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Senior-built software,on a fixed price and a fixed date.

Websites, web and mobile apps, AI and automation, integrations, e-commerce and cloud. Senior-led and AI-native. The code lives in your GitHub from day one and is yours outright on final payment.

Beirut, working with teams across the Gulf, Europe and beyond.

The record so far

  • 10+ years

    shipping production software, as an engineer and as the team lead accountable for it.

  • OCR and retrieval

    Production OCR and retrieval systems, running in live multi-tenant SaaS.

No logos or client quotes yet, on purpose. First projects ship in late 2026. Results are published with each client’s permission.

01Services

Everything your business runs on.Priced before we start.

Every line has a published “from” price, a typical timeline and a senior lead. AI and automation come first because that is where we are most different.

  • AI solutions

    Production AI for one real workflow, shipped into your systems on a fixed date.

    • Document intake with a review queue
    • An ops copilot over your SOPs and data
    • Inbox and WhatsApp triage
    from
    $9,500
    Typical
    10 business days

    See how we build it

  • Business automation

    The copy and paste between your tools, done by software that tells you when it fails.

    • Enquiry to CRM to first reply
    • Paid order to invoice and stock
    • An AI step that sorts and drafts
    from
    $3,500
    Typical
    1-2 weeks

    See how we build it

  • API and system integrations

    Your systems agree with each other, with retries, logs and alerts built in.

    • A two-way CRM and ERP sync
    • Payment, shipping and carrier APIs
    • Webhooks and middleware
    from
    $4,000
    Typical
    2-4 weeks

    See how we build it

  • Custom business software

    Internal tools and portals shaped around how your team actually works.

    • A customer or partner portal
    • The tool that replaces the spreadsheet
    • ERP and CRM extensions
    from
    $6,000
    Typical
    2-4 weeks

    See how we build it

  • Web apps and SaaS MVPs

    A first version of your product, live with real users on a fixed date.

    • A SaaS MVP with billing
    • A customer-facing web app
    • A booking or marketplace flow
    from
    $17,500
    Typical
    20 business days

    See how we build it

  • Websites

    A fast, accessible company site in English, Arabic or both.

    • A company site with a CMS
    • A bilingual English and Arabic site
    • A landing page that loads instantly
    from
    $4,500
    Typical
    3-5 weeks

    See how we build it

  • E-commerce platforms

    Stores that sell in Arabic and English, take local payments and keep stock honest.

    • A bilingual store with cash on delivery
    • Stock sync with your ERP
    • A B2B price-list portal
    from
    $5,000
    Typical
    3-4 weeks

    See how we build it

  • Cloud solutions

    Infrastructure you can read, rebuild and afford, with deploys that need no hero.

    • A cloud and cost audit
    • CI/CD and infrastructure as code
    • A planned migration
    from
    $2,500
    Typical
    5 business days

    See how we build it

  • Ask about availability

    Mobile applications

    One app for iOS and Android, built around the thing your users come back for.

    • A companion app for your service
    • A field or driver app
    • A customer app with notifications
    from
    $25,000
    Typical
    6-10 weeks

    On request. Delivered with a vetted specialist under our lead, when one has a slot.

    See how we build it

  • Ask about availability

    UX/UI and product design

    Flows and screens tested with real users before a line of code is written.

    • A UX audit of one key flow
    • A product design sprint
    • A design system for your team
    from
    $3,000
    Typical
    1-2 weeks

    On request. Delivered with a vetted specialist under our lead, when one has a slot.

    See how we build it

  • And so on.

    If it runs on software, ask: legacy modernisation, data dashboards, WordPress plugins, a fractional tech lead. We say so when we are not the right team.

    Book a 20-minute call

Invoiced in US dollars, or euros on request. AED and SAR shown at the fixed exchange rate.

02Signature offers

Three ways to start.Each one on a clock.

Fixed scope, fixed price, fixed date. The clock pauses only when we are waiting on you.

Ten-Day Build

One operations bottleneck, one production AI tool, 10 business days. Built into your real systems, with permissions, an audit log and an evaluation set.

from
$9,500
Clock
10 business days
The ten-day clock

A demo every week · The clock pauses only when we wait on you

Week 1

  1. Day 01Kickoff and access
  2. Day 02Data and evals
  3. Days 03-04Core pipeline
  4. Day 05First demo

Week 2

  1. Days 06-07Integrations
  2. Day 08Hardening and security review
  3. Day 09Your team tests
  4. Day 10Demo day and handover
See the Ten-Day Build

MVP Sprint

One product with 3-5 core features, sign-in, billing and an admin area, live in 20 business days.

$17,500

20 business days
  1. Week 1Sign-in, roles, data
  2. Week 2Core workflow
  3. Week 3Billing and admin
  4. Week 4Hardening and launch
See how we build it

Blueprint

Paid discovery for any line, in 5 business days. You leave with a fixed quote and a working demo or clickable prototype. Credited in full to a project signed within 30 days.

$2,500

5 business days
  1. Day 01Discovery calls
  2. Day 02Process map
  3. Day 03Scored roadmap
  4. Day 04Demo or prototype
  5. Day 05Fixed quote

03Early focus

Where we start.Not where we stop.

Three industries whose work we know well. The catalog is not limited to them.

  1. 01

    Logistics

    Freight forwarders, customs brokers, 3PLs and logistics-heavy distributors, from 10 to 300 people, in the Gulf, the Levant and Europe.

  2. 02

    E-commerce and retail

    Stores and retailers selling online in Arabic, English or both.

  3. 03

    WordPress and SaaS product companies

    Product teams that need a feature, a product or an integration shipped properly.

Other industries welcome. Not on the list? If it runs on software, ask. We say so when we are not the right team. Book a 20-minute call

Agencies: white-label partnership available. Ask.

04Selected work

Our own builds, shown as proof.

Client engagements are private under NDA. So we design and build complete systems of our own, one per flagship line, and publish them to show the standard we deliver.

  • Manifest review screen: a bill of lading beside its extracted fields, each with a confidence score, and a review queue alongside.

    ManifestAI solutions

    A document-intake agent that turns shipping paperwork into structured records a person approves.

  • Quarry operations board: KPI tiles, an exceptions rail and a live orders table with statuses and owners.

    QuarryCustom business software

    An operations portal: live orders, exceptions and workload on one screen, with role-based access.

  • Dukkan storefront in Arabic: a right-to-left product grid with prices and categories, and the English edition a switch away.

    DukkanE-commerce platforms

    A bilingual storefront: English and Arabic, right-to-left done properly, fast on a phone.

  • Relay control panel: a registry of workflows with status toggles, and a run log with one failed run expanded.

    RelayBusiness automation

    A control panel for business automations: every workflow, every run, visible and owned.

  • Basalt design-system reference: colour tokens, a type scale and component specimens shown in light and dark.

    BasaltUX/UI and product design

    A marketing-site design system: tokens, type and components that survive two languages and two themes.

Client engagements are private under NDA. These systems are our own builds, shown to demonstrate the standard we deliver.

See all five builds

05How we work

From first call to handover, in five steps.

  1. Step 01

    A 20-minute call

    You describe the problem. We tell you whether we are the right team, which line fits and the likely range.

  2. Step 02

    Written quote or Blueprint

    Clear projects get a fixed written quote. Larger or unclear ones start with a 5-day Blueprint.

  3. Step 03

    Kickoff. Repo in your GitHub.

    We agree the numbered scope and the date. The repository is created in your GitHub organisation before the first commit.

  4. Step 04

    Build, with a weekly demo

    Working software every week, on a day that suits your working week, plus a written update every Friday.

  5. Step 05

    Handover, then Care or Run

    Docs, a recorded walkthrough and 30 days of fixes. Then keep us on Care or Run, or take it in-house.

06Every project includes

The same standard on every line.

A website, an integration and an AI tool all ship with the same basics. None of them is an upsell.

  • Numbered scope, fixed date

    Deliverables, exclusions and the date in writing before work starts.

  • Your GitHub, day one

    The repository lives in your GitHub organisation from the first commit. IP transfers on final payment.

  • Tests and CI

    Automated checks run on every change, in your repository.

  • Human security review

    A person reviews access, secrets and data handling before every handover.

  • Handover docs and walkthrough

    Written runbooks and a recorded walkthrough for your team.

  • 30 days of fixes

    If something we built breaks after handover, we fix it.

  • Weekly demo, Friday update

    A demo every week and a written update every Friday, so you always know where things stand.

Anything not in the numbered scope becomes the next project, never a surprise invoice.

The clock pauses only when we are waiting on you: access, content, sample data or approvals.

07Pricing

Engagement models and prices.

Every line has a “from” price for its smallest numbered scope. Your quote is fixed in writing before work starts.

Invoiced in US dollars, or euros on request. AED and SAR shown at the fixed exchange rate.

How we work together

  • Fixed-scope project

    The default for every line: numbered deliverables, exclusions and a fixed date.

    Best for Most projects

    Terms Under $10,000: 50/50, on signature and handover. $10,000 and up: 40/40/20, on signature, midpoint demo and handover. Net-7.

  • Blueprint

    Paid discovery for any line: recorded calls, a process or product map, a scored roadmap, a fixed quote, and a working demo or clickable prototype.

    Best for Projects over the threshold, or with unclear scope

    Blueprint
    $2,500

    Terms 5 business days. 100% upfront. Credited in full to a project signed within 30 days.

  • Ten-Day Build

    The flagship AI offer: one production AI workflow in your real systems.

    Best for AI and automation buyers

    Standard
    $9,500
    Document Intake
    $12,000

    Terms 50/50: on signature and on demo day. Net-7.

  • MVP Sprint

    One product, core features, sign-in, billing, admin and deployment, with one AI workflow if you want it.

    Best for Founders and product teams

    MVP Sprint
    $17,500

    Terms 20 business days. 40/40/20. Net-7.

  • Care

    For sites and stores: updates, security patches, uptime monitoring, backups and a few hours of changes each month.

    Best for Every site and store after handover

    Sites, 2 h of changes
    $400/month
    Stores, 4 h of changes
    $750/month

    Terms Monthly in advance. 30 days’ notice.

  • Run

    For AI tools, apps and software: monitoring, evaluation re-runs, model upgrades, shipped improvements every month and a usage report.

    Best for Every tool or app after handover

    One tool or app
    $2,500/month
    Up to three
    $4,500/month

    Terms Monthly in advance. 30 days’ notice. Hosting and model usage on your own accounts, billed to you by the provider.

  • Dedicated capacity

    Reserved senior hours for a product team: a fractional tech lead, plus vetted engineers under review.

    Best for Teams with a backlog, and agencies

    40 hours a month
    $5,000/month
    80 hours a month
    $9,500/month

    Terms 3-month minimum. Monthly in advance. Unused hours do not roll over.

08Who leads

Senior-led, and honest about it.

10+years in productionBeirut
The founderSenior engineer and team lead
Based
Beirut, Lebanon
Hours
Overlapping the Gulf and European working day
Languages
English and Arabic

The studio is led by its founder, a senior software engineer and team lead with more than ten years of taking products from an idea to production and keeping them running there: multi-tenant SaaS, WordPress products, realtime services on AWS.

The most recent of that work is production AI inside live multi-tenant SaaS: document OCR, retrieval over operational data, and an assistant that answers in Arabic and English. The model calls were the easy part. Permissions, audit trails, evaluations and the review step that keeps a person in charge were the real work.

This studio is that way of working, applied to everything a business runs on: a fixed price, a fixed date, and code you own.

09FAQ

Questions, answered plainly.

Who owns the code?

You do. The code lives in your GitHub from day one and is yours outright on final payment. No licence fees and no lock-in: if we part ways, nothing stops working.

What does “from” mean?

The price of the smallest numbered scope we sell for that line. Your quote is fixed in writing before work starts, and any change is priced before it is made.

What if it runs late?

The date is fixed at signature. The clock pauses only while we wait on you for access, content, sample data or approvals, and we tell you the same day it does. If we miss the date for reasons on our side, we keep working at no extra cost until the numbered scope ships.

Who actually does the work?

The founder, a senior engineer with more than ten years in production software, scopes every project and personally builds the AI, automation, integration, software, web app, website, store and cloud work. For design, mobile and QA, vetted specialists work under the founder’s lead, and every change is reviewed before it is merged. We run at most 2 client projects at a time.

What stack do you use?

Whatever fits your systems and your team after handover. Typically TypeScript, Go or Python services and PostgreSQL; Astro, Next.js or WordPress for sites; Shopify or WooCommerce for stores; Expo and React Native for mobile; AWS with Terraform or CDK. For AI, models from Anthropic (Claude) or OpenAI, chosen per task and measured against an evaluation set. Each service page lists its stack.

Where does my data live?

Application and data are hosted in your cloud or region of choice. For AI work, the model provider and processing region are stated in the data processing agreement. We do not use your data to train anything.

Will you sign our NDA before we share documents?

Yes. Send it before the first call if you like. We sign before we see any document or data.

Do you sign data processing agreements?

Yes. Any project that touches personal data gets a DPA that names every processor and region. Send yours, or we will send ours.

Which law governs the contract?

English law with ICC arbitration by default, or UAE law for clients in the Gulf who prefer it. The contract states the seat and the language of any arbitration.

What about withholding tax and VAT?

Prices are quoted net of taxes. Where your country withholds tax on payments for foreign services, the statement of work says how it is handled, before you sign.

How do payments work?

Invoices in US dollars, or euros on request, paid by international bank transfer. Projects under $10,000 are paid 50/50; larger ones 40/40/20; a Blueprint upfront. Terms are Net-7.

Can you work in Arabic?

Yes: meetings, documents, and the sites, apps and tools themselves, in Arabic and English, with right to left done properly.

Do you work with agencies?

Yes. White-label partnership is available: we build, you keep the client relationship. Ask.

What happens after handover?

30 days of fixes, then your choice: Care for sites and stores, Run for tools and apps, or take it in-house with the docs, the tests and a recorded walkthrough.

Where are you based?

Beirut, Lebanon. Our working day overlaps the Gulf and Europe, and we take calls Sunday to Friday. We work remotely with clients anywhere.

Something else? [email protected]

Bring one problem.

20 minutes. We tell you which line fits, what it costs and when it could ship. If we are not the right team, we say so.

Or write to [email protected]

Your time and ours

Calls Sunday to Friday

  • Beirut

  • Dubai

  • Riyadh

  • Cairo

  • Berlin

  • London

  • New York

Beirut shares the working day with Dubai, Riyadh, Cairo, Berlin and London, and the afternoon overlaps the New York morning.