Qistas
Amman-based legal technology company offering an Arabic and English legal research platform and an AI assistant suite covering nine Arab jurisdictions. Founded in 2012.
Industry: Legal technology and legal AI | Location: Amman, Jordan | Founded: 2012
About Qistas
Qistas is a legal technology company headquartered in Amman, Jordan, that provides legal research and artificial intelligence tools for Arabic legal systems. The About page names CyberLaw Ltd., a British Virgin Islands entity, as its owner, operating through the Amman headquarters and regional companies.
According to the company's own history, it was founded in Amman in 2012 as an Arabic legal research company, launched the Qistas Legal Research Platform in 2015, widened its coverage across jurisdictions and practice areas in 2018, and launched the Qistas Legal AI Suite in 2024. It reports about 80 employees, including lawyers, legal editors, engineers and AI specialists. The pages reviewed name no founders or executives.
The research platform is sold in Smart and Standard editions. Qistas says it holds more than 7.6 million court rulings and more than 200,000 pieces of legislation and regulations, covering more than 30 practice areas, more than 40 courts and official bodies, and nine jurisdictions: Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Egypt and Palestine. Content is in Arabic and English and updated daily. The AI suite has four assistants, Aref, Taqadi, Taaqod and Tashree, for research, litigation, contracts and legislative work, and the site also lists a legal news feed called Monitor. Enterprise options include on-premises deployment, integration and custom assistants. The company reports more than 30,000 users, over 100 government bodies and more than 200 law firms among its customers, without naming them.
Qistas lists offices in Amman, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh, with Cairo and Muscat described as opening soon. On 31 March 2026 TechScoop reported that Arabic.AI and Qistas had agreed, at a signing ceremony in Amman, to offer sovereign, Arabic-first AI solutions for the legal sector across the Arab world. Qistas contributes its legal databases and Arabic.AI its large language models, and the systems can run on a customer's own infrastructure for law firms, corporate legal departments and government institutions.