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Case Study · Construction

70% cost savings tracking $2B+ in trade finance

Top-tier Middle East construction company · Trade Finance Application

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At a glance

Client snapshot

Industry

Construction

Region

Dubai, UAE

Program

Trade Finance Application

Scale

250+ instruments, $2B+

The challenge

Managing major construction projects across Dubai meant coordinating over 250 active financial instruments, including loans and guarantees, representing $2B+ across 50 projects. This mission-critical process was tracked entirely through dozens of Excel spreadsheets.

70%

Cost savings

25%

Reduced risk of missing financial deadlines

$2B+

In financial instruments tracked

The story

01 · Where they started

$2B+ of financial instruments in spreadsheets

Over 250 active loans, guarantees and other instruments across 50 projects were tracked through dozens of Excel spreadsheets, held together by hundreds of business rules that lived in people's heads and formulas.

Finance desk crowded with spreadsheets on two monitors and a laptop, and stacks of printed sheets covered in sticky notes

02 · What was at stake

Missed renewals cost real money

A missed renewal, a funding lapse or a data error in a spreadsheet could put projects at risk and drive up financing costs. Leadership had limited visibility into the full position at any moment.

Laptop chart dropping sharply into a red warning zone beside a desk calendar with a date circled and marked overdue

03 · What Taiga AI did

From spreadsheets to an enterprise-grade application

Taiga AI redesigned the process and rebuilt the legacy solution on Copilot Studio and Dataverse, migrating hundreds of business rules into a modern, enterprise-grade trade finance application with reporting in Power BI.

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04 · What changed

Automated tracking, with Phase 2 on the way

Critical trade finance activities are now tracked automatically, reducing the risk of missed renewals, funding lapses, data errors and higher financing costs while improving visibility and operational reliability. Phase 2 will use Microsoft Copilot to extract data from financial documents, generate proactive alerts and dashboards, and deliver real-time reporting.

Employee smiling while reviewing a business application with tracking lists and charts on his laptop

“Thank you, thank you, team. We're really happy on how this delivery is progressing. In addition, you have given us a lot of ideas on how to automate our processes and how we should think about applying AI, which really helped us to imagine our Phase 2 requirements.”

Finance Director, Top-tier Middle East construction company