Research · Sovereignty
Participant data stays in Riyadh — by architecture
GCC IRBs reject studies that ship citizen data to EU/US clouds. Biruni writes and retains sessions in me-central-1, with Arabic consent, generated PDPIA/IRB kits, and a participant DSAR portal.
Sovereignty
Answer the residency question before the board meeting
me-central-1 by default. Consent, minimization, and audit in the product — not a PDF promise after export.
Primary region
me-central-1
AWS Middle East (Riyadh). Participant data is written, processed, and retained in-Kingdom. No cross-border egress by default.
Planned · Phase 3
me-south-1
UAE residency for Emirati institutions; Egypt nodes on the multi-jurisdiction roadmap.
- In-Kingdom hosting
- Participant data lives in AWS me-central-1 (Riyadh), with no cross-border egress by default.
- PDPL & SDAIA native
- Consent, data minimization, and residency are architectural properties, not paperwork bolted on later.
- Granular, honest consent
- Arabic consent forms with separate, unticked opt-ins for the study and the Norming Exchange. Never dark-patterned.
- Self-service data rights
- Participants access, export, or request deletion of their own data through a DSAR portal.
- Generated compliance kits
- PDPIA documents and IRB kits — protocol summary, data-flow diagram, retention schedule — generate per study.
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.