Blade Labs launches ZeroH Disclosure.

The announcement

DOHA, Qatar / SINGAPORE, 30 April 2026.Blade Labs today launched ZeroH Disclosure, a patent-pending privacy and proof platform that lets regulated financial institutions use AI and cloud services without surrendering control of sensitive data. The platform applies an institution’s own disclosure policy before data reaches any external system, and produces a cryptographic record each time it does. The first product built on ZeroH Disclosure is Ask Ali, an AI co-pilot for compliance, product development, and Shariah governance teams inside Islamic financial institutions. The public preview opens to anyone on 4 May 2026 at zeroh.io/ask-ali.

What ZeroH Disclosure does

Most AI deployments enforce data policies inside the cloud, after data has already left the institution. ZeroH Disclosure inverts that sequence. The institution’s disclosure policy is applied first, on the user’s device. Sensitive fields are masked before any prompt leaves. Only the redacted prompt and a cryptographic proof of disclosure move onward. Each disclosure is stamped to a permissioned distributed ledger inside the institution’s sovereign region, where management, Shariah boards, auditors, and regulators can independently verify it.

UK patent application GB2604344.8, filed 27 February 2026, covers the cryptographic disclosure architecture.

The first product on it: Ask Ali

Ask Ali is an AI co-pilot for Islamic finance compliance, product, and Shariah governance teams. Every answer cites the AAOIFI, IFSB, or BNM standard, clause, and version it draws from. The four major madhahib are presented side by side. Every analysis maps to the five Maqasid al-Shariah objectives. Because Ali is built on ZeroH Disclosure, the model only ever sees redacted tokens, and the audit trail is produced as a byproduct rather than assembled at the last minute.

Why launch in Qatar

Qatar is the launch jurisdiction by deliberate choice. Qatar National Vision 2030 places digital financial services at the centre of the country’s economic diversification strategy. ZeroH Disclosure was developed inside the QFC Digital Assets Lab — the QFC’s innovation testing environment for next-generation financial technologies. The architecture announced today builds directly on the Digital Receipt System POC Blade Labs delivered with Al Rayan Bank in September 2025.

Credentials and backing

Blade Labs holds SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, and GDPR compliance, all in place since 2023. The ZeroH platform methodology that Ali is built on holds a full fatwa pronouncement from Amanie Advisors (April 2025). The company is a Qatar Development Bank portfolio company, registered at the Qatar Financial Centre, active in the QFC Digital Assets Lab, and backed by The Hashgraph Association. Live regulated deployments include the Digital Receipt System with Al Rayan Bank in Qatar (September 2025) and a Shariah-compliant agricultural financing system in Bangladesh. Blade Labs won the FinoPitch International Grand Prize 2025 in Tokyo and the Islamic Fintech Awards 2025 in Dubai.

Availability and next steps

The public preview of Ask Ali opens to anyone who would like to test it on 4 May 2026 at zeroh.io/ask-ali. Institutional teams — Shariah boards, compliance teams, product teams at Islamic banks, fintechs operating under dual mandate, scholars, and auditors — can talk to Blade Labs directly via the form on the Ask Ali page for a tailored briefing, walkthrough, and pilot scoping. The press kit, with full media assets and the press release PDF, is available at zeroh.io/press/ask-ali-launch.

The same disclosure-control architecture applies beyond Islamic finance to any regulated workflow where controlled, verifiable data sharing is a legal or governance requirement, including conventional banking, insurance, healthcare, and legal services.