Insight… Abu Dhabi platform that puts artificial intelligence in the boardroom
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Inception42, the artificial-intelligence company of the G42 group in Abu Dhabi, unveiled its Insight platform, which puts artificial intelligence directly into decision-making at the board-room and senior executive team level. The platform is not a pilot or a trial; it is already operating in more than thirty boards and is deployed at the highest levels of the UAE government and private sector, according to CEO Aish Kushi in an interview with AGBI at the AI Everything Abu Dhabi summit.
How Insight works:The platform draws its knowledge from internal documents, minutes of previous meetings, and information distributed across product, technology and finance departments, linking what was previously siloed in organisational vaults. During a meeting, executives can query the voice assistant, retrieve relevant documents, vote on proposals, and generate minutes that automatically list follow-up items. The distinctive feature is the “personas”: the platform adopts the role of a lawyer, a risk officer or an AI lead to challenge leaders’ assumptions, examine issues from alternative angles, and raise an alert when a statement conflicts with corporate records.
Sovereignty and infrastructure:Inception42 is part of G42, with Microsoft as an investor. The platform is available in Arabic and English and integrates with Microsoft 365, but it is designed to be cloud-neutral: it can be deployed on the sovereign infrastructure of Core42 using Compass, on private clouds, or directly on the client’s servers, and it supports hybrid and air-gapped deployments. This gives government bodies and sensitive organisations full control over their data and AI commands.
Early partnerships:On launch day, Inception42 signed agreements with Capgemini and McKinsey, and the team held serious talks with dozens of potential customers. The Board Intelligence index for the value of boards in the Middle East 2025 showed that more than four out of ten directors consider the quality of information supplied to boards the biggest obstacle to decision-making, and Insight’s gap is designed to fill it.
What this means for the region:Putting artificial intelligence into the boardroom is not just a productivity tool, but a shift in the governance of strategic decisions in two major regional economies: the UAE and Saudi Arabia. When governments, banks and large corporations trust a local platform to make multi-billion-dollar decisions, a new standard for sovereign AI is established: a model built in the region, on regional data, and deployed on regional infrastructure.