One accountable team, two countries.
1 Sol started in Karachi in 2022 with a simple observation: businesses were stuck between separate vendors, firms and budgets, and nobody owned the outcome. We built the alternative — every essential digital service in one package, with one team responsible for keeping it working. Today that means AI and engineering for governments and enterprises, and growth marketing for the businesses on your high street.
From one-stop digital shop to AI-first delivery partner.
The company began as a one-stop service — web and mobile development, SEO, digital marketing, content and graphics — for businesses that didn't want to coordinate five suppliers. As our founder's work moved into generative AI for UN agencies and government programmes, the practice followed: today AI solutions are our headline practice, with the same end-to-end accountability we started with.
We expanded to the UK with a partner, and we now serve clients across both markets and beyond — the same team, overlapping hours, one point of contact.
Four principles, every engagement.
Client-focused
Products, campaigns and content are shaped around your customers' real preferences — not a generic playbook.
Data-driven
Decisions rely on research and analytics, not intuition. Every result is measured and reported in plain language.
AI-first
AI and automation are built into every engagement where they earn their keep — and left out where they don't.
Accountable
One team owns the outcome from discovery to support. Security and governance are designed in, not added later.
Taha Rauf, PMP, CISSP
Taha is a technical project manager and tech entrepreneur who has taken AI products from concept to production for global clients — and who started out in design, branding and digital marketing, which is why 1 Sol does both.
- 2022 – nowFounder & CEO, 1 Sol Digital Services (SMC-Private) Limited — founded and grew the company in Karachi, expanded to the UK with a partner; oversees hiring, delivery quality and government contract bids.
- 2025 – nowPartner & Managing Director (Pakistan), Lanthos LLC (formerly Data Pulse Tech AI) — a Google Cloud and Gemini implementation partner in Virginia, USA. Leads business development, delivery and customer success across data, AI and software engineering.
- 2023 – 2025Technical Project Manager, Entrolics LLC (Virginia, USA) — managed delivery of two generative-AI products from development to release, including AI-governed search for a global UN agency.
- 2022 – 2023Assistant Project Manager, Systems Limited — CRM rollouts for clients including DU Telecom, Dubai World Trade Centre and Majid Al Futtaim.
- EducationBS Computer Science, Bahria University, Karachi — Gold Medalist, International Kangaroo Mathematics Contest; founder of the Bahria University Media Club.
Skills across the stack: generative AI and LLMs, Google Cloud and Azure, ERP/CRM and workflow automation, penetration testing and information security, SEO and Google Ads. Urdu, Punjabi and English.
17 specialists. A dedicated squad for every engagement.
Each project gets a named project manager plus the specialists it needs — engineers for AI and platforms, SEO specialists, designers — working overlapping hours with the UK.
Google Cloud first. Multi-cloud by design.
Our AI practice runs on Google Cloud — Vertex AI, Gemini Enterprise, BigQuery and Document AI — and we deliver on Azure and AWS when that's where your systems live. We're a delivery partner to Lanthos, a Google Cloud and Gemini implementation partner in the US, and a Hostinger partner for the websites we build.
Properly registered. Properly certified.
Registered in Pakistan
1 Sol Digital Services (SMC-Private) Limited is a single-member private company registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, registered for tax with the Federal Board of Revenue, and a registered IT exporter with the Pakistan Software Export Board. It trades in the UK as 1 Sol UK.
Partners & platforms
We build on Google Cloud (Vertex AI, Gemini Enterprise, BigQuery, Document AI), we're a Hostinger partner — the websites we build are hosted and managed on Hostinger — and a delivery partner to Lanthos, a Google Cloud and Gemini implementation partner in the United States.
Certifications
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- CISSP — Certified Information Systems Security Professional
- Google Cloud — Govern Agent Access with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
- Google Cloud — Add Agents to Gemini Enterprise
- AWS Partner: Accreditation (Technical)
- Agile Project Management (Google)
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