Accord Partners · 5-Slide Founder Spotlight · Jun 22, 2026 · Cairo
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"One of the largest opportunities in professional services · $2T market at inflection." · ~1.5–2 min
"Good afternoon. I'm Amr Shady, and I'm building Accord Partners.
Before we talk about 'AI roll-up,' I want to take a minute for us to picture the prize. Audit is a 500-year-old profession, sitting at an inflection point. This is a massive, $2 trillion market globally — at a time when AI finally lets a services business command software margins. We're building an AI-powered Big 4 for the small and mid-market — native to AI from day one, not bolted on.
We're starting where the tailwinds are strongest: Saudi Arabia, with an audit super-cycle coming. SME growth is exploding, scrutiny is rising across ZATCA and SOCPA, and mega-events from the World Cup to World Expo are pulling thousands of companies into supply chains and bank financing — and all of them now need audited statements. Demand goes straight up while the supply of auditors goes straight down.
Our team has spent 30 years in financial services, 15 in applied AI, and a decade doing M&A — and we build in hard markets. I scaled and exited Tribal Credit, $180M raised from SoftBank and QED; Karim came out of Blnk and IBM. We haven't seen an intersection — or a transformation — like this one, and we're excited to be building it today."
"Acquire. Automate. Augment. Amplify." · ~2 min
"So how do we build it. It's an AI roll-up, and it runs on four moves — each one starting with A.
Acquire — we buy controlling stakes in established, SOCPA-licensed Saudi firms. The partner keeps signing; we bring the balance sheet.
Automate — we put audit, assurance and advisory onto our platform, Accord OS. AI does the heavy lifting, and operating margins go past 45%.
Augment — we add an Egypt back office at one-tenth the cost, giving every firm capacity it could never afford on its own.
Amplify — we channel new demand into those firms through our platform partnerships — a revenue stream they could never reach alone.
Here's the point that matters: no one else in the region brings all four together. The AI labs have the technology but no license. The Big 4 have the license but won't buy small firms. Local players have neither the capital nor the AI. Capital, technology, reach, and low-cost delivery in one operator — that's the moat. Not any one alone. The four together."
"AI unlocks a new channel." · 34K SMEs · ~$135M · ~1.5–2 min
"Now here's the part most people miss. AI doesn't just cut our costs — it opens a channel that didn't exist before.
The big SME platforms in Saudi want to embed compliance for their customers at scale. But they can't sign an audit — only a SOCPA-licensed firm can. So they need an engine behind them. That's us.
Two partnerships already in motion put 34,000 SMEs in reach — a gross revenue pool around $135 million, at roughly four thousand dollars an engagement. And there are five-plus more partnerships in the 2026 pipeline.
This is demand we don't have to go door-to-door for. AI makes it deliverable; the license makes us the only ones who can capture it."
"Two acquisitions closing now." · ~2 min
"And this is real, today. Two acquisitions are closing now.
One is a Saudi audit firm — SOCPA-licensed, recurring revenue, and the signing partner stays on. The other is an Egypt back office — one-tenth the cost, and the capacity engine that sits under every deal we'll ever do.
The mechanics are simple and they repeat. We buy at two to three times normalized earnings. We expand margins by fifteen to twenty-five points with AI and Egypt delivery. And we reinvest the dividend straight into the next deal.
One first close proves the entire model — the structure, the integration, the economics. We're at that moment right now. And on quality: the Saudi partner reviews and signs everything; Egypt does the heavy lifting underneath. The discipline is in the review."
"Trust engineering is the snowball." · $100M Y3 · $1B Y7 · ~1.5 min + the ask
"Where does this go. Every firm we add, every platform we plug in, every signature we earn makes the next one easier to win. Trust compounds — that's the snowball.
The shape of it: $100 million of revenue by year three, a billion by year seven. Big-4 scale, built from scratch, exactly where the tailwinds are strongest. I'll be honest about the discipline behind that — we underwrite on what we can secure today and treat the steep part of the curve as upside we earn, not a promise. But the direction is right, and the engine pays for its own growth.
Two ways you can help. Introduce me to audit-firm owners across the region — owners thinking about succession are exactly our pipeline. And point me to family offices who see this and want in.
Thank you. Happy to take your questions."
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