Halo AI Unveils Enhanced Agentic AI Platform At The 1 Billion Followers Summit

Halo AI returns to the 1 Billion Followers Summit 2026 presenting a significantly evolved product and a clearer growth narrative. Over one year, the startup has strengthened its role in AI-driven influencer marketing, showing how agentic AI systems can work with humans rather than replace them, and positioning its platform as a core collaboration layer for brands and creators in the Middle East and beyond.

During the Summit, co-founders Vito Strokov and Rami Saad outlined how Halo AI has scaled since its 2025 1 Billion Pitches win. They discussed lessons from operating in a fast-changing AI sector while managing thousands of collaborations. Meanwhile, the Halo AI booth became a focal point for creators and brand representatives testing the updated features and exploring new collaboration models.

In the past 12 months, Halo AI has shaped its platform into an AI-powered collaboration system that lets enterprise teams run up to 10x more creator partnerships without adding equivalent operational overhead. The company positions its human-in-the-loop structure as central, combining agentic AI workflows with human judgement to manage scale while keeping strategic control with marketing and creator teams.

A major update to the Halo AI platform launched in September delivered clear quantitative shifts. Creator payouts rose by 378%, while the total number of collaborations increased 2.7x over the same period. In Q4 2025, sales grew 118% quarter-on-quarter, supported by stronger campaign performance and better client retention when compared with the platform’s earlier version.

The upgraded Halo AI interface embeds analytics across each collaboration lifecycle. Brand managers gain access to tools for brand safety scoring, community sentiment tracking, audience authenticity verification, and real-time trend monitoring. At the centre sits the AI Creator Management Agent, described as a co-pilot that lets marketing teams supervise hundreds of campaigns at once but still decide strategy, creative direction, and final approvals.

Professionals using Halo AI keep decision-making authority, while automated systems coordinate execution, reporting, and optimisation. This mix aims to enhance performance outcomes and expand effective team capacity rather than displace staff. "We learned that brands don't want AI that replaces their teams; they want AI that makes their teams extraordinary. Halo is built on that insight: give humans superpowers, not a replacement notice."

Funding secured in 2025 underpins this direction. Halo AI won the 1 Billion Pitches competition that year and closed a $6 million seed round led by Raed Ventures and Shorooq Partners. "Winning last year gave us the fuel. The results we’re announcing today prove we know how to use it. I believe the most valuable companies of the next decade will grow by mastering the interaction between people and AI. Halo AI is building the infrastructure to power that and I can’t wait to see the value brands and creators using our platform will be able to unlock in 2026."

Looking ahead to 2026, Halo AI is planning new product releases, deeper integrations with enterprise systems and platforms, and partnerships that extend its creator network across the MENA region and other markets. From its initial pitch to powering thousands of brand-creator collaborations, the company presents AI-powered marketing as a way to scale human creativity. The 1 Billion Followers Summit 2026, organised by the UAE Government Media Office and hosted by the UAE from 9th to 11th January, across Emirates Towers, DIFC, and the Museum of the Future in Dubai, under the theme "Content for Good."

With inputs from WAM