What Slate Interiors does

Slate Interiors is a Dubai-based interior fit-out contractor operating from Office 1602, API World Tower, Sheikh Zayed Road. The company delivers turnkey interior design and build services across six verticals: Food & Beverage, Health & Wellness, Commercial, Hospitality, Retail, and Residential. Its core technical capability is an in-house Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) design and engineering team, complemented by specialist decorators, carpenters, masons, electricians, and plumbers. The firm also coordinates external landscaping alongside interior scope, positioning itself as a single-source fit-out provider.

The business operates on a project-based professional services model with quote-based pricing for each engagement. Revenue is generated through individual project contracts rather than recurring subscriptions or product sales. Go-to-market is sales-led and direct: the company accepts inbound inquiries via its website (slateinteriorsme.com), WhatsApp, phone, and walk-in office consultations. Customer mix spans named enterprise logos including Costa Coffee (engaged across multiple UAE locations), GE Digital Office, RESYNC DIFC, and Alkabulan Food Hall, alongside a longer tail of unbranded SMB clients. The company holds three consecutive years of industry recognition: Interior Fitout Company of the Year 2021 - UAE, MEA Markets Award 2022, and Best Interior Fit-Outs Company 2023 - Dubai.

The operating footprint is lean. With 18 employees, Slate Interiors runs a tightly staffed delivery model relative to its claimed six-vertical service breadth and enterprise client roster. No funding rounds, ownership changes, geographic expansion beyond the UAE, or technology platform investments are disclosed in the available data. The company is privately held and the absence of capital-raise history suggests organic, cash-flow-funded growth.

Name

Slate Interiors

Legal name

Slate Interiors

Website

https://slateinteriorsme.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Slate Interiors is a Dubai-based interior fit-out contractor delivering turnkey design and build services across F&B, hospitality, commercial, retail, health & wellness, and residential verticals, with in-house MEP engineering and a lean 18-person team serving enterprise and SMB clients across the UAE.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Dubai

HQ country

United Arab Emirates

HQ region

Middle East

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Interior Fit-Out Project Services: One-time project-based revenue from providing turnkey interior fit-out design solutions and contracting services for restaurants, F&B, hotels, commercial offices, health & wellness facilities, retail stores, and residential spaces. Projects are customized with pricing based on scope, design requirements, and materials.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Slate Interiors is a Dubai-based interior fit-out contractor that delivers turnkey interior design and construction solutions for F&B venues, hotels, health and wellness facilities, commercial offices, retail stores, and high-end residential projects. Its in-house MEP design and engineering team coordinates interior fit-out with mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and external landscaping design, covering the full project lifecycle from concept and authority approvals through procurement, construction, and post-handover support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Turnkey Interior Fit-Out Services Full end-to-end interior design and fit-out construction covering concept design, authority approvals, material procurement, fit-out execution, and handover for F&B venues, health and wellness facilities, commercial offices, retail stores, hospitality venues, and residential projects in the UAE.
• MEP Design & Engineering Services In-house mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design and engineering that integrates with interior fit-out to streamline coordination. The MEP scope expands from internal systems to coordinated external landscaping design, allowing unified delivery of electro-mechanical and interior design under one contract.
• Hotel Fit-Out & Refurbishment Services Interior fit-out and refurbishment design and contracting for hotels and hospitality venues in the UAE, executed to international standards with high-quality materials and craftsmanship, including renovation of existing hotel spaces.
• Residential Interior Fit-Out Custom villa, apartment, and residential tower lobby interior fit-out services in the UAE, translating a personalized owner vision into buildable interior design with quality craftsmanship.
• External Landscaping Design Coordinated exterior landscaping design that extends from the in-house MEP and interior scope, providing a well-engineered external solution for projects that require it.

Quantifiable outcome

• Quality and timely delivery as key to successful projects

Named customers19 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Qube Design & Fitout: Dubai-based interior design and fit-out firm serving F&B, retail, commercial and residential clients in the UAE. Comparable as a similarly sized boutique fit-out contractor with a comparable customer mix and turnkey delivery approach to Slate Interiors.
• Bond Interiors: UAE-based interior fit-out and joinery contractor serving hospitality, commercial, retail and residential sectors. Comparable as a regional design-and-build fit-out firm with overlapping customer profile and project types to Slate Interiors.
• Depa Group: UAE-headquartered interior fit-out and infrastructure contractor with a portfolio spanning hospitality, commercial, residential and aviation. Directly comparable as the publicly-listed reference fit-out contractor in the same Dubai/UAE market Slate Interiors serves.
• Havelock One Interiors: Dubai-based turnkey interior fit-out contractor specializing in hospitality, retail, F&B and commercial projects across the Middle East. Comparable in scope, geography and customer verticals to Slate Interiors, with a similar turnkey design-and-build delivery model.
• ID Design: UAE-based interior design and fit-out company specializing in residential, commercial and hospitality projects in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Comparable as a design-led fit-out firm operating in the same Dubai market with overlapping customer segments.
• Premier Fitout: UAE-based interior fit-out contractor serving F&B, retail, commercial and residential clients across Dubai. Comparable as a regional boutique fit-out specialist competing for similar projects in the same verticals as Slate Interiors.

Broad incumbents

• ALEC Fitout: Part of the ALEC Group, one of the largest UAE contractors with a dedicated interior fit-out division serving commercial, hospitality and mega-project clients. Comparable as a broader UAE incumbent offering similar fit-out services, but at much larger scale and balance sheet than Slate Interiors.
• Gensler: Global architecture and design firm with one of the largest interior design practices, serving hospitality, retail, workplace and commercial clients including major MENA projects. Comparable on the interior design service offering that underpins Slate Interiors' value proposition, though operating at global scale and design-only rather than design-and-build.
• Stantec: Global design and consulting firm with a strong interior architecture and workplace design practice serving commercial, hospitality, healthcare and retail clients worldwide. Comparable on the design-services axis (interior design, space planning) that Slate Interiors also offers, though at vastly larger scale and geographic reach.

Regional players

• Mivan: Interior fit-out and joinery contractor with strong presence in the Middle East (particularly KSA and UAE), serving hospitality, commercial and leisure projects. Comparable as a regional fit-out contractor with a similar turnkey delivery model, though with primary KSA focus rather than UAE.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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