What If Compute Were Endowed, Like a Well?
Waqf assets worldwide are estimated at up to $1 trillion, much of it asleep. A concept note on Waqf-financed compute, with our short film.
Waqf & Infrastructure
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We connect the principles of Waqf with modern infrastructure, sovereign AI and strategic design for governments and institutions.
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1,400
years of Waqf
For over a millennium, Waqf has funded universities, hospitals, roads, and public services across the Islamic world. Today, this perpetual endowment model is the most sustainable framework for financing modern infrastructure. Sovereign, community-owned, and built to last.
Perpetual Funding. Unlike grants or debt, Waqf assets generate returns indefinitely. Infrastructure funded through Waqf does not expire. It compounds. Community Sovereignty. Waqf-backed infrastructure belongs to the community by design. No external dependency, no privatization risk, no loss of control. Owned AI Infrastructure. Energy, compute, data, models, agents: we design every layer to be owned, not rented. Built here, kept here, governed here.
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We structure modern Waqf endowments to finance digital and physical infrastructure, from data centers to smart cities. Shariah-compliant, sovereign, and perpetual.
Sovereign AI infrastructure for the Middle East and Asia, where the next wave of digital transformation is happening. We design decentralized architectures that keep data, models, and decisions within national borders.
World-class design thinking for government and institutional projects. From digital platforms to public service experiences, we design infrastructure people trust.
Waqf assets worldwide are estimated at up to $1 trillion, much of it asleep. A concept note on Waqf-financed compute, with our short film.
Waqf & Infrastructure
Read the concept →
As AI reshapes economies, the question is not whether to invest, but whether to own. Decentralized infrastructure gives nations true digital sovereignty.
AI & Sovereignty
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Great infrastructure is not just built. It is designed. How design thinking transforms public services from functional to transformational.
Design
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Waqf-structured investment vehicles, infrastructure endowments, impact frameworks
Enterprise AI architecture, Shariah-compliant digital transformation
On The Shoulders provides advisory services in three areas: Waqf infrastructure structuring, sovereign and decentralized AI architecture, and strategic design for public services and digital platforms.
We work with governments, sovereign funds, institutions and corporations planning digital or physical infrastructure. Our office is at QFC Tower 1 in Doha, with a focus on Qatar and the Gulf.
A concept note from On The Shoulders: a compute centre financed by Waqf, whose capacity serves schools, clinics, research and city services. It is a design idea, not an investment product or a delivered project.
Contact [email protected] with your organization, project location and the challenge you want to address, whether it concerns Waqf, AI infrastructure or design.
Office No. 4, Floor No. 9, QFC Tower 1, Doha, Qatar