Built by Founders
Who Lived the Problem
Two Egyptian brothers who turned their own e-commerce struggle into the AI marketing platform they wished existed.
Meet the Co-Founders of Makira AI.
🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Mohamed Al Shafey is Co-Founder and CEO of Makira AI, where he drives vision, strategy, and global growth for one of the most forward-thinking AI marketing platforms today.
With a strong background in business leadership and strategic planning, Mohamed leads Makira AI in empowering brands to transform how they approach marketing — from discovery and strategy to performance outcomes. His focus on innovation, clarity, and scalable impact enables businesses to compete effectively, enhance visibility, and grow with measurable results.
Under his leadership, Makira AI stands at the intersection of market intelligence, strategic execution, and business acceleration, delivering value that moves brands forward in an increasingly digital landscape.
🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Mustafa Alshafey is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Makira AI. As CTO, Mustafa built the entire technology behind Makira's revolutionary platform from the ground up.
As the technical architect behind Makira, Mustafa designed and developed the complete system that now powers marketing operations for brands across major social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.
Why We Built Makira AI
Makira AI was not born in a boardroom. It was born from frustration, trial, and real entrepreneurial struggle.
We are Mohamed Alshafey (CEO) and Mustafa Alshafey (CTO) — brothers and founders who once ran our own online store. Like many entrepreneurs, we believed that if we built a good product, customers would come. They didn't.
We tried everything. We listed products on our own website. We sold through eBay. We optimized pages, improved listings, and worked day and night. But we discovered a hard truth: Visibility costs more than the product itself.
To get traction on marketplaces, we had to keep increasing spending just to be seen. Marketing costs kept rising, margins kept shrinking, and control over our own growth felt limited. At one point, we were paying nearly double per product just to compete for attention.
We realized the problem wasn't the product. It wasn't effort. It wasn't strategy. It was the marketing system itself.
Small businesses and founders are forced into a cycle where growth depends on constantly paying platforms to reach their own audiences. Marketing had become expensive, manual, unpredictable, and exhausting. That's when the idea behind Makira AI was born.
Mustafa envisioned a smarter way — using intelligent systems to handle marketing like a structured, optimized process instead of endless manual work and guesswork. Mohamed turned that vision into a real product.
We didn't build Makira AI as a tool. We built it as the solution we wished we had. A system that can understand a business, analyze its market, identify its audience, plan full campaigns, execute content and strategy, monitor performance, and improve results continuously — all without businesses being trapped in the traditional marketing cost spiral.
Makira AI is built for founders, startups, and growing brands because we were in that position ourselves. This isn't theory. This isn't outsourcing. This is experience turned into a system.
We built Makira AI to give businesses what we needed most back then:
Clarity. Control. Consistency. Results.
Effortless Marketing. Effortless Success.
Built by Founders
Who Lived the Problem
Two Egyptian brothers who turned their own e-commerce struggle into the AI marketing platform they wished existed.
Meet the Co-Founders of Makira AI.
🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Mohamed Al Shafey is Co-Founder and CEO of Makira AI, where he drives vision, strategy, and global growth for one of the most forward-thinking AI marketing platforms today.
With a strong background in business leadership and strategic planning, Mohamed leads Makira AI in empowering brands to transform how they approach marketing — from discovery and strategy to performance outcomes. His focus on innovation, clarity, and scalable impact enables businesses to compete effectively, enhance visibility, and grow with measurable results.
Under his leadership, Makira AI stands at the intersection of market intelligence, strategic execution, and business acceleration, delivering value that moves brands forward in an increasingly digital landscape.
🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Mustafa Alshafey is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Makira AI. As CTO, Mustafa built the entire technology behind Makira's revolutionary platform from the ground up.
As the technical architect behind Makira, Mustafa designed and developed the complete system that now powers marketing operations for brands across major social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.
Why We Built Makira AI
Makira AI was not born in a boardroom. It was born from frustration, trial, and real entrepreneurial struggle.
We are Mohamed Alshafey (CEO) and Mustafa Alshafey (CTO) — brothers and founders who once ran our own online store. Like many entrepreneurs, we believed that if we built a good product, customers would come. They didn't.
We tried everything. We listed products on our own website. We sold through eBay. We optimized pages, improved listings, and worked day and night. But we discovered a hard truth: Visibility costs more than the product itself.
To get traction on marketplaces, we had to keep increasing spending just to be seen. Marketing costs kept rising, margins kept shrinking, and control over our own growth felt limited. At one point, we were paying nearly double per product just to compete for attention.
We realized the problem wasn't the product. It wasn't effort. It wasn't strategy. It was the marketing system itself.
Small businesses and founders are forced into a cycle where growth depends on constantly paying platforms to reach their own audiences. Marketing had become expensive, manual, unpredictable, and exhausting. That's when the idea behind Makira AI was born.
Mustafa envisioned a smarter way — using intelligent systems to handle marketing like a structured, optimized process instead of endless manual work and guesswork. Mohamed turned that vision into a real product.
We didn't build Makira AI as a tool. We built it as the solution we wished we had. A system that can understand a business, analyze its market, identify its audience, plan full campaigns, execute content and strategy, monitor performance, and improve results continuously — all without businesses being trapped in the traditional marketing cost spiral.
Makira AI is built for founders, startups, and growing brands because we were in that position ourselves. This isn't theory. This isn't outsourcing. This is experience turned into a system.
We built Makira AI to give businesses what we needed most back then:
Clarity. Control. Consistency. Results.
Effortless Marketing. Effortless Success.