About us: an on-premises Arabic AI lab in Cairo

NoorAI at a glance

Name: NoorAI in English, نوراي in Arabic. Legal name: AlIshraq AI.
What we are: an applied AI lab building Arabic-native language models and AI agents that run inside the client’s premises.
Products: Orchestra, a 14-billion-parameter Arabic-native language model with an agent platform, and LeadX for lead generation.
Where it runs: in the client’s data centre, air-gapped, or in an in-country private cloud or dedicated VPC.
Base and markets: Cairo, with partners in Dubai and Riyadh. We work in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and across the Gulf: Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain.

What we build

We are an applied AI lab, not a reseller. We train our own models, including Orchestra, a 14-billion-parameter Arabic-native language model covering Modern Standard Arabic plus Gulf, Egyptian and Levantine, along with Arabic speech-to-text and text-to-speech. Our retrieval, safety and orchestration layers are built in-house, so the whole stack can run inside your walls.

On top of the models sits a low-code agentic platform to build, govern and run agents on the channels you already use (WhatsApp, web, email and voice), wired into the systems you already run (ERP, CRM and databases). Our engineers put the stack inside your data centre and run it with you.

Three commitments in every project

Secure by design: air-gapped operation, enterprise identity (SAML, OIDC), access-aware retrieval and an immutable audit log.
On your premises: models, indexes and logs run on your hardware, in your country.
Arabic at the core: Modern Standard, Gulf, Egyptian and Levantine, the way your customers actually write.

We deliver in three phases: Discover, Deploy, Operate. Every deployment has pass criteria agreed up front and a parallel run before cut-over.

Who leads NoorAI

Bassam Tantawi, Chief Executive Officer.
Abdullah Farag, Shareholder and Technical Advisor.

Where we are

Headquartered in Cairo, Egypt, with partners in Dubai and Riyadh. The name is written NoorAI in English and نوراي in Arabic. It comes from the Arabic word for light, and that is the job: making enterprise knowledge visible, in the language it was written in.