Canada-based Cority, the leading global provider of converged Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) risk prevention software, has announced a major expansion of its operations, investment, and presence in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). In a strategic move to address the Gulf region's soaring demand for advanced compliance technology, the company has officially established its new regional headquarters in Riyadh.

This localized expansion is directly supported by AstroLabs, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region’s premier business setup and growth platform. The collaboration underscores Cority’s long-term commitment to navigating and supporting Saudi Arabia’s rapidly evolving industrial, environmental, and regulatory compliance landscapes.

Driving EHS Transformation in the MENA Region

Since initiating its market entry into the Kingdom, Cority has experienced unprecedented demand from enterprise organizations operating across Saudi Arabia’s multi-billion-dollar giga-projects, expansive energy sectors, and heavy industrial bases.

This commercial momentum reflects a profound, nationwide shift. Industrial operators are placing an increased emphasis on operational excellence, worker safety, environmental sustainability, and digital occupational health systems. These pillars serve as foundational elements of the Saudi Vision 2030 economic transformation and diversification agenda.

To meet strict localized data residency regulations, Cority’s AI-powered platform is hosted locally on Google Cloud within Saudi Arabia. This cloud architecture delivers enterprise-grade data security, seamless scalability, and strict regulatory compliance tailored to highly regulated sectors like oil and gas, petrochemicals, construction, and aviation. By leveraging a localized cloud infrastructure, Saudi enterprises can seamlessly centralize disparate EHS datasets, eliminate corporate silos, improve operational transparency, and provide leadership teams with a rapid, comprehensive view of operational risk.

Key Benefits of Cority's AI-Powered EHS+ Platform

As Saudi industries scale at an unprecedented pace, legacy, siloed data systems are proving insufficient for modern risk management. The Cority platform addresses these challenges by offering a unified ecosystem that transforms risk management into a core driver of business performance.

• Unified Converged EHS+ Architecture: Integrates fragmented data streams across health, safety, sustainability, quality, and environmental management into a single source of truth.

• Localized Google Cloud Hosting: Ensures full compliance with Saudi Arabia’s strict data sovereignty laws and localized cyber-security frameworks.

• Predictive Risk Analytics: Utilizes built-in AI agents to detect early warning signs, mitigating workplace incidents before they occur.

• Automated Workflow Efficiency: Streamlines complex compliance workflows, reducing administrative burdens on safety teams and field workers.

• Actionable Data Transparency: Empowers executive leadership and on-site managers with real-time, data-led decision-making tools.

Executive Perspectives on the Expansion

“Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 is driving transformational change across every major industry, from giga-scale construction and manufacturing to nationwide healthcare systems. Cority’s expansion into the Kingdom underscores our commitment to supporting Middle Eastern organizations with trusted, AI-powered EHS and healthcare solutions. This localized presence enables enterprise clients to proactively manage EHS+ risk, protect their massive workforces, and operate and grow with absolute confidence at scale.”

— Ryan Magee, CEO at Cority

“As Saudi Arabia's ambitious giga-projects continue to scale and regulatory frameworks evolve, organizations can no longer rely on fragmented, reactive approaches to safety and compliance. There is a clear, immediate need for a unified, intelligent platform that provides real-time visibility and enables organizations to get ahead of operational risk before it escalates. Cority's continued investment and establishment of a Riyadh headquarters reflect both the strong market demand we are seeing and the massive, long-term opportunity this region represents.”

— Fouad Fattal, Vice President of Commercial at AstroLabs

Capitalizing on Saudi Vision 2030 Opportunities

Cority brings more than 40 years of global domain expertise to over 1,500 organizations worldwide. The company is currently spearheading the global industrial shift from fragmented safety tools to a modern Converged EHS+ strategy—where unified data, synchronized workflows, and embedded AI turn potential operational liabilities into measurable competitive advantages.

The expanded physical and digital footprint in Saudi Arabia will allow Cority to deepen its engagement across high-priority verticals while significantly enhancing its local customer support, implementation, and engineering capabilities. By embedding Cortex AI directly into everyday operational workflows, Cority enables Saudi companies to identify hidden hazards, automate critical safety workflows, and seamlessly integrate health and environmental functions.

Media Contact Information

For media inquiries, interviews, or additional information regarding this expansion, please reach out to the corporate communications representatives below:

• Natalie Rizk — The Riot Mind Agency | Email: [email protected]

• Maaha Anwar — AstroLabs | Email: [email protected]

About AstroLabs

AstroLabs is the leading business expansion and market-entry platform in the Gulf, supporting high-growth international companies to establish, operate, and scale their footprints in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. With over a decade of operational experience and an active network of more than 10,000 regional decision-makers, AstroLabs has successfully guided more than 2,000 global companies into the Middle Eastern market. In close partnership with government entities and global enterprises, AstroLabs designs and delivers customized market-entry programs strictly aligned with long-term national transformation strategies, including Saudi Vision 2030.

About Cority

Cority helps enterprise customers see, understand, and prevent operational risks in real time. The company’s innovative EHS+ platform converges people, processes, data, and dedicated AI agents to provide a highly secure, trustworthy view of organizational data. By automating complex workflows, Cority makes safety personnel more impactful while delivering personalized insights to improve executive decision-making.

The company’s proprietary Cortex AI puts domain-expert intelligence directly into everyday industrial workflows—secure by design, governed by the client, and custom-built to scale. While traditional market solutions respond to risks reactively, Cority helps prevent them holistically across environmental management, employee health, industrial safety, quality, and corporate sustainability. For four decades, Cority has remained a recognized market leader in EHS+, trusted by more than 1,500 of the world’s most complex enterprise organizations.