• Algerian engineer Aymen Hamidi founded Kabas to deploy field-oriented artificial intelligence in heavy industry.

• Kabas develops two core products, DALILE and Virtual Lab, to turn industrial data into operational decisions.

• The company targets industrial efficiency gains while keeping full control over data and infrastructure.

Aymen Hamidi, a mining engineer by training and an Algerian entrepreneur, founded and leads Kabas, a technology company that integrates artificial intelligence to transform and optimise industrial processes.

Founded in 2023, Kabas positions itself as a deep-tech company that places AI at the service of heavy industries while ensuring full control over data and infrastructure. The company bases its offering on a pragmatic vision of artificial intelligence built around two complementary products: DALILE and Virtual Lab.

DALILE operates as an intelligent assistant dedicated to industrial knowledge. The system explores and exploits large volumes of technical documents and complex datasets, and it deliberately distances itself from consumer chatbots. The solution relies on a set of specialised agents that share analytical tasks, cross-check information, and deliver structured answers from simple queries written in everyday language.

Virtual Lab complements this approach by addressing another critical industrial challenge: the transition from idea to experimentation. The platform simulates scenarios before laboratory tests or pilot-scale trials by adjusting formulations, process parameters, or operating conditions. Teams can compare options, measure the impact of decisions, and identify the best balance between performance and cost without immobilising equipment or consuming raw materials. Connected to DALILE, Virtual Lab uses knowledge extracted from company data to further refine analysed scenarios.

On the academic and professional front, Aymen Hamidi earned a mining engineering degree in 2023 from the National Polytechnic School of Algeria. He completed several internships in the mining sector, including at ENOF Spa and SOMIPHOS, where he worked on extraction sites and phosphate processing plants. In 2022, he joined Sonatrach as a geophysics engineering intern, before completing a two-month laboratory engineering placement in 2023 at Drilling Fluids Services aux Puits (DFSP).

This article was initially published in French by Melchior Koba

Adapted in English by Ange Jason Quenum