Technology Entrepreneur · Dubai, UAE

Ahmadreza Samadi

I build AI products and turn business problems into practical technology.

Co-Founder & Technical Lead at Appraiva, a US-based company in Cleveland, Ohio. Working remotely across product strategy, data, AI, and engineering.

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Ahmadreza Samadi, Dubai-based technology entrepreneur, in a dark suit in an office overlooking the Burj Khalifa

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United States · Remote Appraiva Co-Founder & Technical Lead Dubai, UAE Royal Abraj Group Co-Founder & CEO My focus Ideas into systems AI · Product · Business

Selected Work

From business problems to working products.

Selected work across AI real estate intelligence, enterprise data, and predictive analytics.

Flagship company appraiva.com

Appraiva AI Real Estate Intelligence Platform

Building AI tools that help real estate investors and developers find distressed and off-market properties using imagery analysis and enriched property data.

Appraiva case study

Appraiva system layers

01Property discovery
02Data enrichment
03Opportunity analysis
04Search and decision workflows

2022 - PresentRoyal Abraj Group

Digital strategy & business operations

Connecting websites, CRM workflows, customer tools, and internal operations for a Dubai-based business.

Royal Abraj Group case study

2022 - 2023Oxfam Novib

Enterprise CRM & Analytics Data Platform

Built Azure-based data engineering infrastructure supporting CRM migration, governance, reporting, and analytics readiness across SAP and Salesforce sources.

Oxfam Novib case study

About

Technical depth.
Business perspective.

I’m Ahmadreza Samadi, a technology entrepreneur based in Dubai. I connect product strategy, engineering, and the practical work of building a business.

At Appraiva, a US-based company in Cleveland, Ohio, I work remotely as Co-Founder & Technical Lead, building AI-driven real estate intelligence. At Royal Abraj Group, I serve as Co-Founder & CEO and lead digital strategy for the Dubai business.

My work starts with a customer problem and follows through to the data, product, and systems needed to solve it.

My name in Persian and Arabic: احمدرضا صمدی · أحمدرضا صمدي.

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Selected Experience

A technical path through product, data, AI, and operations.

Oct 2023 - Present

Co-Founder & Technical Lead

Appraiva · Cleveland, Ohio, United States · Remote

Lead technical direction across product architecture, data systems, AI workflows, cloud infrastructure, customer discovery, and go-to-market execution.

2022 - Present

Co-Founder & CEO

Royal Abraj Group · Dubai, UAE

Co-founded a Dubai-based business spanning property brokerage and documents-clearing services. Lead digital strategy across websites, CRM workflows, customer tools, and internal operations, from enquiry capture and sales follow-up to document handling and case tracking.

My work at Royal Abraj Group

May 2023 - Oct 2023

Business and Technology Consultant

Bayshire Realty · Toronto, Canada · Remote

Advised on digital strategy, web presence, and AI-enabled client operations, including real-time call transcription and summarization workflows.

Sep 2022 - Jun 2023

Data Engineer

Oxfam Novib · The Hague, Netherlands · Remote

Built Azure-based CRM and analytics infrastructure using Databricks, Data Factory, SQL, Key Vault, Azure DevOps, and governed ETL workflows.

2020 - 2022

Data, Product, and Machine Learning Roles

SchoolConex/Klassroom.io · MCI · Earlier research and product work

Built ETL platforms, AWS-backed product infrastructure, predictive customer models, research data workflows, and enterprise software interfaces.

Capabilities

Where strategy and implementation meet.

Product and Technical Leadership

Technical leadership, product architecture, software architecture, digital strategy, stakeholder management, and customer discovery.

AI and Data Systems

AI workflows, data engineering, machine learning, predictive modeling, data governance, ETL, analytics, and decision-support systems.

Cloud and Platform Engineering

Cloud-native architecture across Azure and AWS, including Databricks, Data Factory, Lambda, API Gateway, Node.js, Python, SQL, and PySpark.

Writing

Ideas behind the work.

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Interactive field guide

Before You Build the AI

Turn an AI idea into one clear decision, an evidence plan and a useful first experiment.

Build a decision brief

AI agents

AI agent safety: boundaries before actions

Where to put permissions, approval and monitoring before an AI agent can act.

Connected systems

Connected AI apps: access, scope and approval

What changes when an AI assistant can use your calendar, files or email, and what to check before you connect.

Product thinking

AI cost per verified result

Why lower model prices are only one part of the cost of useful AI work.

Contact

Let’s talk about a product or business workflow.

I welcome conversations with founders and industry experts working on AI products, property data, or the systems behind business operations.

Tell me who the work is for, how it is handled today, and what decision or process you want to improve. A short description and a relevant link are enough to start.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

ahmadreza.smdi@gmail.com

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