From complexity to strategy.
I'm Nahim Sayed, a global indirect-tax leader who also builds software. I created Kehai to turn relentless cross-border VAT/GST change into clear, business-specific, source-backed action.
Kehai (気配) is the Japanese word for a sensed sign that something is about to happen - the shift in the air before it rains. It's almost a literal description of regulatory horizon-scanning.
The problem I kept living
I've led indirect tax across 45+ jurisdictions in EMEA, the Americas and APAC (VAT, GST, US sales tax and customs), through ERP transformations, multiple post-merger integrations, and the daily reality of keeping a 200-plus-return footprint under control. The hard part was never finding the change. It was the work after: whether it actually affects the business, why, who owns the response, by when, and proving the source behind every position. That judgement layer lived in inboxes, spreadsheets and people's heads.
So I built the tool I always wanted
Kehai scans the jurisdictions that matter to you, flags the high-impact changes, frames the business-specific impact, and ties every claim to a verifiable source. Monitoring built for the decision, not the inbox.
What I bring
Indirect tax at global scale
Tax technology
And I build
Grounded in global management (finance) and mathematics & finance. Trilingual: English & French (native), Spanish (fluent).
A builder at heart
I'm a strategist and a builder at heart, happiest where systems, people and purpose meet. I'm relentlessly curious, and I like designing tools that make hard things feel clear. Outside work you'll find me training (karate black belt, boxing, HYROX) and bringing the same discipline to everything I make.
Every claim shows its source, and the distinct trust signals (official source, claim support, reachability, human review) are never collapsed into a single tick.
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