Built from Yemen, with ambition for the region and beyond.
Sheba is a Yemeni full-stack AI technology company developing products and systems for businesses and institutions. Our work spans models, a platform, agents, products and custom systems that bring AI into day-to-day operations.
The company
What Sheba is
We build systems that connect with a company’s information, tools and processes, helping teams serve customers, carry out tasks and make better-informed decisions. AI is our technology focus today and the starting point for the company we aim to build.
The layers
Working across the AI stack.
We develop and fine-tune models for their tasks, build a platform for AI access and knowledge, and create agents that carry out workflow steps. These capabilities appear in our products and in systems developed for specific needs. Working across these layers lets us follow the relationship between the technology and how it is used.
How the products and the custom work support each other
Products and custom systems share technology, standards and implementation experience, while their scope depends on the client’s needs. We choose the appropriate path after understanding the workflows, data and existing systems.
Why we exist
We start with the business problem.
A company may need to answer customers after hours, find information spread across documents or complete a process that spans several systems. We build technology around these needs, with a clear role in the workflow and outcomes that can be measured.
The region
Understanding the region through the work itself.
Our experience starts with businesses and institutions in Yemen. We pay attention to customers’ language, the channels they use and the processes their teams rely on. We bring that understanding to products aimed at regional needs, with data and operating requirements defined for each project.
Track record
What we've built
Two years of shipping. 30+ production deployments and 35+ active AI agent personas across 14+ industries — banking, education, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, F&B, and more. Production-grade SaaS, running in real operations.
What two years shipped
- ChatSheba: an AI customer-service employee supported by a customer-management system, working across four core channels.
- 35+ active AI agent personas configured per deployment across 14+ industries.
- Custom systems combining AI agents, workflow automation and connections to client systems.
- PDPL-aware deployments with per-deployment data boundaries and regulated-residency paths.
- 30+production deployments
- 35+active AI agent personas
- 14+industries served
- 2+years of shipping
Our own model
Sheba Yemen 1: a model for Yemeni context.
We developed Sheba Yemen 1 to work with Yemeni users’ language and cultural context within Sheba products and systems. It illustrates our model development and fine-tuning work for specific use cases and is not offered independently.
Read about Sheba Yemen 1Operating model
How we work
We start by understanding the process a client wants to improve, then identify the right product or system. We develop, configure, integrate and operate it within the agreed scope, using what we learn from projects to improve our products and delivery.
Leadership
Sheba’s founder
Sheba is founder-led, operating across the Middle East with two years of shipped production work.
Yousef Shaiban
Founder and CEO
Yousef Shaiban leads the development of Sheba and its products, with the ambition to build technology from Yemen that serves the region and competes globally.
Yousef Shaiban founded Sheba and leads the company. The people who design each system also ship and operate it in production — there is no offshore handoff between building a system and running it.
30+ production AI deployments across 14+ Middle East industries · author of Sheba's published guides on Arabic-native AI operations
Where this goes
Our long-term ambition
Our long-term ambition is to build a technology group founded in the Middle East, developing and owning companies and products across technology, media and business on a global scale. That ambition starts with what we build and operate at Sheba today and the experience we gain from each project.
The Next Is Ours.
Legal entity
Company and legal entity
Sheba is the brand, and Sheba Smart Technology is the contracting entity. Headquartered in Sanaa, Yemen, it targets businesses and institutions across the Middle East.
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