Trust is the product.
Bishop exists because a captain in Tripoli and a crew planner in Benghazi should not need 3 mutual friends to find each other.
Libyan operators fly with no spare crews. When a captain falls ill or a contract ends, a chief pilot arranges cover on WhatsApp. The alternative is a foreign agency that takes weeks and charges a margin on every month the pilot flies. A licence photo in a group chat is not verification, and a pilot who was free last month may not be free this week.
The pilots exist. Captains between contracts in Egypt and Tunisia, first officers building hours, cadets finishing training. The operators who would pay for that availability cannot see it, and the pilots cannot see who is looking.
Bishop puts a verified pilot on one side, a verified operator on the other, and the Crew Board between them. We check a licence and a medical before a pilot can post availability, and a company before it can post an urgent request. Bishop is a platform, not an agency: we do not select, negotiate or take a fee from a pilot's contract. We start in Libya and its neighbours and add the Gulf, the Levant and the rest of North Africa as the board fills.
How we work
- Verification before reach
- Nobody posts availability or an urgent request until a person has checked the paperwork behind it. The badge means something because it is not automatic.
- Built for the region, not localised for it
- Licences are named by their issuing authority, hours are recorded the way a logbook records them, and an invoice can be settled by bank transfer because that is how it is settled in Tripoli. None of that is a setting somebody switched on.
- Privacy by default
- Licence numbers are never shown publicly. Scans are opened only through expiring links and deleted within 90 days of review, approved or not; we keep only what we read off them: class, authority and expiry.
- Built with the first 200
- The first verified pilots and the first operators to join after launch will carry a permanent Founding Member mark, and we will ask them what to build next.
Bishop is built by its founder, Mohamed Elashaheb, with 7 AI departments: strategy, business development, marketing, regulatory research, communications, web and app development. They are named after navigation stars, and they are software, not colleagues. We say so here rather than let you find out later, because a platform whose product is verification cannot be vague about who stands behind the badge.
One person is accountable for everything on this site. Regulatory work is research, not legal advice; licensed counsel in each launch market will review it before we rely on it. Every verification is reviewed by a person before a badge is issued.
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