# Dike: Arabic legal sources, built for the AI era.

AI agents are already answering legal questions across the Middle East, but without official Arabic sources, they rely on machine-translated guesses. Global legal APIs are built US-first; web search is worse, returning unverified commentary, blogs, or obsolete articles.

Dike fixes this by connecting AI agents directly to official primary legal sources across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Egypt, through a structured, bilingual API. Agents can search, cite, and verify against authentic Arabic legal text in real time instead of hallucinating or relying on lossy translation.

We are building the deepest Arabic-language legal data layer in the region, starting with the GCC and expanding across MENA, for any legal AI agent that needs to operate here.

## FAQs

**What legal sources does Dike index?**
Dike indexes primary legal authority across MENA jurisdictions, starting with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Egypt, including statutes, statutory codes, administrative regulations, and official gazettes, in both Arabic and English. Court ruling coverage varies by jurisdiction: statutes and gazettes are sourced from official publications everywhere, while public case law availability differs significantly across the three (Saudi Arabia in particular publishes far less publicly than UAE or Egypt).

**Why not just use a global legal API or web RAG?**
General-purpose legal APIs are built US-first and treat Arabic sources as an afterthought, machine-translated and stripped of citation structure. Web search fares worse: unstructured pages, blogs, and commentary with outdated provisions. Dike is built natively for Arabic legal text and MENA court and legislative structures, with verifiable citation anchors back to the official source.

**How does Dike prevent AI hallucinations?**
Every API query returns exact statutory text in its original Arabic alongside official source IDs and verifiable citation anchors. AI agents cite real legal authority rather than generating ungrounded quotes or mistranslated approximations.

**Which jurisdictions and languages does Dike cover today?**
Dike is Arabic-first and MENA-first by design: Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Egypt at launch, with GCC and broader Arabic-language jurisdictions on the roadmap. Every source is bilingual, Arabic and English, with citation anchors that hold across both.

**How do developers integrate Dike into their AI stack?**
Dike provides a lightweight REST API compatible with RAG pipelines, vector search engines, custom agent tool calls, and LLM function calling workflows, built for legal-tech startups and enterprise agent builders who need MENA coverage that Western legal APIs don't offer.

**How frequently is legal data updated?**
Our data pipeline syncs directly with official MENA legislative and judicial repositories to ingest statutory amendments, repealed acts, and new court rulings as they're published.

## More

- [About & Manifesto](https://dike.it.com/about/)
- [Coverage / Index Map](https://dike.it.com/coverage/)
- [Open Models](https://dike.it.com/models/)
- [Research](https://dike.it.com/research/)
- [Developers](https://dike.it.com/developers/)
- [Blog](https://dike.it.com/blog/)