we build, you run

We build it.
Your team runs it.

We go into mid-market and enterprise companies and replace one specific manual job with working AI software — closing the books, running hotel operations, qualifying sales leads. Not a dashboard. Not a chatbot. Software that does the work, hands the job back to your team trained, and keeps running after we've gone.

Every build ships in 90 days
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Finance — closing the books, matching invoices, monthly reporting
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Sales — finding leads, qualifying them, keeping the pipeline clean
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Operations — replacing the repetitive parts of one department, end to end
Mid-market & enterprise · from €25K
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02 / VENTURES
Ventures · services powered by AI

We co-found.
We operate.

When the same problem keeps showing up — same shape, different industry — we start a new service company around it. The customer pays for the work being done, not for a tool to do it themselves. We bring the engineering, brand, and sales machine. The industry partner brings the customers and the know-how. We co-found and we run it. We don't hand it over and walk away.

Co-founders and operators · one new venture per quarter
Three live
Fikrah logo
FikrahFinance AI
ACTIVE PILOT
86 Labs logo
86 LabsHospitality AI
LIVE
Nomo logo
NomoKSA real estate GTM
BUILDING
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The portfolio

Three service companies,
powered by AI.

We don't write checks. Each one started as a problem we saw inside two different companies — same shape, different industry — and we decided to build the service around it. Customers pay for the work being done, not for a piece of software they have to run themselves.

All ventures
①
① VENTURE
Fikrah logo

Fikrah

ACTIVE PILOT

Finance service powered by AI for GCC and EU mid-market

Customers don't buy software. They pay us to close their books. AI agents run the reconciliation overnight, a human controller signs it off, clean books arrive every morning at 9am. ZATCA-ready. Built for multi-entity companies with 2–6 finance staff who spend the first two weeks of every month reconstructing what already happened.

Active now
  • 7 ERP / banking connectors live
  • ZATCA Phase 2 ready
  • Financial consultancy GTM partnership
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②
② VENTURE
86 Labs logo

86 Labs

LIVE

Operations service powered by AI for hotel groups

Hotels don't buy another dashboard. They pay us to run their morning ops brief. We sit on top of existing PMS (Opera, Mews, Apaleo) — zero migration, ~2-week integration — read the data, and write the brief the duty manager should be reading. Yield, guest, F&B, housekeeping. Co-founded with Mathieu Bron (CEO) and Francesco.

Active now
  • Xenia · 18-hotel Italian LOI
  • Apaleo PMS adapter live
  • 5-agent runtime in production
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③
③ VENTURE
Nomo logo

Nomo

BUILDING

Growth agency powered by AI for Saudi real estate

KSA developers don't buy marketing software. They pay us to run their growth — AI ad buying, WhatsApp qualification, content generation, CRM operations. Bilingual EN/AR. PDPL + RERA + WAFI compliance built in. Distribution partnership with BMK Solutions across the kingdom.

Active now
  • SAR 540K Year 1 ACV target
  • KSA distribution via BMK Solutions
  • Tamlikalnahdi launch pilot scoping
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Venture 04 — currently in scoping with an operator from the energy vertical.
EXPECTED Q3 2026
Where we are today

Small team. Real work shipped.

No ARR vanity metrics, no "300+ companies served." Here's where we actually are right now.

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Live ventures
Three services powered by AI, already running with paying customers — Fikrah, 86 Labs, Nomo.
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From kickoff to working system
No phase 2, no change orders. Every engagement has a fixed scope and a hard deadline.
€0K+
Starting engagement size
Working AI software running inside your business, not a slide deck.
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Cities, one team
Paris and Bologna for engineering, Riyadh and Jeddah for distribution. Five operators total.
How it actually works

Three steps. No mystery.

Most studios sound the same — “synergy, ecosystem, ventures.” Here's what we actually do, in plain English. Each step has a named outcome and a real deadline. No demo days, no theatre.

01
First 30 days

We move in

A company hires us because something operational is broken — books take two weeks to close, hotel teams drown in spreadsheets, real estate developers can't keep up with leads. Or someone who knows an industry deeply pitches us a new product. Either way, we don't send a report. In the first 30 days, we lock down what we're building, who's paying for it, and what success looks like.

Outcome
Real problem, signed scope, work started.
02
Days 30–120

We build it

Within 90 days, we build the working system. Not a demo. Not slides. Actual software running inside the business, doing the actual job — closing the books, generating the brief, qualifying the leads. If it grows into a new venture, it has a website, a sales process, and named customers paying for it by day 90.

Outcome
Real system, real customers, real revenue.
03
Month 4 →

We stay in the room

This is what makes us different. Most studios fund a company, give advice, and disappear. We don't. We stay on as co-founders and operators on every venture we launch — we run it alongside the industry partner until it can stand on its own, and then we keep running it as it grows. Three live ventures, all still operated by us.

Outcome
A portfolio of ventures we co-found and operate.
What we're not

Three things we'll
tell you upfront.

We're easier to work with once you know what we don't do.

consulting firm

Not a consulting firm.

We don't bill hours. We don't send decks. We build working systems inside companies — and when one of those systems turns into a new company, we co-found it and run it.

accelerator

Not an accelerator.

We don't run cohorts. We don't give advice and demo days. We co-found from day one — engineering, GTM, ops, and brand in one backlog.

dashboard

Not building dashboards.

Software used to visualize work. The next generation does the work. Our agents run the reconciliation, route the guests, and execute the outbound — not report on it.

Team

Operators who ship.
No org chart.

Five people. Five roles. Every venture gets the full team — that's why we can only take on so many at a time.

Meet the studio
HH
FOUNDER

Hadi Hijazi

Founder & CEO

Paris / Riyadh

AI engineering at TCS and Ekimetrics. ESSEC × CentraleSupélec. Built AI systems across aerospace, finance, and operations before founding BLOQ.

Heritage
TCS · Ekimetrics
School
ESSEC × CentraleSupélec
Built
Aerospace · Finance · Ops
M
Moe
Head of Strategy & Co-founder

GCC market lead. Opens doors, builds relationships, closes the region.

GCC
F
Francesco
AI Engineering

Architect of the Fikrah reconciliation engine and BLOQ's shared AI infrastructure. Currently at Amazon.

Bologna
I
Ibra
Head of GTM

Runs the sales engine across all the companies we build.

Paris
J
Jonathan
AI Engineering & Delivery

Ships the systems.

Paris
Three ways in

Pick the door that fits.

The three actual types of people who land here: co-founders, pilot clients, and systems buyers. Each one gets a different first call.

01 / Co-founder

Build a venture with us.

You know the domain. We know the engineering and the GTM. Co-founder equity. 90-day ship plan. One new venture per quarter.

Pitch us a venture
02 / Pilot

Run a pilot.

Validated pain and a team ready to move. We embed for a quarter, deploy the system, and stay only as long as you need.

Start a pilot
03 / Build a system

We build it for you.

Mid-market or enterprise. Finance, sales, or operations. 90-day engagement. Working AI software running inside your business at the end.

Start a build
Common questions

The questions we get
on every first call.

If you're reading this far, you probably have one of these on your mind. Here's what we'd tell you if we were on a Zoom right now.

A consulting firm sends you a report and a deck. We send you working software. We come in for 90 days, build the system that does the actual job — closing books, running ops, qualifying leads — and your team uses it after we leave. No phase two, no change orders, no slides.
A SaaS tool gives you software and asks you to figure out how to use it. We give you the outcome. With our service ventures (Fikrah, 86 Labs, Nomo), you don't operate the software — we do. You receive clean books in the morning, a daily ops brief, qualified leads — whatever the service produces.
Building a system inside your company: 90-day engagements starting at €25K. Service ventures (Fikrah, 86 Labs, Nomo): priced per outcome, similar to a services firm — typically what you'd pay one or two full-time hires, with software-level reliability behind it. Exact pricing comes after a 30-minute scoping call.
Day 14: we hand your CFO or COO a one-page spec they can sign. Day 45: the system is running on real data. Day 75: it's live and your team is running alongside it. Day 90: handover complete. If we're not on track, you stop paying.
Yes. The buyer is almost always not technical — finance leaders, hotel directors, real estate developers. We translate the work, not the other way around. You describe the problem in your own language; we build the system. You don't need to learn what an agent or an LLM is.
No, and we'd push back if that's the goal. The software replaces the repetitive parts of one job — the reconstruction, the matching, the qualifying. Your team keeps the judgment calls, the relationships, the edge cases. The point is to free them to do more of what they're good at, not to send them home.
Those are our home regions because that's where our team lives and where our buyers are concentrated (finance in Saudi and the UAE, hotels in Italy and the GCC, real estate in Saudi). We've taken engagements outside those regions when the fit is right — talk to us.
You should pitch us a venture if you (a) know an industry deeply, (b) have direct relationships with the buyers, and (c) are ready to leave your current role. You should hire us for a project if you have a specific operational problem inside your company that needs solving in 90 days. If you're not sure, start with a 30-minute call.
Still have a question? Ask us directly — we read every message.
The one thing

We're selective.

Every engagement — whether it's co-founding a new company, a 90-day pilot, or building a system inside yours — gets the full team. That means we can only take on a limited number at a time.

If you're looking for a vendor,
we're probably not it.
If you're looking for a co-builder,
let's talk.
We read every message. Reply within 48 hours.
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