Hysaab is its own company.
Hysaab is a separate company from Oblique Consult. It builds and sells the software: Hysaab Finance for finance teams, and Hysaab Practice and Hysaab Audit for firms.
Why we built it
We ran the work before we built the product.
Hysaab was built in Dubai by accountants who ran the month-end, the VAT filings and the FTA queries themselves, for their own clients, long before any of it was software.
Where Hysaab comes from
The same ritual,
every close.
Receipts chased over WhatsApp. Invoices vouched at midnight. A VAT deadline closing in on the quarter. And the numbers that actually matter, untouched.
Oblique Consult does tax and accounting work for Gulf businesses. We watched capable finance teams, our own included, spend their nights on administrative work and miss what the data was saying.
So we wrote down how we actually work: the checks we run on every invoice, the way we close a month, the questions a reviewer asks before signing. Then we built agents to do that work, show their evidence and leave the judgement to a person. First for our own tax team, then for the businesses around us, now for finance teams and firms across the Gulf.
How we are organised
A separate company.
The same people.
Who builds Hysaab, who sells it, and who does the work when you ask us to run it with you.
Oblique’s accountants run the managed service.
When a company chooses the managed service, Oblique Consult’s accountants run the queue and prepare the close with its team, using Hysaab every day.
Simpla engineers the product.
The engineering is by Simpla, a Dubai team building tax and accounting AI, working at the same table as the accountants.
Your workspace stays yours.
Oblique Consult sees a customer’s workspace only when that customer has chosen the managed service or given written permission. Read our commitments.
The founders
Accountants and engineers.
At the same table.
Finance experience and product engineering, working together in Dubai.
Oblique ConsultTax, accounting and advisory. Dubai. Its accountants run the managed service. (opens in a new tab)
SimplaTax and accounting AI. Dubai. The engineers behind Hysaab. (opens in a new tab)Wahaj Siddiqui
Founder · Oblique Consult
Over 18 years in corporate finance and tax advisory, including KPMG, Etihad Airways, Al Hilal Bank and Emirates Airlines, across external audit, financial reporting, internal audit and tax leadership.
Saad Zafar
Co-Founder · Simpla
A finance professional with a background in financial leadership and audit, including Majid Al Futtaim and KPMG.
What we believe
Five rules.
Held on every screen.
These are the standards we worked to as accountants. Hysaab is built to keep them.
Every number traces to a document.
Evidence is not optional. Each journal keeps its commentary and the documents behind it, so any figure can be opened and checked.
Nothing is deleted.
Mistakes are reversed in the open, as mirrored entries with their own reason. The record of what happened stays complete.
Hysaab prepares. People approve.
The work is prepared and brought to you with its reasoning. Accruals, payment runs and the period lock wait for a person, and an override needs a written reason that is kept with the books.
Compliance is the default.
Invoices are tested against the tax-invoice rules as they arrive, and input VAT is held until a document qualifies. You review and file; Hysaab does not submit returns for you.
Honest about what it did.
Software should say plainly what it did and what it cannot do. Uncertain items come to you with the reason, a questionable instruction is challenged, and some are refused.
The products
One way of working.
Three products and a sister.
Changing how tax, accounting and audit get done in the Gulf. Each product has a clear job to do.
For finance teams
Hysaab Finance
AI agents for accounting and reporting, with your team approving the calls that matter.
Explore Hysaab FinanceFor tax and advisory firms
Hysaab Practice
AI agents for the tax work, with the firm’s admin running itself around it.
Explore Hysaab PracticeFor licensed audit firms
Hysaab Audit
The ISA file, run by engines and concluded by your partners.
Explore Hysaab AuditFinance hiring
Ibtidah
Find finance people through work-based assessment, with experienced professionals making the shortlist.
Meet IbtidahWhere to find us
Built in Dubai.
Hysaab is built by the team behind Oblique Consult.
We are in Dubai, UAE, working across the Emirates and Saudi Arabia, in English and Arabic. Write to us at info@hysaab.ai. A real person reads every message.