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We are building Pakistan's own alternative to foreign ERP suites, starting with self-learning inventory forecasting.
About ZAKHIRA
ZAKHIRA Exists to End SME Capital Drainage & Stockout Distortion
Traditional ERP software was built for foreign corporate enterprises, leaving 5.2 million Pakistani SMEs stranded with static manual tracking or dollar-denominated foreign subscriptions.
ZAKHIRA provides a PKR-native, self-learning inventory engine — built to prevent stockout distortion and keep working capital inside local businesses.
How ZAKHIRA Arrived Here
ZAKHIRA started with hands-on SME retail problem-solving — analyzing store velocity, supplier delays, and cash flow bottlenecks. Across retail shops, the same pattern kept repeating:
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Manual logs led to frequent stockouts of top-selling items
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Excess cash remained trapped in slow-moving overstock
3
Foreign ERP suites required expensive USD subscriptions & data teams
The issue wasn't talent or intent. It was an infrastructure.
Over time, it became clear to us that inventory decision-making had crossed the threshold from manual spreadsheets to core business infrastructure. That's when the journey shifted. We built ZAKHIRA — Pakistan's Self-Learning Inventory & Reorder Engine for 5.2 million SMEs.
The issue wasn't talent or intent. It was an infrastructure.
Over time, it became clear to us that inventory decision-making had crossed the threshold from manual spreadsheets to core business infrastructure. That's when the journey shifted. We built ZAKHIRA — Pakistan's Self-Learning Inventory & Reorder Engine for 5.2 million SMEs.
Foundations Of ZAKHIRA
2025 September
Semester Project Ideation by Visionary Founder Waqas Ishaque
2026 February
Sandbox Testing Deployed at Karachi Autos (Major Dealer)
2026 May
Refining Mobile Manager Interface & Auto-Draft PO Suite
2021-2025
2025 December
Market Research & Solo Engine Implementation by Waqas Ishaque
2026 March
Outperformed Industry Moving-Average Baselines in Sandbox Testing
2026 September
Targeted Commercial Production Launch (August–September 2026)
What we believe ( and why it matters )
In the AI era, the advantage won't come from who experiments the most. It will come from who can operate AI the best - safely, continuously, and at scale.
As LLMs and agentic workflows spread across regulated business processes, enterprises need AI that is:
Governed while it runs
Auditable by design
Reversible when needed
Deployable inside their environment
Owned end - to - end by the enterprise
That belief is the foundation of ZAKHIRA.
Vision
To eliminate inventory distortion & foreign software dependency for 5.2M Pakistani SMEs.
Mission
To build the self-learning inventory reorder engine that enables SMEs to:
- Forecast demand and auto-draft purchase orders with zero data team
- Eliminate stockouts of fast-selling items and reduce overstock capital drain
- Operate on a PKR-native, modular suite with zero external AI API dependency
What we stand for
Enterprise - grade by design
We build for regulated environments, hybrid stacks, and real operational complexity.
Governance is execution, not policy
Governance must be enforceable logic - embedded in runtime.
Ownership is non - negotiable
Enterprises should have full custody of AI assets, artifacts, and IP.
Build for scale, not demos
If it can't survive production, it doesn't matter.
Meet the Team
ZAKHIRA is led by founder Waqas, a fintech builder with hands-on experience designing accessibility-focused, low-literacy interfaces for Pakistani SME store owners and managers.
Join us
We're building a category - defining foundation for enterprise AI - and we're looking for people who want to solve deep, meaningful problems.
If you're Excited by
Production-scale AI systems
Governed runtimes
Enterprise integration complexity
Agentic + LLM operationalization
…you'll feel at home at ZAKHIRA.
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