# Dealix Labs

> **Status**: Scaffolded (Phase 2 TASK-CAT1320)  
> **Mission**: Open research contributions to Arabic enterprise AI, MENA compliance tooling, and enterprise workflow standards.

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## Planned Publications

### Annual
- **State of Arabic Enterprise AI** — comprehensive report on market, technology, and regulatory landscape

### Quarterly
- **Arabic LLM Benchmarks** — latency, accuracy, bias across major models on Arabic enterprise tasks
- **MENA Compliance Quarterly** — PDPL/ZATCA/SDAIA/NCA regulatory changes and operator guidance

### Standards Proposals
- **OTel Semantic Conventions for Enterprise Approval Workflows** — open proposal to OpenTelemetry community
- **W3C Design Tokens for RTL/Arabic Typography** — extension proposals

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## Open Source Projects (Phase 2 release)

1. **`@dealix/arabic-ui`** — Arabic-first web UX utilities (already scaffolded in `packages/arabic-ui/`)
2. **`@dealix/design-system`** — design tokens + primitives (scaffolded in `packages/design-system/`)
3. **`dealix-otel-conventions`** — proposed OTel semantic conventions for enterprise workflows
4. **`pdpl-compliance-kit`** — open-source PDPL compliance starter for Saudi SaaS

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## Research Principles

1. **Data ethics**: no customer data in publications without explicit DPA addendum consent
2. **Open by default**: publications under CC-BY 4.0 unless regulatory constraint
3. **Reproducible**: all benchmarks include code + data + model versions
4. **Bilingual**: Arabic + English for regional publications

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## Contributors

- **Founder / CTO**: strategic direction
- **AI Engineer**: benchmark execution
- **Security Lead**: compliance research
- **Regional Fellow (Year 2)**: part-time academic partnership

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## Publication Pipeline

### In draft
- *(none yet — Year 1 launch)*

### Scheduled
- Q1 2027: "State of Arabic Enterprise AI 2026" (first annual report)
- Q1 2027: "Arabic LLM Benchmarks: Groq vs OpenAI vs Claude on Enterprise Tasks"

### Aspirational
- 2028: Joint research with KSU / KAUST / MBZUAI on Arabic enterprise NLP

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## How to Propose a Research Topic

1. Open an issue at `labs/proposals/YYYY-MM-DD-topic-slug.md`
2. Include: question, methodology, expected timeline, ethics review
3. Reviewed by founder + AI lead within 2 weeks
4. If accepted, author becomes lead