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Prodmake
Partnership opportunities for officials and business owners in Bahrain: what we bring, where the opportunities are, and the ways we can work together.
Partnership opportunities · October 2026
Prodmake: a senior product team, looking for partners in Bahrain.
Define
Find the right problem
- Workshops with the people who run the service
- Workflows, rules and systems mapped
- Success measures agreed up front
Build
Ship working software
- Web and mobile apps
- Staff tools and integrations
- AI features with human controls
Operate
Keep it running
- Launch, monitoring and support
- Changes measured against the baseline
- Handover when the team is ready
Where we have workedNational e‑governmentAudit and complianceTenant appsMaritime field workMultilingual AI
In Bahrain, we want to build with local partners, not around them.
Bahrain is investing in five sectors. Each one runs on software.
Financial services
Onboarding, payments, open banking and compliance.
Manufacturing
Inspections, maintenance and plant data.
Logistics
Tracking, field crews and paperwork.
Tourism
Bookings, guest service and events.
Technology
Cloud products and AI services built here.
17.6%
of real GDP in 2025 came from financial and insurance activities, the largest non-oil sector.
Information & eGovernment Authority · April 2026
15.1%
came from manufacturing, the second-largest non-oil sector.
Information & eGovernment Authority · April 2026
3.5%
real GDP growth in 2025, to BHD 15.7 billion at constant prices.
Information & eGovernment Authority · April 2026
Economic Vision 2050 sets these five sectors as investment priorities.
Bahrain’s government is nearly all online. The next step is joining services up.
900+
government eServices on bahrain.bh, the MyGov app and other channels.
Information & eGovernment Authority · April 2026
95%
of services are online. The aim: virtually all by the end of 2027.
Bahrain Smart Cities Summit 2026
7 → 1
apps to merge into MyGov, which already offers 111 services from 15 entities.
iGA · July 2026 · Smart Cities Summit 2026
- Sign in once
- One reference
- Documents checked first
- Each entity approves its part
- One status for the applicant
Joined-up services need assistants, case tracking and integration work across entities.
Bahrain’s AI policy is in place. Services now need AI that follows it.
National AI Policy · July 2025
Four pillars
- Legal compliance
- AI use and adoption
- Public education and awareness
- Local and international cooperation
iGA prototypes · May 2026
Already in development
- A national generative virtual assistant for government services
- Intelligent document verification in Sijilat
- Better responses in Tawasul
- Business and economic data analytics
50,000
Bahrainis to be trained in AI by 2030, under a Tamkeen initiative.
iGA · May 2026
Cooperation is one of the policy’s four pillars. Partnerships are how it happens.
Most of Bahrain’s residents are not Bahraini. Services need many languages.
1,603,260residents in June 2025 · Information & eGovernment Authority
Arabic first
Every service works fully in Arabic, with English alongside.
Then your users’ languages
Chosen from each service’s own data, not a fixed list.
Staff read their own
A message written in one language reaches staff in theirs.
A local partner knows which languages each service really needs.
Your market knowledge. Our product team.
Bahraini partners bring
- Relationships with the people who run services and businesses
- Knowledge of the market, the rules and the users
- Local presence, licences and contracts
- Sector expertise and Arabic-first content
Prodmake brings
- Product definition and design
- Engineering: web, mobile, back end and integrations
- AI features with human controls
- Running the software after launch
TogetherSoftware that fits Bahrain, built and run to a production standard.
Four ways to partner.
Introduce
You introduce. We deliver.
Fits whenYou know an organisation that needs software.
Your roleYou keep the relationship and an agreed role.
The client signs with Prodmake. Your ongoing role is agreed first.
Deliver together
One client, two teams.
Fits whenYour expertise and ours both belong in the project.
Your roleYou lead your discipline; we own the product and engineering.
Separate scopes and contracts, one shared plan.
Lead the contract
You sign. We build.
Fits whenThe client wants one local contractor, or the tender is local.
Your roleYou hold the contract and the client relationship.
Prodmake works under you on a defined scope.
Co-found
A new company, built together.
Fits whenYou see a product the market needs and can reach its customers.
Your roleYou bring customers and market access; we bring the product team.
Ownership and roles agreed per venture.
Any fee, margin or ownership share is agreed in writing before work starts.
For officials: prove one service before committing to more.
How a pilot partnership works
- Choose one service with a clear problem.
- Agree success measures and a baseline.
- Pilot with a small group, on top of existing systems.
- Decide from measured results: scale, change or stop.
What your entity keeps
- A working service and its data
- Documentation, and staff trained alongside the build
- Decisions made by your people
- Hosting in Bahrain where required
Pilots follow your procurement rules: an international tender, or through a Bahraini contractor.
For business owners: turn what you know into software, or a new company.
Your business
Digitise how you work
Customer apps, staff tools and AI assistants for your own operation.
Tamkeen may cover up to 50% of eligible software costs for small and medium firms.
Your clients
Offer software to the organisations you serve
Introduce them, deliver together, or lead the contract with us building.
You keep the relationship.
A new venture
Build a product company together
You bring customers and industry knowledge. We bring the product team.
Ownership agreed per venture.
Start with one well-scoped project. No exclusivity is needed.
Partnership opportunities, sector by sector.
| Area | Opportunity | Natural partners |
|---|---|---|
| Government services | Assistants that complete a service; one reference across entities; documents checked before submission | Government entities, and the IT firms that already serve them |
| Financial services | Onboarding and consent flows; compliance review queues; products tested in the CBB sandbox | Banks, insurers, fintechs and their advisers |
| Logistics and manufacturing | Inspection and safety apps that work offline; maintenance requests; site dashboards | Port, plant, fleet and warehouse operators |
| Tourism and events | Guest assistants in visitors’ languages; bookings; event operations | Hotels, venues, organisers and travel firms |
| Education and health | Class registers and school-improvement tools; patient and parent portals | Schools, universities, clinics and their suppliers |
| Small and medium businesses | Tools built once for a sector and set up for many firms | Business associations, consultancies and accounting firms |
Starting points to test with partners, not findings. The appendix shows four of them as examples.
Why partner with us: we have built this kind of software before.
National e‑government
my.egov.kz citizen account
Kuan designed the first version’s interface and led the frontend build of Kazakhstan’s national e‑government personal account.
Kazakhstan · 2013 to 2015
Regulated enterprise software
AuditBoard and Lane Technologies
Audit, compliance and risk software; tenant-experience apps for office buildings.
Employment and contract work
Field work, weak signal
Scoutbase
A crew app that keeps working offline, supporting 4,000+ maritime workers.
Client work as fractional CTO
Many languages
Tellhaven
Concern reporting in 16 languages, with AI summaries and triage.
Live product of the founder’s company
None of this work is in Bahrain yet. A local partner is how it gets here.
Partnerships that stay inside Bahrain’s rules.
| Situation | Who acts | Checked first |
|---|---|---|
| A question about a service | Assistant answers | The entity’s approved service text |
| A form or document | Assistant checks, applicant fixes | The entity’s own rules |
| An approval or payment | Staff decide | Permissions and limits per role |
| Personal data | System enforces | Personal Data Protection Law rules |
| Anything outside the rules | Staff take over | The full conversation, handed over |
- Human decisionsPeople approve outcomes, in line with the GCC AI ethics principle of human autonomy.
- LoggedEvery message and action, with who approved it.
- Data in BahrainHosted in the AWS Bahrain Region where required.
Bahrain makes partnership straightforward.
- 100%
foreign ownership is open to ICT companies.
Bahrain EDB - 30 days
for a foreign firm that wins an international tender to register in Bahrain.
Government Tenders Law, Art. 19 - Up to 50%
of eligible software costs covered by Tamkeen for small and medium firms.
Gulf Daily News report - Since 2017
the CBB sandbox has let fintech solutions be tested under supervision.
Bahrain National Portal - Cloud-first
the first in the Gulf, with an AWS Region and a data-sovereignty law.
EDB · AWS · iGA
The right local partner shapes how we set up here.
How a partnership starts.
A short call
Introduction
Who you are, what you see in your sector, and who you work with.
A shared view of the fit
90 minutes
Workshop
Rank the opportunities with the people closest to them. Pick one.
One opportunity to pursue
In writing
Terms
Roles, who signs, decision rights, and any fee or ownership share.
A clear partnership
One service or product
First project
Built and launched together, measured against a baseline.
Measured results
Ongoing
Grow
More services, more sectors and, together, the wider Gulf.
A lasting partnership
No exclusivity, joint brand or standing commitment is needed to start.
Founder-led. You partner with the person who builds it.
Kuan · founder of Prodmake
13+ years in production systems
Product design and engineering from the first workshop to live operation, across government, enterprise and consumer software.
- Public sectormy.egov.kz, national e‑learning, court tools
- EnterpriseAuditBoard, Lane Technologies
- Field and AIScoutbase, Tellhaven
“Kuan was able to quickly and effectively respond to the requests of our customers as well as identify their potential needs even before they were apparent.”
Andy MacDonald, Director of Engineering, VTS (formerly Lane)
“Kuan’s expertise paved the way for our growth and enabled us to acquire the trust of external investors and, as a consequence of that, additional funding.”
Yassin Askar, Co-Founder and CPO, Scoutbase
Specialists join per project: design, engineering, data and Arabic language quality.
Example: one request, one reference, many entities.
- The applicant signs in once and gets one reference for the whole request.
- The assistant checks documents before submission, so fewer requests come back.
- Each entity approves its own part in its own system. The applicant sees one status.
- Every step is logged with who approved it.
Natural partners: a government entity, with the Bahraini IT firm that supports it.
Example: onboarding and compliance in one flow.
- Customers verify identity and give consent to share data in a few clear steps.
- Automated checks run first; only real exceptions reach a compliance officer.
- Every decision and its reason are logged for audit.
- The product can be tested in the CBB regulatory sandbox.
Natural partners: a bank, insurer or fintech, with its compliance team.
Example: inspections that work offline.
- Crews complete checklists and photos with or without a connection.
- A defect raises a work order as soon as the device syncs.
- Supervisors see one view across sites, shifts and assets.
- Each record keeps who checked what, and when.
Natural partners: a port, plant, fleet or warehouse operator.
Example: answers and bookings in every visitor’s language.
- Visitors ask in their own language, by chat, app or voice.
- The assistant books only what the booking system confirms.
- Staff see demand as it builds and step in when needed.
- The same record serves hotels, venues and event organisers.
Natural partners: hotels, venues, event organisers and travel firms.
Sources, checked 8 October 2026.
- Economy
- Vision 2050 sectors (News of Bahrain) · iGA national accounts 2025 · iGA population datanewsofbahrain.com · iga.gov.bh · data.gov.bh
- Digital government
- 900+ eServices · Smart Cities Summit 2026 (GDN) · eKey 2.0 and MyGoviga.gov.bh · gdnonline.com
- AI and data
- National AI Policy · iGA AI roadmap · Personal Data Protection Law · Law No. 56 of 2018 · AWS Regionsiga.gov.bh · mola.gov.bh · aws.amazon.com
- Working in Bahrain
- Government Tenders Law · EDB: ICT · Tamkeen programme (GDN) · CBB sandboxtenderboard.gov.bh · bahrainedb.com · bahrain.bh
- Prodmake
- Partner arrangements · Kuan’s work record · AuditBoard · Lane · Scoutbase · Tellhavenprodmake.com · kuanysh.com · tellhaven.com
News reports are labelled as such. Opportunities, partnership models and illustrations are proposals with invented example data. Regulatory points describe what a system must handle; they are not legal advice. Full details are in the HTML source register.
Let’s find the right partnership.
Tell us where you see the opportunity. A short call and a 90-minute workshop are enough to agree whether, and how, to work together.
For officials
- One service your entity wants to improve
- A pilot under your procurement rules
- Your staff involved from the first day
For business owners
- Introduce, deliver together, lead or co-found
- Roles and terms agreed in writing first
- No exclusivity needed to start
Kuan · k@prodmake.com · +1 650 870 1322 · prodmake.com