RedCloud’s First Saudi Customer Chooses RedAI for Predictive Trade Intelligence and Provides $21 Million of Live Trade Data
The first Saudi commercial close precedes formation of the joint venture intended to operate RedAI in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
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Rhea-AI Summary
RedCloud (RCT) signed its first Saudi Arabian customer, Khamis Arabia Trading, for RedAI infrastructure under an initial 24-month agreement.
The agreement with wholly owned subsidiary RedCloud Technologies starts from June 2026. Khamis Arabia has provided records covering $21 million of trades across more than 540,000 SKU-level transactions, meaning transactions tracked by individual product. These figures describe the customer dataset, not the contract value. The deployment pairs RAID predictive intelligence with CORE trade execution technology. The agreement will transfer to the previously announced Saudi Arabia and Bahrain joint venture when its formation is completed.
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Rhea-AI Sentiment measures something else, the tone of the wording.
Positive
- Moderate pointFirst Saudi customer signed an initial 24-month agreement for RedAI infrastructure, starting from June 2026.
- Minor pointCustomer-provided data covers $21 million of trades across more than 540,000 product-level transactions for initial deployment.
Negative
- Minor pointJoint venture formation remains pending; the customer agreement will transfer when formation is completed.
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Key Figures
- Customer trade data
- $21 million
- Initial Saudi customer deployment
- SKU-level transactions
- More than 540,000 transactions
- Customer's trading records
- Agreement term
- 24 months
- Initial agreement with RedCloud Technologies Limited
- RedCloud transactional dataset
- More than $8.4 billion
- Traded value used as a benchmark
Historical Context
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RedCloud disclosed the Saudi-Bahrain JV and CORE's commercial debut with selected distributors.
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Key Terms
fmcg technical
sku-level technical
erp systems technical
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First commercial close will provide initial local data for RAID and the previously announced joint venture to operate RedAI trade infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain
LONDON and RIYADH, Oct. 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RedCloud Holdings plc (Nasdaq: RCT) (“RedCloud” or the “Company”), which is building the AI prediction infrastructure for global FMCG trade, announced the signing of its first customer in Saudi Arabia, with RAID to deploy on
Khamis Arabia Trading Co. (“Khamis Arabia”), an independent FMCG wholesaler and cash-and-carry operator serving Saudi Arabia's Central (Riyadh) and Eastern (Dammam) regions, will adopt the RedAI infrastructure under an initial 24-month agreement with the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, RedCloud Technologies Limited, starting from June 2026, marking the first commercial close ahead of the Company's previously announced joint venture to operate RedAI trade infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. The agreement will be novated to the joint venture when its formation is completed.
As part of the initial deployment, Khamis Arabia has provided a primary dataset drawn from its own trading records, covering
The engagement pairs RedAI's two core technologies: RAID (Real-time AI for Distribution), providing predictive intelligence, and CORE (Compounding Operating and Runtime Engine), which delivers trading outcomes through RedAI Trading Networks. RAID is set to benchmark Khamis Arabia’s primary customer data against RedCloud's proprietary FMCG transactional dataset representing more than
What Khamis Arabia is set to gain is a view of its market that its own records could not produce. RedCloud's dataset spans categories and countries no general-purpose model has been trained on, and that no single distributor could assemble alone.
The deployment aligns with Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 digitisation agenda and the Kingdom's designation of 2026 as the Year of Artificial Intelligence, supporting non-oil productivity and scaling predictive intelligence across Saudi FMCG trade corridors.
Justin Floyd, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of RedCloud, said, “Khamis Arabia moves everyday goods across Riyadh and Dammam, against demand patterns that legacy ERP systems can record but not anticipate. RAID is built to tell our customers what is about to happen; CORE is the engine built to act on it. Any recommendation that a planner still has to key into separate systems by hand is not intelligence; it is administration. This is exactly the milestone we set out to reach, and the start of a relationship we expect to grow as Khamis Arabia expands into retail and new distribution models.”
“As a regional wholesaler serving trade customers across Riyadh and Dammam, anticipating demand accurately is central to how we operate,” said Fairoos Muhammed, Chief Executive Officer of Khamis Arabia. “We anticipate that RedAI's predictive intelligence will give our teams a forward-looking view of the market that supports better inventory, sales and planning decisions. We are excited to be among the first businesses to adopt it in the Kingdom.”
About RedCloud
RedCloud Holdings plc (Nasdaq: RCT) builds AI infrastructure for the prediction of FMCG trade. More than
RedCloud is a British company registered in London. Justin Floyd is its Founder and Chief Executive Officer. For more information, please visit www.redcloudtechnology.com and connect on LinkedIn.
Forward-Looking Statements
The information in this press release may include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements include, without limitation, statements regarding the deployment and operational activation of RAID and CORE with Khamis Arabia and the successful development and implementation of RAID in Saudi Arabia. Words such as “expect,” “project,” “estimate,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “seek,” “forecast,” “target,” “predict,” “may,” “should,” “would,” “could,” and “will,” the negative of these terms and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations and assumptions, and are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict, including, but not limited to, the Company’s ability to build a transformational infrastructure for global trade and whether such infrastructure will successfully provide value to all supply chains, the ability to successfully implement RedAI into existing enterprise systems within Saudi Arabia, the ability to provide predictive intelligence to successfully anticipate trends in the Saudi Arabia market and the ability to scale the framework and generate revenues. As a result, actual results could differ materially from those indicated in these forward-looking statements. When considering these forward-looking statements, you should keep in mind the risk factors and other cautionary statements described in “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements,” “Item 3. Key Information – D. Risk Factors” and “Item 5. Operating and Financial Review and Prospects” in RedCloud’s most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as the Company’s periodic reports and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. RedCloud undertakes no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements except as required by law.
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FAQ
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Who is RedCloud's first Saudi customer, and how long is the agreement?
Khamis Arabia Trading signed an initial 24-month agreement with RedCloud Technologies, starting from June 2026. The agreement will transfer to the Saudi Arabia and Bahrain joint venture when its formation is completed.
What does the $21 million figure in RedCloud's Saudi customer announcement represent?
The $21 million represents trades in a dataset supplied from Khamis Arabia's own trading records. It covers more than 540,000 SKU-level transactions for the initial deployment; it is not a stated contract value.