A technical partner for funded startups in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and across MENA. We ship your MVP in 8 to 12 weeks, then stay on as your embedded engineering team — so you never have to choose between velocity and quality.
Funded founders in the MENA region face a specific dilemma. Hiring a great senior engineering team in Dubai or Riyadh is slow, expensive, and risky — the market is small, compensation expectations are high, and a wrong first hire can derail your whole first year. Cheap offshore agencies deliver code you can't build on. Solo freelancers don't scale.
We were designed for exactly this situation. A senior product team you can start with next week, at rates that don't destroy your runway, shipping production-quality code your future engineering hires will actually want to inherit.
The MVPs that raise the next round aren't the flashiest. They're the ones that prove one thing clearly, with real users, on a foundation the team can actually keep building on.
Every MVP engagement follows the same structured path. The timeline varies based on scope, but the phases don't — because skipping them is how MVPs die before they reach users.
We get on whiteboards with your founding team. Stress-test the core hypothesis, identify what genuinely needs to be in V1 versus what's fantasy, and ruthlessly cut scope. Output: a focused product brief, user flows, and a sprint plan with clear weekly milestones. Most founders leave this phase with a sharper product vision than they walked in with.
UI/UX designs for the core flows, technical architecture, infrastructure setup. We favour boring, proven technology for MVPs — exotic tech decisions are where young startups lose weeks and reputation. Stack is typically Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL on AWS or Vercel. Battle-tested, hiring-friendly, scalable to Series A without a rewrite.
Two-week sprints, every sprint ends with a working demo and a deployed staging environment you can show to advisors and early users. You see the product growing every week. Any pivot or scope change is discussed at the sprint boundary, not three months in.
Production deployment, performance optimization, security review, observability setup, and the unglamorous work that separates a shippable product from a demo: error handling, edge cases, onboarding UX, empty states, customer support plumbing.
Most of our startup clients continue with us post-launch as a dedicated product team on retainer. We evolve the product based on real user feedback, ship new features, handle scale as you grow. When it's time to build your in-house engineering team, we help you hire them and transition work — because our success metric is your success, not your dependence on us.
We don't hide our pricing and we don't inflate scope to pad an invoice. Here's exactly how our startup engagements work.
Two weeks of intense work to sharpen your product thinking and produce a detailed scope, timeline and quote for the MVP build. Many founders do just this and walk away — no pressure, no retainer.
Fixed scope, fixed price, milestone-based payments. Delivers a live, deployed, investor-ready MVP with full documentation, analytics instrumentation, and a clean handover package.
Post-MVP and pre-in-house team, the natural continuation. A senior team of 3–5 engineers embedded with you, shipping continuously. Monthly retainer, no long lock-in.
A senior full-stack engineer hire in Dubai costs €100,000 to €160,000 per year all-in. You need at least two plus a product designer to ship anything real. That's €300,000+ before your first user exists, with 4-6 months of recruiting ahead of you.
Our MVP package delivers a live product for a fraction of that, in 10-12 weeks, with a team that's already been assembled and battle-tested. When you're ready to hire in-house, you'll hire from a position of strength — with a real product to show, real users to reference, and real data to inform the hiring brief.
Short answer: no. We work for cash — not equity — because we deliberately don't want to be a shareholder in your business. That said, we do work with pre-funded founders occasionally on discounted rates tied to closing a round. We'll discuss specifics if that's your situation.
You do, fully. All code, design assets, infrastructure configuration and documentation are yours upon payment. You can take the project to another team at any time — and we'll help with the handover. Your VCs will check this in due diligence; we make sure everything is squeaky clean.
We know what DD looks like because we've been on the receiving end of it multiple times. Documented architecture, clean code, automated tests, proper infrastructure-as-code, security practices, audit logs, no critical vendor lock-in. We set all of this up from day one — so that when your Series A lead asks for a technical review, there are no surprises.
Pivots happen. We structure engagements so you can adjust scope at sprint boundaries (every 2 weeks) without penalties. For major pivots, we re-baseline the project honestly — no surprise change orders, no "we told you so." Our goal is for you to ship something that works, not to enforce a stale spec.
Yes, and most of our startup clients ask us to. We help with the hiring brief, technical screening, and onboarding — including transferring knowledge and handing over the codebase cleanly. We don't try to keep you dependent on us; we try to make ourselves replaceable on good terms.
Pre-seed to Series B. Most of our engagements are seed to Series A — post-funding, pre-in-house-team. We're not the right fit for idea-stage founders with no budget (we recommend no-code prototypes first), nor for late-stage companies with 50+ internal engineers.
Yes. We offer paid architecture reviews (1-3 days, fixed price) for founders who've already built something and want senior eyes on it. We'll give you a written assessment of what you've got and what we'd do differently — no obligation to go further.
We've built products in fintech, proptech, e-commerce, hospitality tech, B2B SaaS, and AI-first products. Vertical experience matters less than founder alignment and execution discipline — a good team with genuine curiosity learns your domain in weeks. But when we have relevant experience, we bring it.
Book a 30-minute founders' call. Tell us about your company, your round, and what you need to build. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right partner — and if we aren't, we'll often know someone who is.