Legal guidance for those building the future.
Experienced regulatory strategy for AI, fintech and crypto ventures: from first incorporation to scale-up, for founders and investors.
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Clients
What our clients say.
"They were with us at every step of our token launch. They treat regulation as a design input, not an obstacle; that's the difference."
Founder
DeFi protocol
"During our payments licensing, answers came back in hours, clear and actionable. The exact opposite of the classic law-firm experience."
CEO
Fintech scale-up
"They ran our UAE licensing end to end. Rare advisors who know both the law and the ecosystem."
Co-founder
Crypto exchange
"They structured our AI product's EU compliance fast and defensibly, and since they work AI-native themselves, we speak the same language."
CTO
AI startup
Approach
Why we're different.
AI-native & crypto-native
These aren't marketing labels; they're how we work: we use on-chain rails ourselves daily, and every matter runs on our AI pipeline with lawyer review. You never have to explain your technology to your own counsel.
In your DMs
Telegram, X, WhatsApp, Signal: we're where you are. Founders don't fill in forms; send a message and let's talk.
Flat fee & subscription
No hourly-billing surprises. Fixed-fee projects or a monthly subscription. We work like a long-term partner and your budget stays predictable.
From idea to scale
From first incorporation to multi-jurisdiction licensing: we start at startup speed and grow into scale-up discipline with you. Your legal stack isn't rebuilt as you grow; it scales with you.
Company Formation
Fourteen jurisdictions, one counterpart.
From Dubai free zones to Delaware, Singapore to the BVI. We design the structure, the contracts and the tax effect on the Turkish side; in-country registry and licence steps run through our licensed formation partners.
All jurisdictionsServices
What we do.
For AI, fintech, crypto and technology ventures: from incorporation to licensing, launch to scale. Five practice areas, thirty-two services; each on its own page.
01
Market Entry & Licensing
Which market, which licence, in which order. Authorisation and presence across Türkiye, the EU and the Gulf.
02
Company, Founders & Exit
The legal life of the company from formation to sale: structure, US flip-up, team and equity, IP, M&A, competition, tax and the founder's personal side.
03
Product, Token & Capital
Product and token structures, tokenisation, fund and SPV vehicles, crowdfunding: how capital enters the company.
04
Compliance, Data & Digital Product
Marketing, AI and personal data compliance; e-commerce, SaaS contracts and gaming: the legal layer of a digital product.
05
Governance, Risk & Audit
So the organisation can stand behind it: technology governance, enterprise risk, internal audit, AI and digital asset risk, ESG.
Gökhan Polat · Information & Technology Governance ExpertTeam
Law, governance and technology at one table.
Defensible combines law-firm experience with a founder's perspective. Based across Istanbul, Dubai and Europe, working with a specialist network where a matter needs it.
Alp Mete Şirin
Founder · Legal & Regulatory Strategist
Advises AI, Web3 and fintech companies on market entry, product structuring and cross-border regulatory strategy; has trained hundreds of lawyers in practical legal AI.
Gökhan Polat
Information & Technology Governance Expert
More than twenty years in information and technology governance, enterprise risk and internal audit. Enterprise risk management director at Paribu, information security services leader at SabancıDx and risk services business development leader at EY Türkiye; earlier an officer at NATO and in the Turkish Armed Forces. Member of the ISACA Emerging Technology Advisory Group.
- CISA
- CRISC
- CISM
- CISSP
- CIA
- ISO 42001
- COBIT trainer
Ashkan Maniei
Technology Partner
CEO of Sayfitech; investor and trader since 2016. Studied international business at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and entered blockchain in 2016 as settlement and coordination infrastructure rather than a trade. Works on systematic trading and investing systems, portfolio construction, risk policy and execution algorithms; built SayFi's AI-native multi-agent financial operating system and SwipeX, where a trade is a single swipe. At Defensible he closes the product, infrastructure and automation side with the Sayfitech team.
- Sayfitech
- SayFi · SwipeX
- Investor & trader since 2016
- Dubai · DIFC
Technology partner
We build the legal layer. Sayfitech builds the software.
Sayfitech is a DIFC-registered AI, automation, software and growth-infrastructure agency that meets in Downtown Dubai. One team, one contract, for the strategy, the engineering and the systems that bring demand. Mostly for software that moves money: payments, ledgers, settlement, logistics documents.
- Founded
- 2025
- Registered
- DIFC
- Disciplines / services
- 11 / 126
- Mon–Fri
- GMT+4
How we work together
- 01
Decision first, then code
Nothing gets built until the commercial case and the legal frame are clear. We close the licence, contract and compliance side; Sayfitech closes the product and the infrastructure.
- 02
One table
A regulatory decision taken on Monday shows up in the product by Friday. You never translate between the lawyer and the engineer.
- 03
You own the output
Code, data pipelines, dashboards and accounts stay in your own infrastructure. So does the legal file: nothing is hosted on our goodwill.
The disciplines we use most for our clients
- AI solutions
- Automation and operations
- Financial technology
- Blockchain and Web3
- Custom software development
- Data and analytics
- Technical consulting
- SEO and AI search
Sayfitech Ltd, Dubai International Financial Centre, Reg. 10697, Licence CL10697. An independent company; software work is contracted separately with Sayfitech.
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