labs@atheron:~/locations/uae$ ls --market uae

Built for the Gulf

Hosted in the UAE, priced in plain figures.

Atheron Network Labs is a software studio in Kelowna, Canada. We build apps, AI agents, blockchains and integrations for companies in the UAE and the wider Gulf, with hosting in the UAE when your data must stay there, and every figure shown in US dollars and dirhams beside the Canadian price it comes from.

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// the market

What shapes the work here.

Property, trade and travel

Developers, property managers, free-zone traders and airlines move fast and expect their systems to keep up: resident apps, booking platforms, customs paperwork and payments in several currencies.

Rules for digital assets

Dubai and Abu Dhabi have their own regulators and rulebooks for virtual assets. Exchanges, custodians and token projects need back offices that record what those rules ask for.

Several privacy laws

The UAE has a federal data protection law, while financial free zones such as DIFC and ADGM have their own, and Saudi Arabia has its PDPL. We work out which apply and design for them from the start.

// working with us

How it works from here.

We set our working hours around yours, so you reach us when it suits you.
Calls on Microsoft Teams in English, Monday to Friday, booked with the times shown in your own time zone.
Prices are worked out in Canadian dollars from our published rate card. The US dollar figures are conversions at the card's rate, and the dirham figures follow at the Central Bank's peg.
Invoices are in Canadian dollars, with no Canadian sales tax for a client billed outside Canada. Pay by card, wire transfer or USDC, as our terms set out.

// what we build

Four kinds of work.

~/apps

Web and mobile apps

Web apps, iOS and Android, portals and dashboards.

~/ai

AI and automation

Assistants, agents, bots and private models.

~/web3

Blockchain and Web3

Smart contracts, dapps, wallets and private chains.

~/integrations

APIs and integrations

APIs, QuickBooks sync and compliance engineering.

// example projects

Priced in your currency.

Hypothetical projects, priced from our rate card when you open the page. Not clients, and not results.

Example projectReal estate and proptech

Resident app and manager portal

An iOS and Android app where residents pay rent, report repairs with photos, book amenities and receive notices, with a web portal where managers and superintendents assign, track and close work and reconcile payments by unit.

// Example project

Build, In Canadian dollars: CAD 192,400 to 294,200, delivered within 28 weeks
Build, In US dollars: USD 135,100 to 206,600
Build, In UAE dirhams: AED 496,100 to 758,600

Converted at 1 CAD = 0.70 USD, the rate on our rate card. The price itself is in Canadian dollars.

Converted at 1 CAD = 2.58 AED, the rate on our rate card. The price itself is in Canadian dollars.

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Example projectCrypto and digital assets

Compliance back office

A web back office that brings wallet screening results, travel rule exchanges, customer due diligence and reportable transactions into one case view, with a full audit trail and exports in the formats your reports need.

// Example project

Build, In Canadian dollars: CAD 185,200 to 283,300, delivered within 25 weeks
Build, In US dollars: USD 130,000 to 198,900
Build, In UAE dirhams: AED 477,500 to 730,500

Converted at 1 CAD = 0.70 USD, the rate on our rate card. The price itself is in Canadian dollars.

Converted at 1 CAD = 2.58 AED, the rate on our rate card. The price itself is in Canadian dollars.

Open in the estimator Full breakdown

// industries

The industries we see most.

Each one has example projects priced live from our rate card.

~/real-estate

Real estate and proptech

Resident apps for property managers, brokerage listing sites, building assistants and portable rental history credentials.

~/logistics

Logistics

Dispatch boards and driver apps, booking agents for the inbox, shared bills of lading on a private ledger and load bots.

~/finance

Finance and fintech

Lending apps with identity checks, support agents, underwriting document readers and partner settlement ledgers.

~/digital-assets

Crypto and digital assets

Compliance back offices for your exchange, investigation assistants, multisig treasuries, token vesting portals and community bots.

~/hospitality

Hospitality and travel

Direct booking engines and guest apps, guest messaging agents, housekeeping apps and shared loyalty for independent hotels.

~/oil-gas

Oil and gas

Offline field tickets, leak surveys and emissions reporting, GPS and RFID equipment tracking, corrosion models and shared custody volume records.

~/government

Government and public sector

Provincial and federal service portals, inspector apps, plain-language services assistants and verifiable licences and permits.

~/retail

Retail and e-commerce

Headless storefronts with shopping apps, customer service agents, authenticity certificates for resale and Discord drop bots.

All industries

// proof

We build our own products too.

We run what we build. These are ours, live or in progress, and each page breaks the build out.

~/work/aton-chain

The ATON chain

A public blockchain for payments, written down in full before a line of the node was built, with its own site and a live roadmap.

See the project

~/work/payment-engine

The payment engine

A crypto payments service with its own contract, its own ledger and passkey approvals: a merchant asks in Canadian dollars, the customer pays in a token, the engine settles in USDC.

See the project

~/work/aton-ai

ATON AI

Models we train on GPUs we own, a backtester that replays rules on the same cards, and a news labeller running an open-weight model locally.

See the project

// questions

What buyers here ask us.

Can our data stay in the UAE?

Yes. Name the United Arab Emirates in the estimator and we host in the UAE, with backups and logs in the same region.

Do you build for licensed virtual asset firms?

We build the software: back offices, custody records, reporting and audited contracts. Licensing and legal advice come from your counsel and the regulator.

Can we pay in USDC?

Yes. Our terms accept USDC sent to the address and network printed on the invoice, with the Canadian-dollar invoice converted on the day it is issued. We do not accept USDT.

// guides