Synetecs, the company behind the Dhivehi AI assistant Thaana AI, has relaunched its corporate website to reflect a new focus on AI infrastructure for under-served languages and cybersecurity.
The company made the change ahead of its appearance at Slush 2026, the start-up and technology event in Helsinki.
More than 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, but only a small number have enough online data to build reliable AI tools. Synetecs estimates that 3.4 billion people speak languages that are underrepresented in AI training data.
The company started with Dhivehi. It has built models for speech recognition, text-to-speech, translation and reading scanned documents. Dhivehi has little usable training data, so Synetecs says it developed its own tools to clean data and automate its training pipeline. It now plans to use those tools to add more languages and expand internationally.
“One of our biggest hurdles has been people judging us by where we come from before they see what we’ve built,” said Ismail Kaleem, co-founder and CEO of Synetecs.
“The Maldives is a small country, and Dhivehi is an extremely low-resource language, with a small digital footprint and very little accessible data. Building AI for it was hard, and that is exactly the experience we need to develop and scale models for other languages. We want to bring Thaana AI to communities facing the same problem while keeping our Maldivian identity.”
Thaana AI and Akema.ai
Thaana AI, the company’s Dhivehi and English assistant, opened to individual subscribers in the Maldives in August 2026. Synetecs says the individual plan costs more than 95 per cent less than its corporate pricing. The company is also preparing to release a mobile app for the assistant.
Synetecs, Inc. develops the technology and owns the intellectual property. Thaana AI Pvt Ltd is the local distributor in the Maldives.
The company is now moving into agentic AI. Later this month, it will launch Akema.ai in the Maldives and internationally. Akema.ai is an AI customer support agent that learns from an organisation’s own documents. It answers customers through website chat and by phone in more than 50 languages, and passes questions to staff when they need human judgement. Synetecs is building a network of channel partners to sell the product.
Warden at the Prosecutor General’s Office
In cybersecurity, Synetecs builds specialised models that detect risks such as prompt injection, where someone tries to override an AI system’s instructions, and sensitive information in AI requests.
These models power Warden, the company’s enterprise platform for AI governance, risk management and compliance. Synetecs says Warden finds AI tools that staff use outside approved channels, checks planned AI actions against company policies before they run, and records decisions for audit and human review. It also helps organisations protect sensitive data, match evidence to AI governance frameworks, and track AI use and spending.
The Prosecutor General’s Office is deploying Warden as part of its PGO 2.0 programme to govern how staff use AI in prosecution work. Thaana AI Pvt Ltd won the contract. Warden is available through early access, and its full launch is planned for April 2027.
