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Notes on sovereign document intelligence

Field notes from governed archive programs: security boundaries, Arabic OCR, procurement and what actually works inside a ministry.

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Sovereign AI

Sovereign Document Intelligence: Running Arabic AI Inside National Boundaries

Why ministries and banks in the Gulf are moving document AI inside their own boundary, what changes when models run locally, and how to cost a programme page by page or server by server.

By Raheem · 25 September 2026