Bedir AI
Bedir AI is an educational answer product over Islamic primary sources. A question asked in natural language is answered from a curated collection of Qur'an verses and hadith, and the interface shows the exact passage each answer was drawn from, with a link to the source.
Company facts
| Name | Bedir AI — operating and brand name |
|---|---|
| Identity | Bedir AI is operated by its founder, Mevlana Yalçın. Contractual and contact point: merhaba@bedirsavasi.com · Ankara, Türkiye. |
| Started | March 2026 · the domain bedirsavasi.com was registered on 8 March 2026, verifiable in the Verisign RDAP record. |
| Founder | Mevlana Yalçın — sole founder |
| Based in | Ankara, Türkiye |
| Team | 1 |
| Funding | Bootstrapped. No institutional investor, no accelerator, no outside round. |
| Contact | merhaba@bedirsavasi.com |
| Product | https://bedirsavasi.com/en/ (live, early access) |
| Infrastructure | Netlify (static site + serverless answer endpoint) · Cloudflare (DNS, email routing) |
How the Claude API is used
The answer endpoint passes the corpus to the Claude API as text documents with server-side
citations enabled, one document per verse or hadith, with a cache_control breakpoint on
the last document so the collection is read from prompt cache on repeat questions. Claude is instructed to
answer only from those documents, to reply in the language of the question, and to state when the current
collection does not cover a topic rather than fall back on parametric knowledge. The server maps the returned
document_index values back onto corpus entries and renders the quoted text plus a link to
quran.com or sunnah.com.
All inference runs against the first-party Claude API through the Claude Console — not AWS Bedrock or Google Vertex AI. Anthropic is currently the only model provider in the product.
Backup engine, stated plainly
While this Claude Console account carries no credit balance (as of 7 October 2026), the public demo answers from a labelled backup model and prints that label above the answer; the backup is never presented as a Claude citation. The Claude path — the corpus passed as documents with server-side citations and prompt caching — is what the endpoint uses whenever the account has balance, and the response carries the engine in its provider field.
Policy posture
- AI disclosure. The answer interface states that users are talking to an AI assistant and that answers are generated from cited sources and may contain errors.
- No religious rulings. Bedir AI is an information tool. It does not issue fatwas and refers users to a qualified scholar when asked for one.
- Inspectable sources. Every source text the product uses is published openly, with its own link to the publisher.
Verify this independently
- Public repository, corpus and evaluation spec: github.com/mevlanayalcin/bedir-ai
- Founder profile: linkedin.com/in/mevlanayalcin
- Machine-readable source collection: /data/corpus.json
- Domain registration record:
bedirsavasi.com, created 2026-03-08 (Verisign RDAP)
Roadmap, with status
| Shipped | Cited question answering over the Battle of Badr collection: 41 Qur'an entries, 70 hadith entries, in Turkish, English, German and Arabic |
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| In progress | Expanding to the full Qur'an and the six canonical hadith collections; topic-level retrieval |
| Designed, not run | Published citation-accuracy evaluation: quotation fidelity and citation support scored separately (spec) |
| Next | A cited-answer API for Islamic schools and study platforms; mobile app |
Figures on this page describe the source collection and the product, not audience size. We publish no user, traffic or revenue numbers because we do not have audited ones.