About us

This Is AI Transformation Without Losing Your Integrity

AI Compass Labs partners with values-led organisations to move from AI experimentation to working, scalable AI systems — so communities don't miss out on the AI revolution.

Arfah Farooq, Co-Founder of AI Compass Labs
Co-Founder

Arfah Farooq

Arfah is an award-winning tech leader, community builder and AI capability strategist — recognised as one of Computer Weekly's Top 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech (2022 & 2023) and a Top 30 London Tech Week Changemaker. She has spent over a decade designing capability programmes that move people from anxiety to action.

  • Co-founder of Muslim Tech Fest — 1,500+ attendees in London, expanded to San Francisco, with partners including Google and Thoughtworks
  • Co-founder of Muslamic Makers — a community of 10,000+ changemakers
  • Built the AI community in healthcare at NHS AI Lab (NHSX)
  • Launched the UK's first No.10 Innovation Fellowship
  • Designed the UK Government Product Management Course and built an internal network of 1,500+ product and delivery managers across government
  • 80+ events, workshops and training programmes delivered
Co-Founder

Hamza Sheikh

Hamza is the implementation force behind AI Compass Labs. His career has been built on a simple throughline: understanding how data and systems actually move inside an organisation, then making them move better — and, as a trained developer, being able to build the fix himself rather than just point at it.

What sets him apart is that he isn't only an analyst — he's a builder who spent his early career shipping full-stack products, then spent the years since inside the unglamorous, critical work of data infrastructure. That combination is exactly the point at AI Compass Labs: he's the one who takes a strategic idea and turns it into something that's actually implemented, actually working, and actually trusted with real data.

  • Data Operations Engineer at Citizens Advice, following 4+ years as Senior Data Analyst — over 5 years building and maintaining the data infrastructure behind a national service
  • Retention Marketing Analyst at YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP — used customer data to shape retention strategy for one of the world's largest luxury retailers
  • Trained as a developer at Makers Academy, one of London's most selective coding bootcamps
  • Full-stack build experience across Ruby, Rails, JavaScript and Angular — shipping production products in agile teams before he ever touched a spreadsheet
  • The implementation partner at AI Compass Labs — turns strategy into shipped, working AI systems
Hamza Sheikh, Co-Founder of AI Compass Labs
Why we exist

Nobody Left Behind in the AI Revolution

The organisations doing society's most important work — charities, schools, health associations, community groups — are often the last to benefit from new technology. We exist to change that: making real AI capability accessible, practical and aligned with your values.

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Values first

Every programme is grounded in ethics, governance and your organisation's mission — adoption you can defend, not just deploy.

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Builders, not lecturers

We build functional systems with you — custom AI assistants, knowledge bases, agents and automations — and we run our own business the same way.

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Community rooted

Born from a decade of community building across government, health and the Muslim tech ecosystem — we design for real people at different starting points.

Arfah Farooq presenting an AI workshop Diverse group of workshop participants AI Compass Labs workshop presentation

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