what happens
the idea stays a slide
The agency wants a brief and three months. The freelancer wants a spec you can't write. A technical partner wants half of the business. So the job stays manual, and the idea waits.
You know the problem, from living it or from your customers. I'm Pierre. I build the first working version with you: software that runs on your real data, built around the way you already work. Three weeks, one fee, and you keep everything.
You can describe the system you need in one conversation. Getting it built is where it stalls.
The agency wants a brief and three months. The freelancer wants a spec you can't write. A technical partner wants half of the business. So the job stays manual, and the idea waits.
You know the problem from your own work or your customers. You can't turn it into a system. Every month it stays in your head costs a little more.
A system that runs on your real data. You own it, and if it earns more, we grow it.
Years in UX, research and strategy, handing over decks that someone else was meant to build. Most never were. So I became the person who takes the idea from the first conversation to a working system. I use AI for most of the code and decide what gets built.
I'm Pierre Chalita. I run Eckwip as a small systems lab in Abu Dhabi. Some of the people I build with come from years in their field, some from a problem they validated last month.
No 40-page proposal. We start with the job or the idea, and finish with a system you run without me.
A free 30-minute video call. You walk me through the job or the idea exactly as it is today, spreadsheets and WhatsApp threads included. You leave with a one-page problem card either way. If there is a build, the fee is agreed on that call.
No slide deck, no mockups. In three weeks a system runs on your real data: no-code tools where they do the job, custom code where they don't. Code and accounts are yours.
You run it for 30 days and I fix whatever fails in real use, included in the fee. You leave with the code, the accounts and a plain note on how it works.
Every build ends the same way: a working system, a plain handover, fixes after launch. The fee we agree on the first call is the fee you pay.
You bring the job or the idea. I build the first working system around the way you already work.
most land betweenAED 5,000 and 15,000
one fee, fixed on the first call · half to start, half on day 30
Not sure it's ready? Book anyway. If an existing tool does the job, I'll say so.
You pay half to start and half on day 30, and only if the system is part of your week by then. If it isn't, you keep that half and the code.
50% to start50% on day 30, if it stuckthe code is yours either way
The build is the whole deal. If the system works and I believe in it, I am open to staying in as a partner: a share in the business, or lifetime access to what you make. Five are running now.
No screenshots and no numbers here: AI can fake both. The people are real, and so are the names. Ask me for an introduction.
Programs, bookings and check-ins for a performance and longevity coach. Now the system behind the practice.
Video wayfinding for hotels and resorts. Scan a code, follow a first-person walk to where you are going.
Deal flow for a commodities brokerage. Quotes, counterparties and paperwork in one place instead of an inbox.
Noura, a companion for UAE traffic. She talks you through the drive, then turns it into a short song you keep.
Teaches 9 to 12-year-olds how their body, food and money work, on the iPad they already hold.
Each of these started as a build for the person who runs it. Bring the job or the idea, and we find out on the call whether a build is the right next step.
It's the normal starting point. Most builds begin with a spreadsheet export and a WhatsApp history. Sorting that out is included.
Most builds land between AED 5,000 and 15,000. One fee, fixed on the first call before anything starts, half up front and half on day 30. Where it lands depends on how much has to be custom code rather than no-code tools. I say the number on the call. You can say no, and you still leave with the problem card.
That's what the fix period is for. I watch where it fails in real use and fix the system. If it isn't part of your week by day 30, you keep the second half of the fee and the code.
Message me. Faults in what I built are fixed free for 90 days after handover. New work is a new small build, priced the same way: one fee, agreed before I start. There is no retainer, and nothing expires.
No. Every build ends with a system you own outright. The partnership is my call to ask and yours to accept, and it comes after the build, never as a condition of it.
The system is yours: code, accounts, and a plain-language note on how it works. Run it without me, or come back when the next job needs a system. No lock-in either way.
If a ready-made tool fits how you work, use it, it's cheaper. I build for the jobs where the template doesn't fit, shaped around the way you already work, paid once.
The first call is 30 minutes, free, and on video. Bring the job or the idea; you leave with a one-page problem card either way.