Dubai · United Arab Emirates
Qanat is a Dubai software and AI studio. Apps, automations, AI agents, internal tools — one fixed price agreed before we start, working software in your hands inside 14 days, and the code is yours from the first commit.
Fixed, written
Running software
Until you accept
From commit one
A qanat is the underground channel that carried water across this desert long before anyone drilled for anything else. Built once, carefully, by people who understood the ground. It still runs.
What is Qanat?
Qanat is a Dubai-based software and AI studio. A small senior team builds web and mobile applications, MVPs, AI agents, automations and internal tools for UAE companies. Every project is one fixed price against a written scope, and the client owns the repository from the first commit.
Why this exists
They are sold by someone who will not build them, priced on an estimate nobody is accountable for, and delivered into an account the client does not control. The code is rarely the reason it went wrong.
| Typical agency | Offshore team | Qanat | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who writes the code | A team you meet after signing | Whoever is free that month | The person who quoted it |
| How it is priced | Estimate, revised upward | Hourly, uncapped | One fixed price, agreed first |
| Who carries the estimate risk | You | You | Us |
| Where the code lives | Their account | Their account | Your organisation, first commit |
| First working software | At the end | At the end | Inside two weeks |
We are small on purpose. That is a real constraint — we take a handful of projects at a time and say no to the rest — and it is also the whole reason the first two rows are true.
How it works
Twenty minutes on what the software has to achieve, not what features it should have. Most briefs change materially in that call, which is the point of having it.
We write the scope, you read it. It is specific enough that another developer could build from it — which is deliberate, because it means the price is measuring something real.
One fixed price within 48 hours, and a date. If we estimated badly, that is our problem. The scope is yours to take elsewhere either way.
Working software in your hands inside two weeks, then every week after. Twenty percent of the price is held back until you accept the finished build.
What we build
Bands are AED for a first production build, excluding VAT and maintenance. Full ranges, sources and methodology in the cost guide.
The market, briefly
AED 92k–294k
What a mid-level business build costs in the UAE in 2026 — the band most first projects actually land in.
GoodFirms
25–35%
Share of a build budget consumed by backend and core work. It is invisible in a demo, which is where cheap quotes cut.
Decipher Zone
15–25%
Of the build cost, every year, for maintenance. A quote that omits it is less complete, not cheaper.
GoodFirms
How to work with us
One defined thing, one price agreed before we start, one date. If it takes longer than we estimated, that is our problem.
We become your engineering team for a monthly fee, shipping every week against a roadmap you own.
Two weeks, a fixed price, and something real at the end — a prototype, a working automation, or a scope you can take anywhere.
Questions
Qanat is a Dubai-based software and AI studio. We design and build web applications, mobile apps, MVPs, AI agents, automations, chatbots, internal tools, integrations, dashboards, e-commerce and SaaS platforms for UAE companies. Every project is quoted as one fixed price against a written scope, and the client owns the code from the first commit.
It depends entirely on what is being built. UAE builds run from around AED 18,000 for a proof of concept to over AED 1,470,000 for an enterprise platform, and most mid-sized business builds land at AED 92,000–294,000. Our cost guide publishes a band for every project type with sources, and the estimator gives a figure for your case in about a minute.
Three things. The person who quotes the work is the person who writes it, so nothing is lost between a sales meeting and a delivery team. The price is fixed before work starts, so the risk of a wrong estimate sits with us. And the repository is in your organisation from the first commit, so leaving costs you nothing.
Two weeks for a sprint, four to ten weeks for internal tools and automations, eight to sixteen weeks for a web or mobile application, and sixteen to twenty-eight for a multi-tenant SaaS platform. Whatever the length, working software reaches you inside the first two weeks rather than at the end.
Yes, though the UAE is where we are and where we are most useful. Local presence matters for the workshops, the payment gateway integrations and the data-residency work — less so for a product built for a global market.
The two-week sprint is the smallest thing we sell, and it is a real fixed price. Below that, you probably want a freelancer and we will say so rather than take the work.
Start here
A scope call, then a written scope and one fixed price within 48 hours. Working software in your hands inside 14 days, and 20% of the price held back until you accept it.