MUSCAT, SEPT 7
Omani legal-technology company instaSpace says it now has paying customers in 17 countries, with Saudi Arabia becoming its fastest-growing market in the region as the Muscat-based firm expands outside Oman.
Founded in 2024 by Ahmed al Kindi and Aseel al Rawahi, the company develops an Arabic-English artificial-intelligence platform for legal research, drafting, contract review, negotiation, workflow management and electronic signatures.
instaSpace told the Observer that its customers include legal teams in Gulf markets as well as in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Singapore and Canada.
The company said its user base more than quadrupled between June and August 2026, monthly user onboarding is now about 20 times its January level, and the volume of legal work completed on the platform has risen more than sixfold quarter on quarter.
The company has also signed a strategic partnership in Riyadh with Ejabah Legal Consultancy. Under the agreement, Saudi lawyers will review the platform's Arabic legal output for users in the Kingdom and contribute to its development for the Saudi market.
Ejabah will also provide specialist Saudi legal support when users require advice from a practising lawyer.
instaSpace says it plans to use a similar arrangement in other jurisdictions, combining its technology with local legal expertise rather than applying the same legal output across different markets.
Saudi Arabia is already one of the company's largest user markets in the region, according to instaSpace, which says it has established its own entity and presence in the Kingdom.
The company said the product was developed after the founders worked with an in-house legal department during a business-accelerator programme in Oman. Its first customers were Omani financial institutions.
Al Kindi said the Saudi partnership was intended to make the platform more relevant to users operating under Saudi law.
“We already work with legal teams in Saudi Arabia, and this partnership is, at its core, about serving them better,” he said. “Saudi legal work has its own rules and its own context, which general-purpose tools may not capture adequately.”
Turki al Qahtani, chief executive officer of Ejabah Legal Consultancy, said the agreement was intended to combine technology with local legal expertise.
The next test for instaSpace will be whether the Saudi approach can be repeated in other jurisdictions as the company seeks to expand its customer base outside Oman.
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