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Brickworks

Assembling

The word “Brickworks” built from dark toy-style bricks on a pale baseplate, finished with a green brick as its full stop.

Venture studio · Manama, Bahrain

Brickworks Ventures: We build companies brick by brick.

Brickworks Ventures designs, builds and launches its own AI-native commerce companies, for shoppers, merchants and brands across the Gulf and beyond.

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Manifesto

  1. Most ideas never leave the whiteboard.
  2. We take them apart.
  3. Test every piece.
  4. Keep what works.
  5. And assemble companies.
A baseplate filling up with bricks as the manifesto is read.

01How we build

From idea to company, one tested piece at a time.

Every venture goes through the same four stages. Nothing moves forward until it has earned its place.

  1. 01 / 04

    Idea

    We start from a real problem in buying or selling, and write down what would have to be true for a company to solve it.

  2. 02 / 04

    Prototype

    We build the smallest working version, with AI agents doing the heavy lifting, and put it in front of real users.

  3. 03 / 04

    Pilot

    We run it with real partners and measure what changes. We keep what works and take apart what doesn’t.

  4. 04 / 04

    Company

    When the evidence holds, the pieces are assembled into a standalone company, ready to grow.

02Ventures

Four companies, built brick by brick.

AI-native commerce. Each venture uses AI agents to make buying and selling fairer, smarter and more measurable, for shoppers, merchants and brands.

01 / 04

Oswol.com

AI that explains why stocks and crypto move

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An AI market-intelligence platform for investors in the Gulf and beyond. Ask why a stock, ETF or crypto asset moved, and get a structured, sourced answer in Arabic or English.

  • Explain this move: a structured answer with a 0–100 signal score, a confidence band and the sources behind it.
  • Smart Money Radar: congressional trades, 13F institutional filings and insider transactions in one view.
  • Social signals from X, Reddit and Stocktwits, plus market heat maps, a live watchlist and a daily AI brief.
  • A goal-based wealth planner, including Sharia-screened options.

How it works

A single named AI analyst, Maria, answers every question.

Behind her, specialist agents work through prices, filings, news and social data to build one cited answer.

Guardrails

  • Sources over speculation: every answer shows where it comes from.
  • Research and education only: not a broker, adviser or fund manager.

Platforms: Web, in English and Arabic.

02 / 04

Genius Buy

جينيس باي

The smartest grocery trolley in Bahrain

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Enter your grocery list and Genius Buy prices it across Bahrain’s hypermarkets and supermarkets, then tells you the cheapest way to shop it.

  • Accepts a list by typing, voice (Arabic, English or mixed), pasting a WhatsApp message, or a photo of a handwritten list.
  • Matches every item to real products across stores and returns three answers: the cheapest single store for the whole list; the cheapest split across 2–3 stores, and whether the saving is worth the extra trip; and the cheapest price per item.
  • Always shows the lump-sum total in Bahraini Dinar (3 decimals, e.g. BD 12.750), the saving, and how fresh each price is.
  • Shared household lists, price alerts, and a Ramadan mode.

Guardrails

  • Paid placement never changes rankings or totals.

Platforms: Web, iOS and Android.

03 / 04

Tallya

AI revenue agent for Shopify stores

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An AI agent that helps Shopify stores sell more to the shoppers they already have, and charges only for sales it provably creates.

  • Upsell and cross-sell: relevant add-ons based on what is actually in the shopper’s cart, shown on the store’s own pages and after payment.
  • Abandoned-cart recovery: one helpful, personal message about the specific items; a follow-up only if the shopper showed interest; discounts only within a limit the store owner sets.

How it works

A single named agent, Tallya, talks to both the shopper and the store owner.

Behind her, an orchestrator runs specialist task agents: Scout, Diagnostician, Merchandiser, Writer, Guardian and Analyst.

Guardrails

  • No fake countdowns.
  • No invented scarcity.
  • No pretending to be human.
  • Automatic pause if spam complaints rise.

First market: English-speaking footwear and apparel stores on Shopify.

04 / 04

Avenverse

The social shopping world

Reserve a shop plot

A browser-based 3D world where people create an avatar, stroll through districts of branded shops with friends, and buy real products without leaving the world.

  • Avatars, themed districts (e.g. Fashion Avenue), shops each with their own design, social chat and events.
  • Real commerce: products come from brands’ own stores (Shopify first). Buy the jacket, wear the jacket: a real purchase also unlocks the digital version for your avatar.
  • Personal, explained upsell and cross-sell, “complete the look” across brands, and offers with clear rules.
  • Built for the GCC: Arabic and English with full right-to-left support, GCC currencies, modest fashion for avatars.

03Principles

How we work.

  1. 01

    Pay for proof.

    We prefer models where customers pay only for results we can measure.

  2. 02

    Honest by design.

    No fake scarcity, no dark patterns, no hidden paid ranking.

  3. 03

    Arabic and English first-class.

    Built for the Gulf, ready for the world.