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The GBI France project

GBI France is building an assessment platform that helps French MedTech and Cleantech SMEs prepare their entry into Saudi Arabia and Oman. The platform is the product; human support is how it reaches its market.

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The problem

French SMEs targeting Gulf markets must gather scattered regulatory information and find the right local partner, without the resources of a large group. The first assessment is often the hardest to obtain.

The solution

A free and fast assessment: a readiness table computed instantly from the answers, then a sourced preliminary report, reviewed and approved by an expert before it is sent.

How the platform works

  1. Step 1

    Retrieval

    Form answers drive a search in a knowledge base structured by market and sector. Internal and demo items are excluded.

  2. Step 2

    Constrained drafting

    A language model (Google Vertex AI, European Union region) drafts from those items only, citing its sources.

  3. Step 3

    Automatic guardrails

    Figures not backed by a verified official source are replaced with “to be confirmed”, promises of results are blocked, sensitive topics and private company names are flagged for review.

  4. Step 4

    Human approval

    The draft is never shown to the requester. An expert reviews it, clears every flag and approves it; only the approved version is sent as a PDF.

Where the project stands

Indicators updated by the team; no value is estimated.

  • Working, tested platform
  • First conversations under way with programmes and institutions

Roadmap

Schedule: model validation: Q4 2026 – Q1 2027. Setting up a French entity: once the model is validated.

  1. Public form opening

    After verification of the priority sources in the knowledge base.

  2. Official verification of the knowledge base

    Each source checked and dated before use in a report.

  3. In-depth Oman coverage

    Import and verification of Oman-specific knowledge.

  4. Form and report in English

    This presentation is in English; the form and report remain in French for now.

  5. Other Gulf countries

    General level today; deeper coverage to be confirmed.

The founder

Houssem Ayari (Tunisia), Arabic and French speaker, with 9 years of institutional experience. Background: founder of Gulf Business Insight (2024), an initiative focused on the Saudi market, with two programmes: governance for the non-profit sector and access to public procurement for companies. GBI France extends this work to French SMEs. Founder of Dbox Digital Services (2023). Previously, institutional and international projects in Tunisia from 2017 to 2023 (USIP, International Alert, Jasmine Foundation).

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