Team
Two founders.
Built for the Kingdom.
A small, deliberately Saudi-based team: product and engineering paired with strategy and delivery.
مؤسسان، من أجل المملكة“Two founders, for the Kingdom.”
Salman Ali
Co-founder · Commercial
Drives elvone's commercial strategy and delivery: enterprise adoption across the Kingdom's regulated sectors.
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Kashif Naveed
Co-founder · Technical
Drives elvone's technical vision and engineering: sovereign, Arabic-first AI systems built for the Saudi market.
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UNSW and Macquarie are Kashif's alma maters. KAUST, Deakin, RMIT and the University of Melbourne are a personal research and engineering network, not formal institutional partnerships. The research group named under each is shown for context on relevant work happening there, not a claim of a direct tie to that specific lab.
AI & Robotics Research Group
Advanced Drone Systems Research Centre
Robotics, Intelligent Systems & Control (RISC) Lab
Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute (A2I2)
Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research Team
Australian Centre for Robotic VisionTwo founders. A four-figure engineering bench.
elvone stays small and Saudi-based at the core, and scales delivery through independent engineering teams reaching into Australia and beyond — without carrying that headcount itself. These are working relationships, not equity partnerships.
Dot Labs
AI, data engineering and computer vision, 51–200 staff: extends elvone’s fusion and classification engineering capacity.
dotlabs.ai/ ↗
Powersoft19
Embedded systems and hardware engineering for safety-critical systems, ~1,000 engineers globally: supports the elvone Sense cube family.
www.powersoft19.com/ ↗Compliance & delivery consultancies we could work with
No current engagement with any of these firms. They're named here as realistic HCIS/SAIS-adjacent consultancies elvone could form a relationship with as it moves toward a live pilot, not existing partners or clients.
SGW Consulting
Security risk consulting with a Riyadh office, active on HCIS/SAIS threat and risk assessments for the built environment.
sgw-consulting.co.uk/ ↗
TERPconsulting
Fire protection and life-safety engineering, teaming with HCIS/SAIS-approved firms on a growing Saudi Arabia portfolio.
terpconsulting.com/ ↗
AESG
Engineering and built-environment consultancy licensed by SAIS, with a Riyadh office across security and fire engineering.
aesg.com/ ↗