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Software studio in Dubai.

Custom software, built alongside you by a senior engineer who learns how your business works first.

No outsourcing: the engineer you meet is the one who builds it. It starts with the Discovery Week: one week on how the work is actually done, AED 7,500, and you leave with the specification, the quote and the payback in writing, yours whoever builds it. From there we build, in sprints priced before each one starts.

The engagement, start to finish
The engagement, step by step A free 30-minute call, then the Discovery Week at AED 7,500, then build sprints of two to four weeks from AED 40,000, then support with terms signed before launch. Half the Discovery Week fee is credited to the build. 30 min · free · Google Meet First call how your business runs today 1 week · AED 7,500 The Discovery Week requirements, specification, quote 2-4 week sprints · from AED 40,000 Build & ship software every sprint after launch Live and supported terms signed before launch half the Discovery Week fee is credited to the build

How it works

Four steps. Every one ends with something in your hands, and every number is agreed before the next one starts.

  1. First call

    30 min · free · on Google Meet

    Thirty minutes on how your business runs today, where the time goes and what you want to change.

    You get   a straight answer on whether software helps, and a rough number.

  2. The Discovery Week

    1 week · AED 7,500 · half credited to your build

    A week on how the work is actually done: with your team and in your systems, usually in your office, remote when that is where the answer is. From that we write the requirements and the specification, and the quote states what the build pays back, in months.

    You get   the requirements, the specification and a quote. Yours to keep, whoever builds it.

  3. Build

    2-4 week sprints · from AED 40,000

    Sprints of two to four weeks, each priced before it starts. You use what was built, tell us what is wrong, and we fix it in the next one.

    You get   working software after every sprint, running in your own accounts.

  4. Live and supported

    agreed before launch, never after

    Support terms are priced and signed while we are still building, so you are never negotiating cover for software you already depend on.

    You get   the code, the accounts, the infrastructure and the docs. All in your name.

What we build

Custom software, end to end. Whether that is a product you are taking to market or the system your team runs on, we build the whole thing, and we build it around how it actually has to work.

Where the software sits
Map of where the software sits Reading from outside your business inwards: your customers, then software your customers use, then software your team runs on, then your team. A connecting layer links both to the tools you already pay for, which stay. outside Your customers buyers, clients, partners, investors A Software your customers use marketplaces, portals B Software your team runs on the system that fits you Your team the people doing the work by hand today inside C The layer that connects it invoices, quotes, follow-ups run themselves; AI drafts, a human approves The tools you already pay for accounting, CRM, spreadsheets, WhatsApp. They stay.
A

Software your customers use

Products and platforms you take to market: marketplaces, portals, client apps. Built from scratch and end to end, database through interface to infrastructure, designed around what it actually has to do rather than what a template allows.

B

Software your team runs on

The product everyone uses gets most of it right, and the part it gets wrong is the part your business is good at. That gap gets absorbed by people doing things by hand. We build the system that fits your process instead of the other way around, sitting alongside the tools you already pay for.

C

The layer that connects it

Your existing tools start talking to each other, and the work that repeats every day runs itself: invoices, quotes, follow-ups, reconciliations. Where the task needs judgment, AI reads the documents and drafts the response for a human to approve.

Building something new?

From an idea on paper to something you can bet the business on. Three offers, pinned to the stage they serve.

Which offer serves which stage
  1. Idea
  2. Prototype
  3. Production
  4. Maintained
  • MVP builds

    From idea to a working product, in short sprints, each priced before it starts. Scoped to what proves the idea works: the features a user or investor needs to see, not the ones that can wait.

  • Prototype → production

    You have an app that works. Before it reaches customers or investors, we make sure it holds up: security, data, reliability, and everything a technical reviewer would ask about. It is how BizBuy, in the work below, was built. Read more

  • Learn to build with AI coming soon

    Not another tool tutorial. The judgment that separates a working app from a solid one: what to check, how to structure it, and when to move fast versus when to slow down. Taught directly, not learned the expensive way. Read more

Start with the questions

The checklist we run before an app is trusted with real customers and real money: 34 questions across seven areas, each with what a bad answer sounds like.

Put them to whoever built your app, or to the AI that built it. You will learn more in an evening than most founders know about their own.

Sending this also puts you on my email list: what audits turn up, and when the course opens. A few times a year at most, and one click stops it for good.

I keep your name and email to send the checklist and to write to you, and delete them after 24 months. Nobody else sees them, ever. Privacy notice.

No list beyond this. Leave whenever you like.

Built and shipped

Live products, built and run in production.

BizBuy marketplace landing page showing business listings with financials

BizBuy

Marketplace · UAE
4 weeks from AI prototype to production

A UAE marketplace for buying and selling businesses: verified financials, due diligence rooms, and offer letters generated automatically, from listing to signed deal.

Read the case study
Epic Trading terminal showing live order flow across venues

Epic Trading

Real-time trading terminal
10M trades an hour, watched live across nine exchanges

A private terminal watching nine crypto exchanges at once: every trade and every order-book change, live.

Read the case study

How we work

Who writes the code
Berger Solutions
Senior engineers. No junior learning on your budget
Low-cost offshore team
Whoever is free this week
Large agency
Juniors
Is any of it subcontracted
Berger Solutions
No. Nothing is handed off without your written agreement
Low-cost offshore team
Often, and you are not told
Large agency
Often, offshore, and you are not told
Who you talk to
Berger Solutions
The engineer building it, directly, throughout
Low-cost offshore team
A coordinator
Large agency
An account manager
Price known before work starts
Berger Solutions
Fixed before the work starts, never hourly. The paid week is priced on this page
Low-cost offshore team
Hourly, open-ended
Large agency
After a proposal cycle
What happens before a quote
Berger Solutions
The Discovery Week: business requirements and a software specification, written with your team
Low-cost offshore team
A requirements call
Large agency
A workshop
Where the work is done
Berger Solutions
In Dubai. In your office when that is where the answer is
Low-cost offshore team
Offshore
Large agency
A delivery centre you never see
In Dubai, meetable before you commit
Berger Solutions
Yes
Low-cost offshore team
No
Large agency
The sales team, yes
Will tell you software is the wrong answer
Berger Solutions
Yes, on the free call
Low-cost offshore team
No
Large agency
Rarely
Still there after launch
Berger Solutions
Yes, on terms agreed before launch
Low-cost offshore team
Depends who is left
Large agency
A support tier

AI speed, senior judgment

AI does the typing; a senior engineer designs it, reviews the parts where a mistake costs you (the data, the money, the security), and signs off everything that ships. That is why it takes weeks instead of months, without betting your business on autopilot code.

Bad news reaches you early

If a sprint is going to slip or a decision turns out wrong, you hear it that week, not at handover.

Software is not a handover

Fixes, changes and new features long after day one, on terms agreed before launch.

No proposals

A proposal is a guess dressed as a plan. The Discovery Week replaces it: a week of finding out, then a specification and a quote you can hold us to. If you would rather have a proposal, we are probably not the right fit.

Not us  staff augmentation, and marketing websites. Other Dubai studios do this better and cheaper than we would.

FAQ

The things most owners want to know before they book, answered straight.

Why do you need a week of discovery before quoting?
Because the step that matters is usually the one nobody wrote down. Ask a team how a job works and you get the official version. Follow the work, sometimes at their desk, sometimes in the systems, and you find the check someone added years ago for a good reason that never reached any document. Build without it and the software is correct and still wrong. That week is what makes the plan worth building from.
Will my team actually use it?
That gets designed in, not hoped for. The fastest way to kill a new system is to replace a process someone has run for years with a single button and ask them to trust it. We keep the steps your team already recognises and let the software do the work inside them, so people can still see that the answer is right. Then we sit with them while they use it.
Do you outsource any of the work?
No. The engineer you meet on the first call builds it and answers your messages. AI does the typing; they own the design, review the parts where a mistake costs you, and sign off everything that ships. If a project ever needs a second pair of hands, you are told who they are before they start, and the responsibility stays with us. Nothing is passed to a team you never meet.
Can you take over something someone else built?
Yes, and it is often how we meet people. It starts with an audit of what exists: a written verdict on whether to keep it, fix it or start again, with the findings ranked and each one priced. We do not rebuild what only needs fixing, and we say so in writing before any work starts.
What happens after you ship?
We stay. Support runs as a monthly subscription: fixes, small adjustments, and keeping everything running smoothly. Bigger changes and new features are scoped and quoted as sprints, the same way the original build was. We only build systems we are willing to maintain.
Who owns the code and the plan?
You do. The code, the accounts, the infrastructure and the documentation are all in your name from day one. The Discovery Week plan is yours to keep as well.
What do you build with?
Boring, proven tools, on purpose: a relational database, a mainstream web framework, plain cloud hosting. Nothing exotic, nothing only we understand. Any competent engineer you hire later can open the code and work in it, which is the real answer to what happens if we are not around.
Is my data safe?
Your data lives in your own accounts, built with UAE data protection (PDPL) in mind: least access, encrypted storage, real backups. We can walk you through it in plain language on the call.
Why not just buy an off-the-shelf tool?
Sometimes you should, and if that is your case we will tell you on the free call. Custom pays off when the tool has to fit how your team actually works instead of forcing your team to fit the tool.
What if it goes over budget?
It cannot quietly. Work is sold in sprints and every number is agreed before a sprint starts. If a sprint takes us longer than we quoted, that is our cost, not yours. If the requirements change, that is a new number, agreed before anything is built.

If this sounds like what you need, the next step is a call.

Thirty minutes on Google Meet. We go through your business and what you want to change, and you leave knowing whether it is worth building and roughly what it would take.

Free, and nothing to prepare. Pick a time that suits you.

Jean-Philippe, Founder & lead engineer
Jean-Philippe
Founder & lead engineer · Dubai

Phone / WhatsApp
+971 58 502 0610