The CRM with the market built in.
Ishara means signal in Arabic. Every deal has one: the right investor, the expiring contract, the template that gets replies. Ishara ships with 32,822 investors, a government tender corpus, and AI that cites its sources, so you see the signal first.
Arabic and English, bilingual by design · Free to start · Part of the Lisan platform
The real screens
Five jobs, straight from the product.
These are the actual screens, rendered on sample data. Pick a job: match a raise to investors, read a tender down to its bidders, spot a contract coming back to market, work a record's email, run the board. The complete walkthrough is on the product tour.
Why Ishara
Every CRM starts empty. That is the problem.
You do not lose deals for lack of pipeline stages. You lose them because the right investor, the expiring contract, or the real reply rate was invisible. Ishara puts the market inside the CRM.
The market is preloaded
Investors, firms, ranked lists, ecosystem organisations, and government tenders are in the product on day one. You bring the deals, not the data entry.
Explained, not oracular
Match scores come with reasons. Research answers carry citations. Call insights point at the words spoken. A human approves every AI write.
Bilingual by design
Tenders, entities, and the ecosystem directory carry Arabic and English side by side in the data model, not through a translation layer bolted on.
Raise with a map
Describe the raise. Get a shortlist that explains itself.
Tell Ishara your sectors, stages, locations, and cheque, and it returns a ranked shortlist where every investor carries the reason they are on it. Warm paths show who in your own workspace can introduce you. A grounded prep brief gets you meeting-ready in a minute.
- Fit scores with an explicit reason for every ranking
- Warm intro paths mined from your own CRM graph
- Multi-select a page of investors into a staged raise funnel
Bid with the numbers
Read a tender down to every bidder and every amount.
Where portals publish them, Ishara shows the full bidder table: every bidder, commercial-registration number, bid amount, awarded value, and local-content ratio. Titles, entities, and sectors are in Arabic and English. Track any tender as a CRM record in one click.
- Buyer dossiers with award trends and a competition-health signal
- Supplier dossiers with wins, reach, and the co-bidder teaming graph
- Multi-select tenders into a bid-team funnel
Position before the RFP
Know which contracts come back to market, months early.
The recompete radar reads award dates and contract periods to surface agreements approaching their end, with the incumbent named and days to expiry counted. Bid benchmarks add what winning usually takes: bidder counts, spread, and award-value percentiles from real bid tables, with honest sample sizes.
- Horizon filters from 6 to 24 months
- Bidder-count and pricing-spread statistics per category
- Government budget lines where states publish them
Email that earns replies
Every record carries its email. Every template earns its rank.
Gmail and Outlook connect two-way, and threads land on the records they belong to. The template picker sorts by what actually gets replies. Variables carry fallbacks and a send guard blocks half-filled mail. Sequences follow up until a reply pulls the contact out automatically.
- Send-time heatmaps, A/B panels, and engagement decay alerts
- Per-reason suppression: an opt-out never blocks a transactional message
- Branded tracking with one-click unsubscribe
Built on real data
Numbers we can stand behind.
The corpus is the product, so its size and its gaps are stated plainly, on the site and inside the app.
The market data gap is the product
Global investor databases barely see this region: of 32,822 investors in the directory, only 175 are located in MENA today. The enrichment adding 272 Gulf investment entities and 572 investor people is running now, every value provenance-labelled.
A CRM you can shape
Views, lists, formulas, and custom objects on one kernel, so a raise funnel or a bid-team funnel is just a view of your data.
The full platform
Twelve capabilities. One kernel.
Everything below runs on the same object kernel, the same permission model, and the same screens.
Investor directory
32,822 investors with deep profiles, cheque-size filtering, ranked lists, and 1,793 Saudi ecosystem organisations. Inside your CRM, not a browser tab away.
Learn more →Investor matching
Describe the raise and get a ranked shortlist with the reason each investor is on it, the warm paths that reach them, and a grounded prep brief.
Learn more →Tender intelligence
Government tenders with Arabic and English titles, buyer and supplier dossiers, and full bidder tables where portals publish them.
Learn more →Recompete radar & benchmarks
Contracts approaching their end date, the incumbent holding them, and bid statistics from real bid tables with honest sample sizes.
Learn more →Object CRM
Companies, People, and Deals ship seeded. Custom objects get the same screens. 19 field types, server-computed formulas, saved views.
Learn more →Pipelines & deals
Kanban boards with per-pipeline URLs, quotes and line items, stage-entry requirements, approvals, and a brandable deal share portal.
Learn more →Record email
Gmail and Outlook on every record. Templates ranked by real reply rates, variable send guards, sequences, and engagement analytics.
Learn more →Call intelligence
MeetriX bots join meetings in Arabic or English. Transcripts, playback, and insights that cite the words actually spoken.
Learn more →AI you can audit
Cited research, deal scores, and prep briefs. Nothing writes to a record until a human accepts it in the review queue.
Learn more →Automations & API
Versioned rules with inspectable dead-letter runs, routing, webhooks both ways, and API keys with in-app docs.
Learn more →Analytics
Reports where every bar drills back to its records, dashboards with scheduled delivery, and a pipeline time machine.
Learn more →Imports & migration
A whole Attio workspace in one click, Pipedrive with member mapping, and a chunked CSV wizard that survives big files.
Learn more →Who it's for
Two hard pipelines. One working method.
Raising from investors and bidding for government work are the region's two hardest funnels. Ishara was built for both, and consultancies run the data for their clients.
For founders
Go from a described raise to a ranked shortlist, warm paths, prep briefs, and a working funnel in one afternoon.
The founder's view →For bid teams
See every tender, who bid what, and which contracts are coming back, then run pursuit in the same CRM.
The bid team's view →For consultancies
Buyer dossiers, supplier dossiers, teaming graphs, and benchmarks: the raw material of advisory work, queryable.
The consultancy's view →Markets
Six states. Honest coverage for each.
The tender coverage model spans Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, and the UAE. Qatar is live end to end today with a daily refresh; each market page says exactly what its portals publish and what Ishara covers now.
Zero to pipeline
Arrive with data, not with data entry.
Sign up and the directory, the tender corpus, and the ranked lists are already there. Bring your book with the one-click Attio importer, the Pipedrive connector, or the chunked CSV wizard, then connect Gmail or Outlook and your history lands on the right records.
Frequently asked questions
What is Ishara?
Ishara is a deal-intelligence CRM: a flexible object CRM fused with two reference-data planes, a directory of 32,822 investors with explained matching and warm intro paths, and a bilingual government tender corpus whose coverage model spans Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, and the UAE, with Qatar live today. AI features cite their sources and route through a human review queue. Ishara is part of the Lisan platform and runs on the web and in the Lisan desktop app.
What does the name mean?
Ishara (إشارة) is Arabic for signal. The product is built around that idea: surfacing the right investor, the expiring contract, or the reply-worthy template out of the noise of deal-making. The four-point Signal Star in the mark is that pulse.
Which tender markets are live today?
Qatar is crawled live end to end, with full bidder tables and a daily refresh. Bahrain is next, with opened-bid prices and an award archive reaching back to 2016. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, and the UAE are planned; each market page states exactly what its portals publish and what Ishara covers now.
Where does the investor data come from?
From public sources and self-declared profiles, compiled into a reference corpus. Every value is provenance-labelled: self-declared claims never share a column with verified facts, truncation shows as a count like 50+ rather than a guess, and 34,097 photos are downloaded and self-hosted so they do not rot.
Can I trust the AI?
AI in Ishara shows its work. Web research answers carry citations, call insights point at the utterance they came from, and prep briefs are built only from corpus facts plus your own warm paths. Nothing is written to a record until a human accepts it in the review queue.
How do I migrate from my current CRM?
From Attio, one click imports the whole workspace: schema, records, pipelines, lists, notes, tasks, and comments. From Pipedrive, a sync connector with user-to-member mapping. From anywhere else, a CSV wizard that imports in bounded chunks so big files survive.
Stop working the market blind.
The investors, the tenders, and the signals are in Ishara from day one. You bring the deals.
Free to start · 32,822 investors on day one · Qatar tenders live, more markets on the way