Every change you can see in Ishara, newest first, marked with the part of the product it strengthens. October 2026 brought the bid desk, the Startup hub and the reply desk.
Every pursuit on one desk, from first look to result. Today shows what needs you, what fits and what closes by day; triage each tender to Track or Not for us; the tender page puts a decision bar on the buyer's clock, counting the working week and expected Hijri holidays, beside your bid tasks, notes and files; Should we bid? shows the price guide and likely competitors where bids are published; the Bids board tracks performance. Inside the bid desk.
Workspace
Arabic names, written right
Ishara reads the parts of a name, shows it in the other script and suggests merging people listed twice under a shorter name.
Public intelligence
Government tenders from Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain and Oman
38,000+ tenders from official portals in Qatar, the UAE (federal and Ajman), Bahrain and Oman, 1,199 of them open on 29 October 2026. Qatar carries awards and bidder tables, Bahrain opening results with bidders and prices, and the UAE and Oman notices and deadlines; Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are connecting. See how we count each figure.
Public intelligence
The Startup hub: investors, ways to apply, perks and a toolkit
One page shows where your raise stands and what is due this week. 40,000+ investors and funds ranked for your round, 1,200+ ways to apply with a tracker that asks whether you submitted, 400+ startup perks from 320+ partners, and a runway calculator, a post-money SAFE and dilution calculator, templates and an events agenda. Inside the Startup hub.
Startup hub · Overview
Your raise · Seed round
Applications by lane 8
Shortlisted 3
Preparing 2
Submitted 2
Decision 1
Runway
14 months
Perks claimed
3 of 8 shortlisted
Open to apply
Saudi Venture Capital (SVC) · Direct InvestmentsRolling intake
in5 TechRolling intake
This week
Send the deck to two matched investors
Update the runway with October's spend
Request two shortlisted perks
Matched for you
Sequoia Capital IndiaLed Lean’s Series A · 2022
Impact46Led Lucidya’s Series B · 2025
General CatalystLed Lean’s Series B · 2024
One page for the raise, read from one startup profile.
Workspace
More of Ishara in Arabic
Records, tenders, investors, outreach, automations and reports now read in Arabic, right to left.
Workspace
Choose your mission, invite your team
A new workspace asks what you are working on (raise capital, win tenders, win customers or advise clients) and sets itself up for it. Team invites by email or link work end to end.
Private context
Replies drafted from your whole context
Drafts written from the thread, your past emails, calls, colleagues' mail and your style wait for a person to approve them. Saved drafts, a queue of the emails that wait on you, and the full envelope with Cc, Bcc and Reply all. Inside the reply desk.
Reply desk
Waiting on you 3
DDana Al RawahiPilot start and the Arabic call scriptsRas Freight, Muscat
OOmar SiddiquiPricing for 20 seatsBarakat Retail
NNoura Al MansooriIntroduction from KarimSadaf Clinics
Dana Al Rawahito you and Rami
Thanks for the call. Before we sign, can you confirm what we agreed for the pilot and when it could start?
Draft reply
Hi Dana, thank you. As we agreed on our call on 3 March, the pilot covers your two Muscat depots and can start on the first Sunday of next month. Rami has sent the Arabic call scripts to your team, and I will share the order form tomorrow.
Best, Sara
Written from:this threadyour call on 3 Marcha colleague's emailyour style
EditApprove and send
Nothing is sent until a person approves it.
Workspace
Search everything with ⌘K
Paste a website, an email address or a phone number to find the record or add it.
Workspace
A notification centre and a Home you arrange
Notifications sit under one bell, and Home shows the widgets you choose.
Public intelligence
Discover: the companies you do not have yet
Search beyond your workspace by filters or one plain sentence, free. Preview what Ishara knows about a company before it is a record, paste a list of domains, and add with the price shown first. Inside Discover.
Agent access
The Object API, scoped keys and signed events
Every object is available over the API, with upsert on any identity key and batches in one request. Keys carry their own scopes, an expiry and overlapping rotation, and every change leaves as a signed event you can replay. For assistants that speak MCP, an MCP server is available on request, and the changes it proposes wait for your approval. Inside developers.
Private context
A brief before every meeting, a summary after it
Ishara reads your calendar and sends a report before each external meeting: who you are meeting, who else in your team knows them, and what changed since you last met. After a recorded meeting, the summary, the facts, the next steps and the follow-ups arrive as proposals you approve, each with the sentence it came from. Inside call intelligence.
Agent access
Ask Ishara
Type a question in English or Arabic and get the filter, a view to save, one of the reports, or a proposed action that waits for your approval. A research field answers one question about one record with its sources cited. Inside AI you approve.
Public intelligence
Signals: what changed, and who knows them
Job changes, promotions and moves on the people you know; tender wins, recompete windows, raises and listings on the companies you track. One feed in the Inbox and on Home, warm paths and a relationship strength on every record, and automations that fire on a signal. Inside signals.
Public intelligence
Watchlists and For you
Watch a buyer, a supplier or a saved search, and new matches show in For you on Today and on your watchlists, in tenders from Qatar, the UAE (federal and Ajman), Bahrain and Oman. Scheduled email alerts are not switched on yet. Inside tender intelligence.
Public intelligence
Bid analytics and the buyer relationship map
Your bid funnel, the market's shares and where your team already has a relationship with each buyer, on one dashboard. Inside analytics.
Public intelligence
Similar companies, competitors and a cited comparison
Every company page lists the companies like it, free, and the competitors a person in the industry would name. One click compares a company with the peers you keep, with a source beside every claim and the price shown before it runs.
Public intelligence
Whole teams, pulled and arranged
Pull a company's whole team in one run with the price shown first. Seniority and department are filled for free, the team arranges itself by function, by level or as a structure board, and an Arabic name finds the people spelled in Latin letters, and the reverse.
Public intelligence
Enrichment you can watch
A new company fills itself in while you watch: its own website first, then Ishara's directories, with a paid lookup last and only if you ask. A sheet on every company says what was found and which fields it filled.
Workspace
Tasks, follow-ups and leads that convert
Home opens on who is waiting on you and who is going quiet, overdue first. A follow-up or a snooze on any record clears itself when they reply, a task carries a reminder and a recurrence, My tasks is the place to work them, and a lead converts to a person, a company and a deal in one click. Inside the object CRM.
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Ishara in Arabic, on your working week
The shell, Home and every record read in Arabic with one control in the account menu. Dates read day, month, year with the Hijri date beside them, and the currency card speaks your currency.
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Engagement analytics, win and loss reasons, exports
Interactions, reply speed and reply rates by teammate, template and hour. Closing a deal records a structured reason in English or Arabic, and the win-rate report reads them back. Duplicates merge in one click, and the board gains swimlanes by owner.
Workspace
Ishara has its own address, and its own home
Ishara now opens at app.ishara.lisan.com and runs on its own database and servers, separate from Lisan's other apps. Every link you ever saved, bookmarked or sent, including report links, lands on the same page at the new address. Install it as an app on your phone or desktop from the account menu, and the pre-meeting report opens on the phone.
Private context
People and companies from your mail
Connect a Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 mailbox and the people you write to become records with their companies, one person once across all of a company's domains. Each thread lands on the right record under the sharing level you choose. Home shows who is waiting on you, who is recent and who is going quiet, and you choose how far back the history reaches.
Public intelligence
Bid benchmarks
Bidders per tender, price percentiles and the winner against the median, scoped to any buyer, where bids are published (Qatar awards, Bahrain opening results), so a price lands inside the range that wins. Inside bid benchmarks.
Public intelligence
Recompete radar
Awarded contracts whose estimated end date falls inside the horizon you choose, each with the supplier on the last award, so the rebid conversation starts before the tender does. End dates are estimates, built from awards where the portal publishes them. Inside recompete radar.
Public intelligence
Today, saved views and watchlists
Tender intelligence opens on Today: what is open, what closes this week, whose results just published, the biggest awards, and what is new since your last visit. Saved views stay private or go to the team, and a watchlist turns any buyer or supplier into a dated feed of awards, results and moved deadlines.
Public intelligence
One display language at a time
Tender titles show in English or Arabic, switched with one control, and search matches both languages whatever is on screen. Inside tender intelligence.
Public intelligence
Deadlines calendar with calendar export
Closing dates and envelope openings sit by week, the calendar keeps your buyer and status filters, and the export drops into any calendar app.
Public intelligence
Suppliers, bidders and buyers carry their marks
Every supplier and bidder now shows the logo of the company behind it, checked so two bodies never share a mark, and each government buyer carries its own. A bidder table reads at a glance, and dossiers and watchlists look like the organisations they describe.
Workspace
Export any view
Every view leaves as an Excel workbook, CSV or JSON, and a full backup takes everything. Your data is yours to take at any time.
Workspace
Hand a contact over in one tap
Any person becomes a QR contact card or a WhatsApp chat, so a colleague at the event has them before you finish the sentence.
Public intelligence
The investor directory and Find my investors
The investor directory opens, searchable by cheque size, stage, sector and city in English or Arabic; on 29 October 2026 it held 40,000+ investors and funds. Describe your raise and a ranked shortlist arrives with a reason beside every name and the warm paths from your own network. Inside the investor directory.
Workspace
One-click CRM importers
Bring a whole workspace from your previous CRM in one click, with owners mapped by email and re-runs that never duplicate. Everything lands in the same records as your CSV rows; see imports.
Whenever a product-visible change lands. Recent entries carry the day they reached the app, older ones their month, and each is written from the user's side: what you can now do, not how it was built.
Where do I see what is coming next?
The roadmap lists what is in the product and what comes next. When an item ships, it joins the changelog with its date.
Did my old links stop working when Ishara moved?
No. Every link to the old address, including report links, redirects to the same page at app.ishara.lisan.com.