About

The infrastructure layer for emerging markets.

The Binary Holdings builds the vertical AI infrastructure that sits between the world’s foundation models and the applications hundreds of millions of people use every day — turning general intelligence into measurable value for operators and their customers across underserved markets.

The problem

Across telecommunications, financial services, and commerce, the same structural constraint persists: digital infrastructure in emerging markets was built to process transactions, not to create value from them. Billions of daily interactions generate behavioural signal — but almost none of it is captured, reasoned over, or returned as intelligence.

Our answer

We embed as a native layer inside national-scale operator applications — no new download, account, or subscription for the user. Binary OS / OneWave distributes, Binary Network settles and stores every event verifiably, The BNII engine reasons over the resulting behavioural data, and Atlas turns it into decisions the operator acts on. A closed intelligence loop that compounds with every market we add.

Why now

The window is structural, not cyclical. Foundation-model capability is racing ahead of the data that grounds it in the markets where the next billion users actually live — emerging-market behavioural data that no model lab in San Francisco and no single app can assemble. We sit inside the operators who already own that distribution, turning their everyday transaction flow into a consented, national-scale intelligence layer that compounds with every partner and every market we add. Each new deployment widens the data moat and makes BNII sharper for everyone already on the network — a flywheel that gets harder to replicate the longer it runs.

Founded2023 · Dubai
HeadquartersDIFC Innovation Hub
Footprint10 live markets · hundreds of millions reachable
CategoryVertical AI infrastructure
Company timeline

Building since 2023.

2023
Founded in Dubai

Manit Sachin Parikh founds The Binary Holdings. Thesis: embed national-scale infrastructure inside the apps people in underserved markets already use. Headquarters established in Dubai.

2024
First telco partnerships activated

Indosat Ooredoo (Indonesia) signed as flagship partner (2024 timeline).

2024
Binary Network launched

The verified-identity settlement layer goes live: neutral, auditable, regulator-readable. PrePone Bills (Nigeria) added.

2025
More nations, more partners

Infrastructure goes live with Dialog Axiata (Sri Lanka), Banglalink (Bangladesh), and GoPay (Indonesia). Footprint deepens across Asia and Africa.

2026
Millions of monthly transacting users

Live within Telkomsel (Indonesia’s largest telco) and Telebirr (Ethiopia). Millions of monthly transacting users across 10 live countries. BNII — the behavioural-intelligence engine — operating across the full footprint.

Ownership

Products are developed and owned by The Binary Labs; The Binary Holdings licenses and deploys them in-market.