A foreign control plane.
Your AI stack must be governed from inside your region — not a US or EU control plane that can receive a foreign court order.
Built for you. Operated with you. Answerable to your regulators.
Iftah is a sovereign AI infrastructure company with US operations in Atlanta, the US — built for the US's regulated enterprises by engineers who have operated inside the region's compliance frameworks.
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Iftah is a sovereign AI infrastructure company with US operations in Atlanta, the US — built for the US's regulated enterprises by engineers who have operated inside the region's compliance frameworks.
What defines us
- Headquartered: Atlanta, the US
- Single-tenant deployment
- Customer holds the keys
- Open standards, no lock-in
- Headquartered: Atlanta, the US
- Single-tenant deployment
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- Customer holds the keys
- Open standards, no lock-in
Our principles
Three things we refuse to build on.
Iftah began with a simple conviction: the region's banks, ministries, and hospitals should not have to choose between modern AI and sovereignty. That conviction starts with what we will not build.
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Shared tenancy.
No bank, ministry, or operator should share inference infrastructure with another enterprise — regardless of logical isolation claims.
Vendor-held keys.
If we can read your data, we are not sovereign. Customer-managed keys in your KMS, always.
And one thing we built from the ground up: the only governed AI stack designed for US compliance from day one — not retrofitted after a regulator found the gap.
Founders
Built by people close to the problem.
A home base in the US, and engineering that reaches where the talent is.
Co-founder & CEO · Atlanta, the US
Obaidur Rehman
We didn't want to localize someone else's platform. We set out to build the sovereign AI the US deserves — based here, and built for the long term.
Co-founder · Toronto, Canada
Mahammad Rafi
Sovereignty can't be a setting you switch on. We engineered it into the core — identity, policy, and audit — from the very first line.
The Gulf has more capital, more mandate, and more urgency around AI than almost anywhere in the world. It also has the most to lose from deploying AI on infrastructure that doesn’t respect its data laws. We built Iftah because we couldn’t find a platform that took both facts seriously at the same time.
Our team
Engineering maturity at every level.
The majority of Iftah's team is senior engineering. That means your deployment is operated by practitioners who have run regulated infrastructure — not junior consultants.
42%
Platform engineers
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18
Security & governance
14
SRE / DevOps
12
ML / AI engineers
9
QA & verification
5
Architects
72
Over 70% of the team holds senior-level positions.
Leadership
The team behind the platform.
Founder-led today, with leadership roles we are actively filling as we scale alongside our design partners.
Ghaidar Rahman
Head of Platform Engineering
Leads the engineering team building and operating the platform.
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Mahammad Rafi
Head of Security & Compliance
Leads the security, governance, and audit-evidence work across deployments.
TBA · Appointment underway
Head of Delivery & SRE
TBA · Appointment underway
Head of Partnerships
Advisory
Backed by practitioners with regulatory depth.
We are building our Gulf advisory panel — practitioners from regulated banking, government, and telecom.
Events
Meet us at AI events.
Where US AI leaders, compliance teams, and regulators are building relationships. Find our team at:
AI Summit
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Banking Tech Forum
Government Digital
Sovereign Cloud Expo
Healthcare AI
Energy & AI
Where we operate
A home in the US, with global engineering reach.
With US operations in Atlanta, operating each install in-region under a controlled, audited access contract.
- 1SharjahHQ
Headquarters
- 2Toronto
Engineering
- 3Atlanta
Engineering
- 4Hyderabad
Delivery & operations
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