Salesforce, Innovation City Launch AI Platform To Register UAE Businesses in Minutes

Salesforce and Innovation City in Ras Al Khaimah have launched an AI-powered business registration platform designed to reduce company formation times in the UAE from days or weeks to minutes, the two organisations announced. The platform integrates Salesforce’s Agentforce with Innovation City’s digital services to allow AI agents to execute defined registration tasks, manage workflows and process documents within established permissions, governance and privacy controls. Human staff will continue to handle cases requiring strategic judgment or complex exceptions.

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“We are not just digitizing bureaucracy–we are fundamentally transforming the company formation experience,” said Innovation City CEO Paul Dawalibi. “This is the moment we move from talking about the future to living it.”

Context and platform details

The joint offering uses Agentforce to automate routine aspects of business formation inside Innovation City’s free zone environment in Ras Al Khaimah. Salesforce describes Agentforce as a system of AI agents capable of operating across data, workflows and embedded business logic while maintaining governance, privacy and trust requirements. Mohammed AlKhothani, General Manager and SVP, Salesforce Middle East, framed the project as part of a broader regional shift from AI experimentation to deployments that deliver measurable business outcomes. “Organizations across the Middle East are maturing beyond AI experimentation to actual measurable outcomes for entrepreneurs, start-ups, and enterprises,” AlKhothani said.

Innovation City and Salesforce said the platform is intended to reduce delays for companies seeking to establish or expand operations in the free zone, while preserving regulatory safeguards and auditability. The system is described as the world’s first AI-powered registration platform of its kind, combining automation with oversight so jurisdiction staff can focus on strategic decisions and exception handling. Throughout the process, governance, security, data privacy and audit requirements are embedded to ensure compliance with existing rules.

Operational mechanics and scope

• AI agents handle defined registration tasks, workflows and document processing within permitted controls.
• Human staff retain responsibility for cases requiring strategic judgment or complex exceptions.
• The platform is integrated into Innovation City’s digital services for companies registering in the Ras Al Khaimah free zone.
• Salesforce emphasises governance, privacy and trust as core operational constraints for Agentforce agents.

Outlook

Officials position the platform as a way to accelerate company formation cycles and reduce administrative friction for entrepreneurs, start-ups and established enterprises using Innovation City’s free zone. The partners also framed the rollout as supporting wider UAE objectives to adopt AI responsibly across economic and public services. If adoption scales, the platform could shift labour from routine processing to higher-value regulatory review and advice within the free zone, while providing a model for other jurisdictions considering AI-enabled public services. Both organisations highlighted the need to balance automation gains with sustained oversight to preserve data protection and audit trails as the system handles an increasing volume of registration cases.