Bayaan
Compliance workflow automation for Gulf financial institutions.
What Bayaan does.
Automates the compliance checks Gulf banks run on every customer, transaction and counterparty. Registry pulls, sanctions screening and audit trails move from manual review to a workflow engine configured once and run continuously.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Stage | Seed |
| Category | B2B Fintech |
| Year | 2026 |
| Website | bayaan.co |
| Measured by | Financial institutions onboarded, compliance checks automated per month, annual recurring revenue in AED. |
The thesis behind Bayaan.
Gulf regulation is tightening and mid-size compliance teams are drowning in manual checks. The founders built this as consulting for two Dubai banks before productising it. The first four customers pay annual contracts in dirhams.
In production, revenue in hard currency, engineering in Islamabad at a fraction of a Dubai competitor's cost. Compliance is sticky: once a bank configures its rules, switching is expensive.
Who is building it
The CEO is a former Dubai bank compliance officer who moved home. The CTO spent eight years building financial infrastructure at a Karachi fintech. Six engineers in Islamabad.
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