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Web strategy consultancy in Dubai, before anybody writes code

The expensive mistakes in a web project are made in the first three weeks, when nothing has been built and everything has been assumed. This is a paid engagement that produces a decision document rather than a design, and you can take it to any agency, including not us.

  • 2-4 weeks typical engagement
  • Document yours, agency-agnostic
  • 7 builds behind the recommendations

Tell us what you need

A senior person reads this and replies within one working day. No call centre, no drip sequence.

Partners & recognition

The stack we work in, the clients we keep

The platforms we build and run campaigns in, and the clients whose numbers we publish with their names on. HubSpot is the one partnership we claim; the rest are tools we use, not badges.

  • German Medical Center
  • The Reformery Clinic
  • Alma Laser
  • Roxana Aesthetics Clinic
  • Lamel
  • Dotline Studios

The problem

Most web projects fail before they start

Not on the code. On decisions taken casually in the first month by people who were not given enough information to take them well.

The four decisions that go wrong

  1. The platform was picked by whoever pitched first

    WordPress because the agency builds WordPress. Shopify because someone read that Shopify is best for e-commerce. Neither is a reason. The platform decision should come from who maintains the site and what it has to do in three years.

  2. Nobody defined what the site is for

    A site that generates enquiries, a site that supports a sales team and a site that sells directly are three different builds. Skip this and you get a site that does all three adequately and none of them well.

  3. The content model was an afterthought

    How content is structured determines what is possible later: filtering, personalisation, reuse across languages, feeding an app. Decided badly in week two, it constrains everything for the site's whole life.

  4. The migration plan did not exist

    An existing site with rankings and inbound links is an asset. Replacing it without a URL map and a redirect plan destroys part of that asset permanently. It happens constantly and it is entirely avoidable.

What is included

What the engagement produces

A document, not a deck. Specific enough that any competent agency could build from it and quote against it accurately.

Objectives, with numbers

What the site is for, expressed as something measurable. Not 'improve our online presence' but the specific behaviour that has to increase and by roughly how much for the project to have been worth doing.

Audience and journeys

Who the site serves, what each group arrives believing, and the route each one takes to the action you want. Where those routes conflict, which one wins — because on most sites they do conflict and nobody has decided.

Platform recommendation, with reasoning

WordPress, Shopify, Wix Studio, HubSpot CMS or custom, with the trade-offs written out and the total cost of ownership over three years. Including the cases where your current platform is fine and the problem is elsewhere.

Content model

The types of content, their fields and their relationships. This is what determines whether filtering, reuse and a second language are cheap later or expensive.

Site architecture

The page map, the URL structure and the internal linking logic. On a site with real search ambition this is the difference between a hundred pages that compete with each other and a hundred that support each other.

Migration and redirect plan

Every existing URL with traffic or links, mapped to its destination. Built before the project starts rather than assembled in launch week, which is when it is usually attempted.

Technical requirements

Performance budget, accessibility target, security requirements, integrations with their owners named, and the hosting shape. The things that are cheap to specify now and expensive to retrofit.

Phasing and a budget range

What to build first, what can wait, and a realistic range for each phase. Sometimes the recommendation is to fix three things on the current site and revisit in a year.

Technology

What we look at to get there

Evidence first. The recommendation is only as good as what it was built on.

Your data

What is already true.

  • Google Analytics 4
  • Google Search Console
  • Heatmaps and session recordings
  • CRM and enquiry data
  • Sales call review
  • Support tickets

Market

What the competition is actually doing.

  • ValueSERP live SERP data
  • Semrush
  • Competitor architecture teardown
  • Backlink profile comparison
  • Content gap analysis

Technical

What condition things are in.

  • Core Web Vitals
  • Crawl and index audit
  • Accessibility audit
  • Security and platform version review
  • Integration inventory

Commercial

So the recommendation is affordable.

  • Total cost of ownership modelling
  • Build-versus-buy comparison
  • Phasing options with budget ranges

How we work

How the engagement runs

Two to four weeks, fixed price, and it ends with a document rather than a proposal for more work.

Evidence before opinion

Analytics, Search Console, CRM data, sales calls, and interviews with the people who deal with customers. Plus a technical audit of what exists. Opinions are cheap and everyone already has them.

  • Analytics and Search Console review
  • Sales and support interviews
  • Technical and accessibility audit
  • Integration inventory

Competitors and the gap

How the sites that outrank you are structured, what they cover that you do not, and where the genuine openings are. Structure is usually a bigger factor than content volume, and it is the part most audits skip.

  • Competitor architecture teardown
  • Live SERP analysis per priority query
  • Content and capability gap
  • Backlink profile comparison

The recommendations

Platform, architecture, content model, phasing and budget, each with the reasoning and the trade-offs written out. Where we are uncertain we say so and say what would resolve it.

  • Platform recommendation with three-year cost
  • Site architecture and URL structure
  • Content model specification
  • Phasing with budget ranges

A document you own

Presented, discussed, then yours. Take it to three agencies for comparable quotes. Take it in-house. Take it to us. It is written to be agency-agnostic and it says so.

  • Written strategy document
  • Working session to go through it
  • Usable as a tender document
  • No obligation to build with us

Why us

Why pay for strategy separately

Because free strategy comes attached to a proposal, and that is not the same thing.

We are not quoting for the build while we advise

A free discovery session ends in a proposal for the work the agency wanted to sell. Paid and separate means the platform recommendation can honestly be 'stay where you are and fix three things'. That answer has been the right one more than once.

You get a document, not a deck

Specific enough to tender with. Several clients have used it to get comparable quotes from three agencies, which is exactly what it is for and is a good outcome.

Built on your data, not on best practice

Analytics, Search Console, CRM records and actual sales calls. Generic best practice is free on the internet and worth roughly what it costs.

The expensive mistakes get caught here

Wrong platform, wrong content model, no migration plan. All three are cheap to fix in a document and very expensive to fix in month five of a build.

Start a projectTell us what you are trying to decide. If it is a small question we will answer it in an email.

Industries

Proven results across sectors

Every number below is the count of case studies we have actually published in that sector, and the best result among them. Nothing is a counter.

Selected work

Websites we have built

Client stories

What clients say

On camera and in writing — swipe through the founders and teams we’ve helped design, build and grow.

In their words

★★★★★
GMC is thrilled to extend our heartfelt appreciation to Adnika! Collaborating with Ehsan and his team has consistently been an absolute delight. Ehsan's dedication and commitment have ensured that German Medical Center remains an exceedingly satisfied and happy client, especially regarding their Hubspot Onboarding, Digital Marketing, Website Development, Content Creation and Social Media Marketing. Adnika is indeed the Best Digital and Growth Marketing Agency in UAE!
German Medical CenterDubai, UAE
★★★★★
Adnika provided us with their Inbound Sales and Marketing solutions through Hubspot. They helped us generate more qualified leads for our sales team, drive website traffic, increase customer engagement, and grow our customer base. Adnika is a reliable partner that has always taken our specific goals and needs seriously.
Ómar Thor ÓmarssonCMO, Meniga
★★★★★
Adnika has helped us plan, implement and optimize ad campaigns on Facebook and Instagram. Adnika is truly committed to Performance Marketing. They provided us with a fantastic dashboard with detailed KPIs that helped us track the campaigns’ performance in real time. Adnika also gave us helpful and dedicated support during the whole project, and the campaigns turned out to be a great success. We highly recommend working with Adnika's growth experts.
Christer PihlqvistKapi Marketing
★★★★★
We really enjoyed working with Adnika’s team. Not only are they talented, but they all take the time to understand whom they're working with, what they're trying to accomplish, and how to help the business achieve its goals. The quality of work we've experienced has made a huge difference for us and helped drive new business.
Ola BringleMarketing Advertising
★★★★★
Adnika helped Sea Technology with setting up new digital channels, such as Google Search Ads, to attract more customers and leverage our brand. We are very satisfied with the results and we will continue with the implementation of lead generation, marketing automation, and performance marketing.
Bengt LundquistSeatech
★★★★★
Working with the Adnika team has been a real pleasure! Extremely friendly, Ehsan and Elin are always available with prompt replies, valuable insights, patience, a problem-solving attitude, and high knowledge. Super easy to work with them. I highly recommend the Adnika team to help your business!
Magnus BruhnPharmaceuticals
★★★★★
I am an artist, but I also manage a collective of DJs. In order to promote our services to our clients, we needed Inbound solutions that could attract the right traffic and promote the brand. Adnika built and designed our Inbound processes as well as create and manage campaigns on social media and Google Ads which helped us attract many more customers. I’m very happy!
Denise LopezXOXO Agency
★★★★★
We've been using Adnika growth marketing solutions only for a few months. They are highly professional, competent, experienced, and creative. Get ready to get to work with this agency. They will come alongside you as a business owner and feel your pain and joy! Get ready to transform your business.
Pierre-Alexande RauxTelecommunications

Questions

Web strategy, answered plainly

Including why it is a paid engagement.

AED 15,000 to AED 60,000 covers most of what we are asked to build. The number moves on the size of the existing site, how many audiences and languages are involved, whether competitor and SERP analysis is included, and how many stakeholders need interviewing. Anything quoted before those are known is a guess. We scope first, then price, and the scope document is yours whether or not you proceed. These are market ranges rather than a fixed rate card — the proposal carries the real figure.

Because free strategy is a sales process. When the advice is paid for and separate, we can honestly recommend keeping your current platform, or spending less, or not doing the project this year. None of those recommendations survive inside a free session that exists to produce a proposal.

We will credit a portion against a build that starts within three months. But the document is deliberately written so you can take it elsewhere, and clients do. That is the point rather than a failure mode.

Yes, and it sometimes is. If your current site is structurally sound and the real problem is content or acquisition, we will say that and tell you where the budget should go instead.

Architecture, URL structure, internal linking and the migration plan, yes — those are structural decisions that determine what is possible. An ongoing SEO programme is a separate engagement with its own budget.

That is one of the more common uses. The document is written to be tendered with, so three agencies quote against the same scope and you can actually compare the numbers.

Whoever owns the commercial outcome, whoever will maintain the site, and two or three people who deal with customers directly. Around six hours of your organisation's time in total, spread across the engagement.

Two to four weeks. Longer than that usually means we are waiting on access to analytics or on interview scheduling, so both are worth arranging in week one.

A written document covering objectives, audiences and journeys, platform recommendation with three-year cost, content model, site architecture, migration plan, technical requirements and phased budget ranges. Plus a working session to go through it.

Then we discuss it, and if you have information we did not have, the recommendation changes. The document is a considered argument rather than a verdict, and it should be possible to argue with it.

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Next step

What are you trying to decide?

If it is a narrow question we will answer it in an email at no charge. If it is the whole project, this is what the engagement is for.

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