Team & Leadership

We blend board-level strategy with sleeves-up delivery. MEA-native, operator-led, impact-obsessed.

Our story

Master AI was born from two parallel careers that kept crashing into the same frustration. Hasan spent decades designing and running large-scale media operations. Tarif led product and platform businesses at global tech companies. Everywhere, the pattern repeated: endless slides about “AI” and “digital transformation”, very few working systems, and teams left to figure it out alone.

We started Master AI to fix that gap. An MEA-native, operator-led firm that combines strategy, product, and engineering in one pod — and doesn’t leave until the thing is live, measured, and owned by the client team.

We focus on MEA first, but we build with a global bar: AI systems, tools, and products that can sit comfortably in any boardroom, any marketplace, anywhere.

Founders

Tarif Sayed

Co-founder & Managing Partner

Product strategist and media-tech builder. Leads AI-native operating model design and flagship prototypes — turning messy content estates into governed, monetizable assets.

Hasan Sayed

Co-founder & Partner

Enterprise advisor with deep GCC and MEA delivery. Bridges executive priorities with pragmatic roadmaps and embedded pods.

Advisors

Advisors (selected): sector veterans across government, tourism, media, and SOEs in MEA.

Government Data & AI Policy
Advises on regulation, ethics, and public-sector data platforms.
Contact Center & CX
Advises on AI-enabled service journeys and omni-channel contact centers.
Media Archives & Rights
Advises on archive modernization, rights, and monetization.