AI that Gulf organisations can own outright.
Sharq means “east” in Arabic: the direction the sun rises. The name is the brief. AI for the region should be built in the region, fluent in the Arabic its people write and speak, and run inside its own infrastructure.
The company
- Legal name
- SHARQ FZC LLC
- Based in
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Builds
- AE-1, S1 and Sharq Engine
- Built for
- Banks, telecom operators, government and other regulated organisations in the Gulf
- Languages
- Arabic and English, with Gulf, Levantine and Egyptian dialects
The founders.
Sharq was founded in Dubai by three co-founders. Write to the team at hello@withsharq.com.
What we hold to.
Five commitments that shape every product and every pilot. They are how we work, not what we aim for.
Your data stays where it lives.
Training, evaluation and serving run in your racks, your cloud account or in-region. Not the data, not the weights, leave the country.
Arabic first, never translated.
Models are fine-tuned on Gulf, Levantine and Egyptian conversations and scored on dialect evals before anything is released.
You own what you pay for.
Compute is billed at cost and the weights are yours to keep. You could walk away tomorrow with everything intact.
No savings promised in advance.
Every pilot is judged on a number your business already reports, against a scorecard agreed before work starts.
Every action leaves a trail.
From a dataset import to a model promotion, each step lands in an audit trail your governance team can read and export.
Start with one workflow.
A pilot trains one model on your own data, inside your boundary, and measures it against the numbers you already report.