For Dubai & UAE mid-market companies

AI workflow automation, UAE-buyer ready.

Senior European AI delivery team for DIFC, ADGM, and mainland UAE mid-market buyers. GST-overlap hours, USD or AED pricing, DIFC / ADGM commercial framework, UAE PDPL + DIFC DPL compliant DPA. Fixed-price pilots from From $35,000, Run support from $6k/mo.

Why UAE mid-market teams pick a France-based AI partner

We do not pretend to be a UAE-resident consultancy. We structure delivery around the constraints of DIFC / ADGM / mainland UAE buyers — senior European engineering capacity, Dubai-overlap working hours, DIFC-compatible commercial framework, Arabic-English bilingual workflows — and we price the difference.

Senior European delivery, Dubai-overlap hours

Our delivery team is France-based with deliberate Dubai-hours overlap (9am–2pm GST). Discovery interviews, weekly syncs, and demo days all happen in that window. The cost structure undercuts UAE-resident AI consultancies by 30–50% with comparable senior delivery.

DIFC / ADGM commercial framework

We work with DIFC and ADGM standard templates. MSA + DPA aligned with DIFC Data Protection Law (No. 5 of 2020) or ADGM Data Protection Regulations 2021. Jurisdiction selectable on a per-engagement basis.

Arabic-English bilingual workflows

End-to-end Arabic-English delivery: bilingual prompt libraries, RTL-aware reviewer queues, language-tagged audit logs. Validated against UAE PDPL Article 9 (right to data in plain language). We have shipped Ministry-licensed bilingual platforms in the GCC region.

UAE AI Strategy 2031 alignment

Our engagement framework maps to UAE AI Strategy 2031 pillars: AI governance, sector-specific compliance, talent enablement, and economic productivity. The Build phase produces artefacts your CIO / Chief AI Officer can defend to regulators.

Built for UAE mid-market + family office buyers

Engagements scoped for DIFC / ADGM-registered entities, AED 100M–AED 2B revenue companies, family offices, and sovereign-adjacent operators. Real estate, hospitality, logistics, financial services, legal services, government services.

Audit-ready by default for UAE regulators

Versioned prompts, queryable audit log, reviewer queue, attestation pack. Aligned with DIFC Regulation 10 (Use of Personal Data in Operations) and NESA (National Electronic Security Authority) standards for cybersecurity. Built into the architecture from week one.

USD / AED pricing

Phased, fixed-price engagement

You commit one phase at a time. Discovery produces the Build SoW; Build produces the production workflow; Run is optional and month-to-month. $90k–$220k typical year-1 outlay including 6 months Run.

Phase 1 · Discovery

$10,000–$15,000

2 weeks

Fixed-price Discovery sprint. SOW delivered within 5 business days. AED billing on request.

Phase 2 · Build

$45,000–$95,000

6–10 weeks

Fixed-scope Build engagement. USD or AED invoicing.

Phase 3 · Run (optional)

$6,000–$15,000 / month

month-to-month

Optional Run retainer with weekly operating cadence.

First pilot: Fixed-price first pilot — discovery + thin-slice production. Reserved for DIFC / ADGM / family office / mid-market UAE buyers. (From $35,000)

Family office / single-family wealth: Family office and single-family wealth engagements: $80k–$150k engagement minimum, scoped per mandate complexity.

Delivery window

Daily live overlap

9am–2pm GST / 11am–4pm CET

Five hours of daily overlap with Dubai working hours. Async-friendly outside that window. Arabic-English operator hand-offs supported on regulated workflows.

SOW turnaround

5 business days

Post-Discovery call, scoped SOW in USD or AED with deliverables, milestones, and fixed pricing.

Bilingual support

Arabic-English workflows

Arabic-English content workflows supported with bilingual labelled test sets.

DIFC / ADGM procurement-ready

UAE-compatible commercial framework

  • MSA / SOW

    Standard UAE-compatible MSA. We can sign yours (DIFC Standard Form / ADGM template) or use ours.

  • NDA process

    Mutual NDA signed within 24h of request. Common law (DIFC/ADGM) friendly.

  • UAE PDPL DPA

    UAE PDPL (Federal Decree-Law 45 of 2021) + GDPR-compliant DPA. SCCs included for cross-border data flows.

  • DIFC DPA option

    DIFC Data Protection Law (Law No. 5 of 2020) compliant DPA option for DIFC-registered counterparties.

  • ADGM DPA option

    ADGM Data Protection Regulations 2021 compliant DPA option for ADGM-registered counterparties.

  • Jurisdiction

    DIFC Courts (common-law, English-language) at counterparty option for DIFC-registered entities. ADGM Courts for ADGM. Default: laws of France with arbitration in Paris (ICC).

  • Insurance

    $2M professional indemnity + $1M cyber liability via Lloyd's-backed carrier. Acceptable to most UAE procurement teams.

  • Data handling

    We do not train any model on client data. UAE-region storage available on request (AWS me-central-1 / Azure UAE North). DIFC and ADGM data-residency requirements supported.

Verticals we ship for UAE mid-market

We are not horizontal. Each vertical engagement ships with the UAE compliance scaffolding your procurement, DPO, and (where relevant) regulator expect.

What UAE buyers ask before signing

You're based in France — what about UAE local entity requirements?+

We can contract via our DIFC sponsorship arrangement (for DIFC-registered counterparties), via our French parent for cross-border engagements, or invoice in AED through a UAE merchant-of-record if your AP team requires UAE-resident invoicing.

How do timezone differences affect delivery?+

We work an 9am–2pm GST overlap window — five hours of live overlap with Dubai. Discovery interviews, weekly syncs, demo days all happen in that window. Outside it, work continues async with morning hand-offs.

Can you handle UAE data residency requirements?+

Yes. We deploy retrieval indexes, audit logs, and storage in UAE regions (AWS me-central-1 / Azure UAE North) on request. DIFC and ADGM data-residency requirements honored when the engagement runs under those frameworks.

Do you sign DIFC or ADGM standard MSAs?+

Yes. We accept DIFC Standard Form services agreements and ADGM templates. We can also bring our own MSA, mapped to DIFC Data Protection Law (No. 5 of 2020) or ADGM Data Protection Regulations 2021 as appropriate.

Can you operate Arabic-English bilingual workflows?+

Yes. Our delivery includes bilingual prompt libraries, RTL-aware reviewer queues, language-tagged audit logs, and labelled test sets in both languages. We have shipped Ministry-licensed bilingual platforms in the GCC region.

What about family office data confidentiality?+

Family office engagements run under enhanced confidentiality: encrypted retrieval indexes, named-engineer access only, audit log retained on-prem-equivalent, mutual NDA with 7-year confidentiality survival. References available from peer engagements pre-signature.

How does this align with UAE AI Strategy 2031?+

Our framework maps to all five UAE AI Strategy 2031 pillars: governance (our control map), sector applications (our vertical playbooks), talent (operator playbook hand-over), R&D (we publish architecture patterns), data infrastructure (UAE-resident storage). Mapping document available on request.

Limited monthly capacity

Book a 30-min discovery call (Dubai-friendly)

Tell us about your workflow, your systems, your KPI, and your timeline. We'll send a scoped SOW in USD or AED within 5 business days.