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Ziyad Al Shehri: Trust, Guardrails and Building AI Businesses

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November 10, 2025
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If your security stack feels like a Jenga tower of dashboards and alerts, this one is for you. Founder Ziyad Al Shehri on building a cloud native security operations platform, AI guardrails and the hard truths of building an AI enabled business.

Ziyad opens up about choosing SaaS for speed, pricing puzzles, surviving pivots and hiring for mindset over CVs. He maps the Saudi ecosystem of accelerators and government backed funds that helped the company move faster, and explains why AI won't replace people, but people who use AI well will set the pace.

In this episode

  • Fixing fragmented SecOps tools and noisy alerts
  • Founder lessons on SaaS, pricing and pivots
  • Hiring for mindset and equity for ownership
  • AI hallucinations, guardrails and keeping a human in the loop
  • Accelerators and funds in the Saudi startup ecosystem

زياد الشهري يتحدث عن بناء منصة للأمن السيبراني على السحابة، وحدود الذكاء الاصطناعي، وتجربة ريادة الأعمال في السعودية.

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