- 20+years building live products
- 100+brands worked with
- 11+years leading teams
- 15world-scale events
- 27people in the largest team I’ve led
- Millionswatched streams I worked on
Work with me
Hiring a product or design leader
Chief product officer, VP or head of product, or a design lead, for teams shipping AI, real-time, privacy or consumer products. Eleven years leading teams.
Talk about a roleOr email meNeed a product built with AI
From the first idea to a live product, designed and built with AI, fast. The way I built Laqtaa and mlx-agent. Any size, from a two-week prototype to a full launch.
Start a projectOr email meNeed a world or digital twin
Live experiences, digital twins and virtual worlds, as delivered for Expo 2020, the FIFA World Cup, Napster and SEVEN.
Discuss a worldOr email meHow I work: Fractional CPO and forward deployed engineer · 3D web experiences · Booking and Wallet loyalty cards · AI consultant · MVP development · Industrial 3D and web · App security audit · Fintech apps · Medical device 3D · Trade show displays · Real estate 3D · Training simulation · AI agent security · AI customer service · AI receptionist · Stablecoin pilot · AI property guide · See them all
Featured
A building you could walk through before it was built
SEVEN Al Hamra, Riyadh. Made by hand from the construction models, before AI coding tools.
Worked with
Building now
LaqtaaLive
One shared camera for your event: guests scan a QR code and every photo lands in one live album. Built solo, design to code, in English and Arabic.
GVNRInstruxi
Guardrails for AI agents: every action is allowed, rewritten, asked or denied before it runs. I lead product at Instruxi.
mlx-agentOpen source
An AI agent that runs open models on your Mac, searches the web and runs commands you approve. Native Swift.
Career
Product across the platform, including GVNR, guardrails for AI agents.
Growth across Europe.
I joined LandVault as VP of Metaverse, and LandVault later became part of Napster. Led 24 developers, designers and producers: immersive 3D worlds and spatial commerce in Unreal, Unity and WebGL, the Napster AI companion, the DMCC Crypto Centre metaverse in Dubai, and a 3D brand and e-commerce experience for TAG Heuer.
A real-time 3D store experience for Hermès.
Led technology for NOR, Consortium9’s game platform, and the multidisciplinary teams building its tools and infrastructure, across Unreal and Unity.
With PUBG creator Brendan Greene, on Artemis, a game the size of planet Earth where AI generates the buildings in real time.
Earlier: Expo 2020 Dubai, Sensorium, FIFA World Cup Qatar, MediaMonks, Theta Labs, the Winter Olympics, Amazon, Sky, Formula 1, BBC and Channel 4Show all
A team of 12 across digital twins, blockchain and gaming. We worked on Virtual Expo Dubai.
Ten virtual reality clubs in Unreal Engine for David Guetta, Carl Cox and other top DJs.
Engineering models turned into live Unreal and Unity environments, also for Expo 2020 and SEVEN. Walk through SEVEN Al Hamra
Games and blockchain products.
Interactive installations in the UAE, including Well of Hope for Arab Hope Makers.
Streaming on the Theta network.
PyeongChang Winter Olympics.
Video streaming, London.
Built the engineering team behind the Sky Sports VR, 3D and on-demand players, and automated the media workflows behind them. GRAFTA award.
Live race coverage in Arabic and English, and Gran Turismo’s GT Academy live event at Silverstone.
Live production in London.
Notes
3D product animation for industrial equipment: films, interactive 3D, AR and a website that sells
How much does a 3D virtual tour cost? 360 photo, scanned and real-time 3D compared
Vibe coding: what it is, where it breaks, and how to ship it safely
How to tokenize real estate: the company, the token and the rent, step by step
What is a digital twin? The definition, how it works and real examples
Supabase security checklist: the settings that leak your data, and how to fix each one
Can a bank issue its own stablecoin? How a community bank launches one, step by step
How much does it cost to build an app? Where the money goes, and what AI changes
Three.js website: what three.js is, what you need to build a 3D site, and what it costs
AI chatbot for your website: build or buy, what it costs, and how it learns your content
How to migrate from Firebase to Supabase without logging out a single user
How much does a fractional CTO cost? UK, US and Gulf rates, and when full time is cheaper
How to prove you’re over 18 without showing your ID
Unity WebGL on mobile: how I took a 650 MB model to a 74 MB build at 60 fps
AI agent governance: a practical framework for securing agents and their permissions
MCP security checklist: 12 checks before you connect an AI agent to your tools
MCP server: what it is, what it exposes, and how to build one
How to build a fan engagement platform: points, games, rewards and fan data the artist owns
Vibe coding security checklist: 13 checks a founder can run in an afternoon
Cross-border payments with stablecoins: how they work, what they cost, and when they beat SWIFT
Low latency streaming: why your live stream is delayed, and how to cut it
Your AI coding agent can delete your database. Here’s how to stop it.
"Online Safety Act: does it apply to your site, and what you must do"
"Verifiable credentials: what they are, how they work, and how to build one"
Agentic AI: what it is, what it costs to run, and how to ship one safely
AI receptionist: what an AI voice agent does on your phone line, what it costs, and what it must never do
How to accept InstaPay on your website and confirm payments automatically
What is a zero-knowledge proof? Explained simply, with a game you can play
SuperSplat tutorial: how to clean, crop and publish a 3D scan
Gaussian splatting on a website: how to put a 3D scan on your site
AI customer service agent: what it can safely do, and what it costs
Wedding photo sharing with a QR code: how to collect every guest’s photos
How much does a digital twin cost? Build, run and payback, line by line
What is an AI agent? The parts, real examples, and the one rule
How to put a loyalty stamp card in Apple and Google Wallet, and pair it with online booking
How much does a small business website cost in 2026? Three routes, priced from the source
What is a stablecoin? How the peg holds, the types, and why some broke
How much does it cost to live stream an event?
Forward deployed engineer: four AI and fintech builds, from first call to production
How live TV and streaming work: broadcast workflows from tape to the cloud
How to prove who someone is without seeing who they are
Virtual stores, live shows and 3D worlds people actually use
Can one person with AI do a whole team’s work? What live systems taught me
Press and teaching
Scoop Empire feature
A profile of my work across gaming, AI and the metaverse, including Artemis with Brendan Greene.
Zawya
LandVault appoints me Vice President of Metaverse to lead its Middle East growth.
Scoop of Tech, Scoop Empire
A series in Arabic explaining tech in plain language, starting with NFTs.
Lectures for Founderz
NFTs, GameFi and blockchain in plain language. Some were given inside the metaverse, to a room of students’ avatars.
Contact
Hiring for a product leader, or need a product built end to end? Email me or book a call.
m@tawfik.tv