Independent Saudi growth & technology agency

Growth is a system.We build the whole thing

Candles runs your marketing and engineers the technology underneath it — strategy, creative, data, and product, from one team in Riyadh.

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Teams we've worked with

Built alongside operators, not observers.

Quick commerce, food delivery, health tech, fintech, and sport. The work below was shaped by the constraints these teams actually live with.

  • Nanaنانا
  • Jahezجاهز
  • Barqبرق
  • Well Unionويل يونيون
  • Awaedعوائد
  • Ivoryآيفوري
  • Courtechكورتك
  • CleverTapكليفرتاب

The system

Five rooms. One team.

Scroll the whole operation — from the plan, to the work, to the platform it all runs on.

  • 01 / 05The plan

    It starts with a plan that has numbers on it

    Positioning, audience research, and a channel plan built around how Saudi buyers actually shop — not a playbook imported from somewhere else.

  • 02 / 05Creative

    Content that earns the click

    Social, influencer, and event campaigns produced in-house in Arabic and English, shipped on a rhythm your audience can feel.

  • 03 / 05Data

    Every campaign reports back

    Tracking plans, clean events, and dashboards that tie spend to revenue — so the next decision is the easy one.

  • 04 / 05Technology

    We build the thing, not just the campaign

    Apps, mini-programs, integrations, and AI automation — engineered by the same team that runs your growth.

  • 05 / 05End to end

    One team, all the way through

    Strategy, creative, data, and engineering under one roof. No handoffs, no gaps between the plan and the build.

Services

Two halves of the same job.

Marketing that creates demand, and technology that can carry it. Most clients start with one and end up needing both.

Growth & marketing

  • Marketing strategy

    Positioning, audience research, and a channel plan with numbers attached.

  • Performance & paid media

    Search, social, and retargeting managed against CAC and payback, not impressions.

  • Social media management

    Always-on Arabic and English content, community, and platform verification.

  • Influencer marketing

    Creator selection, negotiation, and briefs that survive contact with an algorithm.

  • Event marketing

    Campaign, branding, registration, and the post-event read on what it returned.

Technology

  • Product & platform engineering

    Web, iOS and Android, and mini-programs — shipped to production, not to a prototype link.

  • Data & analytics infrastructure

    Tracking plans, event pipelines, warehouses, and dashboards your team will actually open.

  • CRM & lifecycle automation

    Segmentation, journeys, and retention flows wired into your product's real events.

  • AI & automation

    Agents, content pipelines, and internal tooling that remove work instead of adding dashboards.

  • Integrations & commerce

    Payments, delivery, ERP, and loyalty — connected so the data arrives in one shape.

Official partner

CleverTap, implemented properly.

We're an official CleverTap partner — and we do the part most partners skip: instrumenting your product so segmentation, journeys, and AI optimisation have real events to work with.

  • Behavioural analysis in real time
  • Omnichannel campaigns
  • Advanced segmentation
  • AI-driven optimisation

Contact

Tell us what you're trying to grow.

Send the shape of the problem and we'll come back with how we'd approach it — usually within two working days.

What do you need?
No pitch deck required.