About us
Led from the front. Backed by a group.
SAFE AI is a software studio in Erbil, powered by Cihan Group. Design, the backend and security are each led by a founder, and the team is growing into all three.
// the backing
The people who lead the work own the company.
In most studios the person who sells you the project is not the person who builds it, and the people who build it are not the people you ever meet. Here the leads are the founders: design, the backend and security each answer for their own work, and they answer to you directly.
Behind them stands Cihan Group. That is why a contract here runs on an institution rather than on individuals, and why the studio keeps hiring into every discipline instead of stopping at the people who started it.
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Cihan Group
// the leadership
Every discipline has an owner.
Not a generalist team hoping to cover the gaps — a lead for each, accountable for their own surface of the product.
Design & Front-end
Deary Ghazi
Backend
Ahmad Muhamad
Security
Shadi Fadhil
And hiring into each of them.
// what that changes
What backing actually buys you.
It outlasts any one of us
A studio that runs on individuals ends when one of them leaves. This one runs inside a group, and it is hiring into every discipline it leads.
There is a real party to the contract
An NDA, an IP assignment and a fixed quote are only worth the entity that signs them. Ours is a company inside a group, not a handshake.
You get the lead, not a layer
The person who answers your question about the interface designed it. The one who answers about the database built it. Nobody is relaying messages.
// where we sit
Erbil, building for anywhere.
The studio is based in Erbil, Iraq, and works in 8+ languages including full right-to-left. We build for clients, and we build and run products of our own under our own name.
100 M Street, Opposite to Haji Yahya Mosque, Erbil, Iraq
Talk to the people who will build it.
No account managers, no hand-offs. Describe the idea and we will come back with a plan.