Norwegian Company · GCC Operations · Dubai & Oslo

Your data already
holds the answer.
We find it.

VEKST is an Applied Commercial Intelligence company — founded in Norway, operating across the GCC. We combine deep commercial expertise with AI to help B2B organisations turn fragmented data into decisions that protect margin, grow revenue, and sharpen competitive edge. We know which problems AI actually solves — and which ones it doesn't.

Sound Familiar?

The conversations happening in your business right now.

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"We're growing revenue but margin keeps shrinking."

You're winning more business but taking home less. Something in the mix is wrong — you just can't see exactly what.

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"We can't afford to lose that customer — they're one of our biggest."

Big revenue doesn't mean profitable. Some of your largest accounts may be your most expensive to serve — and you're discounting to keep them.

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"We extended payment terms to close the deal — it made sense at the time."

Extended terms cost real money. Most businesses never calculate exactly how much — they just feel the cash pressure at month end.

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"The sales team is busy. I just don't know if they're busy on the right accounts."

Activity isn't the same as productivity. Without profitability data, your team optimises for volume — not value.

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"Everyone says we need AI. Nobody can tell us what to actually do with it."

The hype is everywhere. The practical use cases for your specific business are not. We know which ones move the needle.

If any of these hit close to home — that's exactly where we start.

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The Problem

Most organisations have more data than they know what to do with — and still make decisions on gut feeling. Now add an AI hype cycle on top of that.
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Founded in Norway
Scandinavian rigour. Structured thinking. Long-term perspective.
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Operating Across the GCC
Commercial presence in Dubai. Deep knowledge of regional markets.
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AI Without the Hype
We apply AI only where it creates measurable commercial value.

What We Do

Intelligence that moves the needle

We work at the intersection of commercial expertise, business intelligence, and AI — translating complexity into clarity, and clarity into action.

Tier 1

Clarity

Find out where your margin is going. We analyse your customer and transaction data, identify profitability by customer, segment, and product line, and deliver a structured findings report with clear, actionable recommendations. No assumptions — just your numbers, made legible.

Delivered in 2 weeks.

Commercial Audit Customer Profitability Margin Analysis Findings Report
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Tier 2

Visibility

Everything in Clarity, plus a fully built Power BI customer profitability dashboard — four screens, standardised framework, your data. You leave with a live decision-support tool your team can use every day. No more end-of-month spreadsheets. Permanent, on-demand commercial visibility.

Delivered in 4 weeks.

Everything in Clarity Power BI Dashboard 4-Screen Framework Live Data
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Tier 3

Intelligence

A permanent commercial intelligence function — without the headcount. Monthly engagement: we monitor your data, flag early warning signals, update your dashboard, and meet with you to interpret what's changing and what to do about it. Built for businesses that want ongoing clarity, not a one-off report. As our engagement deepens, we layer in AI-powered monitoring — trained on proprietary commercial playbooks — that surfaces signals your team would never have the bandwidth to catch manually.

Monthly retainer. Ongoing.

Monthly Advisory Early Warning Signals Dashboard Updates AI-Powered Monitoring Retainer
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Where We Are Going

Built to become a platform

We are a consulting firm today. Deliberately. Every client engagement generates proprietary insight — about how commodity businesses actually operate, where decisions break down, and what intelligence they actually need. That knowledge compounds. It becomes the foundation of something larger.


The Platform Vision

The long-term ambition is a fully integrated Commercial Intelligence Platform — combining market intelligence, supplier data, AI recommendations, and commercial analytics into a single decision-support system. The kind of tool that transforms how B2B organisations compete. We are building the knowledge base now, one engagement at a time.

Strategic Evolution

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Consulting · Now

Hands-on commercial intelligence engagements. Building expertise, client relationships, and proprietary methodology.

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Productised Services

Scalable intelligence reports, assessments, and advisory offerings packaged for repeatable delivery.

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Intelligence Platform

A technology-enabled decision-support platform combining market data, AI, and commercial analytics.

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Category Leadership

The default intelligence layer for commercial and procurement decision-making in the GCC and beyond.

The Founders

Three disciplines.
One direction.

VEKST is built by three co-founders who have spent their careers at the intersection of commercial operations, data architecture, and technology — in markets that demand performance, not theory.


🇳🇴 Norwegian Company  ·  🇦🇪 Dubai Operations  ·  🌍 GCC Focus
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Fayez El-Halabi

Co-Founder · Commercial Intelligence

BSc & MSc Industrial Engineering, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Nearly a decade across Dow and LyondellBasell — from manufacturing engineer at Dow's largest PE plant in Terneuzen to commercial roles spanning Western Europe, Egypt, and now Africa & the Middle East from Dubai. At VEKST, he is the bridge between raw commercial data and the decisions that protect margin.

Commercial Strategy Margin & Pricing B2B Sales · EMEA Polymers & Chemicals Dubai · GCC
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Bachir El-Halabi

Co-Founder · Technology & Architecture

BSc Information Technology, University of South-Eastern Norway. Built his cloud career at Atea Norge — Norway's largest IT infrastructure provider — and now Sykehuspartner HF, where he manages Microsoft 365 architecture for one of Norway's most complex environments. Five Microsoft certifications including Azure Solutions Architect Expert. VEKST's technical backbone, based in Norway.

Microsoft Azure Power Platform Azure Solutions Architect Cloud Infrastructure Norway
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Nazir El-Halabi

Co-Founder · Cloud & Infrastructure

BSc IT & Information Systems, University of Agder, Norway — graduating top of his class. Cloud Engineer at Stortinget, the Norwegian Parliament, previously at Atea Norge — Norway's largest IT infrastructure provider. Five Microsoft certifications including Azure Solutions Architect Expert. Ensures everything VEKST builds is secure, scalable, and production-ready. Based in Oslo.

Azure Cloud Engineering DevOps · IaC Azure Solutions Architect Network & IAM Oslo · Norway


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Oslo, Norway

Registered as a Norwegian company. Technology development, architecture, and strategic operations are anchored here — bringing Scandinavian precision to every engagement.

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Dubai, UAE

Commercial operations and client engagement across the GCC. Dubai is our frontline — where relationships are built and intelligence is delivered to the markets that need it most.

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Let's start with your data

If you suspect your customer base is less profitable than your revenue suggests — you're probably right. The first conversation is free. We'll tell you what we see and what we'd do about it.


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Oslo, Norway · Dubai, UAE