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Aqsat.
Egyptian real estate payment plans, calculated and branded.

A dark editorial calculator + branded PDF tool for Egyptian real estate brokerages. Configure 8-12 year installments with maintenance, delivery, and registration fees. Generate a branded PDF. Send via chat. Capture the lead.

Client
YMS Studio · in-house concept
Sector
Real Estate · Brokerage Tools
Type
Calculator + PDF Generator
Year
2026
ISSUE 001 — CAIRO · 2026

Payment plans, built for Egyptian property.

The calculator + branded PDF tool for Cairo brokerages. Configure, brand, send in 30 seconds. Your data, your leads, zero commissions.

Concept prototype — fictional developer names (Highcrest, Coastline, Greenway, Palmridge, Zenith, Capital Square, etc.), fictional sample data. Not affiliated with any real developer or brokerage.
[ 01 — The wedge ]

Egyptian property is sold on installments.
Always 8-12 years. Always complex.

Every apartment sold in Egypt has a payment plan: down payment + monthly installments + maintenance fee at handover + delivery fees + registration. The total all-in cost can run 1.2× the unit price over 8 years. Buyers don't fully understand the math. Brokers explain it 30-50 times per week in spreadsheets and chat screenshots.

The dominant marketplace platform (which raised $75M Series A in 2025) addresses fragmented inventory and commission delays, but treats payment plans as a side feature. Existing local CRMs (10+ Egypt-focused options) bury the calculator inside complex pipelines. Nobody has built a calculator-first product.

Aqsat's thesis: ship the calculator as a freemium standalone widget, capture lead phone numbers as the value exchange, then expand to CRM-lite for paying brokerages. Land with the calculator. Grow into the CRM.

Honest disclosure: after deeper customer research, the specific payment-plan pain wasn't directly validated in public sources (Reddit, X, App Store reviews) — only adjacent pains like WhatsApp lead loss and broker fragmentation were. Aqsat was archived as a prototype and the team pivoted to Wasla (multi-channel lead capture), which attacks a more strongly validated pain point. The dark editorial design + payment-plan-native UI components remain valuable demonstrations of design + product capability.
[ 02 — What's distinct ]

Not another generic SaaS landing.
Dark editorial, payment-native.

01

Asymmetric hero

Editorial layout — left side big italic-serif headline + lead, right side the calculator card itself. Calculator IS the hero, not below it.

02

Live plan builder

5 sliders (price / down payment / years / maintenance / handover year) updating monthly installment + total breakdown live. Real Egyptian payment structure.

03

Installment timeline

Horizontal SVG timeline with milestone markers: down payment (rust), regular months (gold), handover with extras (saffron pulse), final clearance (bright). Color-coded segments.

04

Stacked cost bar

Total cost broken into proportional segments — unit price 91%, maintenance 7%, delivery 1%, registration <1%. Visualizes "all-in" cost at a glance.

05

Comparison drag slider

Two-layer drag slider: Excel way (dark) vs Aqsat way (gold). 7-row before/after table. Drag the gold handle to reveal one side or the other. Touch + mouse supported.

06

Branded PDF generator

Lead modal asks for client phone (WhatsApp), generates fake branded PDF preview with cream paper + gold accent — Coldwell-style layout with 5 rows + total line.

[ 03 — Visual system ]

Modern grotesque typography.
No literary-italic clichés.

The first version of Aqsat shared too much visual DNA with MadrasaOS — both used italic serif headlines, aurora backgrounds, bento grids. The redesign pivoted to a dark editorial magazine aesthetic: warm black background (#0a0a0c), film grain noise overlay, amber gold accent (#c9a26b), warm rust for alerts.

Typography: Bricolage Grotesque for display (modern variable grotesque, opsz 96) + Inter for body + JetBrains Mono for editorial labels. Real proptech feel (Knight Frank, Compass, Engel & Völkers) — not 19th-century literary journal.

Arabic uses IBM Plex Sans Arabic at weight 600 for headlines, matching the Latin sans pairing. No translation layer — proper RTL with letter-spacing normalized to 0.

React 18 Babel Standalone Vanilla CSS SVG timeline Bricolage Grotesque RTL native