ADNAN AL TAUQI - FOUNDER-OPERATOR

Six properties are running right now.عربي

SEE WHAT'S RUNNING

the fleet

Products live
Event attendees
Streams produced
Economic impact

SIX LIVE PROPERTIES · 2025 - 2026

THE WORK

Operating / Al Mouj Marina2025 - now

Horizon Blue

A marine tourism company built from zero - brand, booking platform, trade portal, and a 15-module staff system running bookings, fleet, finance and payroll. One boat became two in the first season.

ROLE
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Horizon Blue staff portal
Horizon Blue website
Runs on a 15-module staff system

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INSIDE HORIZON BLUE

THE ENGINE ROOM

The fifteen modules that run Horizon Blue every day - drawn to scale.

  • 01BOOKINGS
  • 02FLEET
  • 03CREW
  • 04PAYROLL
  • 05FINANCE
  • 06MAINTENANCE
  • 07SAFETY
  • 08TRAINING
  • 09DOCUMENTS
  • 10INVENTORY
  • 11TRADE PORTAL
  • 12LIVE RATES
  • 13REPORTS
  • 14CUSTOMERS
  • 15DASHBOARD

Running one company compressed into a product. The schematic became the app.

MODULES 15/15

Live / GCC2026

← BORN FROM RUNNING HORIZON BLUE

Docksmate

The marine operator's whole office in one app - bookings, fleet, HR, payroll, finance. Born from running Horizon Blue, productised for everyone with the same pain.

ROLE
Founder & Product
Docksmate landing page - run your marine tourism business on one platform
Live / United Kingdom2026

Zafemate

Security operations for UK firms - shift boards, SIA compliance, GPS clock-in, incident reports, invoicing and payroll in one branded portal. From £15 a month.

ROLE
Founder & Product
ZafeMate landing page - run your security firm from one place
FROM £15/MO - SMALL FIRMS GET BIG-FIRM SYSTEMS
CLIENT BUILDPublishing weekly2026

Gulf Gazette

The Gulf's creative pulse - a bilingual magazine covering fashion, arts and travel from Muscat to Riyadh. A paid build: I designed the site and the newsroom CMS where editors draft, schedule and publish.

ROLE
Web developer · client build
  • EN / عربي
  • Newsroom CMS
  • Weekly dispatch
CLIENT BUILDShipped / Muscat2026

Royal Marine Tours

A hand-coded site built to be found - keyword-rich pages and structured data that search engines and AI assistants read easily. Six tours, live price estimates, real TripAdvisor reviews, and every visit steered toward a WhatsApp booking.

ROLE
Search-first design & build
Royal Marine Tours website
VISIT → SIX TOURS → LIVE PRICE → WHATSAPP BOOKING

2017 - 2026 · WHERE THE MACHINE WAS LEARNED

THE STORY

2017-23

THE BASEMENT YEARS

Built Basement Studio in Nottingham while studying music and business - 500 artists through the door, ten million streams out of it.

THE ARCHIVETHE ROAD HERE
BASEMENT STUDIO NOTTS500+ artists · 10M+ streamsYoung T & Bugsey, Myles Smith, A$AP Mob
E.A.T. CO207,800 attendees · OMR 2.9M impactOman Motor Fest & Muscat Eat
MIRAVA SPORTS500K+ organic viewssport promos, vlogs & documentaries
TCHIIKAGO × OMANI ARCHIVElaunch landing pagestart-up thrift store collaboration
THE GULF TRAILmulti-day travel across Omancurated, since 2026

TODAY'S SUNRISE IN MUSCAT · --:--

2024

HOME TO MUSCAT

Digital media at Mirava Sports - international sport promos, vlogs and documentary work, past 500,000 organic views.

Adnan Al Tauqi

the fleet

2025

SCALE, LEARNED LIVE

Oman Motor Fest and Muscat Eat with E.A.T. Co - 207,800 people through the gates. Horizon Blue founded the same year.

2026

THE PRODUCT YEAR

Docksmate, Zafemate and Gulf Gazette live. The Gulf Trail curating travel across Oman. Royal Marine Tours shipped.

MUSCAT · DUBAI · ON THE WATER MOST MORNINGS

BUILD SOMETHING THAT RUNS

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Thank you for scrolling this far. Every plate above is real and running. If one of them sparked something - the machine takes new orders.

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