C.I.S. Services s.a.r.l.
A Lebanese company registered in Beirut since 2012, whose GovTech division is building Cedar Connect — the administrative services platform linking citizens, businesses, and the global diaspora to official government services through the Mukhtar institution.
A Registered Company, a Platform Being Built
C.I.S. Services s.a.r.l. (شركة س أي س للخدمات ش.م.م) is a Lebanese limited liability company, entered in the Beirut Commercial Register on 22 May 2012 and active since — fourteen years of standing. Carlos Milad Kfoury is its manager and sole authorized signatory, and directs it alone: there are no co-founders, no outside shareholders, and no partners in this venture.
Its GovTech division is building Cedar Connect, a platform that digitizes access to the Mukhtar institution — the 150-year-old human layer of Lebanese governance that certifies identity, residency, and family status. Cedar Connect is three applications on one backend: the citizen app that carries the platform name, the Mukhtar Portal where registered Mukhtars receive and complete work, and Cedar Command, the internal console. A citizen requests and pays; a real, registered Mukhtar prints, signs, and stamps; the citizen tracks every stage to delivery. The institution stays at the center — technology extends it, never replaces it.
The build status is worth stating precisely, because precision is the point. Working software for the three applications already exists — it was built during a prior venture, and its IP ownership is being settled with counsel before it can carry the CIS name. The specification, architecture, and design system are complete. What does not yet exist is a Mukhtar network, a signed partner, or a live citizen, and this page will not imply otherwise.
Public Facts
The Service Catalogue
Mukhtar Administrative Services
The launch catalogue: 22 official forms — residency, good conduct, civil registry extracts, identity and family-status certifications — requested digitally and issued by a registered Mukhtar.
Civil Registry Services
Registry extracts and civil-status records. Timelines depend on working relationships with registry offices, so the category stays inactive until those exist.
Authentication & Attestation
Certification workflows through real, registered Mukhtars — the legally recognized human verification layer the platform is built around.
Translation & Legalization
Sworn translation and legalization coordination for documents needed abroad. Requires a network of Ministry of Justice-registered translators before it can be offered.
Diaspora Support
Lebanese paperwork handled remotely for millions abroad — inheritance, property, powers of attorney — without flying home or calling in favors. The category the mission is clearest in.
Document Vault
Permanent, encrypted storage of every issued document, accessible from anywhere in the world once a request completes.
Citizen to Mukhtar, Tracked End to End
A request enters from anywhere in the world, routes through Cedar Connect, and is certified by a real, registered Mukhtar — then tracked back to the door.
Where Things Actually Stand
The company is registered and active, its specification and design system are complete, and counsel is engaged. Working software for the three applications exists from a prior venture, with IP ownership being settled before it carries the CIS name.
Not yet in place: any onboarded Mukhtar, any signed courier or payment partner, any government letter, and any live citizen. Formal government recognition is a pursued objective, not a credential currently held — and no launch date is published, because the platform ships when it meets the standard and not before.
Why This Approach Matters
GovTech in fragile states fails when it fights the institutions it should serve. Cedar Connect's design premise — digitize the connection, keep the Mukhtar at the center — is what makes it an extension of Lebanese administration rather than a private workaround, and what lets it reach the diaspora that every previous approach abandoned.
The company is pursuing formal government recognition as the platform proves itself, and treats that as an objective to be earned through a real pilot rather than a credential to claim in advance. For a pre-launch GovTech platform, being believed is the whole asset, and it is spent instantly by one unverifiable claim.
The remaining constraint is not engineering. It is distribution: settling ownership of the code, choosing how the company operates the network, and putting the Mukhtar Portal in front of a handful of Mukhtars in a single district. Everything the platform wants to become institutionally rests on that pilot, not on any claim made before it.
C.I.S. Services s.a.r.l.
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