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Qanat

We build SaaS platforms in the UAE

Building SaaS platforms in the UAE

Qanat builds multi-tenant SaaS platforms for UAE companies productising something they already do well. Tenancy, billing and permissions are week-one decisions that are expensive to revisit in month six, so they are settled in the scope rather than discovered mid-build.

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Scope
Written

Before anything is quoted

Price
Fixed

Agreed before we start

Held back
20%

Until you accept

Code
Yours

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.

  1. 01

    Tenancy model chosen deliberately and documented

  2. 02

    Subscription billing, trials, upgrades and the failure cases

  3. 03

    Roles, invitations and organisation-level permissions

  4. 04

    Onboarding flow, because activation decides whether the product survives

  5. 05

    Usage instrumentation from day one

What we build it with

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • PostgreSQL
  • Stripe
  • AWS
  • Clerk

How this goes wrong

The failure mode we see most often.

Building the product for the first customer. A platform shaped entirely around one client's process is a bespoke build with a subscription attached, and the second customer exposes it.

What it costs

We do not publish a rate card, and you should distrust anyone who does.

The price of SaaS platforms 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

SaaS Platform Development in the UAE

Can you take over a SaaS product someone else started?

Yes, starting with a paid audit so we can tell you honestly whether continuing or rebuilding is cheaper. Roughly half the time the answer is continue.

How long does it take to build SaaS platforms 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 SaaS platforms? 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.

The quote is free and the scope is yours either way.