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DigiOHive · Digital Systems Studio

We build the systems your business runs on.

Storefronts that sell around the clock. AI that does the work nobody has time for. Booking systems that fill the calendar. Back offices that run without you. Dashboards that end the guessing. Brands that look established from day one.

Storefronts, internal tools, AI that clears the busywork, the brand around it and the infrastructure under it. One person who scopes it, builds it and answers your messages. No agency, no account managers, no hand-offs.

Founder-led · Remote-first · Serving the UAE & Gulf

  • 120+

    Projects delivered

  • 12+

    Industries served

  • 8+

    Years building for real businesses

  • 1

    Person you deal with

01 · The problem

You're the bottleneck, and you know it.

  • The website needs updating, and has for months.

  • Quotes still go out by hand.

  • Nobody has looked at why orders drop at checkout.

  • A spreadsheet holds the operation together, and one person understands it.

So you look for help. The agency quotes for a website and stops at launch. The freelancer builds the one thing and disappears. The AI consultant sells you a pilot. Now you're managing three vendors and still doing the work yourself.

None of them are wrong at their job. The problem is that nobody owns the whole thing, and owning the whole thing is the part you were trying to hand over.

02 · Why us

Different by design

  1. One mind, end to end

    The person who scopes your project designs it, builds it and answers your messages. No hand-offs, no account managers, no agency overhead priced into your invoice.

  2. Range that removes the vendor list

    Storefront, booking engine, internal dashboard, AI assistant, brand, hosting and the domain it sits on. When the thing you need next is a different discipline, it's still the same conversation.

  3. Built on engines I already own

    A commerce backend, a CRM and an AI toolkit refined across dozens of builds. You're not paying for foundations to be laid again. Jeem UAE went from brief to live storefront in one month.

  4. The launch is the midpoint

    Most agencies stop when the site goes live. That's when the systems around it start: automated quoting, invoicing, follow-ups, dashboards and AI that clear the busywork.

03 · Selected Work

The work speaks.

Delivered independently and through agency partnerships, with every build engineered end to end by the founder.

Recruitment · SaaS2024

Talencer

A marketplace where freelance recruiters earn per placement

  • SaaS Development
  • AI Solutions
  • UI/UX Design
View case study→
Retail · E-commerce2023

Jeem UAE

Product variations chosen straight from the product card

  • E-commerce
  • Brand Website
View case study→
Culinary Education · Hospitality2024

École Ducasse Abu Dhabi

Chefs create and schedule their own classes from a dashboard

  • Booking System
  • Custom Checkout
  • UI/UX Design
View case study→
Handmade Decor · E-commerce2026

Cast & Crate

A storefront that sells the craft, not just the catalogue

  • Brand Website
  • E-commerce
  • UI/UX Design
View case study→
Automotive · SaaS2026

MorningMiles

Every figure in a report cited to the agency it came from

  • SaaS Development
  • Full-Stack Development
  • UI/UX Design
View case study→
04 · Content & Motion

We don't stop at launch. We make it move.

Vertical stories cut to the beat: the hook lands in the first second, the brand in every frame.

Graphic Design

Identities, campaigns and social kits. Selected work on request, much of it under NDA.

05 · Capabilities

Three things, done properly. Nothing it doesn't need.

  • E-commerce

    Marketplace fees and aggregator commissions take a cut of every sale, and they own your customer.

    Complete storefronts with catalogue, checkout, payments and delivery, built to sell direct and run by your own team.

    Sales around the clock, margin kept in house.

  • Custom systems & SaaS

    Off the shelf tools never quite fit, so the real process lives in spreadsheets and workarounds.

    Web applications, admin panels and multi tenant platforms with billing and roles, built around how your business actually works.

    One system that fits, and recurring revenue if it's a product.

  • AI & automation

    Hours disappear into reading, sorting, summarising and answering the same questions.

    Practical AI assistants, document reading and workflow automations built on your data, with a person approving results while trust builds.

    Hours of manual work reclaimed every week.

Alongside the build

  • UI / UX design

    Interfaces designed from the user's journey backwards: fewer clicks, clearer decisions.

  • Brand identity

    Logos, palettes and type systems that hold together across every touchpoint.

  • Dashboards & CRM

    Pipeline, revenue and operations consolidated into one live view.

Also availableGraphic design · Landing pages · Social media content · Video editing

Don't see your exact problem? Most clients don't.

06 · Pricing

Know the price before we start.

Clear prices in USD for the projects most businesses need. Anything bigger, or anything unusual, is scoped on a short call and quoted in writing.

Websites

  • Starter website

    Get online

    $250

    A fast, professional site that turns visitors into enquiries.

    • Up to 15 pages, designed mobile first
    • Edit your own content from a simple dashboard
    • Enquiry forms to your inbox, with WhatsApp and call buttons
    • Blog, social links, privacy and terms pages
    • Speed tested to pass Google PageSpeed and GTmetrix
    • Six months warranty on errors and bugs
  • Business website

    Look the part

    $350

    A brand led site that earns trust before you say a word, and gets found.

    • Unlimited pages with custom UI/UX in your brand colours
    • Multilingual, with an SEO ready structure and XML sitemap
    • Testimonials, Instagram feed and advanced search
    • Google Analytics and Tag Manager set up
    • Speed tested and mobile, tablet and desktop checked
    • One year warranty on errors and bugs

Commerce and AI

  • Online store

    Sell direct

    $500

    Your own store, your own margin and your own customers.

    • Products, variations and categories, with bulk import and export
    • Secure checkout on your preferred payment gateway
    • Customer accounts, order history and wishlists
    • Promo codes, reviews and ratings
    • Sales and product reports, with limited access roles for your team
    • One year warranty on errors and bugs
  • AI integration

    Work smarter

    from$1,200

    Put AI to work on the repetitive, checkable jobs that eat your team's week.

    • Document and data processing: invoices, CVs and forms read, extracted and filed for you
    • Lead handling and workflow automation: qualify, route, follow up and report
    • AI features inside your own product, such as smart search, scoring and screening flows
    • Connected to the tools you already use
    • A person approves results while trust builds
    • Measured against hours saved

Included with every project

  • You own everything

    Code, hosting and accounts are handed over in your name.

  • Warranty included

    Errors and bugs fixed at no cost for the warranty period.

  • Fast by default

    Mobile tested, speed checked, sitemap and analytics set up.

  • Optional care plan

    Updates, backups, monitoring and small changes, monthly.

Custom

Custom systems and apps · Built around you

Bigger than a package? Let's scope it.

Custom apps start from $750. Larger systems are scoped on a short call and quoted in writing, so you know the price before any work starts.

Typical builds

  • CRM and sales pipelines
  • HRM and recruitment platforms
  • ERP, inventory and operations
  • Booking systems and client portals
  • Custom e-commerce platforms and marketplaces
  • SaaS products with billing and roles
  • AI powered systems, built end to end

Apps from $750

Every project is scoped in writing before we start. SSL certificates and other third party services are billed separately.

07 · Process

How we ship.

  1. Discover

    01

    A deep dive into your business, users and bottlenecks, before any pixels or code.

  2. Strategy

    02

    A clear plan: what we build, why it matters, and how success will be measured.

  3. Design

    03

    Interfaces shaped around real user journeys. Clarity first, decoration last.

  4. Build

    04

    Engineered on a proven, battle-tested stack. Most builds ship in weeks, not months.

  5. Launch

    05

    Tested, polished and shipped. Deployment without drama.

  6. Grow

    06

    Measured, maintained and improved after launch. The system keeps earning.

08 · Studio

The person behind the products.

Idon'tsellwebsites.Itakethetechnicalsideofyourbusinessoffyourdesk,andkeepitoff.

The founder at work in a dark studio

Osama Zubair

Founder, DigiOHive

DigiOHive is the studio of a full-stack engineer who spent years inside a busy agency building for whoever walked through the door: steel mills, private jet charters, perfume houses, football clubs, culinary schools. A hundred and twenty builds later, the pattern was impossible to miss: the businesses that win are the ones whose store, brand and back office work as one system.

That's why the work here looks different. It starts with the question agencies skip: what is this actually for? Then it gets designed, engineered, automated and shipped, by the same person who answers your messages.

Working alone across that many builds forces a particular habit: you learn every layer, because there's nobody to hand the awkward part to. That's why the range here is real and not a list on a page. Storefronts, booking systems, marketplaces, dashboards, AI tools, the brands around them and the infrastructure under them.

One point of contact, backed by engines already built and tested: a commerce backend, a CRM, an AI toolkit. That's the reason a build here takes weeks, not the quarter an agency quotes. And when a project needs more hands for motion, content or performance marketing, a trusted bench of specialists plugs in.

  • 01

    Business first, pixels second

    Every engagement starts with your margins, your funnel, your bottleneck. The technology is chosen to serve that, never the other way around.

  • 02

    Systems over websites

    A website is a page. A system books the appointment, sends the invoice and reports the numbers. I build the second kind.

  • 03

    Craft is a trust signal

    Clients judge invisible quality by visible quality. The precision you see on this page is the precision that goes into your codebase.

  • 04

    Ship, measure, sharpen

    Launch is the midpoint. What survives contact with real users gets measured, and what gets measured gets improved.

09 · Questions

The questions you're already thinking.

You're one person. What happens if you disappear?

Fair, and it's the right question to ask. You get the code, the accounts and the documentation from day one, in your own repositories and your own hosting. Nothing is held hostage, and any competent developer can pick it up.

We've been burned by an agency before.

Almost everyone has. The usual cause is that the people who sold the project weren't the people who built it. Here they're the same person, and you check progress against a working deployment rather than a status report.

You're not based here.

No. Remote-first, and most clients are in the UAE and the Gulf, reached through referrals and agency partnerships. Overlapping hours, replies within 24 hours, and the work speaks for the arrangement.

Can one person really do design, development and AI?

For the scope I take on, yes, and the portfolio is the evidence. Where a project needs a specialist, performance marketing, video, long-form content, I bring in people I already work with and stay your single point of contact.

Is the AI part real, or a label on the same work?

Real. A resume parser and an AI interview flow running inside a live recruitment marketplace, and internal tools built on the same stack. Not a chatbot bolted onto a website.

How fast?

Most builds ship in weeks, because the foundations are already built and tested. Jeem UAE went from brief to live storefront in one month, solo.

What if we only need one small thing?

Then that's the job. Plenty of good relationships started with a landing page or a domain that wouldn't resolve.

10 · Contact

Tell me what's slowing you down.

Not a brief, not a spec. Describe the problem in plain language and I'll tell you whether I can solve it, roughly what it costs and how long it takes. If it's not a fit, I'll say so on the call.

Projects start from $250

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