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You name it. We build it.
No tech religion. We pick the stack that matches the problem and the team that has to maintain it after we leave.
FICAITION · who we are
An operator studio. Not an agency.
FicAition is a remote first studio building custom software and AI Digital Employees for operators, founders running live businesses with revenue at stake, not concept teams iterating on slides.
Six things. Non-negotiable.
, 02/ 06
Fixed price or it doesn't exist.
If a vendor can't commit to a number and a date, they're asking you to underwrite their estimating mistakes. We carry the risk.
, 03/ 06
The code is yours forever.
Repo, infrastructure, ownership, all transfers at delivery. No vendor lock-in clauses. No transition fees.
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Same stack you get is what we run.
Our own WhatsApp lines, our own operation, our own ERP. If a system doesn't work, we feel it before you do.
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Remote-first. UTC+4.
Dubai HQ. Team distributed across UTC-8 to UTC+10. Async by default. Standups in your inbox, not your calendar.
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Honest about who we're not for.
Enterprise teams needing 15+ engineers in parallel: not us. Pre-revenue founders without funding: also not us. We don't take work we can't win.
The dashboard. Live readout.
FICAITION DASHBOARD
MAINFRAME STATUS · DXB · LIVE
30+
DEPLOYMENTS
since 2023
00
DEADLINES MISSED
0% miss rate
100
SAME STACK
percent
95+
LIGHTHOUSE
avg score
11
ACTIVE DEs
live agents
7
DE SETUP
days · prebuilt
10
BUILD WINDOW
weeks · fixed
04:11
AVG REPLY
minutes
FICAITION · the stack
What we use. What we don't.
Pragmatic defaults. We bend for the project, but here's where the needle sits by default.
| Layer | Default | We avoid |
|---|---|---|
| Frontend | Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind | Untyped JS · framework du jour |
| Backend | Node · Python · Postgres | NoSQL by default · vendor BaaS |
| ERP | ERPNext | Closed-source SaaS ERP |
| LLM agents | Custom orchestration · OpenAI · Anthropic | Drag-and-drop chatbot builders |
| WhatsApp Business API · self-hosted | Third-party chat-relay middlemen | |
| Hosting | Your VPS · your hardware · our managed stack | Vendor-locked PaaS |
| Auth | Clerk · NextAuth · custom JWT | Roll-your-own session store |
| Payments | Stripe · Stripe Connect | Bespoke gateway integrations |
| Data | Postgres · pgvector · Redis | Premature microservices |
| CI/CD | GitHub Actions · simple deploys | YAML maximalism |
FICAITION · still scrolling?
You're probably a good fit.
We take on 2 new partners per quarter. One 15-minute call with the founder to see if we match.