Shariah Governance AI

Your Shariah board review takes weeks.Ali reduces it to hours.

Name: ZeroH Platform
Brand: Blade Labs

The first AI platform purpose-built for Islamic finance compliance. Source-attributed. Multi-madhahib. Maqasid-mapped. Source attribution on every answer.

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Ask Ali: Shariah compliance analysis with source attribution

The compliance gap is growing

Islamic finance is a $6 trillion industry where the top 20 Shariah scholars hold 621 board seats, over half of all positions. The capacity constraint is real.

Weeks lost to manual review

Your team spends 70% of their time finding information and 30% analyzing it. That ratio should be reversed.

3-6 months

typical product-to-approval cycle

Expensive rework

Discovering structural compliance issues after building a product means rebuilding from scratch. Late-stage Shariah board rejections cost more than early screening.

$100K+

typical rework cost

Scholar scarcity

621 Shariah board seats across the industry, many held by the same individuals. Access to qualified scholars is the bottleneck.

621

seats held by top 20 scholars

Inconsistent opinions

Different scholars give different opinions. Without institutional memory, your compliance team starts from scratch each quarter.

4 madhahib

with varying positions

Built different. By design.

Ali is a Shariah Governance AI platform built from first principles for Islamic finance compliance.

Source attribution

Every answer shows its source

Ali cites the specific AAOIFI standard, clause, and version. The exact reference, independently verifiable. If Ali cannot find a source, it says so.

Ask Ali: AAOIFI source citations with cross-madhahib references

Multi-madhahib analysis

Four schools of thought. One view.

Ali presents Hanafi, Shafi'i, Hanbali, and Maliki positions simultaneously, with scholarly sources for each. Your Shariah board selects the applicable view. Ali documents the reasoning.

Ask Ali: Multi-madhahib analysis comparing four schools of Islamic jurisprudence

Maqasid al-Shariah

Compliance mapped to purpose

Every analysis maps to the 5 Maqasid al-Shariah, connecting technical compliance to the higher objectives of Islamic law. When your board asks "why does this matter?", Ali has the answer.

Ask Ali: Maqasid al-Shariah impact scoring

Built by Blade Labs

Enterprise-grade Shariah compliance infrastructure, backed by real-world deployments.

QDB Portfolio Company

Selected for Qatar's enterprise technology ecosystem.

FinoPitch Grand Prize

Winner, Global FinTech Innovation Awards, Tokyo 2025.

Best Islamic Fintech Platform

Winner, Islamic Fintech Awards, Dubai 2025.

Al Rayan Bank + QFC

Digital receipt system deployed with Al Rayan Bank and Qatar Financial Centre.

UK Patent Pending

GB2604344.8: Systems and Methods for Cryptographic Disclosure Provenance of Self-Governing Data.

What you get in the beta

Full platform access

The complete Ali platform with all analysis capabilities.

Direct roadmap input

Your feedback directly shapes what we build next. Beta testers are co-builders.

Multi-standard coverage

AAOIFI, IFSB, BNM, and jurisdiction-specific standards.

Institutional compliance workflows

Project management, document review, contract screening, and board preparation.

Patent-pending provenance

Every analysis backed by cryptographic audit trails. Evidence your regulator can verify.

Frequently asked questions

Ask Ali is a Shariah Governance AI platform built for Islamic finance professionals. It provides source-attributed compliance analysis, multi-madhahib scholarly perspectives, Maqasid al-Shariah mapping, and AAOIFI/IFSB standards coverage, all with full audit trails.

Generic AI models hallucinate regulatory citations and lack Islamic jurisprudence depth. Ali is purpose-built: every answer cites its source (specific standard, clause, and version), covers 4 major madhahib simultaneously, and maps rulings to the 5 Maqasid al-Shariah objectives.

Ali covers AAOIFI Financial Accounting Standards (FAS), Shariah Standards (SS), and Governance Standards, plus IFSB guidelines, BNM Shariah governance frameworks, and jurisdiction-specific regulatory requirements across GCC, Malaysia, and other markets.

Yes. Ali is built on Blade Labs' ZeroH platform with SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and GDPR compliance. Documents pass through a privacy pipeline that classifies and masks sensitive fields (PII, SPI, SFI) before analysis. On-soil deployment is available for institutions with data residency requirements.

Ali is built by Blade Labs, a QDB portfolio company. Blade Labs launched a digital receipt system with Al Rayan Bank and QFC in 2025, won the FinoPitch Grand Prize in Tokyo and Best Islamic Fintech Platform in Dubai, and holds a UK patent pending (GB2604344.8) for cryptographic disclosure provenance.

Beta testers get early access to the full platform, direct input on the product roadmap, priority support, and the opportunity to shape Ali around your institution's specific compliance workflows and jurisdictional requirements.

When you ask Ali a compliance question, it presents scholarly positions from all four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence (Hanafi, Shafi'i, Hanbali, and Maliki) simultaneously, with sources cited for each position. Your Shariah board selects the applicable view. Ali documents the reasoning and alternatives considered.

Every Ali analysis maps compliance findings to the 5 higher objectives of Islamic law: Protection of Faith (Din), Life (Nafs), Intellect (Aql), Lineage (Nasl), and Wealth (Mal). This connects technical compliance to its underlying purpose, which is what regulators and Shariah boards increasingly expect.