Kurdify, the founder story

KURDIFY

One ecosystem for Kurdistan’s digital life.

Before Kurdify, the why.

Kurdistan is growing fast.

Many call it the next Dubai.

Talent: everywhere.

Digital infrastructure: missing.

Built for three circles:

01 · FIRSTKurds at home 02 · NEXTThe diaspora 03 · THE BRIDGEHome meets diaspora

Siavash Sadighi.

Founder, Kavalsia Inc.

Kavalsia builds acquisition systems for businesses and brands.

100businesses served
50+e-commerce brands
$25M+average yearly ad spend managed

AI-powered marketing + development, competing in the US market.

Before building, I sold.

  1. 2 containersof cleaning products, Iran to Kurdistan, sold with programmatic marketing.

  2. 1 construction machinesold.

  3. Servicesoffered to local businesses.

Result:

I learned how people here buy, sell and run business.

Selling from Canada hit walls:

No Iraqi companyNo local bankNo FIBNo ZainCash
InventoryShippingPayments

Not solvable from far away.

So I started with what people need, free.

Today’s platforms:

Arabic sites translated into Kurdish.

Unpopular.

Full of basic bugs.

Our MVP already fixes them.

Not a startup.

Not a platform.

An ecosystem.

Many startups, one shared data core.

Each keeps its own data: encrypted, hashed, readable only to machine learning.

People and dealers list cars. Buyers find them.

Three ways it earns:

1Seller subscriptions

2Fees on deals closed

3We sell the car for them

Pushed across

Meta,Google,TikTok, Snapchat,LinkedIn,X.

Every listing and every buyer message teaches the model:

Which cars sell fast Which sit Fair price estimates Who buys what How people feel about a model High demand, low supply, by city

Thousands of transactions become the most valuable asset.

One person, seen across all of them:

what homes they search, what cars they want, which businesses they visit, what they read.

= one avatar per user.

User (free):

  • save businesses
  • post reviews
  • earn points
  • unlock discounts
  • apply as a creator
  • list as a freelancer

Business:

  • claim the listing
  • run offers
  • reach customers

Our US and Canada work goes to Egypt, the Philippines, India today.

Why not Kurdistan?

And now we know which city has more programmers, more civil engineers.

Trained on an ongoing Kurdish NLP pipeline.

10,000+businesses
300,000+reviews

It already knows:

how many barbers per city

how far apart they are

which city is happiest with service

which is angry about Wi-Fi

which rates its universities best

Example:

Erbil restaurants struggle with speed and parking.

For anyone starting a business, growing one, or entering Kurdistan from abroad.

One goal:

make the world hear that Kurdistan is growing, and it is time to come in.

Cars:

we work with dealerships to export new cars to Kurdistan.

Homes:

campaigns bringing investors from outside to buy new real estate.

We are great at marketing. In digital, we have no limits.

Creators listed with their socials.

Businesses pick, send a request, done.

We market Kurdify by marketing them:

“Top dental clinics near you, ranked by reviews.”

“A new ice cream shop just opened in Erbil. Presented by Kurdify.”

One app, one roof.

Kurdify
Search Kurdify
Jobs
Homes
Cars
News
Learn
Businesses and reviews
Deals

Scan the QR in store.

5%Visit 1
10%Visit 2
15%Visit 3

Fully customizable by the business.
Builds a relationship, not a coupon.

Earned by:

visiting

reviewing

inviting friends

buying a home or car

posting or filling a job

freelancing

Spent on:

deeper discounts

bank-partner credit

gift cards

giveaways (yes, cars)

People found Kurdify through search and asked us to book a hotel room and a doctor’s appointment.

Traffic arrives on many keywords before full launch.

Creators promoting themselves promote us.

Most of it stays free.

Value is not hidden behind a price.

We sell placements: inside one vertical (furniture on a home listing) or global, across all.

Between listings, articles and news.

Someone searches “Mr. X oil change”. They land on Kurdify, meet Kurdify, see the ads.

Articles and news rank on Google and in AI answers (SEO + GEO), so even ChatGPT sends people here.

Better than Google Maps: every business gets an AI that reads its reviews and its competitors’, and tells it how to improve.

This is not the end.

Kurdify keeps building. Step by step, without burning.

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