We build web apps, mobile apps and internal platforms for UAE businesses that have outgrown off-the-shelf tools. Senior engineers, transparent pricing, no junior learning on your budget.
There comes a point in every growing business where the SaaS tools that got you here start to get in your way. Workflows don't fit. Reporting is limited. Integrations break. You're paying per seat for features you don't use, and missing features you desperately need. Your team builds fragile workarounds in Excel.
That's usually the moment our clients reach out. They've outgrown off-the-shelf. They need something built specifically for how they work — not for a generic persona invented in a product team somewhere in San Francisco.
We've been building custom software for ambitious companies for over twenty years, and we've been doing it specifically for UAE businesses from our Business Bay office. This page is a plain-English guide to what that looks like: when it makes sense, what it costs, how long it takes, and how we work.
Custom software isn't a luxury. It's a strategic asset — the operating layer of your business. When done right, it's the one thing your competitors can't copy.
Not every business needs custom software. Sometimes the right answer is to configure an existing SaaS properly. But if you recognize your team in two or more of these signals, it's probably time to talk.
Your team spends hours working around limitations of current tools. Reporting is painful. Integrations are brittle. Critical data lives in spreadsheets nobody owns.
SaaS costs balloon as you scale. You're paying for seats, storage and features you don't use — and the licensing model penalizes your own growth.
Something about how you operate is a genuine competitive advantage — and commoditizing it inside a generic SaaS would erase that edge.
Your business runs on the interaction between systems: CRM, accounting, logistics, APIs. You need a layer that orchestrates them — something no off-the-shelf product will ever do well.
You're a startup or a corporate venture, and the software is the product. You need it built right — scalable, maintainable, investor-ready.
You've tried a cheap developer or a generic agency. You got unmaintainable code, endless scope creep, no documentation. You need it done properly this time.
Every project follows the same structured path, because risk management in software comes from process, not heroics. Here is what working with us actually looks like.
We don't write a line of code until we understand your business. A senior architect or a product lead spend time with your team mapping existing systems, interviewing stakeholders, and translating business goals into a concrete technical roadmap. You walk away with an architecture proposal, a detailed scope, a realistic timeline, and a fixed-price quote for the build phase.
Technical design, technology selection, detailed data model, security review, and a clear milestone plan. For complex projects, we build a prototype of the hardest technical challenges first — so we catch unknowns early, not three months in.
Agile sprints, typically two weeks long. Every sprint ends with a working demo and a written report on progress, blockers and budget. You have continuous access to our backlog, our staging environment and our communication channels. We don't disappear for months and then arrive with a big-bang delivery.
Production deployment, performance optimization, knowledge transfer to your team, and a clear support agreement. Most of our clients choose to keep us on as an ongoing partner — but you're never locked in. The code, infrastructure and documentation are yours.
We're not dogmatic about tools. We pick the stack that fits your business, your hiring market, and the problem at hand — not what was trendy on Hacker News last week. That said, our default toolkit for UAE clients is built around these technologies because they balance productivity, hiring availability and long-term viability.
This is the question we get most often, and most agencies dodge it. We won't. Here are real starting points for the three ways clients typically engage with us. Final pricing depends on scope, team composition and timeline — but these numbers are accurate starting points, not hypothetical "from" figures.
For focused, well-defined projects — e-commerce stores, small CRMs, internal tools, custom dashboards. Fixed scope, fixed price, delivered in weeks. The right starting point when you know what you need and want to ship fast.
Your MVP, internal platform or AI integration, delivered on a fixed scope with milestone-based payments. Weekly demos, full transparency, you own the code.
A senior team of 3–8 engineers embedded with your product organization. Monthly retainer. Ideal for funded startups and product teams scaling fast.
A typical senior engineer at a Dubai-based agency bills between AED 1,200 and AED 2,500 per day. Our tri-national model — senior leadership from Dubai and Paris, execution scale from Tunis — lets us deliver European-quality engineering at roughly 40–50% less than a pure Dubai agency, without the communication and timezone pain of a pure offshore setup.
We don't do cheap. We do honest senior pricing. If your budget is under €10,000 for a full project, we're probably not the right fit — and we'll tell you so in the first conversation rather than waste your time.
Most projects ship a first usable version in 3 to 6 months. An MVP can go live in 8 to 12 weeks; a full enterprise-grade platform is typically 6 to 9 months. A Light Project (e-commerce, small CRM, internal tool) ships in 4 to 8 weeks. The Discovery phase always produces a precise, honest timeline — not a best-case estimate that falls apart two months in.
You do. Fully. All source code, documentation, designs and infrastructure configuration are transferred to you progressively throughout the project, and in their entirety upon final payment. You're free to take the project to another team if you ever want to — and we'll help with the handover.
Yes. Every project ends with a clear support agreement: either a retainer for ongoing development and maintenance, or a time-and-materials arrangement for occasional fixes. Most clients stay with us for at least a year post-launch because software that isn't maintained starts to decay within months.
Sirius has senior engineers in three locations: Dubai (for client-facing leadership and architecture), Paris (for senior engineering), and Tunis (for execution and scale). All engineers are in the same or adjacent timezone to the UAE, all speak English fluently, and most are trilingual (English, French, Arabic).
For clients with data residency requirements, we deploy into UAE-based AWS or Azure regions. For regulated sectors (finance, healthcare), we work within the relevant frameworks — UAE Data Protection Law, DIFC regulations, ADGM, and international standards (ISO 27001-aligned practices). We'll discuss specifics during Discovery.
Every Sirius engagement is led by a senior architect with 10+ years of experience, who stays on the project from start to finish. Execution teams are mixed — senior engineers do the architecture, code reviews and hard parts; mid-level engineers handle well-scoped feature work under supervision. You won't find juniors leading your project here.
Yes — before any meaningful technical conversation. A mutual NDA is the first document we sign with serious prospects. Just ask.
Yes, and we do this regularly. Taking over an existing codebase always starts with a paid technical audit (usually 1 to 2 weeks) so we can give you an honest, documented assessment of what you've got, what it would cost to fix, and whether it's worth continuing or rewriting. No sales theatre — just a straight answer.
Book a free 30-minute Discovery Call. No slides, no pitch — just a focused conversation about your challenge and whether we're the right team to help you solve it.