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September 23, 2026/3 min

What to ask a software agency before you sign

Eleven questions that separate a company that has thought about your project from one that wants the deposit. Most of them are uncomfortable to ask, which is why they work.

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Engineering/4 min

Building Arabic-first software: what it actually takes

Arabic support is not a translation file. It is a decision about layout, typography, data and testing that gets cheap if you take it early and very expensive if you take it late.

September 3, 2026

Guides/3 min

Five sentences that mean your software project is going to be late

None of them sound alarming. All of them mean the same thing: nobody has decided what is being built yet. Here's what each one actually says.

September 1, 2026

Guides/3 min

What actually drives the cost of a mobile app

Two agencies quote the same app and the numbers differ by triple. Neither is lying. Here are the four things that move the price, and how to read a quote you've been handed.

August 30, 2026

Company/2 min

Introducing Rakeez: HR and payroll built for Egyptian real estate

Our first in-house product is live — a multi-branch HR platform for attendance, payroll, commission, contracts, and hiring, with an app in every employee's pocket.

July 10, 2026

Engineering/2 min

Building software for Egypt's new Labor Law No. 14 of 2025

Compliance isn't a feature you bolt on at the end. Here's how we design payroll and HR systems around regulation from day one.

June 20, 2026

Company/1 min

Why we engage before the first line of code

The most expensive bugs are never in the code — they're in the plan. Here's how we de-risk a build before it begins.

May 15, 2026