# Software Development Company in Dubai Marina > Booking platforms, apps and custom software for Dubai Marina holiday-home operators, property managers, fitness studios and yacht companies, by the founders. Source: https://authect.com/dubai-marina Authect builds booking platforms, apps and custom software for businesses in Dubai Marina: holiday-home operators, building and property managers, fitness and wellness studios and companies on the water. You talk to the founders who build it. ## Building software for Dubai Marina Dubai Marina is one of the city's densest mixes of **residents, tourists and short-stay guests**, living side by side in towers around the water. Most businesses here sell time: a night in an apartment, an hour on a boat, a class or a session. Customers book on a phone, often in English, Arabic or Russian, and compare several options before they choose one. That makes **direct booking and smooth operations** the heart of most projects. Every booking taken through a marketplace costs a commission and hands the customer relationship to someone else, while every manual step behind the scenes, from key handovers to cleaning schedules, grows with each new unit or member. We build the systems that let Marina businesses grow without the admin growing with them. **A senior engineer leads every project**, the founders are involved from the first call, and the code and designs belong to you from day one. ## Who we build for in Dubai Marina - **Holiday homes, Short-term rental operators**: Direct-booking sites synced with your channel manager, automated guest messaging, check-in flows and owner statements, so adding units does not mean adding admin staff. - **Residential towers, Property and community managers**: Resident apps for maintenance requests, amenity booking, visitor access and announcements, with a back office that shows every open job and who is handling it. - **Wellness, Gyms, studios and clinics**: Class and appointment booking, memberships and packages, waitlists and reminders, in an app your members will open more often than they open their email. - **On the water, Yacht and water-sports operators**: Crew scheduling, safety checklists, maintenance logs and trip manifests that the office and the boat both see in real time, alongside online booking for guests. ## What we build for Dubai Marina businesses Marina projects usually pair a customer-facing app or site with the operational tools behind it. These services cover both. - [Application development](https://authect.com/services/application-development): Booking sites, member and resident apps for iOS and Android, and the admin tools your team uses every day, built to stay fast on a phone in a busy lobby. - [Product and service design](https://authect.com/services/product-design): Booking and check-in flows designed for guests who have never used your service before and want to finish in a minute, in their own language. - [Conversational AI](https://authect.com/services/conversational-ai): Assistants that answer guest and resident questions at any hour, take simple requests and hand anything unusual to a person, with clear limits on what they can do. - [Data engineering](https://authect.com/services/data-engineering): Reliable connections between channel managers, payment providers, door systems and accounting, so availability, prices and statements always agree. ## Working with us from Dubai Marina - **On your side of the city**: Our team works in Dubai Marina and shares your working day. We start online, and once a project is under way we can meet to walk through your operations or test a new flow with your front desk. - **Languages your guests speak**: We work in English and Spanish, and our contact team also answers in Arabic, Russian and Lithuanian, which helps when your guests, owners and staff come from many countries. - **Your platform, your data**: Code, infrastructure and designs belong to you from day one. Your guest data stays in your accounts, not in a platform you rent and cannot leave. ## Dubai Marina: common questions ### Can a direct-booking site sync with our channel manager? Yes, if your channel manager or property management system offers an API, which most established ones do. Availability and prices stay in one place and the site reads from it, so a unit cannot be sold twice. ### Can you build a resident app for our building? Yes. Typical features are maintenance requests with photos, amenity booking, visitor passes and announcements, with a dashboard for the management team. We scope it around how your building is run today. ### Can the site and apps work in Arabic and Russian as well as English? Yes. We build multilingual products with Arabic right-to-left layouts, and set up content so your team can edit each language without a developer. ### Can an AI assistant really handle guest messages? For routine questions such as check-in times, directions and amenity hours, yes. We set it up to answer from your own information, keep a record of every conversation and pass anything sensitive or unusual straight to a person. ## About Authect - Authect is a founder-led software development studio: clients talk to the founders who build their project, never a salesperson. - Every project is led by a senior engineer. Delivery is AI-accelerated, and an engineer reviews every line before it ships. - Clients own their code, infrastructure and designs from day one, with no lock-in. - Legal entity: AUTHECT - FZCO, Trade License No. 70505 (IFZA). Registered office: Building A1, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. - The team works in Dubai (Dubai Marina, Business Bay, Dubai Silicon Oasis) and in Spain (Madrid and Marbella), and works with partners in Lithuania. - Clients across Europe, the Middle East and beyond; areas served include Dubai, Madrid, Marbella, Málaga, United Arab Emirates, Spain, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Denmark. - Founders: Pranas Mickevicius (Chief Executive Officer), Oscar Arson Saiz (Chief Technology Officer). - Cooperation models: fixed-price projects, monthly sprints, and support and evolution. - Contact: info@authect.com, +971 50 246 5223, or https://authect.com/contact. A founder replies within one working day. - Profiles: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/authect/, Instagram https://www.instagram.com/useauthect/, X https://x.com/useauthect, TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@useauthect, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61581141524137.