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Client apps for Riyadh setup firms that guide investors from first call to licence.

Business setup app development Riyadh firms can rely on: we build client apps, staff tools and admin dashboards for consultancies that form companies in the capital. Investors upload passports and board resolutions, approve quotes, sign engagement letters and watch each step of MISA registration, commercial registration and post licence work move forward. Your consultants stop chasing documents over email and spend their time on the filings and advice clients actually pay for.

Riyadh is where most foreign investors land first, because the ministries, MISA and the regional headquarters programme all sit here. Codeeo has people in Riyadh, so discovery workshops and user testing can happen in your office rather than over a video link.

Built for
Business setup consultancies, corporate services providers and advisory firms based in Riyadh that form companies for local and foreign investors.
Typical timeline
We agree the first release in discovery, then fix the delivery plan in writing once the scope and your internal approvals are clear.
What you own
Your firm holds the source code, the store listings, the cloud accounts and every client record, with handover notes your own team can follow.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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What a Riyadh setup app includes

Tools shaped around how capital city formations really run.

A typical Riyadh mandate involves more people than a small company formation. A parent company abroad, its legal counsel, a finance lead, the future general manager and sometimes an HR provider all want answers, and each one asks your consultant separately. The app gives every stakeholder one place to see what is needed from them and where the file stands.

We design around the sequence your team already follows: investment registration with the Ministry of Investment, articles of association, the commercial register entry under the unified national number, tax and social insurance registration, then the labour and visa work that lets staff arrive. Each stage becomes a set of tasks with owners, documents and deadlines, visible to the client in plain Arabic or English.

Riyadh clients also tend to arrive with deadlines set elsewhere: a group board date, a tender window or a planned executive move. The app shows the agreed target date beside each stage, so a slip is visible to your partner early and can be explained to the client before it becomes a complaint.

Explain your project
  • Guided enquiry and instant quote

    A short questionnaire asks about nationality of shareholders, intended activity, office plans and headcount, then produces an indicative package and a list of what happens next. For business setup consultancy app development Riyadh firms commission, this screen replaces the long first phone call and gives consultants a qualified brief before they speak to the investor.

    Consultants open every first meeting already knowing the case.

  • Multi stakeholder client workspace

    One company file with separate logins for the parent company, outside counsel, the incoming general manager and your consultants. Each person sees the tasks assigned to them, the documents they can view, and the decisions waiting on their sign off, so nothing depends on one forwarded email chain.

    Large clients stop asking the same question through four different people.

  • Regional headquarters tracking

    Multinationals moving a regional headquarters to Riyadh usually need the headquarters entity and a separate operating company. The app tracks both files side by side, links shared shareholder documents once, and shows which approvals belong to which entity. Staffing and office lease steps for each entity sit in the same view.

    Two linked formations managed as one programme instead of two inboxes.

  • Board resolution and document requests

    Request lists generated from the activity and ownership structure, with templates for board resolutions, powers of attorney and shareholder letters. Clients see which items need apostille or legalisation in their home country before upload, which saves weeks of rework. Rejected items return to the client with the reason attached.

    Documents arrive in the right form the first time.

  • Engagement letters and e signature

    Scope, deliverables and payment terms presented inside the app, signed electronically by the authorised signatory, and stored against the company file. Changes to scope become a new signed addendum rather than a line in a chat. Partners can see at a glance which mandates are still unsigned.

    Every mandate starts with a signed, retrievable agreement.

  • Government stage tracker

    Your staff file in the official portals; the app records each submission, reference number, outcome and next action. Clients see stages such as investment registration, commercial registration, ZATCA, GOSI and Qiwa in order, with a short explanation of what each one means for them. Each update is time stamped.

    Status calls drop because the answer is already on the client's phone.

  • Payments and VAT invoices

    Milestone invoices issued from your billing system, paid in the app by mada, Apple Pay or card, with government fees shown separately from professional fees. Invoices follow ZATCA e invoicing rules through your existing Fatoora compliant system. Partial payments and refunds are recorded against the right milestone.

    Faster collection and fewer disputes about what a charge covers.

  • Consultant workload board

    A dashboard for partners showing every open formation, who owns it, which stage is late and which client is waiting on a document. Reassigning a file when a consultant is on leave takes one action, with the full history carried across. Time spent per file can be logged for profitability reports.

    Managers see bottlenecks before clients complain about them.

  • Post licence compliance calendar

    Reminders for the annual commercial register confirmation, the annual MISA declaration, iqama renewals, VAT returns and Saudization checks. Each reminder can turn into a paid retainer task, so the relationship continues after the licence is issued. Clients can approve renewal work with one tap. Lapsed items are highlighted in red.

    Recurring compliance revenue instead of a one time formation fee.

  • Arabic and English interface

    Full right to left Arabic and English layouts, switchable per user, with official terms kept consistent in both languages. Saudi founders often prefer Arabic while a parent company's lawyers read English, and both work inside the same record. Dates display in both Hijri and Gregorian formats where your clients expect it.

    Each reader gets the language they decide in.

Who we build for in Riyadh

Four kinds of Riyadh firm that get the most from a setup app.

The capital has a wide spread of setup providers, from large advisory houses near King Abdullah Financial District to small teams working out of Olaya and the northern business parks. Their clients differ too: multinationals, Gulf groups expanding across the border, and Saudi founders forming their first company. The right app depends on which of these you serve most.

We also ask how your firm wins work. Some Riyadh consultancies live on referrals from law firms and banks; others buy search and social traffic. The intake and quote screens are tuned differently for each, because a referred multinational expects a call within hours while a founder from an advert wants an answer on screen.

01

Advisers serving multinationals and regional headquarters

Your files are long, involve several countries and need careful document control. We focus the first release on the stakeholder workspace, document requests with legalisation guidance, and the linked entity tracker. Reporting for the client's group legal team usually comes next, because they want a single view across every jurisdiction they are opening in. Group legal teams in Europe, Asia or North America also expect formal audit trails, so every approval, upload and change of scope is recorded with the user and time. Your partners can export that record whenever the client's compliance team asks for proof of who approved what.

Start with the document flow, since that is where these mandates stall.

02

Boutique consultancies with a few consultants

You handle many smaller formations at once and lose hours to status messages. A lighter app with intake, quotes, payment and a stage tracker gives you most of the benefit without a large build. We keep the admin side simple enough that the consultants themselves can update it between ministry visits. Commercial register confirmations and iqama dates for your existing clients load into the calendar from day one. Payment by mada or Apple Pay at the quote stage also removes the awkward follow up for a deposit. As the firm grows, the same app scales to more consultants without a rebuild, and new staff learn your process from the stages rather than from shadowing a colleague for weeks.

03

Accounting and audit firms adding company formation

You already hold bookkeeping, VAT and zakat relationships. A setup app lets new clients start with formation and move straight into your recurring services without a second onboarding. We connect the app to your practice management or accounting system so the client record exists once. Your partners also see formation work and recurring accounting fees in one revenue view. That makes it easier to judge which formation clients turn into long term accounts, and to price setup packages with the follow on work in mind rather than treating formation as a separate business line.

04

Startup support providers

Riyadh has a busy founder scene around accelerators and investment programmes. Founders want a quick, mobile first path to a registered company and a bank account. We design short intake flows, Nafath sign in for Saudi users, and clear next steps for founders forming a company for the first time. Founders often have little patience for paperwork, so every screen explains why a document is needed. A short checklist of what to prepare before starting, and a progress bar that moves as each item is approved, keeps them engaged until the company is registered and the first employee is hired.

How we build a setup app with a Riyadh firm.

  1. 01Workshop in your officeOur Riyadh people sit with your consultants and map one real formation from first enquiry to issued licence, including every handoff and every document request. We also sit in on a few client calls.
  2. 02Service catalogue and rulesWe turn your packages, activities and ownership scenarios into rules that decide which documents and stages each new client sees. Edge cases are written down rather than left to memory.
  3. 03Bilingual design and prototypeClickable Arabic and English screens tested with a few of your actual clients, so wording problems surface before any code is written. Feedback is gathered in short sessions. Wording is fixed before build begins.
  4. 04Build in short releasesClient app, staff tools and dashboard built in stages you review, starting with the flow that costs your team the most time today. Each release ends with a working demo.
  5. 05Pilot on live filesA handful of active formations move onto the app first. We fix friction fast, then migrate the remaining open files with your team. Your consultants report issues straight from the portal.
  6. 06Launch and ongoing changesStore release, staff training and a support arrangement for regulation changes, new services and the reports partners ask for after launch. Usage reports guide what comes next. Partners review the roadmap with us each quarter.

Technology

What we build this with.

We pick the stack around your firm: cross platform mobile for clients, a web portal for staff, cloud hosting inside the Kingdom where your data policy requires it, and integrations with the accounting, CRM and e signature tools you already pay for. Push notifications, WhatsApp templates and email all draw on the same event log, so a client never receives two different versions of the same update.

01Mobile

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

02Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

03Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

What Riyadh setup firms ask us before they build.

A client app, a staff portal and an admin dashboard built around your formation process.

We map how your consultants handle a company formation in Riyadh, then build the screens clients use to submit documents, approve quotes, pay and follow progress. Staff get a portal to manage tasks and record government submissions. Partners get a dashboard showing workload and revenue. The app does not replace your expertise in ministry procedures; it removes the admin around it so your team can take on more mandates without hiring for coordination alone.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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