KnackLabs named OpenAI Select Partner, plans expansion across UAE and Middle East

KnackLabs, an India-based AI transformation firm, has been named an OpenAI Select Partner as part of the OpenAI Partner Network and plans to expand its presence across the UAE and the wider Middle East. The company — which says it has more than nine years of experience delivering AI solutions and has shipped over 15 billion conversations — will use the partnership to help organisations adopt OpenAI’s frontier models and products and to translate those capabilities into measurable business impact.

Direct quote

“Being named an OpenAI Select Partner is a testament to the work we’ve done and shipped for our clients over the years. We’ve spent the last several years building AI systems for real businesses, often at a point where there is no established playbook. The experience has taught us that the real challenge is not simply building something that works, but engineering it to work reliably in production and deliver measurable value. We’ve now shipped more than 15 billion conversations across production environments, and this engineering and delivery rigour continues to shape how we approach enterprise AI,” said Kartik Bansal, Founder and CEO of KnackLabs.

Context and details

• Partnership role: As an OpenAI Select Partner, KnackLabs will work with OpenAI to build, deploy and scale AI solutions for enterprises, providing closer access to OpenAI’s engineering and models and translating emerging AI capabilities into practical enterprise applications.
• Engineering focus: KnackLabs emphasises production-grade engineering and deployment experience. Kartik Bansal added that the partnership “gives our teams closer access to OpenAI’s frontier capabilities, allowing us to move faster as we build enterprise agentic AI systems and production-grade automation solutions.”
• Operational benefit: Ravi Kiran, VP Engineering at KnackLabs, highlighted the operational advantage of the partnership: “Our engineers now have a direct line to OpenAI’s engineering teams on the hardest deployments. When a problem turns out to be a model problem, we get an answer instead of working around it. That is usually where enterprise AI projects lose a quarter.”
• Product and tech references: KnackLabs said it will leverage OpenAI technologies including GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work to accelerate execution, support enterprise workflows and help organisations maximise value from AI deployments.
• Track record: The company positions its selection as stemming from industry expertise, global delivery capabilities and established customer relationships developed over nine-plus years of delivering AI systems to businesses.

Outlook

KnackLabs plans to use the OpenAI partnership to accelerate its regional expansion across the UAE and the wider Middle East, bringing “frontier AI capabilities, enterprise engineering and the experience we’ve built across deployments to a broader set of customers and business problems,” Kartik Bansal said. The firm intends to focus on automating complex workflows, streamlining operations and moving organisations from experimentation to sustained production use of AI — positioning its engineering rigor and direct OpenAI collaboration as key differentiators for enterprise adoption in the region.