Dubai-registered. Dubai-managed. Engineering across five locations.
QuantumBlock builds web, mobile and SaaS products for Riyadh companies, delivered from Dubai with on-site sprints in Riyadh for scoping and launch. Saudi IT services are growing about 18 percent a year, and we ship an MVP in ten weeks with weekly demos, hosted in-Kingdom when your project needs it, and you own the code.
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This page covers Custom Software and MVP Development for companies in Riyadh. For the full service, see Custom Software and MVP Development.
The cost of getting this wrong
A Riyadh founder hears the same story that has been told across the Gulf for years: six weeks quoted, four months delivered, and what actually shipped is a login screen and a change request for phase two that costs more than phase one did. The Year of AI mandate makes the gap more expensive, not less, because a competitor moving on a real product while you wait on a vendor's second estimate is a competitor who gets to be the case study.
The second failure is an MVP that works too well too fast. Built on shortcuts that survive a friendly pilot group, it collapses the week the Year of AI momentum brings real traffic, and the rebuild lands exactly when you can least afford to stop shipping. Saudi IT services are growing about 18 percent a year toward USD 45.8 billion by 2030, and more money moving through vendors only makes an architecture mistake more expensive to unwind later.
The third cost is a residency question nobody asked at the start. A product built on a default cloud region works until a regulated client or an NCA ECC review asks where the data actually sits, and moving a live database into the Kingdom after launch is a far bigger job than choosing Oracle Riyadh or STC Cloud in week one.
A different way to buy engineering
The MVP Sprint runs the same disciplined ten weeks for a Riyadh client as anywhere else. In week one we cut the idea down to the smallest product that proves the business, agree it in writing, and make the architecture calls that matter at ten times launch traffic. From week two to week eight, every week ends with working software on a real URL you can click, test and show to your own team, with scope changes traded openly rather than added quietly.
Delivery is led from our Dubai office, with on-site sprints in Riyadh for the scoping workshop and the launch week, because those conversations go better in a room than on a call. Between visits, the weekly demo still lands on schedule from Dubai, on Riyadh time with only an hour's difference. When your product needs data resident in the Kingdom under NCA ECC controls, we set up hosting on Oracle Cloud Riyadh and Jeddah, Google's Dammam region or STC Cloud, documented for your PDPL file.
Fixed scope first, a demo every week, and you own all of the code.
The stack is deliberately unexciting: TypeScript, Nuxt or Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL and Flutter, with Stripe, Telr or a Saudi-licensed gateway for payments. We do not have a Saudi commercial registration yet, so the engagement runs through our Dubai entity while we build toward a Kingdom presence, and we say so plainly rather than implying a local office we do not have.
How it works
Week 1
We cut the idea down to the smallest product that proves the business, agree it in writing, choose the architecture and set up the design system, repositories and cloud accounts in your name.
Weeks 2 to 8
Every week ends with a demo of working software on a real URL, not a progress report. You test it, we adjust, and scope changes are traded openly rather than added silently.
Week 9
Error handling, logging, backups, a security review of authentication, payments and data access, and a load test at well above your launch traffic, so launch week is boring.
Week 10
Production release, app store submission where needed, monitoring switched on, and a hand-over with documentation and CI/CD so your team or ours can keep shipping from day one.
Proof
Retail and services loyalty
LoyalsClub
2.4x lifetime spend
Value of a returning customer
Owner-portal transaction ledger for a Dubai barbershop, 2 May to 13 Aug 2026: 21 of 70 enrolled customers returned at least once and averaged AED 773 lifetime spend versus AED 320 for one-time customers.
51% of tracked revenue
Revenue concentration in repeat customers
Same ledger and period: the returning 30% of enrolled customers produced 51% of the AED 31,936 in tracked revenue, which was staff-entered rather than POS-verified.
70 customers enrolled, 107 scanned visits
Enrollment and scanned visits
Owner-portal enrollment and scan counts, 2 May to 13 Aug 2026.
4.9 average from 23 reviewers, 29 reviews
In-app customer rating
In-app review widget, 2 May to 13 Aug 2026. This is an in-app rating, not a Google review.
Fit
Deliverables
At the end of the MVP Sprint you have a product in production and everything needed to keep it moving:
10 weeks · fixed scope
A launchable product with an architecture that will not need a rewrite at 10x users.
Fixed quote within 2 business days.
Why it is safe to start
On WhatsApp, Sunday to Friday, 09:00 to 18:00 Gulf time, and within 24 hours otherwise. From an engineer, never a bot.
Send your brief under NDA before you tell us anything sensitive. Fixed quote within 2 business days.
Code, infrastructure, accounts and IP are yours from day one. No lock-in, no retained access.
UAE or KSA cloud regions when you need them (AWS me-central-1, Azure UAE North, Google me-central2, Oracle Riyadh and Jeddah). Built for UAE PDPL and Saudi PDPL.
QuantumBlock Solutions L.L.C-FZ, Meydan Free Zone licence 2424573.01. A licensed company you can meet, not a reseller.
Every engagement starts with a fixed-scope, fixed-timeline first project so you can judge us on delivery before committing further.
We start a limited number of new engagements each quarter so every project gets a senior engineer from day one. If your timeline is this quarter, message us this week.
No. We lead from our Dubai office, build with our Yerevan engineering team and run on-site sprints in Riyadh for scoping workshops and launch, so the people who need to be in the room are, without the overhead of a second entity.
Our MVP Sprint is ten weeks: one week of scope and architecture, seven weeks of weekly shipped increments, one week of hardening and one week for launch, the same shape whether the product ships in Riyadh, Jeddah or Dubai.
Yes. We host on Oracle Cloud Riyadh and Jeddah, Google's Dammam region or STC Cloud when your product needs in-Kingdom residency under NCA ECC controls, and document the setup for your PDPL records.
Yes, always. Repositories, cloud accounts, domains and app store listings are created in your name from day one, whether your company is registered in the Kingdom or in the UAE.
We bring the engineering team rather than waiting on a hire. Saudi Arabia faces a projected shortage of 663,000 skilled workers by 2030, and our Dubai-led team ships the MVP while your own hiring runs in parallel.
Yes. We start with a short code and infrastructure audit, tell you honestly what can be kept and what should be rebuilt, then take over delivery under the same weekly demo rhythm.
It changes what founders ask for, not our discipline. Saudi Arabia declared 2026 the Year of AI, so more MVPs now include an assistant or an agent feature, and we build it as a component we can test and swap, not a headline with no working demo.
Yes. We connect products to Odoo, Zoho and Microsoft Dynamics through their APIs, and wire up Stripe, Telr or a Saudi-licensed gateway for payments, so staff stop typing the same record twice.
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How much does it cost to build an app in Dubai in 2026? Real price bands for MVPs, business apps and AI-enabled builds, plus what actually moves the number.
Software development cost Saudi Arabia buyers should expect: SAR 50,000 for an MVP to SAR 1.5M for an agentic programme, plus procurement and hosting rules.
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