About OPTEAM

Civil engineers who fell for AI — and built it for construction.

OPTEAM was founded in Dubai by a father and son: an AI researcher and an enterprise-software builder who set out to take the manual grind out of how the world plans and tracks its biggest projects.

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Our mission

Bring real intelligence to the projects that build the region.

As civil engineers and AI enthusiasts, we kept seeing the same gap: an industry that moves billions still plans and tracks its work with tools that have barely changed in decades.

Schedules sit locked in Primavera P6. Cost lives in spreadsheets. The field reports over WhatsApp. And every month the same executive report gets rebuilt by hand — so by the time a slip is visible, it has already reached the critical path.

So we built one intelligent layer for the whole project. OPTEAM blends two decades of academic AI research with hard-won industry experience to read your schedule, logic, progress and field updates — and do the heavy lifting, so your people spend their time on decisions, not data entry. Same files, same team, same Primavera. What disappears is the days lost to chasing, reformatting and re-keying.

We build for the MENA region first — where projects are some of the most ambitious on earth, and where the right tools make the biggest difference — and for every team beyond it that wants its plan to stay honest.

20+
Years of AI research
Dubai
Headquarters
MENA
Built for the region
P6
Native to your schedule
The founders

A family that started it all.

OPTEAM is led by a father and son who pair deep AI research with the business of building software people actually use.

Ahmed Hegazy, Co-founder & CEO of OPTEAMCo-founder & CEO
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

Ahmed Hegazy

Product, business & the company vision

Ahmed brings over a decade in global enterprise software to OPTEAM, setting the product direction and the company's mission. He's the driving force behind making powerful AI feel simple on a jobsite — and behind OPTEAM's commitment to building a business that gives back to the communities it works in.

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Dr. Tarek Hegazy, Co-founder & CIO of OPTEAMCo-founder & CIO
Co-founder & Chief Information Officer

Dr. Tarek Hegazy

AI research & the engineering brain

A distinguished professor at the University of Waterloo, Dr. Tarek has spent more than 20 years researching AI for engineering and infrastructure — earning numerous research awards and several patents along the way. He turns that body of work into the algorithms at OPTEAM's core.

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What we believe

Principles we build on.

AI that does the work

Not a chatbot bolted on. An engine that reads the whole plan, finds what matters, and drafts the work for you — efficiency and reliability you can lean on.

Simple, never intrusive

The best tool is the one already open in your hand. We meet teams where they are — no new app to force on the field, no training week, no friction.

Privacy & security first

Your project data is yours. Protecting it isn't a feature — it's a foundation. Every model runs on your own data, kept private to you.

Collaboration & unity

We believe in the power of working as one. Inside the company and across a project, every person is valued, respected, and free to contribute.

Sustainability & community

Build faster. Waste less. Give back.

Finishing projects on time and with fewer wasted resources isn't just good business — it's lighter on the planet. And we believe a company has a responsibility to use its resources for the communities around it.

That's why we actively support under-serviced communities through donations, charities and volunteering — funded both by the company's revenues and by our own people.

Less waste on every projectTighter schedules mean fewer resources burned and a smaller footprint.
Donations & charitiesA share of revenue directed to communities that need it most.
Employee volunteeringOur team gives its time, not just the company's money.
Where we are

Rooted in Dubai, growing across the region.

Headquarters

Dubai, UAE

Our home base in the Dubai Silicon Oasis tech community, where the product and the team are built.

DTEC · Dubai Digital Park
Growing

Saudi Arabia

Closest to the region's most ambitious giga-projects, where modern project controls matter most.

Riyadh & the wider Kingdom
Serving

MENA & beyond

From the GCC outward — supporting owners, consultants and contractors wherever they build.

Remote-first delivery