Cartaja
Conversational commerce · SaaS
WhatsApp turns into a storefront. AI handles search, cart, checkout, and fulfilment for SMB retailers.
Live · freemium → $299/mo · agent-commerce in development
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Applied AI Venture Studio
We build end-to-end AI products and accelerate AI ventures.
ntelio is an applied AI venture studio. We create vertical AI products and ventures — with partners, or on our own — taking each one end to end: ideation, design, brand, engineering, and operations. Every product runs on our own platform and is built and operated by a team that has shipped dozens of products to millions of users over the past twenty years.
4
Products in market
3+
Years operating our platform
Millions
of users served historically
Trillions
of data points processed historically
01 — The model
A venture studio that builds, generalises, and ships.
Most AI companies are one of three things: a consultancy that delivers other people’s AI, a platform that hands you the keys, or a single SaaS product. ntelio is none of those — and all three.
We work like a venture studio. Each engagement is both a paid problem to solve and a market signal. The patterns we find generalise back into our platform. The platform makes the next product faster to build. When a vertical generalises, we commercialise it as a product of our own.
Every ntelio solution was created to fulfill a customer need or was co-created with a partner to solve their pain point. That’s how Cartaja, DocGenie, ArtBound, The Meerkat and so many other products or projects exist today.
01 · Build
Build with partners.
Vertical AI products co-created with enterprises across commerce, finance, regulated industries, hospitality, and intelligence.
02 · Generalise
Generalise on the platform.
Every engagement extends our backend platform — time-tested across millions of users and trillions of data points.
03 · Ship
Ship as products.
When a vertical generalises, we commercialise it. Cartaja, DocGenie, ArtBound, and The Meerkat all started this way.
02 — Portfolio
Four products in market. One platform underneath.
Each product addresses a distinct vertical. All run on the same platform.
ArtBound
Auction infrastructure · Partnership
AI-native auction platform for galleries. WhatsApp-first conversational bidding. Galleries keep their collector data.
Live with partner galleries
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The Meerkat
The Meerkat
OSINT intelligence · SaaS
Follow curators, get factually corroborated signal — for analysts, journalists, and security teams.
Freemium → $39/mo · live at themeerkat.ai
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DocGenie
DocGenie
Private enterprise document AI
Compliant, auditable, repeatable, long form documents — ESG reports, RFPs, feasibility studies — dependably generated from internal data by private AI. Runs on premise or on sovereign infrastructure, fully secure, fully compliant.
Deployed in regulated industries
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03 — The platform underneath
The reason we can run a portfolio with a small team.
Multi-tenant PaaS for vertical applications — admin, IDE, agent tools
Experience & application layer — UI, omnichannel, messaging, voice
Protocol gateway (HTTPS, WS, MQTT, AMQP, TCP) & API gateway (OpenAPI → API)
Agentic pipeline runner + serverless runtime + middleware
Data layer — document, vector & time-series
Language model ops — acquire, deploy & fine-tune
Cluster & systems management
Every product runs on the ntelio AI platform.
The platform is the substrate beneath everything we ship. It was designed and built by a team that has, over the past decade, delivered dozens of platforms and applications powering IoT, fintech, conversational commerce, and AI workloads — for millions of users worldwide.
Built-in modules handle storage, messaging, devices, queues, and integrations. Token-based security. Multi-tenant by default. The same foundation is now available to partners building their own vertical AI products.
Resilient
Secure
Time-tested
Cloud agnostic
Multi-tenant
Build on the platform →
04 — How we engage
Every new vertical starts with PRISM.
PRISM is our five-phase methodology. It turns “we should do something with AI” into a scoped, measurable, build-ready opportunity.
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P · 01
Profile
Understand the business, its data, and its constraints.
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R · 02
Reveal
Surface the highest-value AI opportunities.
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I · 03
Illuminate
Pressure-test feasibility, ROI, and risk.
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S · 04
Structure
Design the build plan, architecture, and success metrics.
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M · 05
Mobilise
Stand up the team and ship.
We run PRISM with every enterprise partner. It’s how we avoid building the wrong thing.
05 — Who we are
A founding team with a hundred and twenty years of receipts.
Over 120 years of collective experience in tech, product, strategy, and execution — across B2B and B2C, from the GCC to Silicon Valley.
We ship in production from day one. We run what we sell. We co-own outcomes with our partners.
01 · Founder
Rabih Nassar
“Trailblazer”
Three+ decades of technology innovation and venture-building across three continents. Enterprise tech, cloud, IoT, generative AI, art, health.
02 · Co-founder
Desiree Chbeir
“Chief of Getting Things Done”
20+ years leading innovation, partnerships, and complex delivery. Ex-Amazon ($400M+ revenue growth) and ex-McKinsey (corporate venture, $200M+ in opportunities). Government, retail, luxury, O&G, and financial services.
03 · Co-founder
Walid Bakkar
“AI & Systems Wrangler”
20+ years architecting massively scalable platforms — BPM, media, cloud, PaaS, BaaS, IoT, identity, and generative AI. Pairs systems vision with hands-on craftsmanship.
04 · Co-founder
Caroline Farage
“Roadmap Wrangler”
Two decades shipping production-grade enterprise systems — high-throughput APIs and resilient IoT applications. Builds disciplined teams, sets clear technical standards, mentors leaders.
05 · Co-founder
Jean-Marc Achkar
“Adoption Captain”
Magna cum laude, Boston University. Ex-Amazon, where he scaled consumer applications used by millions. Customer-first engineer; turns product needs into reliable, observable systems.
06 — Work with us
Three ways in.
Partner
Build a vertical with us.
You have a vertical problem worth solving. We co-build the product.
partners@ntelio.ai →Invest
Back applied AI with revenue and IP.
You back applied AI companies with revenue and IP across the portfolio.
investors@ntelio.ai →Build
Use the platform.
You want the ntelio AI platform powering your own vertical product.
platform@ntelio.ai →