THE TECNOSTACK BLOG
Practical guides to AI, web and mobile development, e-commerce, cloud and software decisions for teams in Saudi Arabia and the GCC, in Arabic and English.
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Judge a software development company on evidence rather than its pitch: give every shortlisted company the same brief, meet the team that will build your project, make the scope accountable, and agree handover and support before you sign.
Hosting personal data in Saudi Arabia only settles where it is stored. PDPL compliance also depends on a lawful basis, purpose, rights, security and how transfers abroad are handled, so the work starts with mapping data flows.
Board-level AI governance rests on a named owner, an inventory of the AI you build and buy, clear approval roles and evidence that they work. NIST's framework is voluntary guidance; EU AI Act scope depends on role, use and risk.
Add an LLM to a legacy system in controlled stages: inventory touchpoints and data owners, pilot a read-only feature, run it in shadow mode, widen a routed rollout with rollback ready, and add write-back last.
