SAIF CHECK

Riyadh-based AI compliance and cybersecurity firm that audits AI, agentic and quantum-exposed systems for Gulf government and enterprise clients, running its tooling inside client infrastructure.

Industry: AI governance and compliance | Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | Founded: 2023

About SAIF CHECK

SAIF CHECK is an AI auditing and cybersecurity company based at The Garage in Al Raed, Riyadh. The company says it was established in 2023 and describes itself as the first AI algorithmic auditing firm in the MENA region and the first to offer quantum AI evaluations. Its legal entity is SAIF CHECK Holdings Ltd, with a Saudi commercial registration and an ADGM registration listed on its site.

The firm serves government, enterprise and sovereign clients across the Gulf. Its main pitch is zero custody: evaluation tooling is deployed inside the client's own environment, so the company sees findings but does not copy or store the underlying data. Assessments for governance, risk and compliance, security and post-quantum cryptography are mapped to the frameworks regulators check against.

The frameworks listed on the website include the Saudi National Cybersecurity Authority controls, NDMO data classification, SDAIA's personal data protection, ethics and generative AI guidance, UAE and Omani data protection rules, ISO/IEC 42001, NIST RMF, the EU AI Act and EU Cyber Resilience requirements, and a set of African Union member-state data protection laws. It also lists child safety, accessibility and AI-powered drone safety evaluations.

The product line includes SAIF Vectors for post-quantum cryptography resilience assessments, SAIF Scan for red-teaming, prompt-injection and jailbreak testing, data-exfiltration and drift detection, and remediation-ready reporting, and SAIF Guard, a runtime governance layer with agentic AI observability, execution-boundary enforcement and PII and consent filtering. A War Room offering covers crisis simulation, and a SaaS agent can be integrated into client systems for data-poisoning and hijack simulations. The site also promotes a KSA Compliance Check and a sprint-style engagement.

Dr. Shaista Hussain is Chief Executive Officer and Founder; the site describes a background in machine learning, cybersecurity and clinical pathology, with medical training at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Scott Hilton-Clarke leads business development and leadership, and Khaleel Essa is Chief Financial Officer, formerly a senior director at Grant Thornton UAE.

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