Why We Launched in Pakistan First

Why We Launched in Pakistan First

By Belal (Bill) Faruki | CEO, MindHYVE.ai

When we announced a $22 million FDI commitment into Pakistan, a few people asked, “Why there?”

Here’s the answer: Because we don’t follow risk profiles. We follow inevitability.

Pakistan isn’t our test market. It’s our proving ground.

Most tech companies deploy where it’s safe. Where the capital is comfortable.

We chose Pakistan for the opposite reason: because no one else had.

Because when a country like Pakistan drops its inflation from nearly 40% to near-zero in a year, signs a $7B IMF agreement, sees Eurobonds double, and triples its stock index—all after staring down default—

That’s not volatility. That’s a macro reset.

And it’s where you want to be before everyone else figures it out.

This isn’t a “rollout.” It’s a national AGI deployment.

We’re not launching a product. We’re launching systems.

• Ava agents in healthcare to help doctors see patterns before they become problems.

• Ava agents in education to reshape how students learn and teachers teach.

• Ava agents in law to eliminate friction in research, compliance, and litigation.

• Ava agents in finance to surface fraud, model forecasts, and optimize entire operations.

Pakistan gives us something Silicon Valley can’t: an entire nation as a canvas.

Talent is there. Infrastructure is stabilizing. The window is open.

There’s a myth that frontier markets lack the workforce to support cutting-edge tech. It’s nonsense.

Pakistan’s tech community is young, sharp, hungry, and fluent in every language that matters—Python, Solidity, TypeScript, English. What they need isn’t training.

They need a platform worth building on. That’s Ava.

And this moment? The macro tailwinds, the stabilization, the policy vacuum—it won’t last forever.

We’re not speculating. We’re early.

To the investor who asked if this was risky…

Here’s what I’ll say:

Risk is what happens when you arrive late. Opportunity is what happens when you go first.

Pakistan is not “a risk.”

It’s the rare moment in economic history where a market transitions from overlooked to unavoidable—and we got there while the arbitrage window was still wide open.

I’m not looking to be one of many players in an overfunded vertical.

We’re here to build the stack. Own the layer. Define the ecosystem.

This is how you build enduring companies.

You don’t do it with incremental features and press releases.

You do it by deploying real systems in the real world.

By solving problems that matter to people who’ve never been served by legacy tech.

By showing—not telling—what AGI can become when you treat it like infrastructure, not just innovation.

We’re proud to start in Pakistan.

Not because it was safe—but because it was right.

— Bill