The Case for MIZAN GRC
Transforming Regulatory Compliance from Burden to Strategic Advantage
The Compliance Challenge
Regulatory Overload:
36+ overlapping local and international regulatory authorities
Compliance Domains
12 critical domains including Data Privacy, Cybersecurity, Financial Sector Security, Corporate Governance, Competition Law, Sustainability, and more
Process Fragmentation:
70% of compliance processes still manual and siloed
Time Drain
Audit and reporting cycles drag for 4-6 weeks
Talent Constraint
30-50% of expert time wasted on low-value, repetitive tasks
Business Impact
The price of inadequate governance is higher than ever.
Financial Penalties
Fines up to SAR 55 million for non-compliance
Enforcement Reality
700+ companies fined each year across sectors totaling US$29M+
• Competition (GAC): 147 notices to retailers and service providers
• Aviation (GACA): 542 fines across airlines and logistics operators
• Healthcare: 24 pharmaceutical companies penalized (USD 180K)
• 16 banks & fintechs sanctioned for regulatory breaches
Operational Impact
Business disruption, license suspensions, and project delays
Reputational Damage
Erosion of customer and investor trust
Competitive Disadvantage
Slower time-to-market versus digitally-enabled peers
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Investment in MIZAN GRC delivers measurable returns
Metric | Without MIZAN | With MIZAN | Savings/Improvement |
Audit preparation time | 4-6 weeks | 1 week | 75% time saved |
Reportable incidents | 6 per year | 0-1 per year | 83-100% fewer incidents |
Average fine exposure | SAR 450,000 | SAR 0 | 100% risk reduction |
Staff hours on compliance | 1,200+ hours | 480 hours | 60% productivity gain |
Time to implement new regulations | 3+ months | 2-3 weeks | 70% faster adaptation |
Market Trends
The regulatory landscape is rapidly evolving
- KSA GRC Platform Market: Valued at USD 442.5M in 2024, projected to grow at 11.5% CAGR to USD 1.23B by 2033
- Vision 2030 & Regulatory Momentum: New PDPL, NCA cybersecurity mandates, and SAMA frameworks spurring immediate adoption
- Digital Transformation Drivers: ~80% of large Saudi enterprises adopting cloud/SaaS and AI for real-time compliance and reporting
- Buyer Preferences: Shifting to unified, AI-first GRC platforms with continuous monitoring, predictive analytics and seamless enterprise integration
- Market Maturity Gap: Only 13% of organizations use centralized GRC platforms, while 62% still rely on spreadsheets
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Competitive Advantage
MIZAN stands apart in a fragmented market
- True Saudi Focus: Unlike global solutions with minimal localization, MIZAN is built specifically for KSA regulatory frameworks
- Multilingual Excellence: Full Arabic and English support with Hijri calendar integration
- Comprehensive Coverage: While many solutions focus on narrow segments (PDPL-only or cybersecurity), MIZAN offers full-spectrum GRC
- AI-Powered Intelligence: Built-in AI/ML for NLP, forecasting, and anomaly detection – not premium add-ons
- Local Data Sovereignty: Multi-tenant, KSA data center architecture for SDAIA compliance
- Rapid Deployment: Implementation in weeks, not months – compared to 6-9 month cycles for global platforms
- Vision 2030 Alignment: Purpose-built to support Saudi digital transformation mandates
- Current Market Gap: Existing solutions cover only 12.1% of the market, with major players like MetricStream (1.5%) and ServiceNow GRC (1.2%) having minimal Saudi presence
Our Vision
Our Guiding Principles
Vision: To become the world’s most trusted, multilingual, SaaS-based, AI-driven GRC platform—seamlessly woven into the fabric of every organization, regardless of size, sector, geography, or complexity. We envision a future where governance, risk, and compliance are no longer siloed obligations, but embedded enablers of integrity, sustainability, innovation, and growth.
Our Mission
To simplify GRC for small and medium business owners, leadership teams within large enterprises, and startup founders across all regulated industries—empowering them to confidently navigate governance, risk, and compliance complexities with peace of mind; streamline and strengthen corporate controls using AI-driven automation; proactively avoid business disruptions; preempt regulatory fines and penalties; minimize oversight losses; earn and maintain investor and customer trust; and embed digital trust as a strategic advantage that catalyzes growth and continuous transformation.
Syed F.A. Ahmed
Founder & CEO, MIZĀN GRC
From Our Founder
MIZĀN forms a foundation of trust that will impact lives, institutions, and futures for generations to come
I’ve always seen the world through a lens of clarity and vision. Ideas I imagined years ago became unicorns I never built. But MIZĀN is the one I chose to act on because I believe every organization deserves trust at its core, not as an afterthought.
This isn’t a startup for me. It’s a mission. One that begins in Saudi Arabia — and expands to the world
RegTech: The Operating System of Institutional Trust
For decades, companies scaled with the help of ERP systems – tools that standardized planning, finance, procurement, and inventory. ERP became the backbone of enterprise execution.
Today, the world is changing again.
Enterprises no longer struggle with how to run operations – they struggle with how to prove they are running them right. They face complex, conflicting, and ever-changing regulations – in privacy, cybersecurity, ESG, financial reporting, AI ethics, and beyond. What they lack is a system of record for governance, risk, and compliance.
This is the compliance gap – and it’s widening.
RegTech – once seen as a niche for banks and auditors – is now becoming the enterprise infrastructure for digital trust. ERP told you what you were doing.
RegTech proves you’re doing it right – ethically, securely, and legally. And that proof isn’t optional anymore. It’s a competitive advantage.
MIZĀN isn’t just a platform. It’s the GRC layer of the modern enterprise stack – AI-driven, regulation-aware, and natively multilingual.
