# Abdelbaki Berkati

> Venture Lead at IdeaCrafters, a venture studio in Algiers that builds and co-founds B2B software in regulated markets. I founded Nemra.

I work across engineering and business. I write code and design architecture, and I run go-to-market and sales. I take on problems in payments, tax compliance, and e-invoicing across Algeria and the Gulf, the kind of regulated work most people avoid.

## Pages

- [Homepage](https://berkati.xyz/en/): Profile overview, experience, and contact
- [Work](https://berkati.xyz/en/case-studies/): Technical and business case studies from real projects
- [Writing](https://berkati.xyz/en/writing/): Essays and technical writing on regulated markets, MCP servers, venture building, and operating in MENA

## Case Studies

- [SATIM CIB & Edahabia: Certification, API, Logos](https://berkati.xyz/en/case-studies/satim-cib-edahabia-integration/): What it actually takes to accept CIB and Edahabia payments directly in Algeria: the CIBWEB file, three certification attempts, the bank contract, and the open-source stack I built from what was missing. [Markdown](https://berkati.xyz/en/case-studies/satim-cib-edahabia-integration.md)
- [Google Workspace MCP Server for Claude (871 Tools)](https://berkati.xyz/en/case-studies/mcp-google-multi/): How I built an open-source, multi-account MCP server that gives AI assistants write-controlled access to the entire Google Workspace API surface, 871 tools across 28 services, from a single npm install. [Markdown](https://berkati.xyz/en/case-studies/mcp-google-multi.md)
- [Sentry MCP Server for Multiple Organizations](https://berkati.xyz/en/case-studies/multi-sentry-mcp/): A config generator that spawns isolated Sentry MCP sessions per organization, solving cross-org token leakage for venture studio teams. [Markdown](https://berkati.xyz/en/case-studies/multi-sentry-mcp.md)
- [OCR + LLM Document Classification: Saudi Finance](https://berkati.xyz/en/case-studies/nemra-financial-document-ai/): How we built a document pipeline that classified and parsed 12,000+ Saudi financial documents, going from 30% accuracy with OCR alone to a 98.5% median confidence with OCR plus vision models. [Markdown](https://berkati.xyz/en/case-studies/nemra-financial-document-ai.md)
- [ZATCA Phase 2 Integration for Legacy Invoicing](https://berkati.xyz/en/case-studies/zatca-compliance/): How we made a Saudi construction firm ZATCA-compliant by building an API middleware layer instead of replacing their customized invoicing system. [Markdown](https://berkati.xyz/en/case-studies/zatca-compliance.md)

## Blog Posts

- [App Store In-App Purchase Rules for Algerian Apps](https://berkati.xyz/en/blog/in-app-purchase-rules-algerian-apps/): Your customers pay with CIB, Edahabia, a CCP receipt, a bank transfer or cash. Apple and Google in-app purchase bills an international card. Here is how to publish an Algerian app with local payments on the App Store and Google Play: which rule your business falls under, how to set up the app and the listing, and what to write in the review notes. [Markdown](https://berkati.xyz/en/blog/in-app-purchase-rules-algerian-apps.md)
- [MCP Too Many Tools? Fixing the Context Window](https://berkati.xyz/en/blog/mcp-too-many-tools-context-window/): An MCP server with hundreds of tools burns a fixed slice of the context window before the task even starts, and tool-selection accuracy degrades past a few dozen tools and collapses past a hundred. Here is how I covered all of Google Workspace (871 tools across 28 services) while keeping the idle context cost near zero, and generated the long tail instead of hand-writing it. [Markdown](https://berkati.xyz/en/blog/mcp-too-many-tools-context-window.md)
- [E-Invoicing in Algeria: The e-facture-dz Protocol](https://berkati.xyz/en/blog/e-invoicing-algeria/): Algeria is the last major economy in the MENA region without an e-invoicing standard. An open-source protocol is being built to change that. [Markdown](https://berkati.xyz/en/blog/e-invoicing-algeria.md)
- [Algeria Startup Ecosystem 2026: Data & Funding](https://berkati.xyz/en/blog/algeria-startup-ecosystem-2026/): Ground-level analysis of Algeria's 7,800+ startups, $500M in public funding, Yassir's $150M raise, and what founders and VCs need to know. [Markdown](https://berkati.xyz/en/blog/algeria-startup-ecosystem-2026.md)

For full content of all pages in a single file, see: https://berkati.xyz/llms-full.txt

## Products

- [Nemra](https://nemra.sa): Data aggregation and regulatory compliance platform for Saudi Arabia. Handles ZATCA e-invoicing, document classification, and structured data extraction from financial documents using hybrid OCR + LLM processing.
- [Ideacrafters](https://ideacrafters.com): Startup studio that incubates, builds, and markets early-stage products.

## Professional Background

- Venture Lead at Ideacrafters (2026-Present, Algiers)
- Product Manager & Founder at Nemra HQ (Jun-Dec 2025, Jeddah)
- Business Development Manager at Walvis (2024-2025, Algiers)
- Technical Project Manager at SARL Brainiac (2023-2024, Algiers)
- Product Owner at Fatoura app (2022-2023, Algiers) - invoicing/payments SaaS
- Product Owner at Rawatib app (2021-2022, Algiers) - payroll platform

## Contact

- Email: baki@berkati.xyz
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdelbakiberkati

## Languages

Arabic (Native), French (Bilingual), English (Fluent)