A free 🤫 Private Agent One for every citizen of the Emirates.
This is our open plan for the United Arab Emirates, written for any person in the UAE who wants to know exactly what we are building and pursuing: a free, UAE-law-compliant Private Agent One for every citizen and resident, running inside the UAE on sovereign infrastructure, sponsored as a national service. Nothing on this page is an agreement with any UAE entity. It is a plan, stated honestly, and a standing invitation.
This one is personal.
Our founder grew up in the UAE and left for university at nineteen. Decades later - after building AI products at Microsoft, Splunk, and Google - the conviction that started this company is the same one the UAE built into UAE Pass: nothing about a person moves without their consent. We are coming home with the product of that conviction, and we want to build it with the country that already believes it.
What every person in the UAE would get.
We start from one person - an Emirati in Abu Dhabi, a resident in Dubai, a family in Sharjah - and work backwards. Four promises define the offer.
A national service, not a subscription
Our offer: every UAE citizen and resident gets a 🤫 Private Agent One at no personal cost - a fully sponsored national service, the way a public good should feel. Emiratis first, then every resident. This is the offer we are building toward with government sponsors; it is a pursuit, not yet a program.
Sovereign by residence, not by promise
The agent's data and compute live inside the UAE on sovereign infrastructure - the data-center and sovereign-cloud capacity the country is building at historic scale. Where the government provides local infrastructure, One runs on it. Hosting partnerships are in pursuit.
UAE law is the design spec
Consent-based processing under the UAE Personal Data Protection Law, identity through UAE Pass, alignment with the UAE AI Charter's principles of human oversight and transparency, and in-country residency for sensitive data. We build to the strictest reading and say plainly what is still settling.
Approve-the-share, everywhere
UAE Pass already lets a person approve each share of their documents. One carries that principle across the whole of life: every access consented, every action receipted to a ledger only the person can read, revocable in a tap. The agent answers to one party - the human who owns it.
The one country already building the agentic state.
The UAE appointed the world's first Minister of State for AI in 2017, created a federal Artificial Intelligence and Data Authority in 2026, and directed half of federal government operations to run on agentic AI within two years. Abu Dhabi's TAMM already automates recurring tasks for residents. UAE Pass serves more than 11 million people. Gigawatt-class sovereign AI compute is under construction, powered by the world's largest single-site solar park and the Arab world's first nuclear plant. A consent-first personal agent for every resident is not our idea imposed on the UAE - it is the UAE's own direction, and we want to serve it.
The UAE created the role the rest of the world copied.
The 2026 Agentic AI Project's two-year directive.
One national identity with approve-the-share built in.
About a quarter of UAE electricity, carbon-free, plus record-scale solar.
Figures from UAE government and public materials, 2026: the UAE National Strategy for AI 2031, the Artificial Intelligence and Data Authority (June 2026), the federal Agentic AI Project, TDRA UAE Pass publications, and public energy data. We restate them as context, not as any association with us.
Built on the UAE's own rails, by consent.
We do not ask the UAE to adopt our infrastructure. We build the citizen's agent on the infrastructure the UAE already built - and go only where the person's consent takes us.
UAE Pass
One national digital identity for citizens, residents, and visitors - sign-on, digital signatures, and a vault the person controls. One authenticates through UAE Pass and treats its approve-the-share model as the gold standard, extended to everything the agent does.
TAMM & DubaiNow
Abu Dhabi's TAMM (1,100+ services, with AutoGov already handling recurring tasks) and DubaiNow (130+ city services) are the surfaces a personal agent acts through. One would ride these rails by consent - never around them.
Sovereign AI infrastructure
Khazna data centers, Core42 sovereign cloud, the du-Microsoft hyperscale build, and the Stargate UAE campus mean gigawatt-class AI compute inside the country, powered by solar and Barakah's carbon-free baseload. The natural home for locally resident agent workloads - partnerships in pursuit.
Aani, Jaywan & the Digital Dirham
The Central Bank's new rails - Aani instant payments, the Jaywan card scheme, open finance with consent at its core, and the Digital Dirham - are how an agent pays and settles for its human, lawfully and with a receipt. The 🤫 One Card program is designed to meet these rails.
The wealth pillar, stated plainly.
Alongside the citizen offer sits a long-term institutional pursuit: earning the right, over years, to advise UAE institutions on investments, global assets, and strategy - the way the country's own norms demand. Abu Dhabi's sovereign platforms work through licensed local presence, deep relationships, and demonstrated track record. So our path is the honest one: a licensed entity in ADGM or DIFC, a supervised start in their sandboxes, performance that speaks for itself, and patience. We hold ourselves to the same consent-first, receipt-for-everything standard with institutions that we hold with a single human. Nothing in this pillar is underway with any UAE entity today; it is a pursuit we are building the credentials to deserve.
Six phases, in the open.
Presence and homework
A UAE entity, a UAE-based team, PDPL compliance built to the strictest standard, and UAE Pass service-provider integration work. Entirely in our control, and where we begin.
A regulated foothold
Apply to the ADGM RegLab or DIFC Innovation Testing Licence to test the consent-first agent and wealth workflows under supervision, with a Category 4 advisory application prepared next. Sandbox entry is competitive and licensing can be declined; we say so.
One government pilot
A scoped, measurable pilot with a single department - the UAE's Agentic AI Project aims to move half of federal operations to agentic AI within two years, and TAMM's AutoGov shows the appetite. Hosted in-country for data residency. Won by selection, never assumed.
A research anchor
Joint labs with the UAE's universities - MBZUAI above all - on consent-first agents and the Personal World Model, building on the country's own open-source Falcon models. Proposals prepared; partnerships in pursuit.
The citizen-scale offer
Only after the first phases prove out: the government-sponsored, free Private Agent One for every citizen and resident, riding UAE Pass, integrated with TAMM and DubaiNow, hosted on sovereign compute. This requires a sovereign sponsor's decision - it is the heart of the plan and purely a pursuit today.
The wealth mandate
With a licensed, performing UAE advisory entity and years of local track record, the long-term pursuit: advising UAE institutions on their investments and global assets. Sovereign mandates follow presence, performance, and patience. There is no shortcut, and we do not pretend otherwise.
Honest dependencies, stated once and plainly: the UAE PDPL's executive regulations are still pending, so we build to the strictest settled standards; financial licensing takes months and can be declined; government pilots are won by selection; sovereign sponsorship of the citizen offer is a decision that belongs to the UAE, not to us. We will update this page as reality changes - and only when it actually does.
Universities we would be honored to build with.
Abu Dhabi · Graduate AI research
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) ↗
The world's first graduate-level university dedicated entirely to artificial intelligence (founded 2019), with programs in machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing.
Abu Dhabi · Science, engineering & AI
Khalifa University ↗
A leading science-and-technology university in the region - engineering, AI, robotics, and advanced research - and the first UAE institution to enter the global top 150.
Abu Dhabi · Computer science & data science
NYU Abu Dhabi ↗
A global liberal-arts-and-sciences campus with strong computer science and computer engineering, and a master's in interdisciplinary data science and AI.
Al Ain · The national flagship
United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) ↗
The UAE's oldest and flagship national university, with broad engineering, computing, and science research across the country's priorities.
Sharjah · Engineering & computing
American University of Sharjah (AUS) ↗
A well-regarded university with strong engineering and computer science programs and an international student body.
Sharjah · Research & computing
University of Sharjah ↗
A large public research university with growing computing, engineering, and applied-AI research.
This program is described with public information and genuine admiration for these institutions. Naming a university implies no partnership, affiliation, or endorsement; each is an invitation to explore, and we link to each institution's own site as the source of truth.
We start with people, not paperwork.
Our way is human-to-human. We study each person's public work deeply, celebrate it, promote it so more people learn their science and their craft, and say plainly how it aligns with our mission: to hire the best local talent and stand up 🤫 Human Knowledge, Innovation & Intelligence supercomputing labs on and near their campuses. Public information only; an honest invitation, never a claimed partnership.
The UAE's AI ecosystem
H.E. Omar Sultan Al Olama ↗
UAE Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy & Remote Work Applications
National AI strategy, digital economy, and remote-work policy
As the state minister who owns UAE AI and digital-economy policy, his work sets the national context for sovereign AI, edge compute, and data sovereignty - exactly the ground we want to build on.
H.E. Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak ↗
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, MBZUAI
Governance and strategic direction of the UAE's national AI university
He chairs the governing board of the UAE's central AI institution, linking national strategy to research - the kind of long-horizon stewardship our labs would grow alongside.
Peng Xiao ↗
Group CEO of G42; founding member of the MBZUAI Board of Trustees
AI infrastructure, cloud/compute, and applied AI at national scale
He leads the UAE's most prominent AI company across compute infrastructure and applied AI - the commercial frontier our edge-supercomputing and data-sovereignty work speaks directly to.
MBZUAI
The world's first research-based graduate university dedicated entirely to AI - our natural academic anchor.
Eric Xing ↗
President and University Professor
Distributed ML systems, statistical methodology, foundation models
His work on large-scale distributed systems for ML and foundation models maps directly to fleet and edge compute for personal AI agents.
Timothy Baldwin ↗
Provost and Professor of Natural Language Processing
NLP, deep learning, algorithmic fairness
As chief academic officer and an NLP researcher focused on fairness, he is a natural counterpart for consent-first, user-respecting agent design. (Appointed Provost in 2024, succeeding founding provost Ling Shao.)
Éric Moulines ↗
Dean of the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Division; Professor of Machine Learning
Probabilistic ML, Monte Carlo sampling, generative models
His expertise in uncertainty quantification and on-device stochastic methods is pertinent to efficient inference on constrained edge hardware.
Preslav Nakov ↗
Department Chair and Professor of Natural Language Processing
Disinformation and fact-checking, machine translation, lexical semantics
His trust, fact-checking, and provenance work is directly applicable to trustworthy personal AI agents that handle sensitive user data.
Ian Reid ↗
Department Chair and Professor of Computer Vision; Acting Director of Research Administration
Visual SLAM, spatial and embodied AI, real-time robotic decision-making
His embodied and spatial-AI work aligns with edge devices that must reason locally rather than round-trip to the cloud.
Fahad Khan ↗
Deputy Department Chair and Professor of Computer Vision
Recognition, detection, and segmentation with limited supervision
His emphasis on learning visual models with limited supervision suits data-frugal, privacy-preserving on-device training.
Kun Zhang ↗
Associate Department Chair of Machine Learning (Research); Director, Center for Integrative AI
Causal discovery and inference, causal representation learning
Causal learning across heterogeneous, distributed data is central to reasoning over fragmented, user-owned data without central pooling - a data-sovereignty fit.
Khalifa University
A top science-and-engineering university and the region's applied robotics and secure-systems powerhouse.
H.E. Prof. Ebrahim Al Hajri ↗
President, Khalifa University
University leadership; academic and research direction
As president he sets KU's research priorities and is the ultimate steward of institutional partnerships in AI and sovereign compute.
Dr. Bayan Sharif ↗
Provost, Khalifa University
Academic affairs, faculty, and cross-college research
The provost owns academic programs and cross-college initiatives - the natural counterpart for structuring a joint academic and edge-AI lab.
Prof. Ernesto Damiani ↗
Professor of Computer Science
Cybersecurity, AI/ML, IoT and blockchain, cyber-physical systems security
His secure, privacy-preserving analytics on distributed and IoT systems sits squarely on the data-sovereignty and edge-security concerns of private personal-AI agents.
Prof. Jorge Dias ↗
Professor & Deputy Director (robotics), Computer & Information Engineering
Robotics and AI, artificial perception, computer/robotic vision
On-device perception and autonomy are core edge-compute workloads; his KUCARS work connects to the region's applied robotics ecosystem.
Dr. Federico Renda ↗
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Soft/underwater robotics, multibody dynamics and control
Real-time modeling and control of complex robots depends on efficient local compute - representative of KU's applied embodied-AI base.
Prof. Khaled Salah ↗
Professor & Group Lead, Computer & Information Engineering
Blockchain, cloud/fog computing, cybersecurity, GenAI/LLMs
His work on decentralized trust and edge/fog security maps closely to data sovereignty and verifiable, consent-first personal-AI infrastructure.
Prof. Lakmal Seneviratne ↗
Professor; Khalifa University Robotics Institute
Robotics and mechatronics, autonomy in complex environments
A founding figure in KU's autonomous-robotics program (drones, marine and field robots) - the applied-autonomy side of edge AI. (Exact current administrative title unconfirmed on a live KU page, so we state only the verified affiliation.)
NYU Abu Dhabi
A global research university with deep strength in systems, security, networks, and Arabic-first NLP.
Djellel Difallah ↗
Program Head of Computer Science; Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Crowdsourcing, human computation, machine learning, knowledge discovery
As CS program head and a human-in-the-loop ML researcher, he is the natural academic contact and works on AI systems built around human input - close to consent-based personal agents.
Christina Pöpper ↗
Associate Professor of Computer Science; head of the Cyber Security & Privacy Lab
Wireless-systems security, secure localization, protocol and mobile security, privacy
Her security-and-privacy research maps directly onto data sovereignty and trustworthy edge and wireless communication for private personal-AI infrastructure.
Yasir Zaki ↗
Assistant Professor of Computer Science; directs the Communication Networks Lab
Cellular/wireless communication, congestion control, Internet performance
His networking-performance work in constrained conditions is directly applicable to running an edge-compute grid over satellite and last-mile links.
Riyadh Baghdadi ↗
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Optimizing compilers and applied ML for constrained platforms
Making ML run efficiently on resource-constrained hardware is exactly the compute-per-watt problem of edge supercomputing.
Nizar Habash ↗
Professor of Computer Science; directs the CAMeL Lab
NLP and computational linguistics, with emphasis on Arabic and its dialects
Region-specific, dialect-aware NLP is foundational to personal agents that serve local users in their own language rather than defaulting to English.
Keith W. Ross ↗
Professor of Computer Science
Deep reinforcement learning, deep learning, Internet privacy
A prominent AI/RL researcher whose earlier Internet-privacy and networking work bridges the AI-agent and data-privacy themes at the center of the mission.
122 leaders of the UAE, thanked by name.
Before we ask the Emirates for anything, we say thank you. We have celebrated 122 of the UAE's leaders so far - growing toward 1024 - across government, sovereign wealth and enterprise, technology and science, health, learning, sport, culture, and community - each from public information, each with a cited source, each removable on request. From the President and the Rulers of the seven emirates to the astronauts, the Mars mission scientists, the first Emirati woman chef, and the builders of TAMM and UAE Pass: the people who made the UAE the place where this plan is even possible.
Celebration and an invitation, in the open.
We celebrate these people and their work from public information, with genuine admiration and an honest wish to collaborate. Naming a person or institution implies no partnership, affiliation, or endorsement. Every profile links to that person's own official page as the source of truth; university roles change, and where a role was in transition or unconfirmable we say so. Anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed.
Own your AI. Own your data. Own your compute.
For every person in the UAE, and for the nation that already believes consent comes first. If this plan is worth a conversation - a pilot, a lab, a license, a citizen cohort - we would be grateful for it.
This page is a plan and a pursuit, published in the open so any person in the UAE can read exactly what we intend. Hushh is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or in any agreement with the Government of the UAE, any emirate, ministry, authority, sovereign fund, university, or company named; UAE Pass, TAMM, DubaiNow, and all entity names describe the public rails and institutions our plan is designed to serve alongside. The citizen offer requires a sovereign sponsor and does not exist today; regulatory licenses are applications we must earn; every figure is from public materials. One is a product of Hushh Technologies Corporation (brand: 🤫 “hussh”), an independent company. One runs on third-party silicon, systems, and cloud; all company names are used solely to describe the platforms on which One software runs. Hushh Technologies is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or partnered with any company named.