Itqan
إتقان

Itqān — Arabic for mastery, the perfection of craft.

AI Consulting — We ship software, not slides

A senior AI engineer
dedicated to you.

We build for you. Daily updates. One customer at a time.

Why we exist

Why we
work this way.

Most AI projects fail because the wrong problem gets built. We've seen it happen across hundreds of AI projects. We don't jump to solutions — we diagnose first, prioritize ruthlessly, and ship something that creates direct value inside a month.

Founder
Portrait of Ilyes Hamdi

Ilyes Hamdi

Founder & CEO

CentraleSupélec graduate. International Mathematical Olympiad medalist. Ex quant trader on European power markets. Ex AI engineer shipping automated diagnostics on smart-building IoT data.

What sets us apart

Built like an operator, not a vendor.

01 / Validation

Validate the problem first.

Free Week 0. No invoice until we agree on what to build.

02 / Speed

Working POC in 30 days.

Real software, not a demo.

03 / Focus

One engineer, one customer.

Start with one month. Continue for the long term.

04 / Cadence

30 minutes a day.

One short daily update. Fast progress, none of your time wasted on status meetings.

The 30-day process

From problem to shipped.

Week 0 — Free

Validate.

The engineer aligns with your team on the highest-value problem.

Week 1

Prototype.

Rapid prototyping with daily updates.

Weeks 2 & 3

Build.

POC ready by end of week 3.

Week 4

Refine.

Working POC shipped by end of the month.

What we build

Software that does the work.

AI agents & automation

Long-running workflows that act on your stack with judgment.

Copilots & chatbots

Assistants embedded where decisions actually happen.

RAG & semantic search

Search that understands your documents, not just keywords.

Computer vision

Inspection, recognition, and scene understanding from images and video.

Predictive models

Forecasting and scoring trained on your operational reality.

Embedded AI features

Capabilities built directly into your product surface.

Week 0 is on us

Find the one AI problem that moves everything and is worth solving first. Free.

Week 0 is on us. No invoice until we agree on what to build.