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About the studio

Thirteen people, one studio.
Nine years building
with the same hands.

Umair Nawaz · Hafiz Dawood Ahmed
Founder & CEO · CBHiTech · Lahore

CBHiTech is a 13-person studio in Lahore. Umair Nawaz founded it in 2017 as a one-man Fiverr studio. Hafiz Dawood Ahmed joined in 2021 as a developer and runs operations as CEO. The other eleven of us are designers, engineers, content producers and ops — together we cover brand, web, mobile, AI consoles and the video that shows it all in the wild.

Founded
2017 · Lahore
Team
13 specialists
Logos shipped
11,000+
Languages
English · Urdu · Arabic
§ 01 · The long version

Why we started CBHiTech.

Umair started CBHiTech in 2017 as a Fiverr studio, alone. In nine years we've designed over 11,000 logos and shipped 500+ WordPress sites for restaurants, dental clinics, real estate brokers, plumbers, salons, accountants — a cross-section of the small-business world that we don't think any single agency ever sees. We learned what these owners actually struggle with, which turns out to be almost never branding.

What they struggle with is the gap between the work they do and the systems that connect that work to their customers. The dentist who's brilliant chair-side but loses three appointments a week to phone tag. The restaurant owner whose floor manager spends ninety minutes a night on Instagram DMs. The realtor who's still copying inquiries from one inbox into another spreadsheet. None of these are branding problems. They're operations problems wearing a website's clothes.

We never wanted to be "AI consultants." We wanted to be a studio that could finally close the loop.

In late 2024 we started building Next.js sites with embedded AI — not chatbots, but consoles tuned for a single operator role. The first one was Tasty Bites: a Karachi restaurant where the maître d's after-hours shift had become unsustainable. We shipped a six-specialist ⌘K console in three weeks. By month two, the floor manager had her evenings back.

That worked, so we built another. Then another. Then twenty-five more. Each one taught the studio something about a different industry's specific bottleneck — what the operator actually needs, what the AI should never be allowed to commit to on its own, where the bilingual edge cases hide. The 27 AI consoles are the second decade of CBHiTech: a studio that designs and ships these systems, end-to-end, for a price small businesses can actually justify.

We grew from one person to thirteen between 2021 and 2025. Hafiz Dawood Ahmed runs the studio day-to-day as CEO. Umair runs the design. Eleven other people own brand, WordPress, mobile, AI, content and ops. You still talk to one person on your project — usually Umair or Dawood — but everything behind that one person is a real team.

That's the studio. Twenty-seven AI consoles live, eleven thousand logos shipped, five hundred WordPress sites running. The next one might be yours.

§ 02 · Timeline

How we got here.

2017 — 2019

Fiverr designer, Lahore

First three years. Logos, business cards, lots of Photoshop. Thousands of clients across forty countries. Learned to ship under deadline.

2019 — 2022

Pivot to web

WordPress, Webflow, Framer. Built sites for SMBs across hospitality, dental, real estate. Started understanding operations, not just visuals.

2023

The frustration year

Watched the same operational problems repeat across hundreds of clients. Realised every site I built was static — beautiful, but it didn't run their business.

2024 — early

The pivot

Claude 3 launched. I built my first AI-embedded site for a Karachi restaurant. It worked. Within six months I'd shipped eight more.

2024 — late

CBHiTech founded

Formalised the studio. Renamed from 'Umair Studio.' Tagline became 'Digital dreams, realized.'

2025

Year of the console

Eighteen new systems. Discovered the ⌘K palette as the universal entry point. Each console started looking different from the last.

2026 — today

27 systems live

The studio sits on a portfolio of consoles spanning fourteen industries and six countries. Selectively taking new clients.

§ 03 · How we work

The tools, plainly.

Frontend

Next.js · React

Every site is hand-built. No themes, no page-builders. Vercel for hosting.

AI

Claude · GPT · Gemini

Routed by task. Sonnet handles most operator-facing replies; Haiku for fast lookups.

Build assistants

Claude Code · Codex

We pair-program with the agents. They write 80% of the code; we write the prompts and review every line.

Data

Postgres · Vector DB

Supabase for state, Pinecone or pgvector for retrieval over client corpora.

Integrations

Twilio · Stripe · Cal.com

SMS, payments, scheduling. Whatever the operator's day actually touches.

Design

Figma · Pen & paper

We sketch every console on paper first. Brand systems live in Figma. Prototypes in Framer.

Comms

Email · Loom

Weekly Loom updates during builds. Direct email — no Slack, no project portal.

Pricing

Fixed scope

We quote a price and a timeline. No hourly billing. If we underestimate, that's on us.

— THE TEAM

Thirteen people. No middleman.

Brand, web, mobile, AI, content, ops. We hire generalists with one specialty and let them keep both.

UN
Umair Nawaz
Founder · Creative Director

Started CBHiTech in 2017. Eight years of brand work for 7,000+ clients. Hands-on design lead and AI-systems architect.

SINCE 2017 · CO-LEAD
DA
Hafiz Dawood Ahmed
CEO · Operations

Runs the studio day-to-day. Client relationships, project scoping, team allocation and quality control.

SINCE 2021 · CO-LEAD
BH
Bilal Hassan
Senior Brand Designer

Identity systems lead. Marks, wordmarks, packaging, app icons. Latin · Arabic · Urdu typography.

SINCE 2022
MK
Mahnoor Khan
Senior Web Designer

Figma-first website design. Component systems, responsive prototypes, design tokens, accessibility.

SINCE 2022
SA
Sana Aslam
Junior Designer · Production

Asset production, social-media kits, presentation decks, packaging variants and motion stickers.

SINCE 2023
HT
Hamza Tariq
Lead Front-End Developer

Next.js 15 · TypeScript · React 19 · design-system implementation · performance and accessibility work.

SINCE 2023
AR
Ali Raza
Senior Back-End Developer

API design, integrations, edge / serverless, AI-tool plumbing on Vercel & Cloudflare. Postgres · Drizzle.

SINCE 2023
AS
Aisha Siddiqui
WordPress Specialist

Hand-coded child themes · ACF · WooCommerce · performance tuning · security hardening · VPS ops.

SINCE 2024
ZA
Zain ul Abideen
Mobile Developer

React Native and native Swift / Kotlin where needed. App-store submissions, push, in-app purchase wiring.

SINCE 2024
HN
Hira Naveed
Content Writer · Strategy

Brand voice, landing pages, email sequences, blog and SEO copy across hospitality, real estate, healthcare and B2B.

SINCE 2024
FY
Faisal Yousuf
Video Editor · Motion

Long-form YouTube production, short-form social cuts, motion graphics, brand explainer videos and product demos.

SINCE 2025
SI
Saad Iqbal
AI Content Generator

AI-leveraged drafting, image and video generation, scripting and content scheduling across Meta, YouTube and TikTok.

SINCE 2025
AM
Ayesha Malik
Customer Success Lead · CSR

First reply within 24 hours. Project onboarding, weekly check-ins, retainer support and account renewals.

SINCE 2025

All 13 of us work in the same Lahore studio. Most have been together 3+ years.

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