The trusted place for Muslim communities to buy from businesses that share their values.
Suq is at prototype stage. This page sets out what we are building, what exists today and what we still need to prove. Where a number is missing it is marked as a placeholder rather than invented.
Values-led buyers, scattered sellers.
Muslim buyers want to shop in line with their values, but Muslim-owned businesses are spread across general marketplaces, social feeds and word of mouth.
Verification is inconsistent. Halal and ownership claims are hard to check and easy to blur, so trust is carried by reputation alone.
Small vendors want the reach of live and social selling without building a storefront, a feed and a checkout themselves.
A halal social marketplace with commerce, content and live selling in one place.
Marketplace
Multi-vendor catalogue with region and category discovery and a single checkout split per vendor.
Storefronts
No-code storefront builder with three themes rendered from one component set.
Social and stories
A feed of vendor, product and creator posts with product tagging, plus ephemeral stories.
Live selling
Scheduled live rooms with reminders, chat and add to cart without leaving the room.
Creators
Campaigns, tracked links and commission estimates for affiliates and influencers.
Onboarding and moderation
Vendor application with ownership attestation and halal policy acceptance, admin review, and a report queue with an audit log.
A working prototype, honestly scoped.
- Buyer, vendor, creator and admin journeys
- Multi-vendor cart and split orders
- Storefront builder with three themes
- Simulated live rooms, feed, stories and messaging
- Vendor application and admin review
- Fixed design system with a visual gate on every screen
- Real payments and vendor payouts
- Accounts and authentication
- Live streaming infrastructure
- Independent halal or ownership verification
- Tax, shipping and notifications
Trust is earned in three steps.
Vendors apply and attest
A business confirms it is majority Muslim-owned and accepts the halal content policy before it can list anything.
Suq admin reviews
Approval grants the vendor role and the Verified badge. Rejections and suspensions are logged.
Buyers shop with confidence
Discover, follow, watch live and check out once across every store in the cart.
Build phases, not dated promises.
The parts we will not make up.
Business model
[Revenue model: commission, subscriptions, promoted placement or a mix. Take rate and pricing assumptions.]
Market size
[Muslim consumer spend in the Greater Toronto Area and Canada, sourced. Number of Muslim-owned businesses in the first market.]
Team
[Founders, roles and relevant background. Advisors if any.]
Traction
[Waitlist, vendor conversations, letters of intent or pilot commitments. Leave blank rather than estimate.]
Talk to us
[Founder name] · [contact email]