Post-quantum migration turns out to be mostly an inventory and integration job.
That surprises people who expect it to be a cryptography problem. The algorithms are
published, standardised and available. What nobody has is a reliable map of where
their cryptography actually lives: which services negotiate which cipher suites,
which certificates chain to what, which embedded device has a key baked into
firmware nobody can rebuild.
Our background covers quantum optimization and machine learning research, applied
cryptography, network engineering and security assurance. That mix matters more than
cryptography alone, because the hard part of this work is the estate, not the maths.
The same combination applies on the optimization side. A quantum algorithm is
worthless without an honest classical baseline, a correct problem encoding and the
surrounding engineering to run it. Most quantum projects fail somewhere in that
chain rather than at the physics.
We chose Qatar. The national quantum programme, the research base at Education City
and a dense concentration of energy, logistics and financial infrastructure give us
real systems to work on before we take the practice abroad.