What does Monsters Graphics build?
Custom software: AI platforms, SaaS products, two-sided marketplaces, mobile and field applications, and web systems for professional practices. We have delivered 30+ projects since 2020, and nine of them are live and open to view on this page.
Can I see software you have actually shipped?
Yes. Nine products are reachable right now, including smartesq.ai (opens in a new tab), goatar.com (opens in a new tab) and bookreadypro.com (opens in a new tab). Two further builds, Eyedentify and Callvita, are not public.
Where are you based, and where is the team?
Monsters Graphics Inc is a US company registered in New York, at 27-09 40th Ave, Long Island City. The engineering team is in Egypt. You contract with a US entity and work day to day with a senior Arabic-speaking team on Gulf working hours.
Do you work with companies in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the wider Middle East?
Yes, and we have shipped there. Atar is a property and community management platform built for the Saudi real-estate market, covering owners, tenants, maintenance and finance. Fkrty and Ebn-Batota are both bilingual Arabic and English platforms. We work across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and the wider Middle East.
Can you build in Arabic, including right-to-left interfaces?
Yes. Our engineers and designers are Arabic speakers, so right-to-left layout, Arabic typography and bilingual data models are part of the design from the first sprint rather than a translation pass at the end. That is a different thing from an English product with Arabic strings poured into it, and it shows in the result.
What are your working hours and working week?
Sunday to Thursday, the standard working week in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman. The team is on the same clock as Riyadh, Doha and Kuwait City from late April to October and one hour behind them the rest of the year, and one to two hours behind Dubai. You get a full shared working day rather than an overnight handoff.
How do your rates compare to a US or European agency?
Lower, and deliberately so. Our rates sit well below US and Western European agency rates because our engineering team is in Egypt, not because the work is junior or shipped to a distant time zone. Every project is quoted as a fixed scope and a fixed price that comes out of the scoping stage, so you are not exposed to hourly drift.
How does an engagement work?
Four stages on every project. We scope the workflow and write down what the system will not do, which is where fixed price and timeline come from. We build in two-week increments against a staging environment you can open at any point. We handle deployment, DNS, monitoring and handover. Then a named engineer stays on the project after launch.
Who owns the code and the accounts?
You do, from day one. Cloud accounts, repositories and domains are yours, not ours, and handover documentation is part of shipping rather than an extra.
What technologies do you work with?
Node.js, React, React Native, Java, Python, Laravel, PostgreSQL, Firebase and AWS, with CI/CD on every project. For AI work the stack is Python with LLM pipelines and OCR.
Do you work with startups as well as established companies?
Both. The portfolio ranges from early products finding their first users to platforms we have maintained for three years. The engagement model is the same; the scope of the first stage differs.
How do I get a quote?
Send a description of the problem through the form below, email hello@monstersgraphics.com or call +1 929 257 6102. We reply within one working day with a view on scope and whether we are the right studio for it.