UMMATICS

Workflow: A Writing Tool Built for Islamic Scholarship

Before: Writers needed to do things no normal text editor allows: add Arabic honorifics and transliteration marks, drop in citations tied to a shared reference list, and place Arabic passages correctly inside English sentences.

Outcome: Writers do everything in one place, the right way the first time — no pasting from Word, no fiddly manual formatting, no second editor for Arabic. What comes out is clean, well-structured content the site can use straight away.

System: A writing tool made for Islamic academic work, with 11 features no standard editor offers: citations checked against a shared reference list as you type, honorific and transliteration marks, Arabic passages that sit correctly inside English text, and Qur'an or Hadith passages added by searching for them.

Workflow: Publishing, Donations and Search in One System

Before: The think-tank publishes six different kinds of work and needed one system that walks each one through a set approval path, takes Gift Aid donations, makes print-ready PDFs, and runs a search that understands Islamic academic terms.

Outcome: Every kind of publication follows the same clear path, with the right people approving the right steps and citations checked automatically — no ad-hoc sign-offs, no confusion over who does what, no PDFs made by hand. Donations and search are part of the system itself, not bolted-on add-ons.

System: One system that handles six kinds of publication. Every piece moves through a set path — draft, in review, needs revision, approved — with each of the 5 staff roles able to do only its part, a final check before anything goes live, and citations verified along the way. It also takes one-off and recurring donations with UK Gift Aid through Stripe, produces print-ready PDFs that handle Arabic and footnotes, and runs a search tuned with 175 Islamic-academic terms.

Workflow: Moving Years of Work Across Safely

Before: Years of papers, author bios, and records sat in the old site in a messy, disconnected state. Moving them risked losing data, breaking old web links, and wiping out search rankings built up over years.

Outcome: Everything came across intact — nothing lost, nothing orphaned, and old links still work instead of breaking. The search rankings built up over years were kept from day one of the switch.

System: Moved 46 research papers and 147 author profiles out of the old site, cleaned them up, and brought them into the new one with authors, papers, and references properly linked together. Every old web address was set to point to its new home, so nothing breaks and search rankings carry over.

Workflow: A Polished Look That Matches the Design Exactly

Before: A think-tank publishing across many academic subjects needed a polished, readable look that matched the approved design exactly — beautiful Arabic and English type, and its own colour for each subject — with no drift between the design and the live site.

Outcome: The live site looks exactly like the approved design — no drift, no off colours, no styling that fights the system. Designers and developers work from one shared source that flows straight into the site.

System: The live site matches the approved design pixel for pixel. Latin text is set in Proxima Nova and Arabic in Amiri, with a full range of heading and body sizes. Each academic subject gets its own accent colour. (Note: the accent colours aren't final with the client yet.)

Workflow: Locked Down and Built to Stay Up

Before: A site holding scholarly work, member accounts, and donation details can't go live with a serious security hole or a shaky setup. The code it started from had a critical flaw that let attackers take over accounts, plus weak bot protection and no safety net for outages.

Outcome: The site goes live with no known critical holes and several layers of protection — bots and abuse blocked up front, everything kept apart so a problem in one place can't spread, and automatic backups and monitoring that catch trouble before anyone notices.

System: Closed a critical hole that let attackers take over accounts without a password (rated CVSS 9.1), and added layers to keep bots and break-in attempts out. The setup runs in isolated containers with off-site backups, round-the-clock uptime monitoring, and a process that ships updates safely and the same way every time.