Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Velents, a Saudi startup specializing in developing enterprise AI solutions for the recruitment sector, has officially announced its joining as an accredited partner to the global Cloud Partner Network of Anthropic, ranked as one of the world’s leading AI powerhouses, making Velents the first technology company from Saudi Arabia and the Arab world to join this international system.
This step comes as part of the startup’s efforts to develop its capabilities in innovating and deploying enterprise AI solutions to shape the future of work and employment, and to expand its regional operations, which currently cover the markets of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan, and Oman, by integrating advanced language models with compliance and digital sovereignty solutions.
This partnership represents a qualitative leap that enhances the presence of Saudi and Arab competence in international technical decision-making, and places the emerging company “Velients”, which has a wide range of operational solutions deep within major governmental and banking environments, at the heart of the global system of institutions, coinciding with the acceleration of the steps of major institutions to move artificial systems from the stage of exploratory experiments to the comprehensive institutional adoption of secure and reliable systems specifically designed to understand the requirements of the Arabic language and its sovereign environments within the borders of the state.
This membership integrates Cloud's computing capabilities and inference models with locally developed cognitive systems from Velentis. This integration contributes to meeting the strict regulatory standards and data retention and privacy requirements within the country's geographical boundaries, which is needed by sensitive government agencies and banking institutions in the Gulf and Middle East region.
“Vilants” solutions are currently operating within the operational environments of a number of sovereign ministries and one of the major banks in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where generative models are used to serve daily operations and manage documents with high accuracy and security.
On this occasion, Mohammed Jaber, co-founder and CEO of “Velients”, said: “Over the past three years, as a startup, we have focused on developing a reliable AI infrastructure that government agencies and major institutions in our region can trust, operate, and fully localize within their digital boundaries. We have distinguished ourselves by providing locally developed AI that drives actual operations within sensitive and sovereign national institutions.”
He added: “Our joining the Cloud Partner Network as the first Saudi and Arab company means that our clients today gain an exceptional competitive advantage that combines Saudi-born field deployment expertise with the most trusted global names in AI security and performance. For those who are still choosing between performance efficiency or sovereignty security, we have merged the two options into one.”
As a certified partner in the “Claude” partner network, “Velients” enjoys a package of technical and competitive advantages that are directly reflected in the quality and reliability of services provided to its clients in the public and private sectors, which include globally certified engineering practices (Claude Certified Architect) that ensure the building of a highly compatible and optimized software infrastructure for “Claude” models, resulting in faster response and optimal utilization of resources.
Through continuous and direct development and training with the Anthropic Academy, and immediate access to product updates and closed technical calls, Velients customers benefit from the latest AI technology before it is released to the market.
For his part, Abdulaziz Al-Muhaidib, co-founder and chief operating officer of “Velients”, commented: “Our joining this global network is confirmation that our internal processes and governance standards were designed from day one to keep pace with the strictest international security protocols, giving our clients the assurance that our solutions combine the flexibility of startups with the discipline of large institutions.”
He added: “The partnership with a global giant the size of Anthropic represents an opportunity to localize advanced technical knowledge and open direct communication channels for our engineers with the leaders of the artificial intelligence industry in the world, enabling us to build a new generation of national talents capable of leading and developing future technologies locally, and ensuring the sustainability of technological innovation in the region by Arab hands.”
“Velients” solutions proved their efficiency in automating and ensuring integrity in the recruitment process, and their ability to achieve immediate investment returns and live, documented operational results in complex work environments, represented by reducing operational costs by 88%, accelerating the sorting and processing of government employment applications by 80%, achieving a qualitative accuracy of 94% in sorting and analysis, and processing 6 million documents for the benefit of the archive of a prominent Gulf government entity.
In October of last year, “Velients” successfully closed a $1.5 million funding round with the participation of individual investors holding leadership positions in global companies such as Google, BCG, and others, coinciding with its success in launching (Agent.sa), the first fully integrated Arabic-language AI employee for companies in the region.
It is worth noting that Anthropic launched its global Cloud Partner Network in March 2026 with an initial capital and strategic investment of US$100 million, aiming to empower partners through specialized training programs, in-depth technical support, high-level professional certifications, and joint development of promising market opportunities.
The network was officially launched on June 3, 2026, with an elite group of 100 members from around the world, with future aspirations to expand to include several thousand of the most innovative entities worldwide.
As the role of artificial intelligence expands, “Vilents” affirms through this historic membership that the real challenge lies in the professional ability to localize and deploy language models within the arteries and daily operations of large organizations and to bridge the gap between the promises of artificial intelligence and its field application within sensitive work environments.

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