Synetecs revamps website with deep-tech AI infrastructure focus ahead of Slush 2026

Synetecs, Inc. has revamped its corporate website to reflect its repositioning as a deep-tech AI infrastructure company building purpose-built models for under-served languages and cybersecurity, ahead of its appearance at Slush 2026 in Helsinki, Finland.

More than 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, but only a small fraction have enough online data to build reliable AI tools. By Synetecs’ estimate, 3.4 billion people speak languages that are underrepresented in AI training data. Starting with Dhivehi, the company has developed models for speech recognition, text-to-speech, translation and reading scanned documents. Because Dhivehi has little usable training data, Synetecs built its own tools for cleaning data and automating its training pipeline. It plans to use those tools to add more languages and expand globally faster.

“One of our biggest hurdles has been people judging us by where we come from before they see what we’ve built,” said Ismail Kaleem, co-founder and CEO of Synetecs.

“The Maldives is a small country, and Dhivehi is an extremely low-resource language, with a small digital footprint and very little accessible data. Building AI for it was hard, and that is exactly the experience we need to develop and scale models for other languages. We want to bring Thaana.ai to communities facing the same problem while keeping our Maldivian identity.”

Thaana AI, Synetecs’ Dhivehi and English AI assistant, opened to individual subscribers in the Maldives in August, at a price more than 95% lower than its corporate pricing, making Dhivehi AI affordable for everyday users. Synetecs is preparing to launch a mobile app that will bring the assistant to smartphones. Synetecs, Inc. develops the technology and holds the intellectual property. Thaana AI Pvt Ltd serves as the local distributor for Thaana AI in the Maldives.

After bringing generative AI to Dhivehi speakers with Thaana AI, Synetecs is moving into agentic AI. Later this month, it will launch Akema.ai in the Maldives and globally. Akema.ai is an AI customer support agent that learns from an organisation’s own documents and answers customers by website chat and phone in more than 50 languages, handing over to staff when a question needs human judgement. Synetecs is now building a channel partner ecosystem to bring Akema.ai to market.

In cybersecurity, Synetecs develops specialised models to detect risks such as prompt injection (attempts to override an AI system’s instructions) or the presence of sensitive information in AI requests. These models help power Warden, Synetecs’ enterprise AI control plane for governance, risk management and compliance. Warden is designed to discover AI tools used outside approved channels, check proposed AI actions against organisational policies before execution, and record decisions for audit and human review. It also helps organisations protect sensitive data, map evidence to AI governance frameworks, and manage AI usage and spending.

Warden is being deployed at the Maldives Prosecutor General’s Office as part of PGO 2.0 to govern how AI is used in prosecution workflows. The contract was awarded to Thaana AI Pvt Ltd, Synetecs’ distributor in the Maldives. Warden is available through early access ahead of its planned April 2027 launch.

Synetecs’ three Maldivian co-founders, Ismail Kaleem, Mohamed Dharis Ilyas and Mohamed Jinas, will be at Slush 2026 in Helsinki, from November 18–19 to meet investors and partners as the company prepares to expand globally.

Described by its organisers as the world’s largest gathering of venture capital, Slush brings together thousands of founders and investors, including some of the world’s leading venture capital firms. Investors and partners attending Slush can arrange a meeting with the founders by emailing [email protected].