Meant is headquartered in Dubai with a second base in Limassol, and most of the founders we work with are somewhere else: London, Athens, Riyadh, Lagos, Singapore, New York. Remote is not a fallback for us; it is how the studio runs. This is what that looks like in practice, so you can judge whether it suits you before the first call.
Time zones, honestly
Dubai is four hours ahead of UTC and does not change its clocks. That puts a full working morning in common with Riyadh and Athens, most of the working day with London and the rest of Europe, the morning with India and Singapore, and the late afternoon with New York. Calls are scheduled to your time zone, not ours. What you do not get is a same-time-zone team in San Francisco; if that matters more than anything else, say so on the call and we will tell you honestly whether it is a problem for your project.
The six stations, remotely
The call. Thirty minutes, free, on video. You describe what you are building and what is in the way; we ask about the customer, the numbers and the deadline, and say plainly whether we are the right studio.
The written point of view, within 12 hours. What we would change first, what it would take, what we would leave alone. If your site or store is live, a short audit of speed, search and the funnel comes with it. This is yours whether or not we work together.
The proposal, within a week. Scope, timeline and cost as real work, written so you can compare it with anyone else's. Fixed scope and fixed price for a build; a monthly retainer, stoppable any month, for automation and marketing. Nothing is billed by the hour.
The build. One senior team, nothing outsourced. A shared board, a preview link that updates as we work, and a weekly check-in where you see the thing rather than a status report. Questions go to the people doing the work; there is no account layer.
The launch. The checklist we run on every site: speed, search readiness, tracking, forms, redirects, accessibility. Then the switch, on a day you choose, with us watching the numbers.
The growth. The same people run what comes next, month to month.
What you see, and when
Remote fails when the client is shown a finished thing at the end. So you see the work early and often: the point of view before the proposal, the design direction before the build, the preview link throughout, and every week a walk-through of what changed. Feedback is asynchronous when it suits you and live when it does not. Nothing waits for a monthly meeting.
What you own at the end
- The code, in a repository under your name.
- The hosting, analytics, ads and automation accounts, opened in your name, with us added as a collaborator.
- The design files, the copy, and the photography we commission for you.
- A written handover for anything we run for you, so a change of studio never means starting again.
Distance makes ownership matter more, not less. A remote client should never be one login away from losing their site.
Why a Dubai studio, if you are not in Dubai
A bridge between Europe and the Gulf. We work in English, Arabic and Greek. For a European brand expanding into the GCC, or a Gulf company selling into Europe, the languages and the market knowledge are in the same team that builds the product.
The UAE, when you need it. If expansion into Dubai is on your roadmap, the go-to-market and market-entry advice comes from people who live there, and the site is built for the market from day one, including Arabic done as design rather than translation.
One team from build to growth. Remote makes handovers between vendors even more expensive. A single team that designs, builds, automates and markets removes the most common failure of a remote project: the gap nobody owns.
What to check before you sign with any remote studio
- Who will you actually talk to, and are they the people doing the work?
- Where does the code live, and in whose name?
- How often will you see the work, and where?
- What happens when something breaks at 9 pm your time?
- Can you stop, and what do you leave with?
Our answers are on the how we work and pricing pages, and the case studies name the clients, several of whom were never in the same room as us.
The first call is free and scheduled to your time zone. Tell us what you are building and what is in the way.
