We build data dashboards in Dubai
Building data dashboards 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
Agreeing metric definitions in writing before anything is built
- 02
Pipelines from the systems that hold the truth
- 03
Dashboards designed around decisions rather than available fields
- 04
Scheduled delivery to inbox or chat, because dashboards go unvisited
- 05
Documented definitions, so nobody re-litigates the numbers quarterly
What we build it with
- PostgreSQL
- dbt
- Metabase
- Next.js
- Python
How this goes wrong
The failure mode we see most often.
Building the dashboard before the definitions are agreed. Two departments counting revenue differently is a governance problem, and no visualisation fixes it.
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We do not publish a rate card, and you should distrust anyone who does.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 data dashboards 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
Data Dashboard Development in Dubai
Why not just use Power BI or Looker?
Often you should, and we will set it up on top of a clean data model rather than sell you a custom front end. Custom earns its place when the reporting needs logic a BI tool cannot express, or when it must sit inside a product your customers use.
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 data dashboards 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 data dashboards? 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.