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A bilingual front desk, built around people

Mawidi is a WhatsApp-native reception layer for clinics, salons and service businesses across the Gulf. We build it in Doha, in Arabic and English, because we got tired of watching good businesses lose customers to an unanswered message.

Founded in 2023 · Doha, Qatar · Arabic and English

A receptionist at a bright, welcoming reception desk
2023
Founded in Doha
6
GCC markets served
AR + EN
Reception languages
Why Mawidi exists

It started with a message nobody answered

In 2023 our founder tried to book a dentist appointment over WhatsApp. The message was delivered and read. Three days later there was still no reply. The clinic was not careless — the waiting room was full and the receptionist was doing her best — but the channel their customers actually used had nobody on it.

That gap is the whole company. Across the Gulf, service businesses run on WhatsApp while the front desk runs on phone calls and a paper diary. The messages that arrive after hours, in Arabic, from a customer comparing three salons, are the first ones to go quietly missing.

So we built the reception layer instead of another dashboard. Mawidi answers in Arabic or English, offers real availability, takes a deposit when the business wants one, and hands the conversation to a person the moment it stops being routine.

See how the reception layer works
The moment

Three days. No reply.

One unanswered booking message in Doha, 2023 — the entire product brief we started from.
What that means in practice

Four commitments that shape every decision

The product has changed a great deal. These haven't.

Arabic first, not Arabic-also

Every flow is designed in Arabic with English parity, not translated afterwards. Khaleeji, Modern Standard and code-switching read as one conversation.

Built for owners, not dashboards

The daily summary arrives on WhatsApp, where owners already are. The dashboard is there when you want the detail — not somewhere you have to live.

People where people matter

Mawidi handles the routine booking traffic. When a conversation needs judgement — a complaint, a regular, something the script never anticipated — it goes to your team with the full thread attached.

On the official rails

The official WhatsApp Business API, encrypted cloud infrastructure, and audit trails by default.

The team

A small bilingual team across the Gulf

Founded and led by Mohammad Asim. Mawidi is a small, bilingual team of builders and operators spread across the Gulf — and we're hiring.

Mohammad Asim
Founder & CEO

Former service-operations leader building Mawidi so no customer conversation is ever missed again.

Doha
Leila Al-Harbi
Chief Product Officer

Turns front-desk learnings into practical, customer-first experiences.

Doha
Ahmed Rahman
Head of Engineering

Leads full-stack teams scaling Mawidi's resilient agent infrastructure.

Dubai
Omar Haddad
VP, AI Platforms

Architects the speech and LLM pipelines powering real-time agents.

Riyadh
Sara Khalid
Director of Customer Success

Guides businesses from launch to measurable automation wins.

Doha
Fatima Al-Salem
Head of Growth & Partnerships

Builds alliances with enterprise groups and telecom partners.

Amman
The journey so far

From one clinic to a reception layer for the Gulf

  1. 2023Q3

    A booking nobody answered

    Our founder messaged a clinic on WhatsApp and waited three days. Mawidi started that week.

  2. 2024Q1

    First clinics go live

    Our first Gulf clinics move their reception onto bilingual WhatsApp.

  3. 2024Q3

    Voice and deposits ship

    Arabic voice agents and Stripe deposit links launch together. The pilot reaches Riyadh.

  4. 2025Q2

    Multi-branch and the owner digest

    Branch rollups for chains. A daily WhatsApp summary replaces the weekly spreadsheet.

  5. 2025Q4

    Multi-branch rollouts widen

    Branch management expands across more Gulf clinics and salons, with encrypted data handling and audit trails by default.

  6. 2026Q1

    Concierge 2.0

    A retrieval-grounded concierge replaces fixed scripts, answering from the business's own services, staff and opening hours.

Coverage

Built in Doha, serving the Gulf

Our office is in Doha. We work with service businesses across six GCC markets — Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait — in Arabic and English.

  • DohaOffice
  • RiyadhCoverage
  • DubaiCoverage
  • ManamaCoverage
  • KuwaitCoverage
  • MuscatCoverage

Doha is our only office. The other markets are service coverage, not local branches. Mawidi (موعدي / مواعيدي) is this Doha-based GCC AI receptionist — not the Morocco Ministry of Health hospital portal at mawiidi.ma.

Ready to let the diary fill itself?

We start with a single branch, launch the bilingual scripts together, and you see the conversations from day one.

  • Stripe
  • Apple Pay
  • Mada

Official WhatsApp Business API · Encrypted cloud infrastructure · Audit trails by default

A consultant or distributor? See the partner programme and its terms through the Mawidi Partner Program.

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