Verified AI joins NVIDIA Inception program after Dubai Founders HQ and sets its sights on the US market

The Dubai-born firm, which measures AI training in hours handed back to staff rather than seats filled, is targeting the US market while it builds its platform, with its first US engagements planned in Miami.

Miami - Verified AI, an AI strategy and enablement firm founded in Dubai, has been accepted into NVIDIA Inception, the NVIDIA programme for start-ups building with artificial intelligence. The company is using the moment to turn west: its next phase of growth targets the United States. Verified AI initial company is based in Dubai and incubated in Dubai Founders HQ (UAE government).

Verified AI works with the people inside a company who are not engineers: finance, operations, sales, the back office. It does not ask clients to buy new software. Its team works with the tools they already pay for, such as Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, Claude and ChatGPT, and rebuilds the repetitive parts of each role around automated workflows and AI agents.

What sets the firm apart is how it keeps score. At the end of an engagement it reports one figure: how many hours a week each employee gets back, and what those hours are worth in money. According to the company, clients have recovered between six and eleven hours per employee per week.

Why Accelerators, and why now

Inception Program gives member companies access to NVIDIA technical resources, partner benefits and the company's investor network. Verified AI says it will put that support behind Verified AI HQ, the platform it is now developing for a worldwide market, the US included.

The platform is designed to do at scale what the firm's consultants do by hand today: benchmark each employee's AI proficiency, coach and certify them with AI-led training, and convert the hours saved into a dollar figure a board can read. Launch is planned for 2027.

“Most companies have already bought the licences,” said François Mégret, founder of Verified AI. “What they don't have is a way to show the board what those licences are doing. We give them a number a CFO recognises: hours returned, priced in dollars.”

The US plan

The American push runs on two tracks.

• The platform is being built to serve clients in any market, the US included, from day one.
• In-person engagements will start in the coming months in the US, as it started initially in the United Arab Emirates and Paris lately.

The company will run the same playbook in each city, delivered by certified freelance trainers and AI engineers rather than a large in-house staff, an approach Francois Mégret says keeps the model light enough to cross borders quickly.

UAE is not being left behind. Verified AI is in residence at Dubai Founders HQ incubator, and the UAE remains where the company was born and where its first paying clients are.

The numbers behind the claim

Verified AI has made its method public and built it on published research. The starting point is a 2025 study by the London School of Economics with Protiviti, which found that employees classed as trained saved about 11 hours a week, compared with roughly five for those who were not. The company combines this with adoption data from BCG and PwC workforce surveys and with local salary data to price the time. In the US, using Bureau of Labor Statistics salary figures, it puts the value of a rebuilt role at between USD 6,400 and USD 12,900 of recovered capacity a year.

The gap it is targeting is not access. Around three quarters of Middle East employees already use AI at work, according to PwC, ahead of the global average. Verified AI's argument is that almost no one has a standard way to measure what that use is returning.

About the founder

François Mégret spent more than twelve years in trading and process improvement. He ran brokerage desks at Tradition Financial Services and went on to head gas and carbon trading at First Abu Dhabi Bank, where his work also covered process improvement and the implementation of AI. He was featured in Financial Times and Khaleej Times.

About Verified AI

Verified AI is an AI strategy and enablement firm. Founded in Dubai, UAE - it works with non-technical teams on their real workflows to build automated processes and AI agents, and measures every engagement in hours returned per employee. The company is a member of NVIDIA Inception, is in residence at Dubai Founders HQ, and is expanding into the United States and France. Learn more at https://verifiedailabs.com/. Francois Megret can be reached here https://www.linkedin.com/in/francoismegret/

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