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Web and software development for Qatari businesses

Qatar spent a decade building physical infrastructure. The work now is the systems to run it, and almost none of that capacity exists locally, which is why it is delivered from outside.

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Qatari riyal
Data regime
Law
National Cyber Security Agency
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Qatar is a small market with concentrated wealth and unusually large deal sizes relative to its population. Energy, government, hospitality and the facilities built out over the last decade dominate, and the common thread across all of them is that a great deal was procured quickly and separately, leaving organisations with systems that do not speak to each other.

That is the work we are most often asked about here: not new construction, but making what already exists produce reliable numbers. Facilities management systems, booking and capacity platforms, and reporting that pulls together a set of tools bought independently during a period when speed mattered more than integration.

Qatar buyers are used to international suppliers and evaluate on process and documentation rather than on price, which suits a studio that keeps its security and handover documentation ready. The time difference is two and a half hours, so the working relationship is close to a domestic one.

Two and a half hours, Sunday to Thursday

Arabia Standard Time is two and a half hours behind India with no daylight saving. Our 09:30 to 19:30 IST working day covers 07:00 to 17:00 in Doha, which is essentially the whole Qatari working day.

As with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, the week is the thing to plan for rather than the clock. Qatar works Sunday to Thursday. We staff Sunday to Thursday for Qatari accounts so that nothing waits a day at the start of your week because nobody on our side was working.

The practical effect is that live collaboration is genuinely available. Daily calls at a sensible hour, real-time code review, and a question answered within minutes rather than the next morning. That is not true of most offshore relationships and it is the strongest argument for choosing an Indian supplier over a European or American one for Qatari work.

Every engagement starts with a conversation, not a proposal template.

Thirty minutes with a senior engineer. You leave with an architecture sketch and an honest cost range, whether or not you hire us.

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Integration, which is most of the demand

The recurring Qatari engagement is not a greenfield build. It is making a set of separately procured systems produce one reliable picture.

A facilities operator running three properties may have a maintenance system from one vendor, an access control system from another, an energy management platform from a third and a finance system that knows about none of them. Each works. Together they produce a monthly report that someone assembles by hand from four exports, and a number that nobody entirely trusts.

That is a well-defined engineering problem: agree the definitions, build the pipelines, put quality checks between the stages so bad data fails loudly rather than propagating, and produce a single reporting layer everyone reads. The hard part is not technical. It is getting the organisation to agree what a term means before the build rather than arguing about it after.

We facilitate that explicitly and write the outcome into the model rather than into a document nobody opens. It is the part of the work that most determines whether the result gets used.

In practice

Integration between separately procured operational systems.
Reporting assembled automatically rather than by hand from exports.
Data quality gates so bad inputs stop rather than reach the board pack.
Definitions agreed in writing before the build, not disputed after.
Booking and capacity platforms for hospitality and events operators.

Every engagement starts with a conversation, not a proposal template.

Thirty minutes with a senior engineer. You leave with an architecture sketch and an honest cost range, whether or not you hire us.

Book that call

The QFC question

Qatar has two data protection regimes and which applies depends on where your entity sits, which is a distinction suppliers frequently miss.

Law No. 13 of 2016 on Personal Data Privacy Protection is the onshore regime, overseen by the National Cyber Security Agency. Qatar was the first Gulf state to enact comprehensive data protection legislation and the law follows broadly GDPR-style principles.

Entities inside the Qatar Financial Centre operate under the separate QFC data protection regime, which is closer to European practice and generally more prescriptive. If you are a QFC entity, the contractual instruments and the obligations differ, so tell us at the start.

For most builds the cleanest route is the one we propose everywhere: do not transfer production personal data at all. Develop against anonymised or synthetic datasets and restrict production access to named individuals under logged conditions where it is genuinely required. Your compliance adviser should review any specific arrangement.

Every engagement starts with a conversation, not a proposal template.

Thirty minutes with a senior engineer. You leave with an architecture sketch and an honest cost range, whether or not you hire us.

Book that call

What we cost in riyals

Qatari buyers usually benchmark against European or regional consultancies. Indicative bands for original work with us.

What we are not

We have no Qatari commercial registration, no office in Doha and no local partner. Where a tender requires in-country presence or a local prime contractor, we cannot meet it and will say so rather than proposing a workaround.

ProjectInternational consultancyWith us
Corporate site with CMSQAR 60,000 - 200,000QAR 6,000 - 20,000
Booking or capacity platformQAR 120,000 - 500,000QAR 12,000 - 70,000
Systems integration and reportingQAR 150,000 - 600,000QAR 14,000 - 80,000
Facilities or operations systemQAR 200,000 - 900,000QAR 18,000 - 130,000
Maintenance and supportQAR 4,000 - 15,000/moQAR 600 - 3,000/mo
Where our Qatar clients are

The market we serve

These are not the same page with the place name swapped. The industries, the buying pattern and the work we are asked for differ materially between them, which is why each has its own.

What clients say

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Enquiries now arrive with specifications already attached

Our previous website had a stock photograph and a paragraph about commitment to quality. It brought us nothing in four years. Sayak spent two days on our shop floor before drawing anything, and what they built lists our machine capacities, tolerance ranges and certifications in a way a purchasing officer can actually evaluate. The change was not in the number of enquiries so much as in their quality — people now call having already decided we can do the job, so the conversation starts at commercial terms.
Arindam SenguptaManaging Director, Sengupta Engineering WorksHowrah ·
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They talked us out of half of what we asked for

We went in with a long list of features we were certain we needed. They built roughly half of it and explained clearly why the rest would be maintained forever and used by nobody. Six months on they were right about every item. The store is fast on phones, which matters because that is where almost all of our traffic comes from, and our team updates the catalogue ourselves without calling anyone.
Priyanka RoyDirector, Roy ExportsKolkata ·
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Parallel running for a full month meant nobody had to trust it blind

Replacing a system a clinic depends on is frightening, and most vendors we spoke to proposed a weekend cutover. Sayak ran the new system alongside our registers for a full month and only switched once the numbers matched every day. Our front desk staff were part of the design rather than being trained at the end, which is why they actually use it. Report preparation that took a person most of a morning now takes minutes.
Dr. Subhankar DasAdministrator, Das Diagnostic CentreKolkata ·
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What Qatar buyers ask us

If yours is not here, ask it directly. We would rather tell you we are a poor fit in the first call than in month three.

Two and a half hours, with no daylight saving on either side. Our working day of 09:30 to 19:30 IST covers 07:00 to 17:00 in Doha, essentially your whole working day. We also staff Sunday to Thursday for Qatari accounts rather than working an Indian week and leaving your Sunday unattended.

It depends on your entity. Onshore entities fall under Law No. 13 of 2016, overseen by the National Cyber Security Agency. Entities inside the Qatar Financial Centre operate under the separate QFC regime, which is closer to European practice and more prescriptive. The contractual instruments differ, so tell us which applies at the outset.

It is the most common request we get from Qatar. A great deal was procured quickly and separately over the last decade, leaving organisations with systems that each work and together produce a monthly report assembled by hand from four exports. Integrating those, with agreed definitions and quality gates, is well-defined engineering and usually the highest-value work available.

A systems integration and reporting project typically runs QAR 150,000 to 600,000 through an international consultancy and QAR 14,000 to 80,000 with us. A corporate site with a CMS is QAR 60,000 to 200,000 against QAR 6,000 to 20,000. Indicative bands for original work, not quotations.

Not as a prime. We have no Qatari commercial registration, no Doha office and no local partner, so where a tender requires in-country presence or a local prime contractor we cannot meet it. We can work as a subcontractor where that is permitted, and we will tell you early rather than at bid stage.

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