About
A consulting firm that builds what it recommends, and stays to run it
Bishop, Rook & Knight is an AI and technology consulting firm based in Dubai. We work with enterprises from the first assessment to the ongoing management of AI in production.
The name
Why three minor pieces?
In chess, the queen gets the headlines. But ask any player how games are actually won, and the answer is the coordination of the so-called minor pieces: the bishop that sees across the board, the rook that holds the structure, the knight that finds the move nobody else can make.
That is our model of consulting. Not a star hire who leaves a deck behind, but pieces that work together on your side of the board: strategy that comes from having built the systems ourselves, infrastructure engineered to run for years, and execution that ships and then stays to operate what it shipped.
Bishop
Strategy
The bishop sees across the whole board. We advise on AI adoption, build-vs-buy, vendor selection, and technology roadmaps, grounded in having shipped the systems ourselves.
Rook
Infrastructure
The rook is the castle. We build the platforms businesses stand on, from private AI engines and ERPs to portals and data pipelines, engineered to run for years, not demos.
Knight
Execution
The knight moves where others can't. We ship fast, work around constraints, and stay on after launch to operate, maintain, and improve what we build.
Leadership
The founder
Bishop, Rook & Knight was founded by Arjun Sharma, whose eleven-year career spans AI, engineering, and finance: network engineering on one of the world's largest 4G rollouts at Ericsson, digital transformation across 500+ hospitals in six Asian markets, e-commerce strategy at LVMH's DFS Group in Hong Kong, and an MBA in Finance & Technology from CUHK Business School.
Most recently, as AI Manager at a DFSA-regulated investment firm in DIFC, he designed and delivered the firm's production on-premises AI platform end-to-end (hardware, inference, retrieval, evaluation) while building the deal flow, portfolio, and monitoring platforms the firm runs on daily, and producing equity research across metals & mining, semiconductors, and infrastructure.
He builds AI that ships inside regulated financial firms, and does the research it serves. That double fluency, in the technology and in the business it exists for, is the firm's edge.
The firm
Licensed in Dubai
Bishop, Rook & Knight is the trade name of Bishop Rook and Knight - FZCO, incorporated in the Dubai Silicon Oasis free zone and licensed by the Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority (IFZA). We work with clients across the UAE, the wider GCC, and the United States, with after-hours and US-timezone coverage available on premium terms.
We take on a small number of clients and go deep: most engagements are long-term retainers where we design, build, and then operate.
- Legal name
- Bishop Rook and Knight - FZCO
- License
- Trade License No. 92035, Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority (IFZA, Dubai Silicon Oasis)
- Licensed activities
- Information Technology Consultancy; Computer Systems & Communication Equipment Software Design
- Registered office
- IFZA Properties, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Business hours
- Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. GST (UTC+4)
Talk to us about your operation
Tell us what you run, where the data sits and where the pressure is. We reply within one business day.