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Serving Saudi Arabia · Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam
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We buildsoftware systemsthat go live.
Saudi Arabia is the largest software market in the region and the one where the gap between what a vendor claims and what it can show is widest. What we can show: a payment gateway in production, two fintech platforms handling real transaction volume, a business management platform running since launch, and six live stores elsewhere in the Gulf. All of it checkable.
50+projects shipped
10Qatar clients
2016building since
In short
We build software for Saudi businesses from Karachi — custom platforms, fintech and payment systems, mobile apps, online stores and the AWS infrastructure under them. Fifty-plus projects since 2016, including a payment gateway and two fintech platforms in production. Karachi is two hours ahead of Riyadh.
Updated November 2026
— what saudi businesses ask for
Where we start in Saudi Arabia.
Riyadh · Jeddah · Dammam · Khobar
— working with us from Saudi Arabia
The same working day.
Two hours ahead of Riyadh. We work Monday to Friday against Saudi's Sunday to Thursday, so four of the five days are shared.
Four shared days, and the two hours barely register
Saudi Arabia works Sunday to Thursday and Pakistan works Monday to Friday, so four of the five days are shared. Karachi is two hours ahead of Riyadh, which means a 9am message in Riyadh reaches an 11am working morning here on any of those four. Studios further east are answering on a different day entirely, and that shows up in how long simple decisions take.
Payments and platforms, built and running
Pay2m is a payment gateway in production. KuickPay and 1LINK are fintech platforms handling real transaction volume in Pakistan. If what you need sits between a bank, a processor and a customer, that is the work we have most of — and it is the work least likely to be visible from a portfolio of marketing sites.
Built to pass an audit, without claiming the certificate
We hold no ISO 27001 and no SOC 2, and we are not going to imply otherwise on a page aimed at enterprise buyers. What we do is build systems that can pass those regimes — access control, audit trails, encryption, separation of environments — and work alongside the consultant who certifies them.
Senior engineers, available in weeks
Eighteen people, one office, since 2016. For team augmentation the people you interview are the people who join, and they work your hours. No bench, no swapping someone out mid-project for whoever became free.
— saudi buyers ask
Working with us from Saudi Arabia.
We deliver from Karachi rather than through a local entity. If your procurement requires a CR number or in-Kingdom data residency, that is a real requirement and worth raising in the first call rather than the third week — we would rather scope around it early or tell you it is not a fit.
Not in-house. No one on the team speaks Arabic and we do not pretend otherwise. We build so that Arabic and right-to-left can be added properly, and the translation itself goes to a specialist rather than a plugin.
We build on AWS and can deploy into whichever region your requirements name, including the Middle East regions. What we cannot do is claim a compliance status we have not been audited for — the architecture can meet the requirement; the certificate is a separate piece of work with a separate specialist.
There is barely one. Karachi is two hours ahead of Riyadh and shares the Sunday-to-Thursday week, so it is a genuinely shared working day rather than a two-hour overlap at the edges.
— what we do
Threepillars.Onestudio.
— case study
Proof,notpromises.
An established Qatar retail brand with thriving physical stores but a digital presence in decline. We rebuilt the full stack — website, inventory, social media, and paid campaigns — and reversed the trend entirely.
Read full case study →— process · scroll →Our product
Our product
development process
01 / 06
Listen
We pressure-test your vision and align on outcomes before writing a single line of code — discovery, audits, and a written diagnosis.
— listen02 / 06
Design
Component-driven design in Figma, then in Storybook. Accessibility and performance constraints baked into every component’s spec.
— design03 / 06
Develop
Senior engineers writing production code from the first sprint. Two-week sprints. Demos you can click. A deployable build every day — no surprises mid-build.
— develop04 / 06
Test
QA, automated tests and accessibility checks across every screen a customer touches, before anything goes live.
— test05 / 06
Launch
Performance budgets, monitoring, a security review, and a runbook your team can use. Go-live with confidence, not crossed fingers.
— launch06 / 06
Support
Ongoing partnership — maintenance, new features and advisory support under agreed terms that keep the product improving long after launch.
— support06 steps
— capabilities
Everycapabilityyouneed.Underoneroof.
No vendor coordination, no scope gaps. Senior teams across product, engineering, AI, and growth — all under the same roof.
View all services →— industries
Industriesweknowontheinside.
The right software pattern for fintech is the wrong one for media. Hover any industry to preview it — click to read what we build there.
— why brainiac/studio
Builtdifferently.Builtdeliberately.
Six reasons clients keep working with us for years instead of replacing us with the next vendor.
— 01
Senior-only team
The person on your call is the person on your code. We don't scale down talent for margin — our senior engineers average more than ten years of shipping production systems.
NKSRJMAT+8
10+
years avg experience
— 02
Every capability under one roof
AI, software, growth, infra, security — no vendor coordination, no scope gaps.
AIWebMobileSEODevOpsSecurityCTO
7
service categories
— 03
Something real every two weeks
Milestone-scoped sprints end in software you can click — not months of discovery before you see anything.
Scope
Build
Test
Ship
2
weeks per demo
— 04
Built to hand off
Decision records, runbooks, dashboards — your team can keep ownership without us.
100%
of the code is yours
— 05
The same working day
Karachi is one to two hours ahead of the Gulf and three to four ahead of Spain, Italy and France.
+2h
hours ahead of Doha
— 06 / 06
Built for the long run.
We have run Tone Lifestyle's store for more than five years. We work to make ourselves replaceable, not indispensable — which is exactly why clients keep us around.
5+longest store partnership
50+projects shipped
— testimonials · scroll →What clients say
What clients say
after we ship.
edited only for length, never for tone
01 / 06
“What started as a single project turned into a full partnership. The team didn't just deliver — they took ownership of our entire digital presence and treated our business like their own.”
Ten Little Toes
Client Team · Doha, Qatar
02 / 06
“They understood what Ertho needed to be from the very first conversation. They didn't just build a store — they built the foundation our brand stands on.”
Ertho
Founder · Doha, Qatar
03 / 06
“We came in through a referral and the trust was already there before we'd had a single meeting. They delivered early, built exactly what Stride needed, and the store has been running clean ever since.”
Stride
Founder · Doha, Qatar
04 / 06
“Most agencies finish the job and leave. They stayed — and grew into a team we now bring in before making major technical decisions. Five years of that relationship is worth more than any single deliverable.”
Kuickpay
Product Team · Pakistan
05 / 06
“I had an idea and no product. I walked away with a web app, a mobile app, and a team that still picks up when I call. They turned a concept into something real — and stayed to make sure it kept working.”
eHissab
Founder · Oman
06 / 06
“They don't just manage the store — they know it better than we do. Every seasonal drop, every product update, handled without us having to think twice. That's what a real long-term partner looks like.”
Tone Lifestyle
Brand Team · Qatar
06 clientsAll results →
how we work
Signal. System. Scale.
Four phases, no surprises. Dates are agreed in writing before we start — then we keep improving after launch.
— 01
Signal
Discovery & strategy. We listen, audit, and agree on what success looks like.
— 02
System
Design & build. Architecture, prototypes, and shipped code, in two-week sprints.
— 03
Scale
Launch & optimise. Real users, real data, improvements every week.
— 04
Support
Long-term partnership. Maintenance, new features and advisory, under whatever support terms we agree. Optional.
— why brainiac/studio
Builtdifferently.Builtdeliberately.
— 01
One studio, every capability
No vendor coordination. No scope gaps. Product, engineering, AI, and growth under one roof.
— 02
Senior-only team
The person on your call is the person on your code. We don’t scale down talent for margin.
— 03
Built in Karachi, for the Gulf and Europe
Cost-efficient without cutting corners, and the same working day as Doha, Dubai, Riyadh and Muscat.
— 04
Working software early
Milestone-scoped sprints put something you can click in front of you early — not months of discovery first.
— 05
Documentation by default
Every system we ship comes with the docs your team needs to keep ownership.
— 06
Designed to hand off
We build to make ourselves replaceable, not indispensable. Long-term partnerships, not lock-in.
50+Projects shipped
18Industries served
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