We build AI agents in the UAE
Building AI agents in the UAE
Qanat builds AI agents and assistants that do real work inside a business — reading documents, drafting replies, triaging queues, calling internal systems. The evaluation set is built before the agent, so an improvement can be measured rather than asserted.
- Scope
- Written
- Price
- Fixed
- Held back
- 20%
- Code
- Yours
Before anything is quoted
Agreed before we start
Until you accept
From the first commit
Scope
What a build of this kind actually contains.
Everything below is inside the quoted price. The items agencies leave out of a cheap quote — admin tooling, error states, deployment, handover — are the ones you end up paying for anyway.
- 01
The evaluation set built before the agent, so improvement is measurable
- 02
Retrieval design over your actual documents, not a demo corpus
- 03
Tool access to your systems with permissions and an audit trail
- 04
Cost and latency budgets agreed up front and enforced in code
- 05
A written statement of what the agent must never be allowed to do
What we build it with
- Claude
- OpenAI
- LangGraph
- Vector databases
- Python
- TypeScript
How this goes wrong
The failure mode we see most often.
Starting from the model instead of the task. A demo that impresses in a meeting and fails on the fifth real document is the standard outcome when nobody built an evaluation set first.
What it costs
We do not publish a rate card, and you should distrust anyone who does.
The price of AI agents is decided by scope, not by category. Two projects with the same label routinely differ by a factor of five, and a number quoted before anyone has read your requirements is a guess dressed as a quote.
What we commit to is this: one price, written against a scope you have read and agreed, fixed before work starts. If we estimated badly that is our problem, not a change request.
If you need a budget figure first
Our UAE software cost guide publishes what the market charges, with every figure sourced. That is researched market data for budgeting — not our price list, and not a quote.
Questions
AI Agent Development in the UAE
How much does AI development cost in the UAE?
It varies enormously with integration depth, which is why we scope before pricing. The UAE software cost guide publishes sourced market ranges by project type for budgeting purposes. Your price is fixed once against a written scope and carries the risk of our estimate, not yours.
Can the AI run on UAE-hosted infrastructure?
Yes, and for regulated clients it should. We design against the data-residency requirement first, because retrofitting residency onto a working system is close to a rebuild.
How long does it take to build AI agents in the UAE?
It depends on the scope, and any studio quoting you a duration before reading your requirements is guessing. We commit to a specific date in the quote, once the scope is written, and you see the software running well before that date rather than at the end.
Start here
Building AI agents? Tell us what it has to do.
A scope call, then a written scope and one fixed price against it. 20% of that price is held back until you accept the finished build, and the scope is yours to take elsewhere either way.
- Who reads it
- Alexandre Arnaud, Founder & Engineer. Not a coordinator, not an inbox.
- What happens
- A 20-minute call to pin the outcome, then a written scope and one fixed price against it.
- What it costs
- Nothing to get scoped and quoted. The quote is free and the scope is yours to take elsewhere.