Ishara.

Changelog

What shipped,
dated.

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.

A work email reserves $50 in credit.

Each entry is in the product today, marked with the part of Ishara it strengthens: public intelligence, private context, agent access or the workspace itself.

Public intelligence

A bid desk for teams selling to government

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

  • Dana Al RawahiPilot start and the Arabic call scriptsRas Freight, Muscat
  • Omar SiddiquiPricing for 20 seatsBarakat Retail
  • Noura Al MansooriIntroduction from KarimSadaf Clinics

Dana Al Rawahi to 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

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.

Workspace

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.

Workspace

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.

The roadmap shows what comes next. How bid tables turn into a price you can defend: What bidder tables teach.

Frequently asked questions

How often is the Ishara changelog updated?

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.

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