London, United Kingdom
Noman Shah, FBCS
AI entrepreneur, inventor, and Fellow of the British Computer Society.
Noman Shah is a UK-based AI entrepreneur, inventor, and Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS). He is Founder and CEO of XEROTECH AI and Founder and President of Artificial Intelligence University (AIU.ac). He created CallGPT 6X and holds patents cited by Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM. He has built technology systems since 1998 across three countries.
Currently
Founder & CEO, XEROTECH AI · Founder & President, AIU · Director, Sovereign AI Lab (SAIL)
Nine patents · Seven papers with DOIs · Three companies
Recognised, backed, and cited by
Education
Harvard Business School · Oxford Saïd Business School
Professional standing
Fellow, British Computer Society (top 1%) · PMP
Backed by
Google for Startups · Microsoft for Startups · NVIDIA Inception · AWS Activate · ElevenLabs Startup Grant
Partnerships
Anthropic Claude Partner Network · IBM Select Partner
Patents cited by
Apple · Microsoft · Amazon · IBM · Lenovo · Citrix · Morgan Stanley · Verisign · Ruger
Press
Entrepreneur · Yahoo Finance · 24NewsHD · GlobeNewswire · Manila Times · ITNewsOnline
Startups
Companies I’ve founded and lead.
XEROTECH AI
Founder & CEO
XEROTECH LTD (Company No. 14474495) is a UK AI research and product company building sovereign, privacy-first AI for regulated organisations. Backed by Google for Startups, Microsoft for Startups, NVIDIA Inception, and AWS Activate. Cyber Essentials certified.
xerotech.io →Artificial Intelligence University
Founder & President
A UK Registered Learning Provider (UKPRN 10095512) and BCS Approved Centre, delivering the Certified Forward Deployed Engineer (CFDE™) programme and curating 1,200+ courses from partners including Educative, Pluralsight, and Pearson.
aiu.ac →AI Business Review
Founder
A daily AI news and analysis publication covering AI news, research, policy, and enterprise adoption, with its own editorial board and standards. I contribute as an author only, with no editorial authority.
aibusinessreview.org →Build
Products, platforms, and systems I’ve built or am building.
Live products
CallGPT 6X
A privacy-first multi-provider AI workspace: 20+ models across eight providers (Anthropic, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, Zhipu AI, Mistral, plus ElevenLabs voice and FLUX image). Patent-pending client-side architecture keeps sensitive data in the browser.
callgpt.co.uk →PULVINIR
A compliance intelligence platform for regulated sectors (energy, legal, tax, health, education, governance), combining deterministic rules engines with AI-generated regulatory narrative, built for audit and board-level reporting.
xerotech.io →VisionXI: Talking Eyes
An AI accessibility app that interprets visual content and narrates solutions for visually impaired users. iOS and Android, 1,000+ downloads.
AIA Video CallGPT
A real-time AI voice and video assistant, demonstrated at STEP Conference Dubai in February 2023, ahead of comparable mainstream offerings. 10,000+ downloads.
The Toolfather
99 free, browser-side AI and SEO tools. Multilingual (English, Arabic, Urdu).
thetoolfather.com →Xeroland
An immersive, AI-native learning platform for special educational needs (SEND).
Research systems & open source
Knowledge Engine
The retrieval and enrichment backbone behind PULVINIR: ingests regulatory sources, enriches and embeds them, and serves a governed vector knowledge base.
ILM & ArfaLM
Child-scale language models (2.3M-parameter LSTM and 8.4M-parameter Transformer) trained on naturalistic parent-child speech, small enough to run on Pentium II-class hardware. Models and dataset on HuggingFace.
Truth Mesh
A verifiable-knowledge protocol where claims can be forked, bias is quantified, and provenance is cryptographically proven. GitHub.
Sovereign Vault
A local-first AI system running 21 agents on private hardware; also the subject of a forthcoming book demonstrating how to build and maintain it.
AutoReel & AutoWrite
Automated production pipelines: short-form video (FLUX.2 Pro) and long-form articles.
In development (Lab)
Sidekick, a local-first personal management system
Telekine, research into gaze-directed control of objects
TeleVu, research into remote viewing of objects
Patents
Nine patents (2 granted US, 5 pending US, 1 pending Canadian, 1 confidential filing), cited by Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, Lenovo, Citrix, Morgan Stanley, and Ruger.
US 9,779,066 B2 · Granted
Punycode to Unicode text conversion system
Detects Punycode-encoded web, email, and FTP addresses in real-world images and converts them to readable Unicode using OCR and augmented reality, protecting users from homograph spoofing attacks. Cited in later filings by Apple, Morgan Stanley, Amazon, Citrix, IBM, Lenovo, and Verisign.
View patent →US 9,222,743 B2 · Granted
Smart firearm safety system
A smart firearm safety system designed to prevent unauthorised or unsafe operation and help protect innocent lives from gun violence. Part of a patent series, including an updated filing in Canada. Cited by Sturm, Ruger & Company.
View patent →Selected pending
US 14/645,629: Calligraphy stylus (cited by Microsoft) · US 14/718,176: Automated food processing system (cited by 10 entities) · Further filings in modular computing, remote food preparation, Quranic citation retrieval, and updated smart-firearm systems (Canadian).
Full patent listing on Justia →Research
Peer-reviewed preprints, books, and open research through the Sovereign AI Lab (SAIL).
Sovereign AI Lab
I direct SAIL, a joint research initiative between AIU and XEROTECH, focused on governance, evaluation, and deployment frameworks for AI systems. Seven papers with DOIs, three open models, and one open dataset released to date.
xerotech.io/sail →Publications & preprints
Shah, N.A., & Naseer, A. The Persistent Tension Hypothesis: Endogenous Attention Capture in Large Language Models. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19251253
Shah, N.A. Toward Lifecycle Governance for Multi-Agent Systems: Principles and Research Agenda. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19253847
Shah, N.A. The Temporal Fluid Multiverse: A Unified Framework for Causality and Observation. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19249818
Shah, N.A., & Naseer, A. Focus Mirror: Interactive Attention Steering for Large Language Models. TechRxiv. DOI: 10.36227/techrxiv.176799535.54475138/v1
Shah, N.A. ILM and ArfaLM: Child-Scale Language Models Trained on Natural Parent-Child Speech (Part 1). Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19605032
Shah, N.A., & Khan, A.A. A Theoretical Framework for Integrating Edge-Enabled Generative AI and AR/VR in Disaster Management Decision Support. TechRxiv. DOI: 10.36227/techrxiv.175753698.85454830/v1
Shah, N.A. The Emergence Hypothesis: A Hydraulic Engineering Model for the Construction and Ascension of the Great Pyramid of Giza. OSF. DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/vu59x
Books
How DeepSeek Unleashed Pandora’s Box (2025, Amazon KDP)
The Rising Pyramid: Emergence of a Forgotten Intelligence (2025, Amazon KDP)
Sovereign AI Vault (manuscript complete, forthcoming)
Research profiles
ORCID 0009-0004-1120-118X · Google Scholar · HuggingFace · GitHub
A builder and operator who ships, not a commentator.
From enterprise systems and embedded software to national-scale government platforms across three countries, including a $200M World Bank digital transformation serving 44 million citizens, and now frontier AI products and AI-safety research. Every claim on this page links to a verifiable source.
3
countries, national scale
9
patents
7
papers with DOIs
Career
From enterprise systems and embedded software to national-scale government platforms across three countries, and now frontier AI.
London, UK
Founder & CEO, XEROTECH LTD
Founded an AI research and product company; shipped three production AI apps (11,000+ combined downloads); built CallGPT 6X; runs an active AI-safety research programme. Backed by Google for Startups and Microsoft for Startups; SEIS/EIS advance assurance from HMRC.
Lahore, Pakistan
Director MIS, Punjab Social Protection Authority
Led a $200M World Bank digital transformation serving 44 million citizens. Designed an ML-based Merit-Based Poverty Scorecard; integrated national identity, welfare, and provincial systems; zero security breaches over five years.
Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Director PMO, Umm Al Qura University
Managed a 98-project research portfolio (SAR 196M); established innovation centres in AI, Smart Cities, HealthTech, and IoT; co-led a medical kit for early breast-cancer detection.
Islamabad, Pakistan
Director MIS (Federal Projects), Planning Commission of Pakistan
Monitored 199 federal projects (£1.6B); built an executive dashboard for the Prime Minister’s Office integrating satellite imagery, GIS, and analytics.
Islamabad, Pakistan
Director Technical, Dot Pak / Internet Governance
Advocated at ICANN and the UN-IGF; helped enable non-Latin scripts in top-level domains, expanding internet access globally.
Islamabad, Pakistan
Project Director, Ministry of IT & Telecom
Delivered E-Justice, FIA automation, and hospital systems; led the Urdu Localisation project (machine translation and text-to-speech) later adopted by Microsoft.
Pakistan
Early career: enterprise software, embedded systems, and IT education
Eight years across engineering and industry: built DB2/DB400 and Visual Basic applications at Dawood Hercules Chemicals as part of the Y2K migration across several million lines of code; automated three textile mills and an executive decision-support system at Ejaz Spinning Mills; led simulators, e-book and digital-Quran firmware, encryption algorithms, and Urdu-language software at ENMAC Engineering; and ran demand-based IT training programmes and the Punjab IT Exhibition (PITEX).
Mentor
CFDE™, the Certified Forward Deployed Engineer. The first UK certification for the FDE role. BCS-approved, developed from real deployment practice across six regulated sectors; delivered to a first cohort in 2025, now open for global online enrolment. Three levels: Foundation, Professional, Specialist.
C3AE (Certified Agentic AI & Automation) and CAME (Certified AI Management Expert): in development.
Entrepreneurship and AI project-management mentoring drawn from 20+ years leading technology programmes.
Write
Entrepreneur.com: Leadership Network contributor, writing on AI privacy, startup substance, and founder cognition.
AI Business Review: daily AI news and analysis.
Drop Silence (Substack): essays on AI sovereignty, cybersecurity, and the OpenAI trademark battle.
Speak
Demonstrated AIA Video CallGPT at STEP Conference Dubai ().
Judge, NASA Conrad Challenge (2024–2026) · Judge, PMI PMO Global Awards (2025).
World Economic Forum Digital Member; selected pitcher, World Meeting Forum 2025 (from 1,000+ applicants).
Invite to speak →Frequently asked questions
Direct answers to the questions people ask most.
Who is Noman Shah?
Noman Shah is a UK-based AI entrepreneur, inventor, and Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS). He is Founder and CEO of XEROTECH AI, Founder and President of Artificial Intelligence University (AIU.ac), and the creator of CallGPT 6X. He has built technology systems since 1998 across three countries.
What is XEROTECH AI?
XEROTECH AI is a UK AI research and product company (XEROTECH LTD, Company No. 14474495) building sovereign, privacy-first AI for regulated organisations. It is backed by Google for Startups, Microsoft for Startups, NVIDIA Inception, and AWS Activate, and is Cyber Essentials certified.
What is CallGPT 6X?
CallGPT 6X is a privacy-first, multi-provider AI workspace created by Noman Shah. It offers 20+ models across eight providers, with voice and image generation, and uses a patent-pending client-side architecture that keeps sensitive data in the user’s browser.
Which companies have cited Noman Shah’s patents?
Later patent filings by Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, Lenovo, Citrix, Morgan Stanley, Verisign, and Sturm, Ruger & Company have cited Noman Shah’s patents. He holds nine patents in total, including two granted US patents.
What is the CFDE certification?
CFDE (Certified Forward Deployed Engineer) is the first UK certification for the Forward Deployed Engineer role, delivered by Artificial Intelligence University, a BCS Approved Centre. It has three levels (Foundation, Professional, Specialist) and is open for global online enrolment.
How can I work with Noman Shah?
Noman Shah is available for advisory and consulting on AI strategy, privacy-first architecture, and regulated-sector deployment. XEROTECH is raising under SEIS/EIS with advance assurance from HMRC, and he accepts speaking invitations on AI, privacy, accessibility, and digital transformation. See Collaborate.
Collaborate
Ways to work together.
Advisory & Consulting
AI strategy, privacy-first architecture, regulated-sector deployment, and digital transformation.
Start an enquiry →Investment
XEROTECH is raising under SEIS/EIS, with advance assurance from HMRC.
xerotech.io/invest →