The thesis
Most AI deployments in regulated finance enforce data policies inside the cloud, after the data has already left the institution. ZeroH Disclosure inverts that sequence: the institution’s policy is applied at the prompt boundary, on the user’s device, before any data reaches an external AI service. Each disclosure produces a cryptographic record stamped inside the institution’s sovereign region. Management, Shariah boards, auditors, and regulators can independently verify what was disclosed, to whom, and under which policy.
Why this matters now
Three forces are converging. Data sovereignty laws (Qatar PDPPL, GDPR, equivalents across the GCC) increasingly require provable in-region processing. Privacy regulations and AI governance frameworks demand evidence that policy was actually applied. And in Islamic finance, Shariah governance requires that compliance is demonstrably followed, not merely claimed. All three demand the same thing: cryptographic proof that institutional policy ran before the data moved.
What we built
ZeroH Disclosure is the patent-pending privacy and proof platform that satisfies all three. It runs the institution’s disclosure policy client-side, masks sensitive fields before they leave the device, sends only the redacted prompt onward to an external AI, and stamps a hash of every disclosure to a permissioned DLT inside the sovereign region. UK patent application GB2604344.8, filed 27 February 2026, covers the cryptographic disclosure architecture.
The first product on it: Ask Ali
Ask Ali is an AI co-pilot for Islamic finance compliance, product, and Shariah governance teams. Every answer cites its source (AAOIFI/IFSB standard, clause, and version). The four major madhahib (Hanafi, Shafi‘i, Maliki, Hanbali) are presented side by side. Every analysis maps to the five Maqasid al-Shariah objectives. And because Ali is built on ZeroH Disclosure, the model never sees raw sensitive data — only redacted tokens. The audit trail is produced as a byproduct, not assembled at the last minute when a regulator asks.
Where it ships first
Qatar. The QFC Digital Assets Lab is where ZeroH Disclosure was developed and validated, and the architecture builds directly on the Digital Receipt System POC Blade Labs delivered with Al Rayan Bank in September 2025. Qatar National Vision 2030 places digital financial services at the centre of the country’s economic diversification, and the launch jurisdiction reflects that. The same architecture is designed to extend to any regulated workflow where verifiable disclosure is required — banking, insurance, healthcare, legal services, and beyond.
External validation
The ZeroH platform methodology that Ali is built on holds a full fatwa pronouncement from Amanie Advisors (April 2025). Blade Labs holds SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, and GDPR compliance, all in place since 2023. The company won the FinoPitch International Grand Prize 2025 in Tokyo and the Islamic Fintech Awards 2025 in Dubai, is a Qatar Development Bank portfolio company, and is registered at the Qatar Financial Centre.
What happens next
The public preview of Ask Ali opens to anyone who would like to test it on 4 May 2026 at zeroh.io/ask-ali. Institutional teams — Shariah boards, compliance teams, product teams at Islamic banks, fintechs operating under dual mandate, scholars, and auditors — can talk to us directly via the form on the Ask Ali page for a tailored briefing and walkthrough. The press kit, with full media assets and the press release PDF, is available at zeroh.io/press/ask-ali-launch.