Jurisdictions · Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, encoded as a profile.
STATUS: IN VALIDATION
Saudi Arabia is in validation: the rules are encoded in the engine — SAR billing, 15% VAT, the SERA and Saudi Energy authority landscape, GOSI labour rules — and we are proving them against live local practice now. Egypt is our only validated jurisdiction; we will not pretend otherwise. What follows is exactly what runs today, and exactly what does not.
§01 · REGULATORY SNAPSHOT
The profile at a glance
These are the values and authorities encoded in the Saudi Arabia profile that ships with the platform. Pick the jurisdiction once in Setup & Legal and they cascade through CRM, projects, finance and HR.
| Currency | SAR — Saudi riyal |
|---|---|
| VAT | 15% on invoices the engine raises under this profile |
| WHT | — |
| Regulator | SERA — Saudi Electricity Regulatory Authority (formerly WERA) |
| Utilities | Saudi Energy (SE, formerly Saudi Electricity Company) · Marafiq (Jubail / Yanbu) |
| Offtaker / policy | SPPC — Saudi Power Procurement Company · Ministry of Energy · SHAMSI Gate |
| Tax authority | ZATCA — Zakat, Tax & Customs Authority |
| Municipal / building | MoMRAH (Balady) · Civil Defense · Saudi Building Code |
| Conformity / environment | SASO · NCEC |
WHT is shown where the engine routes it on AP bills today — that is the Egypt profile. Authority names are as encoded in the jurisdiction profile.
§02 · WHAT RUNS NATIVELY TODAY
In the engine, not a localisation pack
Native means the rules are data the engine executes. One profile drives finance, HR, projects and compliance together — declared once per project, applied everywhere.
- Tax routing — invoices under the Saudi profile carry 15% VAT in SAR, alongside multi-currency lines in EGP, SAR, AED, JOD, USD and EUR with the books kept straight per project.
- Labour rules — payroll, leave and end-of-service follow the profile’s encoded Saudi labour rules, GOSI social insurance included, and payroll lands in finance through the same bridge as every other jurisdiction.
- Permits and authorities — project states carry the profile’s permit path: SHAMSI / SREP applications, Saudi Energy design approval, Balady building permits, SASO conformity, NCEC environmental authorisation — named gates, not a generic “permit” checkbox.
- Compliance calendar — the profile’s filing and renewal obligations are on the calendar from day one, with quality gates run at enforce, advise or off discipline per tenant.
- Multi-currency billing — SAR-denominated work next to USD or EUR equipment lines, per-project P&L intact.
§03 · E-INVOICING, STATED PLAINLY
What we do not claim
ZATCA e-invoicing is not shipped today — Egypt is our only e-invoicing jurisdiction; ZATCA is on the roadmap. For Egypt, the platform generates ETA-compliant e-invoices with QR; submission to the government gateway is on the integration roadmap. We put this in writing because invoicing rules are exactly the place where a vague country list costs you money.
§04 · THE STUDIO ON SAUDI PROJECTS
Design and finance, profile-aware
The design studio works from the same jurisdiction declaration as the dashboard. For a Saudi site that means:
- PVGIS 8,760-hour TMY simulation with a full hourly shading matrix and bypass-diode mismatch modelling — the same physics for Riyadh as for Cairo.
- Jurisdiction tariff profiles feeding the load analysis, from a flat bill or a 12-month profile.
- 25-year NPV, IRR and payback, with a target-IRR optimizer sweeping 432 tilt/azimuth/spacing trials.
- A 10-section bankable feasibility PDF — IEC 61724-1 methodology, P50/P90 with documented uncertainty — plus engineering SLD, costed BOM and a client one-pager.
Bankable describes the methodology, not a certification. Third-party certification is on the roadmap; we do not claim it today.
§05 · WHERE THE PROFILE SHOWS UP
The modules that read it
The Saudi profile is not a settings page — these modules execute it.
Finance & billing
Four billing methods, retainage held and released on the same invoice, 15% VAT on SAR lines, change orders with a client-signature gate.
Projects & delivery
The 8-state machine carrying the profile’s permits and authorities, with audit-logged transitions and a 20-point pre-commissioning checklist.
HR & payroll
Roster to payroll under encoded Saudi labour rules — GOSI, end-of-service — with the payroll-to-finance bridge.
§06 · QUESTIONS WE GET
Asked plainly, answered plainly
- Is Saudi Arabia validated the way Egypt is?
- No. Egypt is our only validated jurisdiction — our own EPC arm builds there on this platform. Saudi Arabia is in validation: the rules are encoded — SAR billing, 15% VAT, the SERA / Saudi Energy / SPPC landscape, GOSI labour rules — and we are proving them against real local practice. We report that status on the page, not in the fine print.
- Does the platform handle ZATCA e-invoicing?
- No. ZATCA e-invoicing is not shipped today — Egypt is our only e-invoicing jurisdiction, where the platform generates ETA-compliant e-invoices and submission to the government gateway is on the integration roadmap. ZATCA is on the roadmap.
- What actually runs for a Saudi project today?
- SAR invoices at 15% VAT with multi-currency lines, labour rules with GOSI and end-of-service feeding payroll into finance, the profile’s permit and authority workflow on project states, a compliance calendar, and studio output — jurisdiction tariff profiles, 25-year NPV/IRR/payback and the bankable-methodology feasibility PDF.
Walk a Saudi project through the engine.
Demos are founder-led. We will run an invoice, a permit path and a payroll under the Saudi profile — and tell you to your face what is validated and what is not.
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