Light Touch

What Light Touch does

Light Touch Pld LLC is a privately held, Dubai-headquartered lighting design consultancy founded in 2010 and operating under a multi-office structure spanning Dubai, Shanghai, Bangkok, Singapore, London, and Mumbai. The firm delivers architectural, interior, and landscape lighting design services for luxury hospitality, high-end residences, commercial spaces, public realms, themed attractions, leisure venues, and masterplans across the Middle East, UK, and Asia. Its core offering is professional lighting design consulting rather than a software or hardware product, executed using industry-standard tools including BIM, CAD, and lighting simulation software under a human-centric design philosophy emphasizing immersive, sustainable, and emotionally resonant lighting environments.

The firm operates a project-based, quote-driven revenue model, generating fees from design consultation, specifications, and implementation oversight on tailored client engagements. Its go-to-market relies on direct enterprise relationships with hotel owners, developers, and commercial real estate firms, complemented by co-development partnerships with premier architectural practices including KPF Architects, Killa Design, MZ Architects, and Godwin Austin Johnson. A long-term collaboration with Project Lighting Design (Singapore), a 20-year internationally recognized practice, anchors its APAC delivery capability.

Light Touch PLD's customer base is concentrated in luxury hospitality, with marquee projects including Atlantis The Royal, Shebara Resort (Red Sea Global), Six Senses Southern Dunes, Aldar Square HQ, Fairmont Ajman, Palazzo Versace Dubai, Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi, Park Hyatt Dubai, and Waldorf Astoria Ras Al Khaimah. The firm has accumulated multiple Light Middle East Awards and AHEAD MEA Awards, including Project of the Year 2024 – The Ultimate Award and Project of the Year 2025, positioning it as a recognized leader in regional luxury hospitality lighting design.

Name

Light Touch

Legal name

Light Touch Pld LLC

Website

https://lighttouchpld.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Light Touch PLD is a Dubai-headquartered lighting design consultancy delivering architectural, interior, and landscape lighting for luxury hospitality, commercial, and residential projects across the Middle East, UK, and Asia via six offices and project-based professional services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Lighting Design Consulting Services

akta.pro primary industry

Lighting Design Services (BPAHAKAJ)

Keywords

• Architectural lighting design
• Hospitality lighting consultancy
• Interior lighting design
• Landscape lighting design
• Sustainable lighting design

Headquarters

HQ city

Dubai

HQ country

United Arab Emirates

HQ region

Middle East

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Lighting Design Consulting Services: Professional consulting services for architectural, interior and landscape lighting design projects. Revenue is generated through project-based fees for design consultation, specifications, and implementation oversight for luxury hospitality, high-end residential, commercial, and themed entertainment projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Light Touch PLD is a lighting design consultancy that creates immersive, sustainable, and human-centric lighting environments for architectural, interior, and landscape projects. The firm delivers lighting design services for luxury hospitality, high-end residences, commercial spaces, public realms, themed attractions, leisure venues, and masterplans, blending creativity, innovation, and technical precision to shape atmospheres and elevate architecture.

Product overview

Light Touch PLD is an award-winning lighting design consultancy offering a single unified service rather than a modular software product. The company provides comprehensive architectural, interior, and landscape lighting design services, working across the Middle East, UK, and Asia. Their service portfolio encompasses hospitality, retail and leisure, food and beverage, facade, spa and fitness, and other commercial sectors. The consultancy blends creativity, innovation, and technical precision to shape atmospheres and elevate architecture, as evidenced by their featured projects including Atlantis The Royal, Shebara Resort, Aldar Square HQ, Fairmont Ajman, and Six Senses Southern Dunes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Lighting Design Consultancy Services Award-winning architectural, interior, and landscape lighting design consultancy creating immersive, sustainable, and human-centric lighting environments for luxury hospitality, high-end residences, commercial spaces, public realms, themed attractions, leisure, and masterplans. Services cover hospitality, retail and leisure, food and beverage, facade, spa and fitness, and other commercial sectors.

Quantifiable outcome

• Atlantis The Royal won Project of the Year 2024 – The Ultimate Award at Light Middle East Awards 2024
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Project Lighting Design (Singapore)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-term partnership with Project Lighting Design, an internationally recognized lighting design practice with 20 years of experience based in Singapore. Light Touch PLD works in collaboration with Project Lighting Design professionals.
• Killa DesigncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerArchitectural partnership on Shebara Resort project - a complex luxury development on Sheybara Island as part of The Red Sea project in Saudi Arabia.
• MZ ArchitectscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerArchitectural partnership on Aldar Square HQ project - the first circular building in the Middle East.
• Godwin Austin JohnsoncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerArchitectural partnership on Fairmont Ajman project - major redesign of the five-star beachfront hotel.
• KPF ArchitectscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerArchitectural partnership on Atlantis The Royal project - contemporary hotel with two connected buildings and sky-courts.
• Bassos DesignminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDesign collaboration on Noir at Kempinski Hotel Mall of the Emirates - Art Deco-inspired lounge bar transformation.
• Aukett Fitzroy Robinson InternationalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDesign collaboration on Noir at Kempinski Hotel Mall of the Emirates - Art Deco-inspired lounge bar transformation.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Arup Lighting: Lighting design practice within global engineering consultancy Arup, covering architectural, urban, and specialist lighting projects worldwide. Comparable in offering but operates as part of a much larger multi-disciplinary engineering firm rather than as a specialist boutique.
• BDP (Building Design Partnership): International interdisciplinary design practice with a dedicated lighting design arm working across hospitality, healthcare, transport, and urban realm. Comparable service overlap but embedded within a much broader architecture and engineering portfolio.

Regional players

• Nulty+: UK-headquartered architectural lighting design consultancy with presence across Europe and the Middle East serving hospitality, commercial, and residential clients. Comparable specialist offering with overlapping Middle East exposure but primarily UK-centric.

Direct peers

• Speirs Major: UK-based architectural lighting design consultancy with an international practice spanning architecture, interiors, and landscape lighting. Most directly comparable peer to Light Touch PLD in terms of service offering, customer base (luxury hospitality, cultural, masterplans), and project-based consulting model.
• L'Observatoire International: Independent architectural lighting design practice working on high-end hospitality, retail, and cultural projects globally. Directly comparable boutique lighting consultancy serving a similar luxury client base.
• Tillotson Design Associates: US-based architectural lighting design consultancy with a portfolio spanning hospitality, retail, museums, and urban projects. Comparable independent specialist lighting design firm with similar project-based consulting model.
• Sutton Winson: UK architectural lighting design consultancy with multi-decade heritage working across commercial, hospitality, and infrastructure projects. Directly comparable specialist practice with similar project-based consulting model.
• Fisher Marantz Stone: New York-based architectural lighting design consultancy with a portfolio of museums, hospitality, commercial, and urban projects. Directly comparable specialist lighting consultancy with similar human-centric design philosophy and project-based consulting model.
• MBLD (Mark Boston Lighting Design): Independent lighting design consultancy delivering architectural and interior lighting projects across hospitality, residential, and commercial sectors. Comparable boutique specialist with similar service profile to Light Touch PLD.

Emerging players

• Bartenbach: Austria-based lighting design and research firm with deep specialization in human-centric and daylight-integrated lighting. Comparable in human-centric lighting focus and design-led philosophy, though with a stronger research component and European geographic base.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/lighttouch_pld
• Facebookfacebook.com/LightTouchPLD
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lighttouchpld
• Instagraminstagram.com/lighttouch_pld

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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