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Unveiled at the Dubai AI Festival, the desktop-first platform lets businesses build, deploy and connect AI agents across a global network with early-access UAE users receiving 5,000 free credits.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 31st October 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — Soika Labs has opened early access to Mockingjay Network, an agentic AI operating system that lets any business build, run and command its own workforce of AI agents. Co-founder and CEO Enzo Amur unveiled the platform’s move into production at the Dubai AI Festival on 27 October, launching with a UAE-first soft rollout that gives early-access users 5,000 free credits to start building.

One platform where AI agents work as a team

An AI agent is a digital worker software that carries out real business tasks such as answering customers, qualifying and sorting leads, or standing up an entire CRM system. Most AI tools, however, operate in isolation, leaving teams to pay for several products and stitch the results together by hand. Mockingjay Network brings all of that into a single environment. Inside a company, agents work together as a coordinated team; beyond it, they connect with agents from other organisations worldwide through the Global Agentic Neural Network (GANN) to get work done faster. Each company’s private agents stay sovereign, plugging into the wider network without exposing internal data.

No code, your models, your machines

Mockingjay is built to be used without writing a line of code or hiring engineers, and it can run on a company’s own computers so sensitive data stays under its control. The platform is also one of the largest LLM aggregators available, giving users access to Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Kimi and more from a single place. An intelligent auto-routing system directs each task to the best-suited model saving up to 70% of credits while agents work across text, images and data. Mockingjay is delivered as a desktop application that businesses install and run locally.

Built for small and medium businesses first

Mockingjay is designed for small and medium-sized businesses before anyone else, and the opportunity is vast: an estimated 1.3 million SMEs in the UAE, around 2 million across the wider GCC, and some 36.2 million small businesses in the United States. Many want to adopt AI but find it too expensive or too complicated. Mockingjay is built to close that gap, bringing agentic AI within practical reach of leaner teams.

People stay in command

For all its automation, Mockingjay is designed around human oversight. Soika Labs sets a baseline of at least one person per division and expects “human in the loop” to become a profession of its own as businesses scale. “The rules of communication, cooperation and equality between AI agents are what make a shared network work,” said Enzo Amur, Co-founder and CEO of Soika Labs. “We want businesses to let AI do more so people can be more without letting AI take over.” The launch aligns with the UAE National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence 2031, as businesses across the region move from adopting AI tools to applying them for measurable operational value.

Availability and early access

Mockingjay Network is available now as a desktop application. Businesses can download it and start building their AI agents and fleets at https://www.mockingjaynetwork.com/download. As part of the UAE-first soft launch, early-access users receive 5,000 free credits. “This is the beginning of a network where businesses of every size build their own AI workforce and connect it to the world,” added Amur.

About Soika Labs

Soika Labs is a Dubai-based AI company and the team behind Mockingjay Network. Built on the principle that in the era of AI being human matters more, it develops agentic AI infrastructure that keeps businesses and people in control.

Free-to-play meme coin trading is becoming a competitive experience where traders can sharpen their strategies, climb the leaderboard, and compete for a chance to win $50 in SOL.

Dubai, UAE, October 30th, 2026 — memeCI is bringing a new competitive dimension to meme coin trading with Practice to Win, a free-to-play competition that turns simulated meme coin trading into an exciting esports-style experience where participants can compete against other traders for a chance to win real cryptocurrency.

Are you good enough to rise to the top of the leaderboard and win $50 in SOL?

With memeCI Practice Trading, participants receive a $10,000 virtual trading balance to explore meme coins, test strategies, and compete without risking their own money. The Practice to Win competition takes that experience a step further, rewarding the top-performing eligible trader with a real $50 SOL prize each week.

A New Esport for the Meme Coin Community

Meme coins are known for their speed, volatility, and the excitement surrounding early launches. But learning to trade them can be expensive when real money is on the line.

memeCI is changing that.

Practice Trading gives users the opportunity to experience meme coin markets, develop trading strategies, and learn to recognize opportunities without financial risk. The competitive leaderboard adds an esports-inspired challenge, allowing traders to measure their performance against others.

And because memeCI is still in beta, the competition is currently smaller, giving early participants an opportunity to compete for the top spot before the platform grows.

Think you have what it takes?

Explore the memeCI Practice Trading page to learn how to get started.

How Practice to Win Works

The competition is designed to reward trading performance, not simply participation.

• Free to participate: Every eligible participant competes using a virtual $10,000 practice balance.
• Weekly competition: Each competition runs for seven days.
• Real rewards: The top-performing eligible trader has the opportunity to win $50 in SOL.
• Fair qualification: Participants must close at least five practice trades to qualify.
• Performance-based ranking: Traders are ranked by their percentage return on equity, measured against their equity at the beginning of the competition.

Getting started is easy: Simply sign up for a new memeCI account and start practice trading. It’s that simple!

For complete details, visit the memeCI Practice Trading Guide.

Transparent Competition. Verifiable Payouts.

Trust and transparency are essential to any competitive platform.

memeCI publicly displays competition winners and provides a transaction hash (TXID) linking directly to the blockchain transaction used to pay the prize.

Anyone can independently verify that the SOL prize was sent to the winning wallet.

No hidden winners. No unverifiable payouts. Just competitive trading performance and transparent rewards.

A Level Playing Field for Meme Coin Traders

“memeCI is helping level the playing field by giving everyone an opportunity to experience meme coin trading, develop their strategies, and compete without risking their own money. Whether you’re learning to recognize early opportunities or refining your trading approach, Practice Trading gives you the tools to improve — with the added excitement of competing for real SOL rewards.”
— Robert Candle, PR and Marketing Coordinator, memeCI

About memeCI

memeCI is a meme coin intelligence platform designed to help traders discover opportunities, analyze market activity, and develop their trading strategies.

With multi-chain meme coin scanning, AI-powered insights, and Practice Trading, memeCI brings together the tools traders need to explore the fast-moving meme coin market.

Through Practice to Win, memeCI is introducing a new competitive experience where trading skill, strategy, and performance can earn recognition — and real cryptocurrency rewards.

Website: https://memeci.io

Practice Trading Guide: https://memeci.io/practice-trading

Pacific Gate Partners supports technology and healthcare companies pursuing international growth through strategic advisory expertise, industry knowledge, and established relationships across global markets.

California, USA, October 30, 2026 – Bringing innovative technologies and healthcare solutions to commercial markets requires more than strong products, intellectual property, or scientific expertise. Companies pursuing international expansion must navigate market access, strategic partnerships, financing requirements, regulatory environments, and commercialization strategies.

Pacific Gate Partners, a boutique investment banking and strategic advisory firm, supports public and private technology, healthcare, and life sciences companies seeking international growth opportunities, particularly across Asian markets. The firm combines industry expertise, strategic advisory capabilities, and established relationships with corporate partners and financial investors to help clients evaluate and pursue international expansion.

Connecting Innovation With Commercial Opportunities

Successful commercialization requires translating technological and scientific innovation into sustainable business opportunities. For companies entering international markets, this often involves identifying strategic partners, evaluating investment opportunities, understanding regional market dynamics, and developing appropriate commercial strategies.

Pacific Gate Partners advises executives and boards on international growth opportunities, helping companies evaluate market entry strategies, strategic partnerships, capital formation, and long-term commercial development.

Strategic Partnerships Drive International Expansion

Strategic relationships with investors, manufacturers, distributors, healthcare organizations, and industry participants play an important role in accelerating commercialization.

Pacific Gate Partners draws on its international network of corporate partners and financial investors to help companies identify opportunities for mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, licensing agreements, capital raising, and other strategic partnerships.

These relationships can support market access, manufacturing and distribution expansion, product commercialization, and long-term business development.

Supporting Multiple Pathways to Growth

International expansion requires tailored strategies based on a company’s technology, commercial objectives, and target markets.

Pacific Gate Partners provides advisory services across mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, licensing arrangements, and capital raising. The firm’s capabilities include strategic assessment, partner identification, commercial evaluation, valuation, transaction structuring, negotiations, and execution support.

By evaluating different strategic alternatives, the firm helps companies pursue growth opportunities aligned with their long-term business objectives.

Industry Expertise Across Technology and Healthcare

Pacific Gate Partners advises companies across technology, healthcare, and life sciences, supporting businesses at different stages of development and commercialization.

The firm’s industry knowledge and understanding of international markets enable it to evaluate strategic opportunities within the commercial, regulatory, and competitive environments of individual sectors.

By combining sector expertise with established international relationships, Pacific Gate Partners helps companies identify potential partners, assess market opportunities, and develop strategies for sustainable international growth.

A Global Perspective on Commercialization

As technology and healthcare companies expand beyond their domestic markets, international commercialization increasingly requires coordinated strategies involving capital, partnerships, regulatory considerations, and market access.

Pacific Gate Partners combines cross-border investment banking expertise with international industry relationships to help companies evaluate strategic alternatives, establish partnerships, and pursue opportunities supporting sustainable growth.

With a particular focus on connecting Western companies with strategic and financial partners across Asia and other international markets, the firm provides advisory capabilities designed to support innovation, commercialization, and long-term international expansion.

About Pacific Gate Partners

Pacific Gate Partners is a boutique investment banking and strategic advisory firm specializing in cross-border transactions involving technology, healthcare, and life sciences companies. The firm advises public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, licensing agreements, strategic partnerships, and capital raising, with a particular focus on connecting Western companies with opportunities across Asia and other international markets.

Cyprus-founded wealth manager, now present in Dubai, brings its B2B platform to the DIFC-organised summit as a Silver Sponsor

Dubai, UAE, October 29th, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — As wealth management across the Gulf moves deeper into digital transformation, XSpot Wealth will take part in Dubai FinTech Summit 2026 to introduce XSpot 360, a business-to-business wealth-management technology platform for financial institutions. The company joins the summit as a Silver Sponsor.

Dubai FinTech Summit, organised by Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), takes place on 2–3 November 2026 at Madinat Jumeirah and ranks among the region’s most prominent gatherings of financial leaders, policymakers and technology firms. XSpot Wealth’s participation reflects growing demand across the UAE and the wider GCC for modern infrastructure to support investment services.

XSpot 360 is designed for the institutions that sit between investors and markets — brokers, asset managers, independent financial advisors, family offices, banks, insurers and pension providers. It brings investment-management functions and digital infrastructure into a single environment, helping these organisations modernise how they serve their clients.

A platform built around practical capabilities

XSpot Wealth is presenting XSpot 360 on the strength of what it does for financial professionals rather than on promotional claims. The platform supports API integration so institutions can connect it to their existing systems; white-label delivery so they can offer technology-enabled wealth services under their own brand; and automated portfolio management and reporting to simplify day-to-day operations and improve access to investment information. A unified environment gives teams centralised visibility of their portfolios, and the underlying infrastructure is built to scale as an institution grows.

“The Gulf is one of the most dynamic environments in the world for financial technology, and the appetite for serious wealth-management infrastructure is real,” said Dimitris Kantzelis, CEO and Co-Founder of XSpot Wealth. “We established a presence in Dubai because we see long-term opportunity here. Bringing XSpot 360 to the Dubai FinTech Summit lets us put the platform in front of the institutions shaping the region’s financial future.”

Introducing the platform to the region

Through the summit, XSpot Wealth aims to build awareness of XSpot 360 among institutional decision-makers in the UAE and GCC, generate interest in platform demonstrations, and explore strategic partnerships with technology and financial-services firms. The company frames its participation as part of the broader digital transformation of wealth management across the region.

About XSpot Wealth

XSpot Wealth is a technology-driven wealth-management company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus, with a presence in Dubai. The firm operates a hybrid model that pairs investment expertise with proprietary technology, and has extended its platform to institutional clients through XSpot 360. XSpot Wealth was named Greece’s best wealth manager at the Euromoney Private Banking Awards 2025.

Each service has its own terms; the prop service uses demo accounts and is not a brokerage service.

Castries, Saint Lucia, October 28th, 2026 – Velaris Markets operates two services under one brand. Its brokerage offers CFDs on forex, indices, commodities and crypto on MetaTrader 5. Its prop service runs trading challenges on simulated accounts of up to $100,000: traders who pass and verify their identity receive a funded simulated account and 80% of the profit on that account, paid as a reward. Both services launched in July 2026.

Brokerage: two account types, no minimum deposit

The Standard account has spreads from 1.2 pips and no commission. The ECN account has spreads from 0.0 pips plus a commission of $7 per lot round turn on forex and metals. There is no minimum deposit. Leverage goes up to 1:200 on FX pairs and is lower on other asset classes. Clients deposit by card or in crypto (BTC, ETH, USDT, USDC). The client portal also offers copy trading, where a client’s own account follows a strategy provider, and Money Management (PAMM) pools run by pool managers.

Prop service: simulated accounts from $2,500 to $100,000

The prop service runs 1-Step challenges with account sizes from $2,500 to $25,000 and 2-Step challenges from $2,500 to $100,000, all on MT5, for a one-time fee starting at $29. There is no time limit to pass. A trader who passes and completes identity verification receives a funded account of the same size. Payouts run in 14-day cycles, and each payout request receives a decision within 48 hours. On the 2-Step challenge, the fee is returned with the first payout.

“Our experience in the industry shows that established firms in this business run both a brokerage and a prop structure, because together they build more trust in the brand,” said Yasen Dimitrov, Director of Velaris Markets. “A trader with a few hundred dollars has two options: trade that money directly, or pay a fee to prove a strategy on a larger simulated account. At Velaris the same trader can open a broker account with no minimum deposit, or start a $2,500 2-Step challenge for $29, where the most they can lose is the fee.”

Both services use the same support model. Live chat is open at any hour: an AI assistant answers first and hands over to the support team, which works Monday to Friday. The aim is to resolve the issue during the chat rather than open a ticket and reply later.

The brokerage is available at velarismarkets.com and the prop service at prop.velarismarkets.com. Neither service is available to citizens or residents of the United States or of sanctioned jurisdictions; the full lists are in each service’s terms.

About Velaris Markets

Velaris Markets Limited is a company incorporated in Saint Lucia in January 2026 under company number 2026-00083. It is not licensed by a financial regulator. Client funds at the brokerage are held separately from the company’s operating funds. The prop service is not a brokerage service and is not a regulated financial service; it is an evaluation program run on demo accounts.

The plan to turn Dubai into a city people can play runs on bonuz LIFE mode, live since August 2026. Brands can now apply to run their own quests, punch cards and loyalty rewards in the first pilot group.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, October 27th 2026, ZEX PR WIRE, Bonuz Technology DMCC, the Dubai company behind the bonuz apps, has officially submitted GamifyDubai.com to the Dubai-it Award 2026.

GamifyDubai.com is a plan to make Dubai the first city people can play: real streets, quests at real places, and rewards that belong to the person who earns them. The application is in and under review. bonuz has submitted, and it shares the plan now because the technology behind it is already live.

With the submission, bonuz opens its first brand pilot programme. Brands, restaurants, venues and event organisers can sign up at app.bonuz.market, create their account and apply to run gamified campaigns in bonuz. bonuz will approve no more than 20 brands in the first month. These brands become the pilots of GamifyDubai.com.

How it works

The idea follows one simple loop: find a quest, go there, complete it, prove it, get rewarded. A player might discover an art experience hidden in the city, a fragrance experience they never knew existed, or a place they would never have found otherwise.

Quests are more than check-ins. Visitors take part in actions that have real value for a brand: they try something new, share the story of their meal or their visit, bring a friend, or come back. The brand decides how to reward that action, for example with a voucher the visitor redeems on the next visit.

Pilot brands can run:

Digital punch cards and loyalty cards that live in the customer’s own bonuz app Quests during events, from the entrance to the last stage

Quests during restaurant and venue visits that reward people for coming, staying and coming back Rewards and redeemable vouchers for the next visit

It is a win-win ecosystem. Players discover more of Dubai and keep what they earn. Brands get more people through the door and build a real relationship with them, instead of buying another ad. The biggest goal of any brand is a happy customer who comes back, again and again. That is exactly what bonuz is built for: stronger brand and customer relationships, higher loyalty, and repeat customers.

Restaurants and events are only the start. The same system works for hundreds of uses over time, from cafés and retail to cultural sites and gym memberships.

What started as an idea, an inspiration and a dream has become what Mende calls the real-world Grand Theft Auto: an open city people play by walking through it, with modern, immersive activities that were never possible before.

Live today

GamifyDubai.com runs on technology that is already live, built on 2.1 million lines of code. bonuz LIFE mode has been in the public bonuz app since August 2026. Users raise their phone and nearby venues appear in place with their real name and distance, a radar shows what is around them, and items waiting to be collected are marked with a beam of light. bonuz has more than 10,000 registered users. The app is on iOS and Android and also works on the web with no download at app.bonuz.xyz.

The entire bonuz ecosystem is self-custodial. What users collect is held by the users themselves, on their own device, never by bonuz. With their bonuz ID, users can connect their social media accounts into one social graph, a single portable identity they own.

The bigger picture

Over the long term, bonuz plans large-scale campaigns with tourism departments, in the UAE and internationally, and with major festivals, events and concerts. These industries need new ways to engage visitors, and a city that people can play is one of them.

“Our team wrote GamifyDubai.com down for the first time in May 2023. The idea is simple. The city is the game,” said Matthias Mende, creator and CEO of bonuz and co-founder of Dubai Blockchain Center. “I have lived in Dubai since 2007. This city has always rewarded people who dream big and then do the work. A city that builds the first and the tallest should also be the first city you can play.”

“I grew up as a gamer, from Diablo to World of Warcraft, from GTA 1 to GTA 5,” Mende added. “In 2010 and 2011 I was already experimenting with augmented reality, but it was too early for its time. Only the new infrastructure made this possible, and we merged it into one experience. Dubai allowed us to think big, so we did what this city does. We Dubai-it.”

“Now we want the brands of this city to play with us,” Mende said. “We open 20 pilot places in the first month, so every pilot gets our full attention. Punch cards, loyalty, quests at events and in restaurants. Every brand wants customers who are happy and come back. We give them a way to earn that, and the customer wins too. Our target is the same as the Award’s: to boost the economy and help place Dubai at the top of the world’s innovation map. If we are chosen as a winner, we hope GamifyDubai.com becomes part of that. Either way, it is our plan and our vision.”

GamifyDubai.com is one of four applications bonuz submitted to the Dubai-it Award 2026. The others are Bonuz Technology DMCC (organisation, economy), Matthias Mende (individual, technology) and uae971 (project, society and technology).

For brands: sign up and apply at app.bonuz.market

For players: start your journey at app.bonuz.xyz (iOS, Android, and on the web with no download) The full idea: GamifyDubai.com

About bonuz

bonuz is a real-world gamification platform. Brands, venues, restaurants and places use it to run quests, events, punch cards and rewards that people play on the street through the bonuz app. bonuz is self-custodial: users hold what they collect themselves, and their bonuz ID connects their social accounts into one identity they own. The app is available on the App Store and Google Play, and it also works on the web with no download at app.bonuz.xyz. Website: bonuz.xyz

About Bonuz Technology DMCC

Bonuz Technology DMCC is a Dubai company licensed in the DMCC free zone. It builds and operates the bonuz consumer apps, including LIFE mode. Address: Unit UT-12-CO-80, DMCC Business Centre, Level 12, Uptown Tower, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

About Matthias Mende

Matthias Mende is the creator and CEO of bonuz and co-founder of Dubai Blockchain Center. He has lived and built in Dubai since 2007.

Founder and CEO Tim Furey debuts the EDGE Instant Liquidity Connector — an engine that scans top-tier liquidity in milliseconds, routes raw, unmarked pricing, and passes positive slippage to the client. His message to traders: hope is not a strategy.

They hold your hand. Tim Furey hands you the detonator.

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands — October 27th, 2026 — Tradeview Markets has launched EDGE, the proprietary execution engine its Founder and CEO, Tim Furey, spent years and millions building. His pitch is blunt: most brokers pad spreads and hide costs, and Tradeview won’t. EDGE, he says, is his answer to an industry that has taxed traders for too long.

An engine, not just a platform

Any broker can hand a trader a platform; the engine is what moves the trade. EDGE runs on a proprietary matching engine and proprietary FIX connectivity. It scans multiple top-tier liquidity providers in milliseconds, routes raw, unmarked pricing, slices larger orders surgically, aggregates the fills to the best available price, and adapts in real time when volatility hits. Positive slippage goes to the client — and it all runs inside MT4 and MT5, with nothing to install or relearn.

“I felt it was time to stir things up and give our customers the same rates I am privy to when I trade.”

— Tim Furey, Founder & CEO, Tradeview Markets

Padded spreads aren’t liquidity

Furey has watched traders pay for markup they can’t see for two decades, and in his view every padded pip is a tax on loyalty. Tight headline spreads that vanish when real size lands don’t impress him either: a quote without executable quality, he argues, is a costume. The best price isn’t the number on the screen — it’s what actually fills when the size lands.

“If it doesn’t say .edge, congratulations: you are the liquidity.”

— Tim Furey

Leave the bonus. Take the fill.

Furey is just as direct about bonus-led marketing: traders who come for an offer leave for a better one, while real traders stay for the fill. Tradeview, he says, doesn’t buy balances — it builds clients.

“You don’t win a client with a bribe. You rent a shopper.”

— Tim Furey

Hungry dogs run faster

The attitude has deep roots. A college football mentor gave Furey the line “Hungry dogs run faster,” and he has run on it ever since — from the open-outcry commodity floors to proprietary trading at Schonfeld Securities and forex at ODL Securities, before opening Tradeview in 2004 in a small Wall Street office. Profitable in its first month, the firm today employs nearly 200 staff, holds licensed entities in several jurisdictions, and remains independent and founder-led.

Try it once. Client for life.

Furey is leading Tradeview’s push into the Middle East and its growth across Latin America and Asia, and the pitch is a dare: open a demo, compare the bleed, see live spreads, then decide. The same challenge goes to Tradeview’s introducing brokers — let clients try EDGE once, and retention takes care of itself.

Hope is not a strategy. EDGE is. Demand better at https://www.tradeviewmarkets.com/en/edge/.

About Tim Furey

Tim Furey is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tradeview Markets, a regulated multi-asset broker. He started the firm in 2004 in a small Wall Street office and has grown it into an independent, founder-led global broker with nearly 200 staff. In 2026 he launched the EDGE Instant Liquidity Connector, Tradeview’s proprietary execution engine.

About Tradeview Markets

Founded in 2004, Tradeview Markets is a regulated multi-asset broker offering access to forex, metals, stocks, futures, options and cryptocurrencies for retail and institutional clients, with multi-platform execution. The firm has been founder-led since inception and has grown through organic client acquisition.

For further information, visit https://www.tradeviewmarkets.com.

Founded by a former Xometry VP of AI and a former Bristol Myers Squibb Lead AI/Tech Counsel, the U.S.-based company replaces black-box legal AI with an end-to-end negotiation engine whose every risk decision can be traced, audited and run inside a company’s own cloud.

CHICAGO, IL, October 27th, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — RiskVantage AI, a U.S.-based legal AI company building an end-to-end transaction engine for enterprise contracts and M&A, today introduced RiskVantage Negotiate, its explainable AI platform for enterprise contract negotiation. The company will showcase the platform internationally at the Dubai AI Festival, October 26 and 27.

Enterprises spend an estimated $75 billion a year on contract review, negotiation and M&A legal work, and most of it is still done by hand. A contract arrives on the other party’s paper, waits in a legal queue, and is read clause by clause, with results that depend on who reviews it. World Commerce & Contracting research puts the average value lost to poor contract management at about 9% of revenue. Applied to the Fortune 500, that is an estimated $1.7 trillion a year.

RiskVantage built its platform to change that, with an architecture designed for the legal teams and regulated industries that cannot accept unexplained or unverifiable AI output.

Beyond the wrapper

Most legal AI tools for contract review wrap a general-purpose large language model. RiskVantage takes a different approach in three ways.

Transparent, deterministic risk decisions. RiskVantage uses a neuro-symbolic architecture: risk decisions are made in a knowledge graph, and language models only read contracts and draft language. No risk decision is made by a language model. Teams state their preferred position, acceptable fallbacks and walk-away point once, and every incoming clause is graded against that ladder. Each finding names the rule that was fired, so legal teams can review and audit every decision.

Sovereign, cost-efficient deployment. The platform runs on small language models adapted for legal tasks, on commodity hardware. In Khazraee’s words, a domain-adapted 9-billion-parameter model is “not smart enough” to wander outside its sandbox. In an internal benchmark on legal concept detection and extraction, RiskVantage’s domain-adapted small language model achieved about 97% accuracy, performing on par with frontier models. It is also inexpensive to run. Most legal AI tools rely on frontier models whose inference costs grow with every page reviewed, an economic model that is hard to sustain at enterprise scale. Using small language models lets organizations deploy them inside their own private cloud or on premises, which matters for pharma, healthcare, financial services, defense and other regulated sectors with strict data requirements.

End-to-end negotiation, not a standalone assistant. RiskVantage covers the full negotiation, from intake and review to redlines, counterparty exchange and signature, and connects to the systems enterprises already use. RiskVantage has filed a provisional patent (April 2025) covering its neuro-symbolic risk classification, ontology-driven reasoning and automated redlining.

Platform features

RiskVantage Negotiate, the company’s core product, is live. In internal testing, it reduced first-draft issues by 60% compared with manual review. It includes:

• Intake builder: captures deal context, such as deal value or whether sensitive data is involved, which sets how strictly each clause is reviewed.
• Risk configurator: uses AI to build a company’s risk profile automatically from its existing contracts, policies and SOPs, and keeps each position marked unreviewed until a human confirms it.
• Deviation reports and redlines: compares each clause with the playbook, explains every deviation, and produces a tracked-changes redline ready to send.
• Full Microsoft Word compatibility in the browser: legal teams and counterparties work in the format they already use.
• Counterparty portal: a shared space to exchange drafts and negotiate with the other side.
• Internal sharing with subject-matter experts: routes specific clauses to colleagues in areas such as privacy, security or finance.
• Audit trail: a record of every decision across the negotiation.
• Enterprise integrations: connects to ERP, contract lifecycle management (CLM), e-signature and communications tools such as Slack.

The platform currently covers different contract types including MSAs, SaaS agreements, SOWs, NDAs, IT services, software licenses, proof of concept and IT orders. Two M&A modules are in development: RiskVantage Diligence, which analyzes data rooms against an acquirer’s baseline, and RiskVantage Integrate, which builds a plan to align acquired contracts with the parent company.

Founder quotes

“Every enterprise contract goes through the same broken process: a queue, a clause-by-clause read, and an outcome that depends on who happened to review it,” said Mark Afshar, CEO and co-founder of RiskVantage AI and former Lead AI/Tech Counsel at Bristol Myers Squibb, where he closed more than 2,000 technology transactions. “We built RiskVantage from inside the deal room, so legal and procurement teams can see exactly why a clause was flagged and act on it with confidence.”

“If a rule can govern it, you should never use an LLM,” said Emad Khazraee, CTO and co-founder of RiskVantage AI and former VP of AI at Xometry. “Legal risk is exactly that kind of problem. We put the reasoning in a knowledge graph built from each company’s own playbook and use small language models only to read and write. You don’t use a missile to hit a fly.”

Visit RiskVantage at Dubai AI Festival

Attendees can see live demonstrations of RiskVantage Negotiate at booth S95, Dubai World Trade Center, October 26 and 27. To book a meeting with the founders during the festival, contact contact@riskvantage.ai.

About RiskVantage AI

RiskVantage AI is a Chicago-based company building an enterprise transaction engine that turns legal risk into strategic advantage. Its neuro-symbolic platform combines a knowledge graph of each company’s playbook with domain-adapted small language models to deliver explainable, auditable contract negotiation that can run in private cloud or on-premises environments. RiskVantage was co-founded by Mark Afshar (CEO), former Lead AI/Tech Counsel at Bristol Myers Squibb and a Penn Law alumnus, and Emad Khazraee (CTO), former VP of AI at Xometry and a former data science and AI leader at Turing, a unicorn startup. Khazraee was also an information science professor and a Harvard Law Fellow, and holds a PhD in Information Sciences. Learn more at riskvantage.ai.