Spectral Automata
Built for the Outcome-Based Evaluation Framework ·
United Arab Emirates

Compliance is a workflow,
not a fire drill.

Kompliant gives QA offices and program coordinators a single, audit-grade home for OBEF KPIs, evidence, and corrective action plans. Built in the UAE. Hosted in the UAE. Zero spreadsheets.

Currently in pilot at a leading university in the UAE
Conceptual illustration of institutional compliance workflow
Leading University in the UAE Pilot Phase — Q2 2026 Aligned with the latest OBEF Azure UAE North
The OBEF Challenge

24 institutional KPIs,
22 program-level KPIs,
multiple conflicting approval levels,
infinite spreadsheets.

The Outcome-Based Evaluation Framework is the most rigorous accreditation regime UAE higher education has ever faced. Twenty-four institutional-level KPIs and twenty-two program-level KPIs across six weighted pillars. Numerator-and-denominator math at every program. Evidence chains that must survive an external audit. And every submission eventually ends as an Excel spreadsheet in a template prepared by MOHESR.

Today, most UAE universities manage all of it on email threads, Word documents, Excel files, and endless meetings. Collecting evidence alone is a nightmare that involves the entire university — every college, every department, every faculty member. Reporting mistakes compound. Miscommunication between staff and departments becomes structural. The deadlines arrive anyway.

  1. I.

    The Evidence Problem

    Every KPI needs traceable evidence from across the institution. When evidence lives in email attachments and shared drives, no one can tell which file was sent by whom, when, or whether anyone else is working on the same thing.

  2. II.

    The Workflow Problem

    OBEF is still a new evaluation framework. Most universities don't yet have a clear workflow for who drafts, who reviews, and who signs off on each KPI. Responsibilities blur. Deadlines creep. Ownership dissolves into meetings.

  3. III.

    The Audit Problem

    When MOHESR asks for the evidence trail, you have hours, not weeks. "It's in someone's email" is not an answer.

Illustration of OBEF challenge management across university departments
Introducing
Kompliant

Kompliant

The OBEF compliance backbone for UAE universities.

Kompliant institutional dashboard showing KPI performance heatmap

How it works

Kompliant three-step workflow: Submit, Review, Approve
  1. 01

    Submit

    Program coordinators enter KPI data with real-time validation and automatic tier classification.

  2. 02

    Review

    Department Chairmen pre-review submissions, leaving annotated feedback in-app.

  3. 03

    Approve

    QA Officers give the final approval, rate evidence quality, and lock the record.

Anatomy of a single
KPI submission

Numerator and denominator with auto-calculated tier

Numerator and denominator with auto-calculated tier

Evidence files with version history and uploader trail

Evidence files with version history and uploader trail

Inline rich-text reporting and methodology notes

Inline rich-text reporting and methodology notes

Live status — Draft / Submitted / Under review / Approved

Live status — Draft / Submitted / Under review / Approved

Live messaging app, like WhatsApp

Live messaging app, like WhatsApp

Chat with a fine-tuned AI, trained on the OBEF, only.

Chat with a fine-tuned AI, trained on the OBEF, only.

Audit log entry created automatically on every change

Audit log entry created automatically on every change

Built around the framework.
Built for the people who run it.

Versioned KPI lifecycle

Versioned KPI lifecycle

Draft → Verify & submit → Pre-Approval → Final Approval → Archive & Lock. When MOHESR releases a new OBEF version, Kompliant adopts the new KPI definitions while preserving every KPI submitted under earlier versions — your historical record stays intact across accreditation cycles.

Evidence repository

Evidence repository

Centralized file storage with versioning, quality ratings, metadata tagging, and permission-aware retrieval per KPI.

Multi-level RBAC — 7 roles

Multi-level RBAC — 7 roles

Administrator, QA Officer, Dean, Department Chairman, Program Coordinator, User, External Reviewer. Each role sees only what they're authorized to.

Two-stage approval workflow

Two-stage approval workflow

Department Chairman pre-review → QA Officer final approval. Annotated feedback, return-to-draft, full audit trail on every step.

Corrective Action Plans

Corrective Action Plans

3-year horizon CAPs with quarterly progress tracking, target setting, and historical performance benchmarking.

Immutable audit trail

Immutable audit trail

Every submission, approval, rejection, and modification timestamped with user, IP, and change details. CSV-exportable for governance review.

AI-assisted OBEF guidance

AI-assisted OBEF guidance

Integrated knowledge base answering questions on KPI definitions, performance thresholds, and evidence requirements, drawn from the current OBEF framework as published by MOHESR.

Real-time messaging

Real-time messaging

Threaded conversations with emoji reactions for clarifying KPI submissions without leaving the platform.

Multi-tenant architecture

Multi-tenant architecture

Each institution runs in an isolated PostgreSQL schema with tenant-aware role permissions and per-tenant configuration.

Pilot Anchor

Kompliant is currently in pilot
at a leading university in the UAE.

Colleges in scope
5
Programs covered
15
OBEF KPIs tracked
~330
institution-level + program-level

The pilot validates Kompliant's full OBEF KPI lifecycle — from program coordinator submission through QA Officer approval — ahead of broader rollout across UAE higher education.

Security & Architecture

Hosted in UAE North.
Audited end-to-end.

Kompliant runs entirely in Microsoft Azure's UAE North region in Dubai — meaning your data, your evidence, and your audit trail never leave UAE jurisdiction. JWT-based authentication with Redis-backed token revocation. AES-256 encryption at rest. Continuous SAST scanning with Semgrep, Bandit, Trivy, and Gitleaks on every commit. Kompliant tracks each OBEF version MOHESR releases and preserves KPIs submitted under earlier versions — so a framework update never puts your historical record at risk.

Security architecture: Browser to Cloudflare to Azure UAE North with Container Apps, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Blob Storage
Also from Spectral Automata
RMS

RMS — Research Management System

A research operations platform
for institutions worldwide.

RMS — the Research Management System — extends the Spectral Automata operating model into research-intensive institutions globally. Where Kompliant focuses on the UAE accreditation regime, RMS focuses on the universal language of research: grants, projects, publications, ethics review, and collaboration tracking.

  • Grant lifecycle management
  • Project & publication tracking
  • Cross-institutional collaboration

RMS enters pilot at a leading UAE university in Q2 2026 — making both Spectral Automata products live at the same institution in the same year.

RMS research operations dashboard

8 role-based portals

Tenant Administration

System administrators

  • System configuration & templates
  • User & college management
  • Scoring rubrics
  • Analytics & reports

Research Office

Research directors & coordinators

  • Pre-award: funding calls, screening, decisions
  • Post-award: budgets, procurement, compliance
  • Reviewer assignment & workload
  • Pre/post-award analytics & custom reports

Research Portal

Principal investigators & researchers

  • Submit & track applications
  • Awards, finance & procurement
  • Team management
  • Compliance & document tracking

Human Resources

HR officers

  • Research assistant requests & appointments
  • Onboarding pipeline
  • Timesheet approval workflow

Procurement

Procurement officers

  • Purchase requests & RFQs
  • Purchase order lifecycle
  • Supplier management

Finance

Finance officers

  • Award ledger & fund tracking
  • Payment processing
  • Budget status & burn rate reports
  • Cross-fiscal reporting

Research Assistant

Research assistants

  • Timesheets & appointments
  • Task management
  • Self-service onboarding

External Review

External reviewers

  • Review queue & history
  • Secure, scoped access

Let's start with a short conversation.

Tell us a bit about your institution and your accreditation timeline, and we'll respond within one business day with a personal note from the team — not a marketing sequence.

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