AI & product engineering studio

We build AI and software that make businesses run better.

Ragondin Dev helps companies automate operations, build custom software and launch AI-powered products, without needing to build an internal engineering team.

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Dubai · Europe · Asia

Founder-led. Senior engineering. From idea to production.

A ragondin typing on a laptop at a desk, with a coffee and a potted plant

01 Proof

Proven in production.

Across products built by the Ragondin team for clients, ventures and our own portfolio.

30+
Products designed, built and shipped
250k+
Registered users
50,000
Concurrent users load-tested
500+
Businesses and individuals paid through live payment systems

Apps shipped on the App Store, Google Play and WeChat. AI running on-device. Hardware deployed in the real world. 24k+ blockchain transactions processed.

Built with companies operating across the US, UAE, Saudi Arabia, China and Europe.

02 Problems we solve

What can we fix?

  1. Too much manual work

    Your team is copying information between WhatsApp, Excel, email and CRM.

    We automate it.

  2. Leads are being lost

    Enquiries are not qualified, routed or followed up consistently.

    We build the system around them.

  3. Your current software does not fit the business

    Off-the-shelf tools force your company to change how it operates.

    We build software around your actual workflow.

  4. You want to use AI but do not know where it creates value

    We identify where AI can save money, generate revenue or improve the product.

    Then we build it.

  5. You have a product idea but no engineering team

    We take it from product definition through design, engineering and production.

03 Industries

Built for businesses in Dubai and anywhere else.

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  • 01 / 09

    Restaurants & hospitality

    Fill tables and bring guests back.

    • Reservations
    • CRM
    • WhatsApp automation
    • Guest follow-up
    • Marketing attribution
    • Loyalty

  • 02 / 09

    Real estate brokerages

    Answer every enquiry and stop losing leads.

    • Lead qualification
    • WhatsApp AI assistant
    • CRM automation
    • Customer portals
    • Market intelligence
    • Internal sales tools

  • 03 / 09

    Clinics & aesthetic clinics

    Turn enquiries into booked appointments.

    • Online booking
    • Lead follow-up
    • CRM
    • AI receptionist

  • 04 / 09

    Recruitment

    Spend less time on CVs and more on placements.

    • CV parsing
    • Candidate matching
    • Outreach automation

  • 05 / 09

    Trading & logistics

    Replace spreadsheets and paperwork with real systems.

    • Internal tools
    • Quoting
    • Document processing
    • Dashboards

  • 06 / 09

    Wealth & finance

    Serve clients better, with private systems.

    • Client portals
    • Workflows
    • Internal AI

  • 07 / 09

    Professional services

    Less admin, faster delivery.

    • Internal workflows
    • Document processing
    • AI assistants
    • Dashboards
    • CRM automation
    • Customer portals

  • 08 / 09

    Startups

    From MVP to a production product.

    • Product definition
    • Design
    • Web & mobile apps
    • Backend & infrastructure
    • Launch

  • 09 / 09

    Family businesses

    Digitise how the business runs, then automate it.

    • Digitisation
    • AI automation
    • Internal tools
    • Dashboards
Show us your workflow

Different industry? If the business has expensive manual processes or needs custom software, talk to us.

04 Work

What we've built for companies.

Heart Homes: Dubai city-wide median price per square foot and sales volume

01 / 05

Heart Homes

Built for Heart Homes, Dubai

Turning Dubai's public real-estate transaction history into a live market-intelligence product.

The problem
Heart Homes needed the complete Dubai transaction record turned into something advisors could actually use with buyers.
What Ragondin built
The data ingestion, normalisation, analytics and product interface behind it.

Outcome182k+ transactions tracked · 264 communities · AED 571B in property transactions covered

Our roleData engineering · Analytics · Product · Web

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fan dance by Trinket: verified 1-on-1 video call with ID and QR fan dance by Trinket: numbered collectible cards dropping

02 / 05

Trinket

US creator-economy company · Sanabil Accelerator, Saudi Arabia

Backed by Sanabil Investments & Orbit Ventures through the Sanabil Accelerator in Saudi Arabia. Ragondin helped build Trinket's consumer products and infrastructure, including fan dance.

What we built
iOS & Android apps · Payments · Identity verification · Live video · Collectibles infrastructure · Marketplace mechanics · Production infrastructure · Auction and provenance systems

Outcome20k+ downloads · 500+ drops · live on iOS and Android

Our roleProduct · Engineering · Payments · Infrastructure

fan.dance ↗
Zero Food Waste: discovery feed of nearby surprise bags Zero Food Waste: store page with surprise box food gallery

03 / 05

Zero Food Waste 八点以后

Built for ZFW

A marketplace, built as a WeChat mini-program, connecting people with discounted restaurant inventory after 8PM instead of letting it go in the bin.

The problem
A two-sided marketplace had to launch inside WeChat, work for restaurants with no technical staff, and hold up under a Chinese consumer launch.
What Ragondin built
The whole product inside the WeChat platform: merchant onboarding, geo-based discovery, WeChat Pay, order flow, and infrastructure sized for the launch.

Outcome200k+ users · 600+ restaurants · 40k+ meals sold

Our roleProduct · WeChat · Payments · Infrastructure

Founders Lair: FLAIR opportunity explore feed Founders Lair: dealflow scouting dashboard

04 / 05

Founders Lair

Built for Founders Lair

A cross-border innovation platform where investors, governments and startups run programmes and dealflow against each other.

The problem
Three very different kinds of user, applications at volume, and a permissions model that had to keep them all in one system without leaking data between them.
What Ragondin built
The platform behind it: open calls and applications at volume, scouting and dealflow dashboards, and the multi-sided permissions model that holds it together.

Outcome300+ programmes · 25k+ applications processed

Our roleProduct · Engineering · Multi-tenant platform · Web

founderslair.com ↗
Educational Robot: Spark curiosity · Inspire creativity · Grow minds

05 / 05

Educational Robot

Built for an art & science creativity school

A companion robot for classrooms: twelve servos, a face, and a conversation, built to hold the attention of a room full of children.

The problem
A physical robot that teaches has to work with no network, in two languages, in front of children, with nothing leaving the room.
What Ragondin built
Hardware and software as one product: servo motion and expression, plus a bilingual AI stack running entirely on the device.

Outcome12 servos · AI fully on-device · deployed in classrooms

Our roleHardware · Robotics · On-device AI · Product

More client work

KovataLiveteam training platform with attention verification · App Store
Smart Gout CareIn buildhealth tracking and AI meal analysis

Plus equity tokenization, language-learning novels, computer vision for cancer detection, people detection and tracking, and earlier work. Ask about the archive ↗

05 Solutions

What you can hire us to do.

  1. 01

    Automate operations

    Replace repetitive manual work with reliable software and AI workflows. CRM integrations, lead routing, document processing, AI assistants, internal workflows.

  2. 02

    Build custom business software

    When Excel, SaaS tools and disconnected systems no longer fit the company. Internal tools, dashboards, portals, operational systems and integrations.

  3. 03

    Build digital products

    From idea to production. Product strategy, UX, web, mobile, backend, infrastructure and deployment.

  4. 04

    Add AI to an existing business or product

    AI that holds up outside the demo. Agents, RAG, local AI, computer vision, private AI systems and automation.

  5. 05

    Build complex systems

    Products that need serious infrastructure. Payments, marketplaces, hardware, China integration or large-scale architecture.

Technical capabilities

WebiOS & AndroidAIRAGLocal inferenceComputer visionBackendInfrastructurePaymentsBlockchainWeChatHardware

06 How engagements start

Not sure what should be automated?

Step 1 · Working session

Initial Consultation

A short working session to understand the problem, the current workflow, and whether custom software or AI is actually worth pursuing. We look at where it could:

  • remove manual work
  • reduce operational cost
  • improve lead conversion
  • connect disconnected systems
  • create a better customer experience
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With a senior product engineer, not a sales team. We look at the actual workflow.

Step 2 · 5–7 working days

Technical Discovery Sprint

For companies that know there is a problem but are not ready for a full implementation.

  • workflow analysis
  • automation opportunities
  • technical architecture
  • working prototype
  • implementation roadmap
  • fixed-price Phase 2 proposal

100% credited toward the implementation if the full project proceeds within 30 days.

Ask about a Discovery Sprint →

07 Our products

We build and operate our own technology.

Ragondin Code and Ragondin AI are products we build and use ourselves. That means the same team building client systems also operates real software, AI infrastructure and production products.

Ragondin CodeBetaAI-assisted software development platform.
Ragondin AILivePrivate and on-device AI ecosystem.
Explore Ragondin products → How we build on-device AI →

08 Why Ragondin

Why companies hire Ragondin instead of a traditional agency.

  1. 01

    Senior people actually build

    The people designing the architecture are the people writing the software.

  2. 02

    Founder-led

    You work directly with the people responsible for delivery.

  3. 03

    Small team, high leverage

    We deliberately stay small and use our own AI-assisted engineering systems to ship quickly.

  4. 04

    End-to-end responsibility

    Product, engineering, infrastructure and deployment stay with one team.

  5. 05

    We operate what we build

    We run our own software and AI products, not just client projects.

09 How we work

How we work.

  1. 01

    Understand

    We map the business problem and determine what is actually worth building.

  2. 02

    Prototype

    Where useful, we validate the workflow quickly before committing to a large implementation.

  3. 03

    Build

    Senior engineers take the system from architecture through production.

  4. 04

    Launch

    We deploy, monitor and make sure it works in the real world.

  5. 05

    Improve

    We can stay involved for support, optimisation and new features.

The Ragondin workshop: a team of ragondins building software and hardware
The workshop

10 About

Founder-led. Small on purpose.

Ragondin Dev is a founder-led product and engineering studio. The team has built and shipped 30+ products across consumer software, marketplaces, AI, payments, infrastructure, blockchain, robotics and computer vision.

Projects built by the team have reached more than 250,000 users and have operated across the US, Europe, China, UAE and Saudi Arabia.

We deliberately work with a limited number of clients so senior people remain directly involved.

Have a process that should not still be manual?

Show us how it works today. We'll tell you what we would change, what is worth automating and what probably isn't.

or book a working session ↗ or email chloe@ragondin.dev