Mizan
Trust centre

Everything you need to evaluate Mizan

A single page with the honest current status of every credibility signal you might check. No marketing language. Updated as facts change.

Why this page exists

Halal investing is a trust-first category. You shouldn't have to dig through a dozen marketing pages to figure out whether a product is worth your time. This page is the single honest answer — what's real, what's in progress, what hasn't happened yet. If anything below changes, this page changes first.

Credibility scoreboard

  • Live product deployed
    Mizan is live, public, free to use. Web app supports six scholarly profiles, screens a 163-ticker representative sample, full source on GitHub.
    Done
  • Methodology published with primary-source citations
    Every threshold in the screening engine traces back to AAOIFI Standard No. 21, Mufti Taqi Usmani's published rulings, S&P DJIM methodology PDF, or the Sistani office. Open the /methodology page to verify.
    Done
  • Founder publicly named, contactable
    Gordon Louie, Hong Kong. Email replies to every substantive message personally. No support tickets.
    Done
  • Shariah Supervisory Board
    No board is currently engaged. Until one is, credibility comes from the primary-source citations on /methodology. We will not list any scholar as 'on the board' until written engagement is in place — claims of supervision without documentation are common in this industry and we refuse to participate.
    Not yet
  • Co-founder / additional team
    Mizan is built solo today by Gordon Louie. No co-founder or additional team member is currently engaged. Future hires will appear here when in place.
    Not yet
  • Hong Kong operating entity (Mizan Operations Ltd)
    Incorporation scheduled via Sleek HK in week 6 of the launch roadmap.
    In progress
  • Cayman holding company
    Planned Q3 2026 via Walkers Cayman. Standard VC-ready structure for fundraising.
    Not yet
  • Live financial data integration (Financial Modeling Prep)
    Integration code is in place (FMP /stable API, ratio computation, sector mapping). Live data not yet serving — the daily enrichment script accumulates real fundamentals as FMP quota allows, then replaces the seed.
    Not yet
  • Paid subscription tiers live
    Free tier only. Paid tiers are gated on a real Shariah Supervisory Board being seated first.
    Not yet

Who we are

Mizan is built today by Gordon Louie — a Hong Kong-based technologist, solo founder. A Muslim friend got me thinking about why existing halal-investing apps hide scholarly disagreement instead of surfacing it; that curiosity is the origin of the project.

Gordon is not Muslim. The product makes no religious claims of its own — it surfaces what scholars publicly say and cites the source. Religious authority belongs to the published scholars and, in time, to a Shariah Supervisory Board that does not yet exist. Until that board is seated, the citation chain on /methodology is the credibility. Full origin story on /about.

Where the screening rules come from

Every threshold in the engine traces back to a public primary source. If you find a mismatch between a Mizan profile and the cited source, write to methodology@mizaninvesting.com and we'll publish a correction.

Where the data comes from

  • Current (May 2026): 163 representative tickers hand-seeded from Q1 2026 public filings. The FMP live-data integration is wired (balance sheets, income statements, ratios) but not yet serving — enrichment runs are gated by free-tier daily quotas, so real data accumulates in batches. Ratios are computed in-house from raw filings; nothing relies on any third-party ‘halal score.’
  • Year 1 production: Financial Modeling Prep API for live fundamentals across any listed equity. Refresh cadence: nightly.
  • Year 2 production: Graduate to Refinitiv / SIX Financial for broader international coverage at scale.
  • Ratios computed in-house from balance-sheet primitives. Mizan does not rely on any third party's pre-computed ‘halal score’.

Privacy posture

  • No account required to use the screener, watchlist, portfolio scorer, or any tool.
  • No tracking analytics on the current site. When usage analytics are added (Q3, Plausible or similar), they will be cookie-less and IP-anonymised.
  • Watchlist, portfolio, custom scholar profile stored locally in your browser only. Nothing leaves your device.
  • No data sold, ever. See /privacy for the formal policy.

What's intentionally missing right now

Honest disclosure of what doesn't yet exist, so testers know which gaps are intentional and which are bugs:

  • · Mobile native app — web works on mobile; native iOS/Android is Q4.
  • · Brokerage account sync (Plaid) — manual portfolio entry only for now.
  • · Real-time prices — current prices are indicative; live tick data is post-FMP integration.
  • · Push notifications — verdict-change alerts depend on mobile + backend, both Q4.
  • · Live FMP data serving production — integration code is in place; real fundamentals replace the seed as the daily enrichment script runs against FMP's free tier (paid plan would ship it all at once).

Found something broken that's NOT on this list? Use the feedback button (bottom-right on every page) or email hello@mizaninvesting.com.

Reach Gordon

The founder reads every substantive email

No support tickets, no auto-responses, no chatbot deflecting you. Hit hello@mizaninvesting.com and a person responds. Methodology challenges go to methodology@mizaninvesting.com and are reviewed against the cited primary source — and against the Supervisory Board, once one is seated.

Last updated 22 May 2026. Page version 1. Back to home.