Saudi-dialect AI applications & agents
Custom applications and conversational agents that speak the way your customers do, complete the task, and hand cleanly to a person, in-app, on WhatsApp, or on your website.
AI development company · Riyadh
An AI development company in Riyadh, building for Vision 2030 pace.
Hephon is an AI development company building production systems for businesses across Riyadh. We develop custom AI, applications, conversational agents, machine learning, and ship it working, in real Saudi dialect, integrated with what you already run. Then we make sure your team adopts it.
Businesses we’ve worked with
Why Riyadh
Riyadh is moving faster than almost anywhere. Vision 2030 set the direction, funding followed, headquarters are relocating, and the PIF portfolio is pushing AI hard. For most companies the question is no longer whether, it’s execution: turning a board mandate into software that works. That’s a development problem, and it’s the one we solve. We find where your team loses hours, pick the highest-impact build, and ship it properly rather than chasing a feature list nobody asked for.
Building here means building for here. Customers expect Saudi dialect, not textbook Modern Standard Arabic, and they expect it on WhatsApp first. We’ve already built Saudi-dialect conversational AI for one of the Kingdom’s largest grocery retailers, so we know what real spoken Arabic and code-switching demand of a system. We design for data residency from the start, keep your keys yours, and measure adoption at 30 days.
What we build in Riyadh
AI development, shipped to production.
Machine learning & internal tooling
Prediction, scoring, and retrieval built around a real business problem, plus the internal tools and automation that remove the manual work eating your team’s week.
Reporting leadership can sign off
Dashboards and decision tools that pull from where your data already lives, giving leadership a clear read without waiting three emails, the clarity a sponsor needs to greenlight the next build.
Five ways we make AI earn its keep.
Each one is something we design, build, and run for you, chosen for where your time and money are actually going.
How we work
Three steps, from the first call to a system your team actually uses.
01 · Understand
We sit with your team first.
We spend time where the work actually happens and find what’s quietly costing you hours every week. Then we come back with a clear, fixed price.
02 · Build
We build where you already work.
Sometimes that means automating inside WhatsApp, Excel, your CRM. Sometimes it’s a new system that talks to those tools, or replaces the one slowing you down. Either way: working, documented, and your team trained on it.
03 · Run
We stay until it sticks.
Thirty days in, we measure whether your team actually uses it. If they don’t, we fix that, on us. Most clients then keep us on as Resident™.
10M+
app users. We built the conversational AI inside the app of one of Saudi Arabia’s largest grocery retailers, in real Saudi dialect, with human handoff.
Read the case studyThe stack
Built on the tools real AI development runs on.
Python
FastAPI
Pydantic
LangChain
OpenAI
Anthropic
Gemini
OpenRouter
Postgres
TanStack
n8n
VercelRiyadh questions
Do you work with companies in Riyadh?
Yes. Saudi Arabia is a core market for us and Riyadh is the centre of it. We work with companies across the city, on-site when a project needs it and remote when it doesn’t. Most of our current Saudi work is conversational AI and internal automation.
Can your AI handle Saudi dialect properly?
Yes, and this is where most generic tools fall down. We’ve built Saudi-dialect conversational AI for one of the Kingdom’s largest retailers. It handles real spoken Arabic, code-switching, and the way people actually type on WhatsApp, not textbook Arabic.
How much does AI development cost in Riyadh?
Every project is a fixed price scoped to what you need, so you know the number in SAR before work starts. Payment is tied to milestones, typically 30% on signature and the rest as we deliver. Smaller automations cost far less than a full conversational system.
What about data residency, and where do we start?
We design for data residency and keep your keys and data yours from the first conversation. The best place to start is the free AI audit: a few minutes, and it tells you exactly where AI would make the biggest difference before you commit to anything.
Build your AI in Riyadh.
Book a 30-minute call with a founder. We’ll tell you the highest-impact thing we’d build first, and what it costs, before you commit to anything.
