We build AI automation in Dubai
Building AI automation in Dubai
Qanat builds software for Dubai companies at a fixed price and a fixed date. Dubai has more software agencies per square kilometre than almost anywhere, which means the hard part is not finding a vendor. It is telling apart the ones who will still be reachable in month four.
- 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, such as admin tooling, error states, deployment and handover, are the ones you end up paying for anyway.
- 01
A half-day mapping the process as it actually runs, not as documented
- 02
The hours-saved calculation before we quote, so the payback is explicit
- 03
Automation built against your real systems and real edge cases
- 04
A human approval step wherever the cost of being wrong is high
- 05
Monitoring, so a silent failure does not become a three-week problem
What we build it with
- Python
- TypeScript
- n8n
- Claude
- Zapier
- PostgreSQL
How this goes wrong
The failure mode we see most often.
Automating a broken process. Automation makes a bad process faster and harder to change, so the mapping session sometimes ends with us recommending a process fix and a much smaller build.
Dubai buyers are usually on their second or third attempt. The market is dominated by large offshore delivery shops selling through local account managers, so the common experience is a strong pitch, a junior team, and a slow drift in scope. Quotes for the same brief routinely differ by a factor of five, which tells you the quotes are not measuring the same thing.
The constraint people miss in Dubai
Cheap quotes are usually cheap scopes. The gap between an AED 40,000 quote and an AED 140,000 quote for the same brief is almost always in what the cheap one silently excluded, and you find out in month three.
Who we build for in Dubai
- SMEs replacing spreadsheets and manual process
- Founders building a first product
- DIFC and free zone financial firms needing internal tooling
- Retail and B2B distribution digitising ordering
- Family-office groups modernising operations
What it costs
We do not publish a rate card, and you should distrust anyone who does.
The price of AI automation 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 Workflow Automation in Dubai
What does AI automation cost in Dubai?
The cost driver is almost never the AI. It is the number of systems the automation has to integrate with, which is why we map the process before quoting. The UAE software cost guide gives sourced market ranges for budgeting.
How do you prove it was worth it?
We measure the hours the process consumes before we start, and again after. If the recovered hours do not cover the build inside a year, we say so before you commit rather than after.
What is different about building software in Dubai?
Dubai buyers are usually on their second or third attempt. The market is dominated by large offshore delivery shops selling through local account managers, so the common experience is a strong pitch, a junior team, and a slow drift in scope. Quotes for the same brief routinely differ by a factor of five, which tells you the quotes are not measuring the same thing.
How long does it take to build AI automation in Dubai?
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 automation? 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.