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Smart meeting management — by QST

Run every meeting, on your terms.

Protocol is a secure, self-hosted smart meeting platform for the whole organization — boards and committees, executive and department meetings, and the calls in between. From agenda to signed minutes, everything runs inside your own infrastructure, and its AI runs locally, so nothing ever leaves for an outside service.

100% on-premisesAir-gapped capableLocal AISelf-hosted audio and videoQualified e-signatureArabic and English
0External cloud, AI or conferencing services required
4Platforms: web, desktop, mobile and room screens
7Layers of security on every request
2Languages — Arabic-first, with full right-to-left

The problem

Where organizational meetings break down — and how Protocol fixes it

Meetings carry an organization’s most important decisions and its most sensitive information — yet most still run on email, shared drives and a patchwork of cloud tools. Here is what that costs you, and what changes with Protocol.

Today

Meeting papers travel by email

Agendas and papers are emailed as PDFs. Versions multiply, late changes are missed, and nobody is sure which copy is final.

With Protocol

One ordered, versioned meeting pack

Build the agenda, attach every document and publish a single pack. Every participant opens the right version, on any device.

Today

Confidential material in someone else’s cloud

Meeting packs, recordings and decisions sit on third-party servers, outside your security team’s control.

With Protocol

Self-hosted by design

Protocol runs in your own data center or private cloud. Your meeting material never leaves your perimeter.

Today

AI that sends your meetings to outside services

Transcription and minute-taking tools upload confidential audio and documents to external AI providers.

With Protocol

AI that runs locally

Minute drafting, transcription, document search and the voice co-pilot run on your own servers. Nothing is sent out.

Today

Meetings on third-party conferencing

Sensitive discussions run through public video services, disconnected from the pack being discussed.

With Protocol

Self-hosted audio and video

Meet and call inside Protocol on your own media servers — video, voice, screen sharing and a laser pointer, with everyone on the same page.

Today

Minutes that take weeks

Organizers rebuild the meeting from notes, drafts circulate for weeks, and the actions agreed in the room are lost.

With Protocol

AI minutes and tracked actions

Draft minutes from the meeting itself — attendance, quorum, every decision and vote — and track each action to an owner and a due date.

Today

Signatures that stall decisions

Decisions wait for wet-ink signatures and couriers, and not every electronic signature is legally recognized.

With Protocol

Qualified e-signature

Vote by circulation, freeze approved minutes into a signable document, and sign with accredited qualified signing through Nafath or Sadq.

Today

Arabic as an afterthought

Imported tools treat Arabic as a translation layer, with broken right-to-left layouts and mixed-language documents.

With Protocol

Arabic-first, throughout

Complete Arabic and English, with right-to-left layout designed in — on web, desktop, mobile and room screens.

Today

No evidence when it matters

When a regulator or auditor asks who saw what and who approved it, the answer is scattered across inboxes.

With Protocol

A full audit trail

Every material change, approval, vote and signature is recorded and reviewable, with fine-grained access on every meeting and document.

Why Protocol

Three differences that decide it

Organizations choose Protocol for security, data sovereignty and fit for the region — not for a longer feature list.

01

Self-hosted by design — your data never leaves

Protocol is deployed in your own data center or private cloud. Meeting packs, decisions, recordings and signatures stay inside your perimeter, under your security team’s control. No third-party cloud holds your most sensitive discussions.

02

AI that runs locally — privacy without compromise

Minute drafting, document search and the voice co-pilot run on your own servers. Nothing is sent to an external large-language-model service. You get modern AI help, and your confidential material stays confidential.

03

Built for the region — Arabic-first and compliant

Full Arabic and English with right-to-left support throughout, plus accredited qualified e-signatures through Nafath and Sadq — so decisions are legally sound where you operate.

Sovereign by architecture

Every tier runs on servers you own

Application, AI, audio and video, storage — all inside your boundary. Watch the traffic: it moves freely inside the line, and never crosses it.

  • No internet dependency — deployable fully air-gapped
  • Transcription and AI minutes on your own CPU servers
  • Meetings and calls on self-hosted media servers
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Local AI

Modern AI, on your own servers

Protocol’s AI runs on your infrastructure, on standard CPU servers. Nothing goes to an external AI service — so the help never costs you confidentiality.

  • Speaker-by-speaker meeting transcription — a “who said what” record
  • AI minutes — attendance, quorum, votes and actions, in the official template, as PDF or Word
  • Search everything that was said, and jump straight to the moment
  • Ask the meeting — answers quoted from the record, with timestamps
  • Voting evidence — the discussion behind every decision
  • OCR-powered search across every document a participant may see
  • Protocol Co-pilot — a voice assistant in Arabic and English
AI deployment
Runs on
Your CPU servers
Internet required
No
External AI services
None
Data leaving your network
None

Audio and video

Meetings and calls, on media servers you own

Run the whole meeting inside Protocol. Present the pack to the room, follow the presenter page by page, annotate live and talk — with no third-party conferencing service anywhere in the path.

  • Video, voice and screen sharing on self-hosted media servers
  • Presenter mode with page-by-page follow and a live laser pointer
  • Meeting recording, stored on your own servers
  • Room Mode: paired meeting-room screens show the schedule and the live pack
  • Direct calls and chat between colleagues, in and outside meetings
  • Meeting in Microsoft Teams instead? Join from Protocol, with the pack alongside
Media deployment
Media servers
Self-hosted
Cloud conferencing
Not required
Recordings stored
On your servers
Room screens
Android panels and Android TV

The platform

Everything your meetings need — in one place

Four areas, one secure platform — from the first agenda item to the last signed action.

Meetings, end to end

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  • Agendas and meeting packsBuild a structured agenda, attach every supporting document and publish one ordered pack.
  • Live meetingsPresent the pack, follow the presenter, annotate, and turn on audio, video or screen sharing.
  • Meeting-room screensTurn any Android panel in a meeting room into a Protocol display, paired once by an admin.
  • Recording and transcriptionCapture the meeting and generate a transcript on your own infrastructure.
  • Seating chartsRoom profiles and assigned seats, shown to each participant before they arrive.

Decisions and records

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  • Resolutions and votingIn the meeting or by circulation, with multiple voting methods, live tallies and an auditable outcome.
  • AI minutesAttendance, quorum, each decision and vote, and the actions raised — in a ready-to-sign template.
  • Minutes signingFreeze approved minutes into a signable document, with a certificate of completion.
  • Actions and follow-throughEvery decision can create a tracked action with an owner and a due date.

Governance workspace

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  • Review roomsCirculate documents for structured review and sign-off, with reviewer tasks and a decision trail.
  • Document library and searchGranular per-file access, plus OCR-powered full-text search.
  • E-signature and qualified signingSignature fields on any device, and accredited Nafath or Sadq signing where required.
  • Announcements and surveysKeep people informed and gather structured input between meetings.
  • Multi-company governanceMany companies on one platform, hard-isolated, with a group-oversight view and a company switcher.
  • Organization structure and rolesCompanies, boards, committees and their roles, with the right identity and access for everyone.

Platform, security and reach

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  • Everywhere your people areWeb, iOS and Android, a Windows desktop app and room screens — with offline packs on mobile.
  • Arabic and English, throughoutComplete localization with right-to-left layout, designed in.
  • Notifications that stay in-houseIn-app notifications delivered from your own servers — no external push clouds.
  • Approval chains and versioned reviewAgendas and packs pass a versioned review and an approval chain before they publish.
  • Delegated and guest accessView-only delegation, and external guests scoped to a single meeting.

The product

What your people actually see

The same interface on every device — desktop for the organizers, tablet and phone for participants reading the pack wherever they are.

Protocol on the desktop, presenting a document pack
Protocol on a tablet
Protocol on a phone

The lifecycle

One unbroken trail — from agenda to signed minutes

Protocol does not stop when the meeting ends. It carries every decision from proposal to signature to the action it produced.

01

Prepare

Build the agenda, assemble the meeting pack, and route it through a versioned review and an approval chain.

02

Meet

Meet in Protocol on your own media servers, or inside Microsoft Teams — with the pack, annotation, laser pointer and room screens.

03

Decide

Table decisions live or pass them by circulation, run the vote, and record the outcome against the agenda item.

04

Sign

Freeze the minutes into a signable document and sign with placeholders or an accredited qualified signature.

05

Follow through

Actions land with owners and due dates, and stay linked to the decision that created them.

Governance and compliance

Governance you can prove

Protocol turns good meeting practice into enforced workflow — and keeps the record that proves it.

Full audit trail

Every material change, approval, vote and signature is recorded — who, what and when.

Approval chains

Agendas and packs pass through defined approvers before they are published.

Versioned review

Every agenda version is kept and commented on, with a complete timeline.

Quorum and voting rules

Attendance, quorum and six voting methods are captured against every decision.

Legally sound signatures

Qualified e-signature through Nafath or Sadq, and a certificate of completion for signed minutes.

Controlled access

Role-based permissions per meeting, view-only delegation and guests scoped to one meeting.

Security

Meeting information stays protected — and in your hands

Meetings carry an organization’s most sensitive information. Protocol is built so that it never leaves your control.

Self-hosted

Runs entirely in your infrastructure; your data never leaves your perimeter.

Local AI

All AI processing happens on your servers — nothing goes to third-party AI services.

Granular permissions

Fine-grained, role-based access to every meeting, document and action.

Full audit trail

Every material change is recorded and reviewable.

Device security

A device registry with remote sign-out and remote wipe for lost or stolen devices.

Document protection

Dynamic watermarking and controlled export of meeting material.

Strong authentication

Password policy, lockout, idle-session timeout, biometric app lock, single sign-on and multi-factor.

Qualified e-signatures

Accredited signing through Nafath or Sadq for legally recognized decisions.

Tenant isolation

In multi-company deployments, companies are hard-isolated from one another.

Who it is for

Built for every meeting in the organization

Boards and committees

Formal packs, live sessions, resolutions and signed minutes — with members reading securely, anywhere.

Executive and management teams

Leadership meetings with the same discipline: agenda, decisions, actions and follow-through.

Departments and project teams

Everyday meetings and calls — organized, recorded and followed up in one place.

Holding groups

Many companies or subsidiaries on one platform, hard-isolated, with a group-oversight view.

Get the apps

Protocol on every device your organization uses

Participants install Protocol from their app store and connect to your organization’s own server. Organizers install the Windows desktop app directly.

Windows desktop

The full desktop app for organizers and participants.

Download forWindows
  • Version 1.1.24
  • 114 MB
  • Windows 10 or later

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Web access and meeting-room screens are served by your organization’s own Protocol server.

See Protocol run your meetings

In about 30 minutes, we take your team through a real meeting cycle — agenda, pack, live meeting, decision and signed minutes.