We build chatbots in Dubai
Building chatbots 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 — admin tooling, error states, deployment, handover — are the ones you end up paying for anyway.
- 01
WhatsApp Business API setup and approval, handled by us
- 02
Arabic and English handling that is tested, not assumed
- 03
Integration with the system that actually holds the answer
- 04
Clean handover to a human, with full context, when the bot should stop
- 05
Conversation logs you can read and learn from
What we build it with
- WhatsApp Business API
- Claude
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Twilio
How this goes wrong
The failure mode we see most often.
Buying a chatbot when the underlying answer does not exist in any system. If your staff cannot answer the question in ten seconds from a screen, neither can a bot — the real project is the data.
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We do not publish a rate card, and you should distrust anyone who does.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 chatbots 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.
Often built alongside
Same build, elsewhere
Questions
Chatbot Development in Dubai
How much does a WhatsApp AI chatbot cost in the UAE?
It depends on CRM integration, payment handling, multi-language support and how much reasoning is involved. The UAE software cost guide publishes sourced market ranges for budgeting; your own price is fixed against a written scope.
Does it handle Arabic?
Yes, and we test it rather than assuming the model handles it. Arabic handling is a real cost driver and we quote it as one instead of discovering it late.
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 chatbots 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 chatbots? 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.