KNOW BEFORE
YOU BUILD.
Stop gambling on rent. In 60 seconds, Locus scores any site in Dubai or Abu Dhabi for your business — café, clinic, gym, retail or residential — with an honest AI verdict and the numbers that decide it: revenue, ROI, IRR & payback. Open where you'll win — not where you'll wish you hadn't.
An AI that tells you the truth
about a location.
Most tools just cheer you on. The Locus Advisor reads the very same signals you see and gives an honest verdict — including when a site won't work, and exactly where to go instead.
Honest guidance, not hype.
- Fit, risks & alternatives — weighed from the same demographic and demand signals behind your score.
- Never promises revenue. It flags low-confidence reads and dropped pins instead of overselling.
- Saves you from a bad lease by naming the better community before you commit.
Every signal that decides
whether a place works.
We unify Dubai's scattered open records — then turn them into a clear answer for your specific use case.
One map, every signal
Population, footfall, property transactions, movement, licensing and zoning — unified into a single live map and scored for your exact concept.
The Locus Score
Drop a pin anywhere — or pick a community — and get a 0–100 viability score tuned to your concept — café, clinic, retail or residential.
Catchment & competition
See who lives, works and moves within a drive-time or Metro catchment, where rivals cluster across Dubai's communities, and where there's an unmet gap.
Predict footfall and revenue before you sign a lease.
Locus models expected traffic and turnover from comparable sites and live demand signals so you walk into negotiations knowing what a location is really worth.
From question to decision
in four steps.
Pick your concept
Tell Locus what you're opening — café, clinic, gym, retail or residential.
Choose a location
Pick any community in Dubai or Abu Dhabi — or just drop a pin anywhere on the map.
Read your score & business case
A 0–100 score, every signal behind it, plus live ROI, IRR & payback for the site.
Ask the AI & commit
Get an honest second opinion from the Advisor, then back your decision with evidence.
One wrong location
can cost you a year.
Most failed venues don't fail on the product — they fail on the pin. Move the sliders to see what a bad call really costs, then see what it costs to never make one.
Your numbers
Rough figures are fine — this is about scale, not precision.
A live map of Dubai,
scored for your concept.
Every community across the Emirate, ranked in real time. Switch your use case and watch the whole map re-score — then open any site for its full breakdown and revenue forecast.
Business Bay
Location shouldn't
be a gamble.
We started Locus because the best sites were being chosen on instinct, a broker's hunch, or whoever had the deepest pockets — while the data to decide better existed, scattered and impossible to act on.
Locus turns a sprawl of public records and market data into a single, honest answer: how good is this spot for what you want to build? We unify population, footfall, transport, transactions and licensing — then translate it into one score, one forecast, one decision you can stand behind.
We build for everyone making a location call: a first-time café owner, a multi-brand operator, a broker, a fund. Same rigour for all — no gatekeeping.
Explore free.
Pay for the answer.
Browse the map and test any site for free. When you need the result — the score, the breakdown, the forecast — pick a plan.
- Locus Score for any site
- Top-line verdict & headline signals
- Core data signals
- 10 results / month
- AI Location Advisor — 12 questions/day
- Unlimited Locus Scores
- Full signal breakdown & forecasts
- Full open-data signal model
- Compare sites & export PDF/CSV
- Bespoke scoring models
- API & data warehouse sync
- Private datasets onboarding
- Dedicated success manager
Questions, answered.
Every score is built on Dubai's public open data — population, footfall, movement, property transactions and business licensing — reconciled and normalised into one clean, consistent index, then scored for your exact concept. That synthesis is the product. Figures are modelled estimates derived from open data, not a live feed.
Scores are calibrated against historical outcomes from comparable sites. They're a decision aid, not a crystal ball — but operators using Locus report meaningfully fewer underperforming locations because the score surfaces risks gut feeling misses.
Locus currently models 30 core communities across Dubai & Abu Dhabi — expanding monthly — for retail, food & beverage, healthcare, services and residential use cases. Enterprise plans can onboard additional areas and private datasets on request.
Yes. On Pro and above you can score unlimited locations, stack them side by side across every signal, and export a clean PDF report to share with partners, landlords or investment committees.
Not at all. Drop a pin, pick your concept, read the score. The depth is there if you want to dig into every layer — but the headline answer is designed to be understood in seconds.
Find your next
winning location.
Get your first site assessment free in under a minute. No credit card, no consultants, no guesswork.