Dubai AI Seal companies: who holds it, and how to choose one

A buyer’s guide from a Seal holder

325 companies applied for the Dubai AI Seal in its first four months. Since October 2025, Dubai Finance has urged government entities to buy AI services only from those that got it.

The Dubai AI Seal is how the Dubai Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DCAI) verifies AI companies licensed in Dubai, in six tiers from E to S. There is no public register of holders yet, so we compiled one from the companies’ own announcements: 16 names as of 22 October 2026, 10ⁿ Tech among them.

What the Dubai AI Seal is

DCAI, part of Dubai Future Foundation, launched the Seal on 20 January 2025 to give government and business buyers a way to tell real AI suppliers from the rest. Its stated aim is protection from “irrelevant suppliers and AI washing”.

The assessment runs on documents. In our own application the Seal team asked, for each AI activity, for a tax invoice that names the AI product or service and a letter from a Dubai client, with its address and TRN, saying how the AI is used. A supplier whose AI exists only on its website has nothing to submit.

Why work with a Dubai AI Seal company

For Dubai government entities the question is close to settled. On 19 October 2025 Abdulrahman Saleh Al Saleh, Director General of Dubai Finance, called on government entities to contract “only with suppliers holding Dubai AI Seal for AI-based services and consultancies” (Dubai Media Office). The wording is a call, not a law, but a procurement team that awards AI work to a supplier without the Seal now has to explain why.

For everyone else, the Seal does a piece of due diligence before you start. DCAI has seen invoices and client letters for the AI work a company claims. A pitch deck cannot do that, and neither can a wall of client logos.

The Seal is also local and revocable. Only companies licensed in Dubai can apply, so there is an entity in the emirate that answers for the work. And the mark can be withdrawn, or the tier changed, if the data behind it proves wrong. That is what makes it worth checking.

Dubai AI Seal companies: who holds it

DCAI’s terms let it publish each holder’s name, tier, award date and AI activities on its website, and dub.ai says every Seal carries a serial number that buyers can check there. As of 22 October 2026 we could not find a public list. So we built one from public announcements: each company below announced its Seal, and we checked each announcement at the source. Tiers appear only where the company or DCAI published them. 10ⁿ Tech is listed on the same terms.

325 companies had applied by May 2025, so this list is unlikely to be complete. If your company holds the Seal and is missing, send us the announcement through our contact page and we will add it.

How to choose between Dubai AI Seal companies

The Seal tells you a company is real and checked. It does not tell you the company fits your project. Four questions for the first meeting:

• What is your Seal’s serial number? Check it on the Dubai AI Seal website, or with [email protected], before it goes into a tender file.
• Who from your team will work on my project? A tier measures the whole company’s contribution to Dubai’s AI economy. IBM, e& and Yango hold Tier S, but your agent rollout will be delivered by perhaps six people, and their last production release is the reference that counts.
• Where does inference run, and which of my data does the model see? The Seal does not test data residency. On Azure the deployment type decides it, not the region name, as we explain in data residency on Azure UAE North.
• Who signs when the AI is wrong? Expect an approval step, a log and a way to reverse the action. Our piece on why AI outputs are advisory until someone signs shows one design.

For the wider field, including AI firms that do not hold the Seal yet, see our guide to AI companies in Dubai.

10ⁿ Tech and the Dubai AI Seal

10ⁿ Tech holds the Dubai AI Seal: DCAI approved us as a Dubai AI Seal Enterprise on 22 October 2026 (our announcement). We are a Dubai company, founded in 2016 and based in Dubai Knowledge Park, and we build AI systems together with the infrastructure they run on.

• Self-hosted enterprise AI: a sovereign AI platform on a cloud landing zone, or a turnkey GPU cluster on your premises
• AI agents and AI solutions for government and enterprise, and an AI bootcamp for executives
• AI infrastructure: NVIDIA GPU servers, Microsoft Azure UAE North and Copilot, cloud platforms and on-premises data centres
• Video analytics and computer vision
• Industrial digital twins, VR safety training and digital twins for property sales

We write down what we learn on AI projects in the UAE. On agents in production: why enterprise AI agents stall between pilot and production. On sovereign AI and compute: what in-country actually requires in the GCC, why a sovereign AI assistant is a fixed monthly fee, cloud first, sovereign second, sixteen GPUs and two racks and DGX Spark or GB300. On applied AI: a bilingual AI avatar for government services, what native Arabic speakers caught in it, digitising a million pages for an AI assistant, AI for commodity trading, the AI virtual trainer and corporate AI in 2026, written as assembly instructions.

Bidding for AI work with a Dubai government entity and need a Seal holder on the team? Contact us with the scope and the deadline. We reply within a working day.

Our other buyer’s guides: AI companies in Dubai, IT companies in Dubai and digital twin companies in Dubai.

Holder list compiled from each company’s announcement and from Dubai Future Foundation, Dubai Media Office, Consultancy-me, Khaleej Times, Gulf News, Zawya and Security MEA, checked on 22 October 2026. Photo credits: Ahmed Aldaie, Lewis Keegan and ZQ Lee on Unsplash.