Takumi AI Wins AI Category At Inc. Arabia Legends Of Tomorrow 2026 Awards

Takumi AI, the Dubai-based AI consultancy focused on brand transformation and growth, has won the AI Category at the Inc. Arabia Legends of Tomorrow Awards 2026. The award recognises the company’s work in practical AI solutions for marketing, creativity, customer experience and brand growth, less than 12 months after it began operations.

In its first year, Takumi AI has worked with Emirates NBD, Centrepoint (Landmark Group), Vision Bank and R&B Fashion (Apparel Group), alongside a growing portfolio of organisations across GCC, India and Europe. Its work spans AI visibility programmes for financial institutions, AI-powered content systems, marketing automation, CX transformation, creative intelligence and agentic marketing platforms.

The company has also launched proprietary solutions and frameworks including Word on the Street, its AI-powered consumer sentiment audit platform; the GEO Authority Engine, designed to help brands improve how they are discovered and recommended across AI answer engines; Lift Local, a platform for AI-led local marketing visibility; and CRAFT, its framework for AI filmmaking and Gen AI Creative production.

“This award means a great deal because Takumi was still only a belief a year ago,” said Mohit Lodha, Founder and CEO of Takumi AI. “We started without a legacy name, giant backing or decades of proof — just conviction and a slightly unreasonable belief that a home-grown company from this region could help shape what comes next in AI for marketing.”

“This recognition belongs to the clients who trusted us early, the partners and advisors who backed the vision, and the Takumi team that has turned that vision into real work and measurable outcomes.” Lodha said Takumi AI was built to address a gap in marketing, where many brands are experimenting with AI but few have redesigned how teams plan, create, optimise and engage customers around it.

Headquartered in Dubai, the consultancy is part of the DIFC Innovation Hub and Dubai AI Campus ecosystem. It operates across generative creative strategy and content automation, agentic AI for marketing workflows and operations, AI visibility and Generative Engine Optimisation strategy, AI-driven performance strategy and intelligence, and AI-powered creative intelligence.

Following the award win, Takumi AI plans to expand its proprietary product portfolio, deepen its capabilities in agentic marketing and Generative Engine Optimisation, and scale its presence across the GCC and selected international markets. Lodha said the company is still at the very beginning, describing its ambition as building a company from the region that can influence AI use across marketing, creativity and customer experience globally.