At Web Summit Qatar, Arnifi to Announce arni.ai to Transform Business Setup Across the GCC

Every successful business expansion starts long before incorporation documents are signed. The real work happens earlier when the founders evaluate jurisdictions, debate ownership structures, assess tax exposure, and try to make sense of the regulatory complexities across the borders. Yet, most of these decisions are still made through fragmented advice, spreadsheets, and delayed consultations.

At Web Summit Qatar, Arnifi is set to unveil arni.ai, an AI-powered platform created to remove uncertainty from business setup and expansion. This gives founders clarity, structure, and confidence as they scale across the GCC.

This launch marks a pivotal moment not just for Arnifi, but for how founders, startups, and global companies approach market entry in the Middle East.

1. Why arni.ai Exists

Arnifi has spent years working closely with entrepreneurs and enterprises in navigating company formation, compliance, visas, accounting, and operational support across the region. One insight surfaced consistently that critical structural and tax decisions are often made too late or with incomplete visibility.

By the time a company is incorporated, many strategic choices are already decided supposedly the ownership layers, supposedly, holding structures also the jurisdiction selection, which directly influences the tax exposure, control, scalability, and regulatory obligations. Fixing all the inefficiencies after incorporation is expensive, time-consuming, and sometimes impossible.

arni.ai was built to solve this exact problem by moving intelligence and decision-making upstream, before costs are incurred and before mistakes are embedded into the legal structures.

2. Designing Business Structures Before They Exist

At the core of arni.ai is its organogram tool, designed to help founders visualize and evaluate their corporate structure before committing to the incorporation.

Instead of relying on static advice or any kind of abstract explanations, users can map out their holding companies, operating entities, ownership percentages, and cross-border relationships in a descriptive, visual format. This allows the founders to see how different structuring options play out across jurisdictions and growth stages.

What makes this tool truly powerful is its AI-driven capability to generate organograms for hundreds of publicly listed companies in seconds. Founders can study how real-world corporate structures work also understand how global businesses organize ownership and operations, and can draw insights while designing their own framework.

By comparing multiple scenarios side by side, arni.ai gives users visibility into how structure impacts control, scalability, jurisdictional alignment, and tax exposure just long before legal documents are drafted or advisory fees are paid

3. Compliance Built In From Day One

Structuring is only half the challenges as businesses move from planning to execution, compliance becomes unavoidable, and any delays here can derail the timelines completely.

arni.ai integrates AML and sanctions screening directly into the setup workflow, which allows automated due diligence on entities, shareholders, and key stakeholders from the very beginning. This eliminates the common risk of discovering compliance issues later in the process, when applications are already underway.

To encourage early adoption and responsible structuring, Arnifi is offering this AML and sanctions screening free of use at launch; arni.ai is currently the only platform providing integrated AML screening at no cost, which reinforces its commitment to transparency and risk-first decision-making.

4. Clarity on Costs, Not Surprises Later

One of the most common hard tasks that founders face is unclear cost visibility, like licensing fees, visa costs, compliance requirements, and jurisdiction-specific charges, which often surface only after the engagement begins.

arni.ai addresses this with a real-time business setup cost calculator. Based on the selected company structure and jurisdiction, users can instantly see the estimated costs of incorporation, licensing, visa, and compliance & this enables realistic budgeting and faster internal approvals.

This early-stage clarity empowers the founders and CFOs to make informed decisions without relying on back-and-forth on consultations or vague estimates.

5. Execution Support That Scales With the Business

arni.ai doesn’t stop at planning; it brings execution tools into the same ecosystem.

With Arni Docs, users can prepare essential business documents using guided, structured templates this reduces dependency on manual drafting and repeated revisions. Throughout the journey, a 24/7 AI-powered business assistant that supports users by answering questions, it explains next steps, and also provides contextual guidance across structuring, compliance, and tax considerations as the business evolves.

The result is a single platform that supports businesses from ideation to incorporation and well beyond.

6. From Institutional Knowledge to Intelligent Platform

The launch of arni.ai represents a strategic evolution for Arnifi. What once lived in internal playbooks, expert consultations, and operational experience has now been transformed into a scalable & intelligent platform.

arni.ai captures years of on-ground expertise and makes it accessible, structured, and actionable without sacrificing nuance or regulatory depth.

7. A New Standard for Business Expansion in the GCC

The debut of arni.ai at Web Summit Qatar marks its first public introduction to founders, startups, consultants, and international businesses exploring the region. More importantly, it signals a shift in how business setup and expansion across the GCC will be approached while going forward.

By combining AI, regulatory intelligence, and execution capability into a single platform, Arnifi is setting a new standard, one where decisions are informed early, compliance is proactive, and growth is designed & not improvised.

With arni.ai, business expansion in the GCC becomes clearer, faster, and fundamentally smarter.