Consulting
Software audit in Dubai from engineers who build what they recommend
AVMDEVS provides a software audit in Dubai and across the GCC for founders, boards and buyers who need an honest reading of a codebase: before an acquisition, before a rebuild, when a platform is slow or fragile, or when a team needs a CTO's judgement without a CTO's salary. You get a written audit of the code, the infrastructure, the security and the team's process, a set of decisions ranked by risk, and, if you want it, the people to carry them out.
We take on a limited number of advisory engagements at a time and a senior engineer reads every brief. An audit that is really a request for a quote, or a question a one-hour call could answer, is told so at the review.
Scope
What you get
Fixed, written into the proposal, and the same list you will see on the invoice. Anything outside it gets quoted before it gets built.
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Architecture review
How the system is built, where it will break as it grows, what it costs to run, and what to change first, written so a non-engineer can follow the argument.
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Technical due diligence
For an acquisition or an investment: the code, the licences, the dependencies, the security posture, the team and the bus factor, with the risks priced in plain terms.
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Technology choice
The right stack for the goal and the budget, chosen against what the market's engineers can maintain, not against fashion.
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Security and scale
Access control, data handling, backups, monitoring and the load the system can take, tested rather than assumed, with the fixes ordered by risk.
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Team and process
How the team ships, reviews and deploys, and the two or three changes that would make it faster without breaking things.
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CTO as a service
A senior engineer on a monthly retainer who owns the roadmap, hires or briefs the team, sits in the board meeting and answers for the technology.
Method
How we work on this
Four steps, and what each one means for this kind of work.
Step 01
Brief: the decision the audit has to support
You send the brief with the system, the decision in front of you, the deadline and who needs to read the result. Read access to the repository and the infrastructure, under NDA, is what turns an opinion into an audit.
Step 02
Review: a senior engineer replies within one business day
The reply is a yes, a no with a reason, or the questions we need answered. A yes names the shape of the engagement, an audit, due diligence or a retainer, and what access we will need on day one.
Step 03
Scope: questions, access, deliverables, date and price
A written scope lists the questions the audit answers, the access it needs, the deliverables and who they are written for, a fixed price and a date. A retainer states the hours, the responsibilities and the notice period.
Step 04
Build: findings as we go, a report you can act on
Findings are shared as they surface, so nothing in the final report is a surprise. The report ranks decisions by risk and cost, and a readout with your team or your board is part of the scope. If you want the fixes made, the same engineers can make them.
Region
Delivered in the Gulf
The specifics that decide whether a build works in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, handled as part of the scope rather than discovered after launch.
Systems in the UAE and Saudi Arabia carry obligations that an audit has to check: where personal data is hosted under the PDPL, whether consent and privacy notices meet the UAE Data Protection Law, whether invoices are ZATCA-compliant in the Kingdom and VAT-correct in the UAE, and whether Arabic is handled properly through the whole stack rather than in the interface alone.
Due diligence in the Gulf also means reading the licences and the contracts: who owns the code a previous vendor wrote, whether the fonts, the libraries and the SaaS accounts are licensed to the company, and whether the platform can leave its hosting. The audit reads all of it and prices the gaps, because they are what a buyer or an investor will find later.
Investment
Pricing
Indicative ranges for accepted projects. Every quote is written against the scope agreed at the review.
An audit is a fixed price against the written scope; CTO-as-a-service is a monthly retainer stated in hours and responsibilities. See ranges →
Answers
Technical Consultancy questions
The things clients ask before they sign. If yours is not here, ask us directly.
Do you take every project?
No. A senior engineer reads every brief and we accept the engagements where an honest reading will change a decision. A request for an audit that is really a request for a quote, a question a call could settle, or a system we do not have the access to read gets a straight no with the reason.
Who owns the code?
You own the audit, the findings, the report and any code written during a retainer, with the rights assigned in the contract. Access we are given is read-only and under NDA, revoked when the work ends. Nothing we learn about your system is reused, and the report is written for you to hand to whoever you choose.
What does a software audit cover?
The code and its quality, the architecture and where it will break, the infrastructure and what it costs, security and data handling, dependencies and licences, tests and deployment, and the team's process. The scope names which of these the decision in front of you actually needs, so you are not paying for the parts that do not matter to it.
Can you do technical due diligence for an acquisition?
Yes, and it is a common reason to call us. The report covers the code, the licences and IP ownership, security, the dependencies, the running costs and the team, and prices the risks in terms a buyer or investor can use in the negotiation. It is written under NDA and delivered on the deal's timeline.
What is CTO as a service?
A senior engineer on a monthly retainer who takes responsibility for the technology: the roadmap, the architecture decisions, hiring or briefing the team, vendor management and the board's questions. It suits a company that needs that judgement for a period without a full-time hire, and the retainer states the hours and the notice period.
Next
Works well with
Most engagements combine two or three of these. They are built by the same team, so nothing has to be integrated after the fact.
- Custom Web DevelopmentCustom websites, portals and platforms engineered from scratch: Next.js on the front, Node.js or Go on the back, PostgreSQL underneath.
- Business ConsultancyWe advise on operating models, go-to-market, and growth, with advice grounded in shipping real products rather than slideware.
- Website CareWe keep your website secure, backed up and up to date, with hours every month for the changes you need.
Submit a brief.
A lead reads every brief and replies within one business day with a yes, a no, or the questions we need answered before we can say.