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The parts of UAE hiring nobody explains.
What is covered here
Practical guidance on hiring engineers in the United Arab Emirates: Emiratisation quotas as they apply to technology teams, work permit sequencing and cost, the difference between contractors, employers of record and staff augmentation, and the licensing question that decides who carries the liability.
7 min
Agency, freelancer or offshore: choosing for a UAE software project
The three ways to get software built in the UAE, what each actually costs, and the specific way each one fails.
6 min
Why the same software brief gets quoted at AED 40,000 and AED 300,000
A breakdown of what actually drives software build cost in the UAE, and how to make five incomparable quotes comparable.
7 min
AI projects that pay for themselves in a UAE business — and the ones that don't
A practical filter for AI spend in a UAE SME: which projects return their cost inside a year, which quietly never do, and how to tell in advance.
5 min
Who owns the code: what to check before signing with a Dubai dev agency
Five contract and access checks that decide whether you can leave your software vendor, and what each one looks like when it is wrong.
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Have a question none of these answer?
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.