AI pronunciation coach for the Quran.
Duolingo meets karaoke — for the majority of the ummah that can't read Arabic.
← Product page02 · Problem
It's a daily, high-stakes need: serious mispronunciation can distort the meaning of what is recited in prayer. Asking a teacher every day isn't realistic — and existing apps don't solve it for people who can't read Arabic.
03 · Solution
Radically simple: open the app, press one button, practice.
04 · Value proposition
05 · Business model
The four prayer suras — Al-Fātiḥah, Al-Ikhlāṣ, Al-Falaq, An-Nās — with every feature included. Free forever builds trust — and word-of-mouth.
Extends AI coaching, memorization and progress tracking to the full 114-sura library. The Quran itself is never behind a paywall — the coaching is.
06 · Market
A massive, underserved, daily-use market — with global expansion by language, one transcription at a time.
07 · Competition
Built for people who already read Arabic — memorizers testing their memory. A mirror is useless if you never learned what you're supposed to see in it.
Built for people who can't read Arabic — it teaches and corrects. Different job, different user, different category.
The technology window for sound-level pronunciation checking has just opened — speed matters.
08 · Traction & technology
The core practice loop is live, with an accuracy-testing pipeline for real recordings of non-Arabic speakers.
Powered by state-of-the-art speech models trained on 848+ hours of professionally recited Quran — verified by qualified reciters, detecting pronunciation down to the tajweed level, individual sound by individual sound.
This level of accuracy became possible only in the last two years. Nuri is the first to bring it to people who can't read Arabic — in their own language.
09 · Funds raised
Pre-seed has not yet been raised. Hub71 would be Nuri's first institutional partner.
10 · Team
Solo founder from Dagestan, Russia · 8+ years in production and directing · creative agency founder
Project management, marketing, advertising, producing, directing.
Year-one core team: ML engineer to own the speech pipeline, iOS/Android engineer, backend engineer, product designer, growth marketer — plus an Islamic scholarship advisor to keep the methodology sound.
11 · Plans for Hub71 & Abu Dhabi
The founder commits to long-term relocation and building the core team out of Abu Dhabi.
Nuri as part of the global Islamic digital economy headquartered in the UAE — a direct contribution to Abu Dhabi's economic diversification.
Closed beta: accuracy pipeline validated on real recordings of non-Arabic speakers.
Ship v1, fully free: the four prayer suras — Al-Fātiḥah, Al-Ikhlāṣ, Al-Falaq, An-Nās — with every feature: AI coaching, memorization, progress.
Public launch. First 10,000 users. Iterate on retention and tajweed accuracy with qualified reciters.
Subscription launch: full 114-sura library. Two new transcription languages. First revenue.
100,000 users. Core team hired in Abu Dhabi. Raise seed.
12 · The Ask
Nuri · Hub71 Cohort 20 Application