In developmentBuilt in Riyadh for MENA research
Run experiments in Arabic.Measure to the millisecond.
Biruni is the experiment platform for behavioral, cognitive, and psycholinguistic research in MENA. Build timed tasks without code, see live attrition and quality insights as sessions complete, and collect reaction-time data you can defend in peer review — with participant data that stays in the Kingdom.
Free to design and pilot. You only pay for completed sessions.
Example · Flanker
Incongruent · trial 48150 ms
الحَرْف الأَوْسَط؟
ننبنن
Runtime telemetry
- audio–visual onset variance
- ≤10 ms
- CONSORT attrition & quality dashboards
- Live
- Arabic words & nonwords with RT norms
- 20,000
- data residency for GCC review boards
- In-Kingdom
Why Biruni
Four things a MENA experiment platform has to get right
Generic survey tools miss these. Each one alone is enough to invalidate a study — or leave you blind until fieldwork is over.
01
Arabic that actually renders
HarfBuzz-WASM shaping with full bidi resolution — correct ligatures, Tashkeel placement, and mixed Arabic/Latin/digit runs.
Identical shaping in the builder, the preview, and the participant runner.
02
Timing you can defend in review
Visual onset scheduled on VSYNC, responses stamped with performance.now(), audio scheduled on the Web Audio clock.
Per-session calibration and per-trial frame telemetry export next to your response data.
03
Results and insights, out of the box
Live dashboards for every survey and experiment — attrition, completion, RT distributions, accuracy by condition — without waiting to open a spreadsheet.
CONSORT funnels, outlier flags, and long-format exports ready the moment sessions complete.
04
Data that never leaves the Kingdom
Participant data is stored in AWS me-central-1, with PDPL/SDAIA consent, residency, and audit trails built into the schema.
Generated PDPIA and IRB kits, plus a participant DSAR self-service portal.
The gap
Arabic-language research runs on tools that were never built for it
Every row below is a reason a MENA study gets delayed, rejected, or quietly compromised — and what Biruni does instead.
On general-purpose toolsLigatures corrupt, Tashkeel floats, and RTL bounding boxes misalign in reading tasks.
On BiruniReal text shaping with an RTL inspection overlay for shaped-glyph boxes.
On general-purpose toolsStimulus libraries are Western — no Arabic frequency, AoA, or concreteness norms.
On BiruniAraLex, Kalimah, the Arabic Lexicon Project, and Gulf/Levantine picture sets in the picker.
On general-purpose toolsParticipant data lands in EU/US regions, and GCC review boards reject the study.
On BiruniIn-Kingdom residency by default, with the compliance paperwork generated per study.
On general-purpose toolsTiming accuracy is a claim in a changelog you cannot verify for your own sample.
On BiruniCalibration and dropped-frame counts recorded per session and exported with the data.
On general-purpose toolsAnything beyond a survey means hand-writing and debugging JavaScript.
On BiruniA no-code trial builder, with a sandboxed JS escape hatch when you genuinely need one.
On general-purpose toolsResults stay locked in raw CSV until someone scripts R or SPSS — no live view while the study runs.
On BiruniOut-of-the-box dashboards: CONSORT attrition, RT and accuracy by condition, outlier flags, then one-click export.
Task examples
What a trial looks like in Arabic
Tabs on the left. Scroll — the studio preview and copy on the right step upward through each paradigm.
Explore
Go deeper — real pages, not a one-scroll pitch
We are early-stage. These pages describe what we are building from our product docs — not invented customers or fake usage stats.
- ProductThe platformNo-code builder, VSYNC timing, live analytics, and Arabic-native stimuli — what ships in the workspace.See more
- CorpusStimulus bankAraLex, Kalimah, ALP, Gulf/Levantine pictures, dialect filters — ecological validity in the picker.See more
- IndustriesWho it is forAcademic, education, consumer insights, UX, and clinical suites on one engine.See more
- ResearchData sovereigntyIn-Kingdom residency, PDPL/SDAIA posture, generated IRB kits — compliance as architecture.See more
- CommonsOpen Materials & ExchangeThe flywheel: forkable paradigms, opt-in norms, and compliance packs that compound.See more
- PricingHow we chargeDesign and pilot free. Pay for completed sessions. Board-reviewable tier assumptions.See more
Bring your next Arabic study to Biruni
We are building with a small group of MENA labs before general availability. If your work needs accurate timing, real Arabic rendering, and in-Kingdom data residency, we want to hear what your study requires.
- What selected groups get
- A complimentary 12-month Lab license: 5 author seats, 2,500 participant tokens, full norms access.
- Who we're looking for
- Research groups in cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and education across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar.
- What we ask in return
- Run one real study, publish one paradigm to Open Materials, and tell us candidly where we're wrong.