Qatar Signs Two Scale AI Deals to Build AI Tools for Notarisation and State Litigation

The first project, called SAK, is an AI-powered system intended to make the ministry's notarisation and authentication services more efficient, improve the speed and accuracy of those procedures and make them easier for customers to use. The second, Shoor, is a digital tool to help Ministry of Justice lawyers manage state cases and carry out legal research by making legal information easier to find and analyse, according to reports in The Peninsula and Qatar Tribune.

The deals push the San Francisco-based data and AI company deeper into Qatar's core government functions. Both fall under the Government AI Program led by MCIT and extend the strategic partnership the ministry signed with Scale AI in February 2025 at Web Summit Qatar. That five-year arrangement aims to develop more than 50 AI-powered projects across government entities by 2029, and it also produced the Alif programme to train government employees in AI skills.

Eman Al Kuwari, director of MCIT's Digital Innovation Department, signed both agreements for the ministry, and Amr Samir, Scale AI's regional director in Qatar, signed both for the company. For the Ministry of Justice, Arij Mohsen Al Shammari, director of the Documentation Department and head of external centres, signed the SAK agreement, and Noor Al Zeinal, assistant director of the Litigation Affairs Department, signed the Shoor agreement.

The three parties have worked together before in the legal field. Their Smart Legislative Advisor programme supports the drafting and review of legislation and aims to cut the review period from about 35 days to about five, while keeping human oversight and professional legal accountability in place.

The agreements are tied to Qatar's Digital Agenda 2030, the national plan for digitising government services. Neither ministry disclosed the value of the contracts or a timetable for when the two tools will go into service.