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About

A firm, not an agency.

CLRT is a Dubai applied agentic-AI firm and build studio. We build our own products and deploy governed agents for a small number of clients. We started because the gap between AI noise and AI that ships in production was obvious, and almost nobody local was closing it with the rigour of a consulting firm and the speed of a product team.
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Abstract ink schematic map of a Gulf coastal city with one marked location.
FIG. 01Built in Dubai
01What that means

We build for ourselves and for clients.

We build for ourselves and for clients, and the two feed each other. Every client engagement makes our own products sharper, and every product we ship makes our client work more credible. When we say an agent can run a workflow end to end, it is because ours already do.

See what we have shipped
02The founders

Two founders. Senior on every engagement.

No hand-off to juniors, no science projects. The people who scope your build are the people who ship it.

Vishal Sachar

Vishal Sachar

Co-Founder & CEO

Vishal Sachar is the Co-Founder and CEO of CLRT, where he helps UAE businesses make sense of applied agentic AI and put it to work. He writes on agentic systems, AI governance, and the economics of automation.

LinkedInvishal@clrtstudio.com
Mahdi Salmanzade

Mahdi Salmanzade

Co-Founder & CTO

Mahdi Salmanzade is the Co-Founder and CTO of CLRT, where he builds agentic systems, developer tools, local-first AI, and security-first infrastructure.

LinkedInmahdi@clrtstudio.com
03What we hold to

Four commitments we do not negotiate.

  1. 01We build, we do not only advise.
  2. 02Senior people, from the first call to deployment.
  3. 03A human in control, and a trail behind every action.
  4. 04A method, not a hunch.
How we keep you in control
04Who we work with

We are deliberate about fit.

We take on a small number of engagements. Knowing where we add real value, and where we do not, is part of the discipline.

Best fit

  • UAE and GCC companies with real operational complexity
  • Founder-led or executive-led teams
  • Repetitive, high-value workflows
  • A need for governance, not just experimentation

Not a fit

  • Teams looking for a chatbot demo
  • Companies without a process owner
  • Projects with no measurable value
  • Initiatives not intended to reach production
05Credentials

Built in Dubai. Recognised here.

Selected for the Dubai AI Festival 2026Dubai-native, UAE research and developmentSeven products built and shipped in-house

Work with us

A small number of engagements, taken seriously.

Tell us what you are trying to ship. Or run our free diagnostic first, and see where an agent earns its keep before you commit a day.

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