About

AI-led software is only as good as the information it relies on.

manba turns an organisation’s data into governed, versioned, permission-aware knowledge that people and AI agents can query in plain language, or through a query language, REST, the command line or MCP — with provenance on every answer.

Where it runs today

wywm.orgThe MCP service that opens Where You Work Matters, the Schultz Family Foundation’s national rating of career outcomes at 1,750 major US employers, to AI agents and product teams. It runs an early version of manba.

The SFF datathonFor SFF’s AI & Career Navigation Datathon, six partners — among them Basta, SkillUp, CareerVillage, CodePath and The Unquantifiable — built working apps on it.

mamnoon fine foodsmanba powers the operations dashboard for a Levantine food producer sold in more than 100 markets across Washington and Oregon.

Who’s behind it

Wassef Haroun designed manba’s architecture. He is a technologist, serial founder and board director with more than 40 years of technology and business leadership across the US, Europe and the Middle East, pairing deep platform engineering with a record of closing enterprise deals.

He began at Microsoft, building the Arabic and Hebrew versions of DOS, Windows and Word, and on the Windows 95 team managed the TCP/IP and dial-up networking stack that put the internet in the hands of millions for the first time.

He went on to found Envolo (browser-to-app peer-to-peer messaging, acquired by People on Page), build Groove Networks’ European enterprise business, and co-found Pi Corporation with Paul Maritz — the first fully replicated, public-key-encrypted non-relational database, acquired by EMC in 2008 to anchor its cloud division, where he closed its deployments with Vodafone and Comcast. In 2012 he co-founded 7awi.com, which grew into the leading online media company in the Middle East and North Africa.

Today he builds and advises on platforms for the analysis, distribution and performance of AI-based information systems, including as technology advisor and builder for the Schultz Family Foundation.

Draft — more to come: team, advisors and how to reach us. For now, the deck and the working examples are the best introduction.