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One idea.
Every format.
Same week.

Senior creative direction with an AI-assisted production stack. You buy the thinking; the machine does the resizing.

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Why we exist

A campaign that used to need four assets now needs forty. Budgets did not grow to match.

The choice most brands face is an agency that is thorough, slow and priced for a department — or the cheapest freelancer on a marketplace, who is fast until the third month.

Aql was built for the space between. Direction stays human and senior. Production runs on a stack that turns one approved master into every format a platform serves.
Where to start

Services

Four things we do, what each one includes, and the price before the call.

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How we work

Four steps, what the machine does, what people decide, and the check before anything ships.

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Clients

A decade of work across government, healthcare, automotive, retail and media.

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Selected clients
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The multiplier

One approved master, recut for every placement a platform serves. Drawn here to true relative scale.

Master → delivered formatsto scale
1080×1080Feed
1080×1350Portrait
1080×1920Story
1920×1080YouTube
1200×628Link
728×90Banner
1approved master
6+formats delivered
40assets a month
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Tell us what is not working.

Four answers and a sentence. Fill it in, copy the brief, and send it over — you will get a fixed quote within two working days.

Send request opens your own email app with the brief already written, addressed to hello@aqlstudio.com — nothing leaves your device until you press send there. If your browser blocks it, the brief is copied to your clipboard instead and you can paste it into any email.

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A sentence about what you are trying to fix is enough to start. Thirty minutes on a call, then a fixed quote within two working days. No retainer to talk.

Email
hello@aqlstudio.com
Based in
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Services

Priced before
the call.

If a studio will not tell you the number before the call, the number is not the number. These are starting prices for the scope described. You get a fixed quote in two working days.

ServiceWhat you getLead time From
Brand identityLogo system, colour, type, usage rules, and the templates your team runs itself 3–6 wksAED 7,500
Social contentA month planned ahead — feed, carousel, reel and story, produced per platform monthlyAED 4,500
Performance creative12 ad variants, every served size, three directions tested against each other 5 daysAED 3,500
Real estateListing brochures, redrawn floor plans, hoarding, launch packages 5–15 daysAED 2,200
In detail

Brand identity

AED 7,500
3–6 weeks
  • Discovery, your three competitors, and one sentence that defines success
  • Two or three genuinely different routes — not variations of one
  • Logo system, colour, type scale and spacing rules
  • A usage guide short enough that people actually follow it
  • Editable templates so your team can keep producing without us

Not included: naming, trademark filing, original photography.

Social content

AED 4,500
per month
  • A month planned before anything is designed
  • Around 40 assets — feed, carousel, story, reel cover
  • Sized per platform from one approved master, not stretched
  • Two revision rounds per cycle, inside agreed feedback windows
  • Source files handed over every month, not held hostage

Not included: paid media spend, community management, copywriting in full.

Performance creative

AED 3,500
5 working days
  • Three directions built to be tested against each other
  • 12 variants total, every size your platforms serve
  • Static plus one motion cut built from the same frames
  • Named and organised for your ad manager, ready to upload
  • A short note on what each direction is testing

Not included: campaign setup, media buying, landing pages.

Real estate marketing

AED 2,200
5–15 days
  • Listing brochures, print and digital
  • Floor plans redrawn properly, not screenshotted
  • Hoarding, signage and site boards
  • Launch packages — the full set for one release
  • Arabic and English layouts where the project needs both

Not included: 3D renders, drone or interior photography, CRM setup.

How pricing works

What is fixed

  • A written quote against a written scope, valid 30 days
  • 50% to start, 50% on delivery — the clock starts on the deposit
  • Revision rounds named in the quote, not counted afterwards
  • Source files and licences handed over on final payment

What moves the price

  • Languages — a second layout is production, not a toggle
  • Volume beyond the stated set
  • Rush work inside the stated lead time
  • Scope added after approval, quoted before it starts

Feedback is due in three business days at concept and two at production. A delay moves the delivery date by the same number of days — it is the only fair way to hold a calendar.

How we work

Written down so
you can hold us to it.

Every studio claims to use AI now. Here is exactly what it does on your project, what it never touches, and what gets checked before anything leaves.

Process
  1. 01

    Understand

    A call, your material, your three competitors. Ends with one sentence we both agree defines success.

  2. 02

    Direct

    Routes, not variations. Genuinely different answers, each with the reasoning attached.

  3. 03

    Produce

    The approved route built out at volume — every size and platform from one master.

  4. 04

    Deliver

    Final files, handover, and the templates to keep it running in-house.

The production model

The split is the whole argument. Machines are good at volume and bad at judgement; the price you pay is for the judgement.

The machine handles

  • Concept passes and moodboards in hours
  • Every variation from one approved master
  • Upscale, retouch, background and object work
  • Motion cuts built from stills, no shoot

People decide

  • The strategy and the idea itself
  • Art direction and the final call on every asset
  • Licensing and rights, cleared before delivery
  • A 42-point check before anything ships
Before anything ships

Forty-two checks,
every delivery.

Unglamorous, and the difference between a supplier and a studio.

12

Typography

Alignment, hierarchy, hanging punctuation, and the same type scale across every asset.

10

Licensing

Every font, image and track cleared, with the receipt filed and handed to you.

11

Production

Bleed, colour profile, resolution and export settings checked against where it runs.

9

Handover

Named, organised, and openable by someone who was not in the project.

Clients

Brands we’ve
worked with.

A decade of work for government, healthcare, automotive, trade, retail, food and entertainment brands across the GCC and Egypt, in both agency and in-house roles. The work is the credential; the logos are shorthand.

Sectors

Different rooms, same problem: one idea that has to survive contact with every format, every platform and, often, two languages.

Government & public sectorHealthcareAutomotiveTrade & logisticsRetailFood & beverageEntertainment & mediaFinancial marketsPharmaceuticalReal estate