Rasikh · Pitch Deck
Banking & Fintech · SOVEREIGN CLOUD & SRE
Rasikhراسخ
Sovereign cloud landing zones and SRE practice built for payment rails that can never go down.
neuriya.ai — Sovereign, Arabic-first enterprise AI
Problem
Payment-rail infrastructure is migrating to cloud faster than SRE discipline can follow
- SAMA data-residency rules require payment and core-banking workloads to stay in-Kingdom, but most cloud landing zones are built generically and checked for compliance after the fact, not by design.
- Cloud and infrastructure teams are expected to run payment rails with hyperscaler-grade uptime without a formal SRE practice — on-call rotations, SLOs, and runbooks are often ad hoc or missing entirely.
- Disaster-recovery plans exist on paper and in review decks, but failover is rarely drilled against real production-like environments, so the first real test is an actual outage.
- Encryption-key management is frequently handled through generic cloud provider defaults, with no in-Kingdom HSM control or clean audit trail for SAMA examiners.
Solution
Sovereign infrastructure with a real SRE practice built around it
Product
Rasikh in action
How it works
From first touch to outcome
Design
A sovereign landing zone is designed around your existing workloads and SAMA compliance obligations.
Migrate
Payment-rail and core-banking workloads move in with a documented residency and encryption posture from day one.
Operate
An SRE practice — on-call, SLOs, and runbooks — is stood up around the systems that cannot afford downtime.
Prove
Compliance and uptime reporting is generated automatically for SAMA audits and internal risk committees.
Market
Sizing the opportunity
- TAM — $4.6B. GCC cloud infrastructure & managed services spend for financial services
- SAM — $420M. Saudi sovereign cloud & SRE services market for banking and finance
- SOM — $25M. 3-year obtainable share across licensed Saudi banks and finance companies
SAMA's data-residency requirements and the Kingdom's cloud-first regulatory posture mean more than 30 licensed banks and finance companies cannot simply lift and shift to a global hyperscaler region, creating sustained demand for in-Kingdom landing zones and the SRE discipline to run payment rails on them reliably.
Business model
How Rasikh makes money
Annual platform license
Priced per institution and tiered by workload footprint, covering landing-zone management, residency tracking, and SRE tooling.
Managed SRE retainer
Recurring fee for on-call coverage, SLO management, and incident response delivered around the institution's payment-rail systems.
Migration & landing-zone implementation fee
One-time fee to design and stand up the sovereign landing zone around the institution's existing workloads and compliance obligations.
Revenue streams
Where the revenue actually comes from
Competition
Where we win
Our edge
- Landing zones designed sovereign-first for SAMA residency rules, not a generic template checked for compliance afterward.
- SRE practice built specifically around payment-rail uptime and latency requirements, not generic web-application reliability engineering.
- In-Kingdom HSM-based key management with a full audit trail on every access and rotation event.
- Founding team combines Saudi enterprise delivery experience with hands-on cloud and SRE engineering.
Traction
Early validation, built for pilot readiness
- Full sovereign cloud engineering platform designed and built end-to-end: landing-zone status dashboard, data-residency compliance view, and SRE incident detail.
- Architecture pre-aligned to SAMA CSF, PDPL, NDMO Classification, and ISO 27001 from day one.
- Actively selecting design-partner banks for a first pilot cohort.
Go-to-market
Design-partner banks first, then sandbox-backed expansion
- 1Land with 1-2 design-partner banks willing to migrate or re-platform a payment-rail workload into a sovereign landing zone.
- 2Prove uptime, residency-compliance, and DR-readiness outcomes over a defined pilot period against the institution's current infrastructure.
- 3Expand through the SAMA regulatory sandbox and cloud and infrastructure-leadership networks across the licensed banking market.
Team
Built by operators, not just builders
The ask
Raising a seed round to reach first design-partner banks
We're raising to fund pilot deployments with design-partner banks, landing-zone and SRE tooling build-out, and the core cloud and platform-engineering team through first-revenue.