Dubai Setup Index

Retrieve a page by a search hit's id or any URL on this site, as markdown: the same rendition the URL itself serves, so a quote from it and from the page cannot differ. Covers every page, including the how-it-works and methodology prose that no typed tool returns. Long pages come in parts of about 10,000 characters: pass the returned nextCursor as cursor for the next part.

fetch

Start from a practical business type (software company, restaurant, salon, brokerage and others). Returns activity-specific questions, missing scenario inputs, candidate activity listings and next steps. Pass an exact activity slug to find candidate jurisdictions. Listings are provisional, never permission to operate; prices require a separate scenario comparison. No application is created.

plan_business_setup

Save a line-item IFZA quote for a named client and return its shareable link (print-ready as a PDF). Same lines as estimate_ifza_setup, each with its source and date; unpriced lines stay listed, never totalled. For setup firms and advisers quoting their own clients: it is not an application and shares nothing with any setup team. Call it when the user asks for a quote to send; use estimate_ifza_setup to just price a scenario. The quote carries the firm's name, once it is saved at /quotes, and its service fee as a separate line.

prepare_quote

Read published documents, steps, activity approvals and regulator guidance for a business type and named route. Pass an exact activity slug for lane-specific requirements. Returns preparation questions and missing checks; explicitly partial, not an exhaustive application checklist. Company formation, permission to operate and residence are separate. Source links and dates accompany the guidance.

get_setup_requirements

Year-by-year known IFZA costs for five years from formation at confirmed rates: licence and card renewals, visa renewals at months 24 and 48, and every cost still unknown in each year. Year 1 carries the same lines as estimate_ifza_setup. The five-year figure is a known-components subtotal, never a full total; a zero year is not a free year.

estimate_ifza_five_year

Find a UAE free zone, a business activity, a route comparison or a country guide by name or plain words, and get the id to fetch and the typed tool that holds its facts. Start here when you do not know the slug. Every hit links to a page that exists. Results are ranked across types by relevance. A query about a topic that needs a dedicated regulator (crypto, regulated finance, construction contracting) also returns regulatoryNotice naming who licenses it.

search

Notes for founders from one country: common motivations, documents to prepare and attest, travel and sequencing, and the activities founders from there often licence. Pair with get_immigration_rules for nationality-specific visa rules.

get_country_guide

Draft a company setup application for the signed-in user once they have chosen a route: zone (or mainland), exact activity, visas, licence term, shareholders and their nationalities. Returns a reference, the evidenced estimate for that scenario (unknown lines stay unknown; not a quotation), the documents to prepare, flags such as a regulator's approval, and approveUrl. Nothing is shared until the user opens approveUrl and approves; the setup team then sends its own written quotation. IFZA, Ajman Free Zone, Meydan Free Zone and Dubai mainland are handled today; other routes are recorded as demand only. Call it only when the user asks to go ahead, never to price a scenario (use the estimate tools for that). No names, passport or contact details: the user adds a phone number on the approval page.

start_application

The Dubai mainland (DET) route: official Invest in Dubai licence estimate examples and activity scopes, the preparation steps, documents, renewal and known gaps. The licence estimate covers licence fees only — rent, visas, approvals and renewal are separate and not totalled.

get_mainland

The three-question decision tree the site uses to narrow routes (selling or working onshore, Dubai address, visa count). Every answer either names the next step or ends in a leaf; the visa question is asked once per address answer, and each visa leaf carries that lane's starting price at that visa count. A result is a starting point to investigate, not confirmed eligibility.

get_setup_chooser

The signed-in account's plan, the tool calls left today where the plan has a daily cap, the scopes this token carries and the rate limit. Never counts against the daily quota. Account details only; no setup data.

whoami

The status and timeline of an application this account started: drafted, approved, quoted, paid, licence issued, visa issued, bank account opened. Answers "where is my licence?" with the next step. Only the account that drafted a reference can read it.

get_application_status

For one activity guide, every synced free-zone catalogue that lists it — IFZA, Ajman Free Zone, DMCC, Meydan, SPC, ADGM, Creative City Fujairah, Ajman Media City — plus the Dubai mainland lane, each with the authority's own code and name and how the match was made (lane, shared code, or name). Rows only a text search ties to it come back separately as similarListings. A listing is what an authority catalogues, not eligibility: zones without a synced catalogue are not refusals.

find_zones_for_activity