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We're building the data layer Pakistan never had

Pakistan's data exists but is inaccessible. Fragmented across PDFs, Excel sheets, legacy systems, and government portals. DataLayer is the company that structures it all and delivers it to enterprises.

The problem we solve

WhoTheir Problem
BanksCard deals, merchant info, and customer offers scattered across PDFs, Excel sheets, and legacy systems. No unified API.
FintechsNeed FBR verification, bank data, merchant catalogs — but building ingestion pipelines in-house is expensive and fragile.
E-commerceMerchant data is inconsistent. No standardized category system. No reliable images or logos.
GovernmentPublic data (FBR, SECP, SBP) exists but is inaccessible programmatically.
StartupsCan't afford to build data infrastructure. Need ready-to-integrate data solutions to move fast.

How DataLayer works

01

Collect

We gather raw, unstructured data from public sources, government portals, and partner integrations across Pakistan.

02

Structure

Data is cleaned, normalized, categorized, and deduplicated into consistent, queryable databases.

03

Serve

Structured data is delivered via real-time REST APIs, dashboards, or custom integrations — whatever your stack needs.

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Founder

Arham Mirkar

Founder & Data Engineer

“I kept meeting teams paying people to do work that a script could do — and companies sitting on data they couldn't actually use. DataLayer is my answer to both.”

I'm a data engineer who likes the unglamorous problems: reverse-engineering an API nobody documented, turning a 20-tab spreadsheet ritual into a scheduled job, and shaping messy real-world data into something clean enough to build a product on.

Over the last few years I've shipped that work across fintech, real estate, food delivery, martech, and AI — from a live consumer app and a full AI operating system to open-source research and national-scale data pipelines. The through-line is always the same: collect, structure, and deliver data so a business can move faster.

DataLayer is where that work becomes a company — Pakistan's data, made usable. Everything below I designed and built myself.

Selected Work

Things I've built

Production systems, data products, and research — each one designed, engineered, and shipped end-to-end.

Why DataLayer

Working product

CardWise is live on Google Play. Most competitors are PowerPoint companies — we have a shipped app.

Battle-tested pipeline

15,000+ offers synced, auto-categorized, and deduplicated. This took months to build and refine.

FBR integration at scale

We've proven FBR verification at enterprise scale via official public sources. No one else offers this capability in Pakistan.

Technical depth

We go from raw HTML to production API in days, not months. Speed and quality, not just one.

First-mover advantage

No local company is building structured financial data infrastructure at this scale. We're defining the category.

Pakistan-first

Built by Pakistanis who understand the local data ecosystem, regulatory landscape, and market needs.

Who we serve

Banks

HBL, Meezan, UBL, Alfalah, Faysal, BAHL, MCB, SCB

They spend millions on apps but have terrible data infrastructure.

Fintech Wallets

JazzCash, Easypaisa, SadaPay, NayaPay, Zindigi

They want to show deals/offers but don't want to build ingestion pipelines.

Lending Apps

Finja, Tez Financial, Creditbook

Need KYC/FBR verification APIs urgently for onboarding.

Comparison Sites

Comparebox.pk, BankAlPakistan

Need structured card and product data to power their platforms.

Let's talk about your data needs

Whether you need our APIs or custom data infrastructure, we're here to help.

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