Darell Morales · Data & Analytics · Riyadh dossier ↗
A briefing, after dark

Raw land walks in.
A city walks out.

One hundred and forty hectares of desert, a wadi, and an honest boundary. Below, a planning engine I built after hours lays every road, prices every metre, and signs its own feasibility.

Scroll — the engine is faster than your scroll wheel

At dawn

And in the morning light,
it looks like this.

Photoreal district close-up: white villas with long dawn shadows around the landscaped hub plaza
The west hub plaza · painted with diffusion over the engine’s geometry · layout machine-verified before the frame was kept
The freshly marked road network on graded desert at golden hour
The armature lands
Dawn aerial of the whole built city on desert
The whole city at dawn
The verdict

A beautiful plan that loses money
is a painting.

Feasibility · engine run 2026-08-26

Does it pencil? It does.

Net present value · SAR
IRR
Homes
Margin

Every figure comes from the engine run that drew the city above — never from a picture. A tripwire test pins this verdict in the codebase: flip the NPV negative and the build fails before the site ships.

Geometry owns every number.

The platforms

The day job: rooms where
numbers land.

A 96 km² giga-project runs on a reporting estate I architected in Power BI — five semantic models, 900+ DAX measures, eleven departments, one source of truth. Below: a working miniature in that discipline. The frontier city’s own delivery estate — synthetic data, live on this page. Everything this room does, the real estate does in Power BI.

WADI FRONTIER · DELIVERY ROOMSynthetic estate · a working miniature
AS OF 27-Aug-2026 · —:—:— KSA
✓ — · ⚑ —
◂ Presentation
Executive summary · report date 27-Aug-26
Scorecard by pillarbar = % of its own measure
Gate status by districtfirst 8 · click a row for the district card
MC-gate roadmap · planned windows · ◆ gate at planned end · today marked on plan · at risk · overdue · ◇ no baseline
Milestones by RAG
Overdue by gatewhere the red sits
SAR 916M engaged against the SAR 750M release target; 2 deals executed.
Deal engagement by district groupwho is doing what deal on which land
Outreach1
East Hub CommunityInterest from: TBD
Rim 12Rim 14
Due diligence2
West Hub FundFund manager + leasing partner
Rim 2Rim 4Park 1
Wadi Villas JVJV with a regional developer
Rim 9Rim 10
Execution1
Boulevard CommunityAnchor investor · developer partner
Rim 5Rim 6
Deal executed2
Release 4 · SignatureDirect ownership
Rim 1Rim 3
Hub ParksDelivered with the armature
Park 1Park 2
Engaged vs targetengagement is not commitment
Stage record

1 of 5 board approvals complete this quarter; no completions recorded at stages beyond board approval. Engagement above target is a flag, not a win — SAR 916M engaged is unsigned until KYC and legal close.

◈ opportunity register · synthetic rows

5 decisions on the table — the room records the outcome, the register catches it.
Decisions on the tablewrite-back live · click record
The write-back loop

Decisions recorded here post as register rows and the notes ride with them — reporting and capture share one surface, so the meeting is the system of record. The same loop shipped for real on a 96 km² estate.

52 actions tracked: 34 complete, 15 in progress, 3 on hold.

append-only · provenance kept · synthetic

Synthetic data · the discipline is the product · ◈ = from the engine run on this page Live: engine city · release register · gate matrix · write-back
The person

Where the hours went.

2024 — now

Senior Data & Analytics Manager

unannounced development · PIF entity

Enterprise data & analytics for a 96 km² giga-project: architecture, governance, analytics roadmap across 11+ departments, C-level reporting. Promoted from Senior Project Controls Manager, 2025.

2021 — 2024

Project Controls Manager

KBR — Diriyah Gate Development Authority

Built and ran the portfolio Power BI estate: 666 assets, 50+ projects, 15 districts, 7 communities; automated data collection across every functional area.

2018 — 2021

Reporting Mgr · Project Controls Mgr

Arcadis — RPA PMO, then AMAALA secondment

114 projects across 14 royal palaces including the new-build NEOM palace — 6 contractors, 40,000 workers; then Power BI reporting for 47 AMAALA projects through the five-stage gateway.

2007 — 2018

Operations & systems roles

Wakira · Biglari Holdings · Hilton — UAE, EU, US, KSA

Opened Steak ’n Shake’s first international restaurants; information platforms for a USD 40M industrial developer; trained 1,000+ staff across 6 countries.

Why I build

After hours I run a local AI estate, draw cities from raw boundaries, and write a universe for my kids. It’s why I’m doing everything. I want them to see the beauty that I see in the world. Every seed of interaction branches — the engine that planned this city is one of the branches.

— the after-hours lab · self-funded · production-grade
The door

Let’s talk data.

Enterprise analytics · PMIS · GIS land truth · applied AI — on major development programmes, at C-level, with every number traceable to the geometry it came from.

This is just the beginning.