Straight answers
The questions I get asked first.
Pricing, timelines, how an engagement runs, and why a solo operator can run this much. If your question isn't here, email me and I'll answer in writing.
Where are your client case studies?
My own companies are the case studies — six of them are public and you can click them at the top of this page. Client case studies get published as engagements close, anonymized, with the hours saved. Early clients get founding-client pricing in exchange for a named result I can show.
Why not just hire a freelancer on Upwork?
A freelancer builds something and leaves. Nobody runs it, monitors it, or updates it when a model changes underneath it. The retainer is the product: I keep your systems working and make them better every month. Building is the easy half.
Why should I trust a solo operator based in Dubai?
Because the proof is public and checkable. I run more than fifteen production AI applications, and six of them are live sites you can use right now. I work in writing, on fixed prices, with a contract and an invoice. You can start with a one-week Quick Win before committing to anything monthly.
How much does it cost?
Every price is fixed and published. The Manual-Work Scan is free. A one-week Quick Win build is $1,500. Larger build sprints run $4,500 to $7,500. Ongoing operations retainers start at $1,000 a month, and the largest department-scale engagement is $7,500 to $10,000 a month. Every number sits below the fully loaded cost of a junior hire, which is the whole point.
How fast can you start, and when do I see results?
Discovery is a written intake, not a string of meetings, so we start in days rather than weeks. A Quick Win is live within seven working days or you do not pay the second half. On a retainer you see working software every week and a written report of the hours saved each month.
What kinds of businesses do you work with?
Owner-led small and mid-sized businesses where repetitive work piles up. The most common are e-commerce and retail operations, real estate and property management, and recruiting and staffing. I work async and in writing, so location is not a constraint — clients are worldwide and I am based in Dubai.
How are you one person running all of this?
I built an AI operating system that runs my companies — agent departments for engineering, sales, and analytics, with quality gates and monitoring. That same leverage is why I can run your systems at a price that looks like a junior salary instead of an agency invoice.
What do you build on?
Production web apps on Next.js, the Claude API routed through a gateway I run, Postgres, and infrastructure I manage end to end — DNS, TLS, deploys, monitoring. I build on your existing tools where it makes sense and host things myself where it does not.
How do payments work?
Fixed builds are paid up front by card through a hosted checkout. Retainers are a flat monthly invoice with a card payment link, a three-month minimum, then 30 days' notice to stop. Prices are shown in US dollars; your card is charged through my UAE payment provider, which handles the currency conversion.
Do you sign an NDA and assign the IP?
Yes. A short fixed-scope agreement for builds, a simple monthly service agreement for retainers, IP assigns to you on payment, and a data-processing addendum is available for clients in the EU and UK.
Still deciding? Start with the free scan.
Tell me where the manual work piles up. In five business days I send back the three workflows worth automating first — written, no call required.