Rukhas: AI Business Licensing Agent for Saudi Arabia

Rukhas (رُخَص, "licenses") is an AI agent that answers a deceptively hard question: "What do I actually need to license this business in Saudi Arabia?" You type a business type — a restaurant, a pharmacy, an engineering office — and the agent does the research for you.
How It Works:
- Validates that the input is a real, licensable business activity
- Classifies the industry to target the right authorities
- Runs multiple autonomous rounds of web search across government sources
- Reads the official pages, extracts requirements, then searches again to fill any gaps
- Compiles a single structured report: requirements, required documents, fees, timeline, and direct official links
Sources Searched:
Ministry of Commerce, Balady (municipal), Ministry of Investment, Human Resources, ZATCA, GOSI, the Food and Drug Authority, Civil Defense, and more — whichever apply to the activity.
Key Features:
- Bilingual output — results in Arabic or English
- Up to 16 autonomous search iterations per query
- Anti-injection input sanitization and a lightweight LLM validation gate
- Shareable, printable reports
- Result caching to keep repeat lookups fast
The Stack:
- Node.js and Express backend running an agentic search loop
- OpenRouter LLM API for validation, planning, and synthesis
- A self-hosted SearXNG metasearch instance for web queries
- Cheerio for parsing official pages
- Dockerized and served behind Nginx