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Sanctions, PEP and adverse-media screeningStatutory records storage
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AI assistants

Ask your AI assistant. It answers from Arakan.

Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot to your Arakan workspace. Ask about deadlines, findings, bookkeeping, VAT periods and UAE rules, and get answers from your own records and Lexara's rulebooks, with your sign-in. Read only.

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Works with

Claude

Desktop app, claude.ai and mobile

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Step-by-step guide

ChatGPT

Set up on chatgpt.com in a browser

Plugins → Browse plugins → Add → custom

Step-by-step guide

Microsoft Copilot

Copilot Studio agents for your organisation

Add Arakan as an MCP tool in Copilot Studio

Step-by-step guide

Other assistants

Any app that supports remote MCP with sign-in

Cursor, VS Code, your own agents

Step-by-step guide

What you can ask

Questions you'd ask a colleague who knows every file

Comply

  • “Which of my companies have overdue or upcoming compliance deadlines in the next 30 days?”
  • “Show me the open findings for Meridian Capital Partners.”
  • “Which policies are waiting for staff sign-off?”

Ledger

  • “Which clients have documents waiting for review?”
  • “Is any client's VAT period ready to sign? What's stopping the others?”
  • “What do Al Noor's customers still owe, by age?”

Lexara

  • “Which UAE laws cover anti-money laundering duties for real estate brokers? Cite them.”
  • “When must a mainland LLC register for corporate tax?”

Atlas

  • “Compare DMCC and IFZA for a general trading licence.”
  • “What would a two-visa setup in IFZA cost?”

How it works

Three steps, about two minutes

  1. Step 1

    Add Arakan in your assistant

    Add a custom connector (Claude) or custom plugin (ChatGPT) with the address https://www.arakan.ae/api/mcp.

  2. Step 2

    Sign in with Arakan

    Your assistant opens Arakan's page. Sign in, choose the workspace, and all companies or only some. Then allow.

  3. Step 3

    Ask

    Name companies and clients as you know them. The assistant looks them up in Arakan and answers from your data, with links back to the record.

Safe by design

Your assistant gets your access, and nothing more

Read only

The connection looks things up. It can't change, send or delete anything in Arakan.

Your access, nothing more

Your assistant sees what your Arakan role lets you see, in the workspace you chose, and only the companies you picked. If your access changes, so does the assistant's, at once.

You stay in control

Every connection is listed in Arakan with when it was last used. Disconnect it there at any time; it stops at once.

Answers you can check

Answers come from your records and from Lexara's rulebooks, cited to the article. Every look-up is recorded in Arakan.

Questions

Do I need to install anything?

No. You add Arakan in the AI assistant you already use, in its settings. Claude works in its desktop app, on claude.ai and on mobile; ChatGPT is set up on chatgpt.com in a browser.

Which plans do I need?

An Arakan account in the workspace you want to connect, and a plan of your AI assistant that allows custom connectors. In company accounts of Claude, ChatGPT or Microsoft 365, an admin may need to allow it first.

Can the assistant change my data?

No. The connection is read only. Changes are made in Arakan, by people with the right role.

Does Arakan see my conversation?

No. Arakan only receives the look-ups your assistant makes, such as 'open findings for this company'. What Arakan returns goes to your assistant and is handled under its terms.

Does it cost credits?

Look-ups of your data, Lexara searches and Atlas facts are free. A full cited Lexara answer uses your workspace's credits, the same as asking in Lexara.

Can my team use it?

Yes. Each person connects their own assistant with their own Arakan sign-in, so each sees only what their role allows. Owners and admins can see every connection in the workspace.

Start with Arakan, then bring your assistant

Set up your companies in Arakan, then connect the assistant you already use. Already on Arakan? Open the menu under your initials and choose AI assistants.

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Governance and board compliance

Onboard

Client onboarding (KYC/CDD)

Shield

Clients' regulatory compliance

Ledger

Clients' FTA compliance

Scout

Planning your UAE setup

Atlas

UAE setup reference

Verify

Sanctions, PEP and adverse-media screening

Lexara

UAE rulebook library

Vault

Statutory records storage

Scope

What applies to you

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