Fact sheet
Company: Fotoh, Inc. is a California stock corporation, entity number B20260321874, incorporated July 15, 2026, with its principal office in Fresno, California
Founder: Awwad Al-Habli — software engineer, 45+ years in America, Zad Academy Sharia diploma
Mission: Build software and hardware that serve Allah's ummah, with Qardon (interest-free qard hasan lending) as the ultimate goal
Structure: One company, not a holding company and with no subsidiaries. qardon.com (the marketplace) and qardon.org (the waqf record) are technologies of Fotoh, Inc.
Platform: qardon.org — a technology of Fotoh, Inc. It is not a separate entity, not a nonprofit, not a 501(c)(3), and will not seek that status. It records; it does not hold and does not own. Each participant's money stays in that person's own account, in his own name, and never passes through a Fotoh bank account. It issues no tax documents and promises no deductibility.
Flagship product: Live Athan — native iOS prayer app, live on the App Store since August 13, 2026, and the gateway to everything else Fotoh builds
Backend infrastructure: Cloudflare Workers, Workers AI, D1, Vectorize, KV — fully serverless
Revenue model: Hardware sales (Fotoh Hub, drones, displays, Mushaf Cover) and the qardon.com marketplace, on which today nobody pays — no buyer, seller, dealer or professional. qardon.org charges no one; its running cost, times a set profit factor, is paid from the yield of the awqaf placed through it. Live Athan is free. Masjids never pay for MMS.
Headquarters: Fresno, California
Media contact: press@fotohinc.com
Press kit downloads
Logo files, founder photos, product screenshots, and the One-Pager (PDF). Coming soon — request specific assets by emailing press@fotohinc.com.
Logo pack
PNG + SVG, light and dark variants, with-tagline and standalone marks.
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Product screenshots
Live Athan, Qardon, Meathanah globe — high-res PNGs.
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Founder bio + photo
Long-form and short-form bio for Awwad Al-Habli, plus headshot.
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One-pager (PDF)
Company overview in one page: mission, products, revenue model.
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Story angles worth covering
- Qard Hasan as a financial primitive. Interest-free lending pools mentioned in the Quran in six places — and now a working software platform.
- The Companion AI vs. mainstream chatbots. A purpose-built AI that uses the Three-Pillar Framework (dunya + sharia + spiritual) and refuses to be a scholar.
- Software the masjid never pays for. Fotoh, Inc. extends MMS and Live Athan to masjids at no charge, at its own cost. No masjid site is ever taken down, degraded, throttled, watermarked or feature-gated for money, and the masjid's data is the masjid's.
- Solar-powered masjid mesh networks — the design. MRN is a designed solar-and-LoRa mesh meant to survive total internet failure, for a 1,400-year-old institution. A software proof of concept exists; no node has been built, nothing is orderable, and no masjid has one.
- Robotic masjid construction — the decade bet. Masjid Builder, a module inside MIS, is the intent to raise masajid with 3D-printed concrete and modular assembly where a community has none, funded through Qardon. It is a concept: no code, no printer, no build, and Fotoh would manage projects rather than own a robot fleet.